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Counting All Voices - New Fund Deadline November 8
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We talk repeatedly about transparency and civic engagement in our work, and often emphasize that it’s only when governments have the will and capacity to respond to…
Read MoreThe Changed Conversation About Surveillance Online
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The revelations about sustained and pervasive NSA surveillance that started in June and are still ongoing are having a sustained effect on the global conversation about censorship and surveillance on the Internet. Using 'big data' analysis of…
Read MoreOpening Parliaments In Beautiful Visualizations
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Our friends in the Opening Parliament community have been busy this Fall, and are anticipating the Open Government Partnership (OGP) annual…
Read MoreFake or Real? Fake Domain Attacks on Civil Society Web Sites
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We work with civil society organizations around the world that are facing increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks against them from relenteless, well-resourced, and tecnically extremely savvy adversaries that attempt to curtail, surveil, and…
Read MoreThe Next Billion: Jumping the Digital Divide
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Over the last 20 years the Internet and globalization have had an impact on the way we as democracy activists think about our work. It has not superseded our fundamental person to person interactions, yet it has provided us and those with whom we…
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Is Tech a Scapegoat for Political FOIA Failures?
"Public access to information is democratic aspiration still to be fulfilled." This insight comes from CIMA’s new report, …
Read MoreCrowdsourcing Political Incidents Online
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Kenya's iHub recently released its research on crowdsourced information in the highly contested 2013 Kenya Presidential elections. The…
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