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Hacking Legislatures
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If there's a statute of limitations on event-blogging, this update probably exceeds it - thankfully, innovations in government transparency and citizen monitoring are always timely. Three weeks ago, Facebook teamed up with the offices of House…
Read MoreMonitoring the North Pole
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I've blogged about the importance of studying failures, but the most…
Read MoreNDItech is Hiring: Data for Democracy in Eurasia
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Skilled political organizer used to wrangling data? Russian speaker? Got tech? We're hiring.
The NDItech team is looking for someone to run a critical project in Eastern Europe for a period of approximately three months. The job: teaming…
Read MoreLearning, Failing, Tweeting: The Monday Round-Up
Another installment of the Monday Round-Up, a few stories from the past week!
- Foreign Policy reports on the Chinese social-networking site…
Go Far with GOFA
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Internet Freedom has been a hot topic recently. At the Freedom Online Conference last week, discussion focused on the roles different actors have in promoting and protecting…
Read MoreFreedom, Health, and Cuban Facebook: Your Monday Round-up
After a short hiatus, NDITech's Monday Round-up makes its triumphant return. Here we'll bring together a few interesting tidbits from the week…
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The KGB, Mukhabarat And 2 Others Like This
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NDI is embracing Google Plus internally as part of our migration to the 'plex's set of tools. However, for those of us in the democracy support world social media presents risks to others beyond the standard fear of…
Read MoreSecurity, Bespoke
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Digital security has become a part of everyday life. We all know about computer viruses, email scams and Facebook privacy settings and how they can run…
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