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Data Envy

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The Uganda Election Commission recently launched their National Voters' Register Online system - with the assistance of our friends over at IFES - that allows citizens to…

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YouTube is not for activists. This is a good thing.

By Chris Doten |

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YouTube, Facebook, and other platforms are not exclusively - or primarily - a tool for political activism, despite the sense you'd get from folks like us writing about them. This is a good thing. People living in closed societies are mostly just… Read More

WikiLeaks vs. Open Data

By Chris Doten |

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It's early innings yet for WikiLeaks'* CableGate** - they've released 1/10th of 1% of their monstrous cache of 250,000 total cables from within the State Department so far, so any analysis that doesn't… Read More

Tech Thankfulosity

By Chris Doten |

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It's been a great year for technology in foreign policy and development, and we've got a lot to be grateful for. So before we sign off to gorge ourselves on delicious holiday fare, we wanted to share a few of the things that we on the NDItech…

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Analyzing Data, Documenting Election Fraud

By Chris Doten |

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A stone building, illuminated with yellow, red, and blue lights at night. Maiden's Tower, Baku, Azerbaijan by Teuchterlad

November 7th was a bad day for worldwide democracy.

As Ian has discussed and…

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On the Front Lines with FrontlineSMS

By Chris Doten |

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NDItech has recently been doing a lot with a slick piece of software called FrontlineSMS. It's not new, but it's been a powerful solution for us of late, so I thought I'd share. Frontline is a tool to allow people to do basic two-way SMS… Read More

Telling the Story with Maps

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Satirical map. Fictional "Bay of Flame" is between 2 peninsulas aptly named "Liberal Blogs" and "Tech Blogs"named "

We had an interesting team discussion last week about the "why" of putting data on maps, a subject Chris D touched on in this silo post after…

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Burma Election Tracker is a window into a closed election

By Ian Schuler |

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A political map of Burma

As polls opened in Burma, our friends at Burma Partnership launched a new site that provides reports, data, and analysis of the election.…

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Blowing Up the Silos

By Chris Doten |

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I hit the World Bank today for "Mapping for Results." Putting results front and center is a great idea - as mapping has shot up the hype cycle, it's nice to focus on what it can do beyond putting up pretty pictures. However, I…

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It's Your Monday Afternoon Roundup, v0.1 (beta)

By Katherine Maher |

Working weekends? Some people never seem to take a break. We celebrate them, and their whirring gray matter, here in your first-ever Monday blog and news roundup:

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