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In the Fight Against Disinformation, Many Tools are Needed
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Lots of tools needed when fighting for information integrity. Credit: Dave Taylor
(Originally posted on DemWorks 6/22/2018)
In technology, you often hear geeks referencing the classic “garbage in, garbage out”…
Read MoreMeet Ranking Digital Rights: Holding Corporations Accountable
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Photo credit: Ranking Digital Rights
At NDI we believe that technology can have a positive role to improve civic discussion, fuel grassroots advocacy, and amplify citizen's voices, but…
Read MoreTechnology Resolutions For The Year 2020
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The New Year is usually fraught with hope and optimism. It is also a time to come up with new names for new habits, with the hope that by discipline and dedication, growth will occur.
After two-weeks of introspection, by the Technology and…
Read MoreMeet GeoPoll: Collecting Data for Society
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The NDItech team recently had the pleasure of hosting leaders from GeoPoll to discuss how their mobile phone survey technologies can gather insights into critical development questions. Scott Lansell, GeoPoll’sVP for Business Development, broke…
Read MoreSurveying with Civi in Côte d'Ivoire
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NDI Côte d'Ivoire staff train on the Civi DemTool
A couple weeks back, I spent an afternoon with my colleagues at NDI’s office in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire performing a task all too familiar to us on the NDItech team - setting up cheap Android smartphones with …
Read MoreHello, World!
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My name is Grace Chimezie, and I am delighted to be a recent addition to the NDITech team. I have been welcomed warmly by brilliant thinkers, invested in strengthening NDI’s core democratic principles.
During the next several months, I’ll…
Read MoreWe're Hiring! Product Manager and Project Lead to Shape Tech for Democracy!
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Computers running the Apollo DemTool in Zambia
Here at NDI we’re looking for a new team to design and manage the exciting process of building products to scale to serve hundreds of democracy and human rights organizations around the world!
NDI is…
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Human Centered Design for Local Capacity Building
Every day civic activists, organizations, and governments are working to incorporate 21st century tools into antiquated practices and systems. NDI’s TechCivica Initiative aims to support this…
Read MoreWe're Hiring!
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Passionate about using the right tech for human rights? Interested in innovative ways to connect governments and citizens? Got ideas how social media could actually support democracy rather than fuel the current dumpster fire? See uses for…
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