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The Iron Law of Complexity

By Chris Doten | Jul 06, 2011

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You can't wish complexity away. The challenges we undertake in tech and development are, well, challenging. They might involve a lot of people, a lot of documents, a lot of votes, a lot of citizen reports, etc, etc: in any case, a lot of…

Back to Basics

By Cynthia Medina | Jun 30, 2011

Flash. AJAX Slideshows. Rich Media. Web 2.0. All these buzzwords in website development can make it easy to get caught up in building fancy features on a new site. My experience with web development projects this week highlighted the importance of… Read More

So Who Are You Connected To?

By Cynthia Medina | Jun 28, 2011

Social network analysis (SNA) is a hot topic in academia these days; I picked it up in a class in my Master's program at Georgetown. The concept got a lot of attention after assisting in the capture Saddam Hussein in 2003. While we can’t all use… Read More

Intern-ductions

By Cynthia Medina | Jun 23, 2011

Hi blog readers! My name is Cynthia Medina and I will be joining the NDI ICT team for the summer. My interest in ICT stems from my desire to combine my undergraduate background in International Relations and current graduate studies in… Read More

Lessons from NDI’s Google Apps Migration

By | Jun 21, 2011

A number of organizations and NDI partners around the world are considering a move to Google Apps. If you’re considering or planning a move to Google, here are a few of the key decisions and approaches that helped us steward a smooth migration…

Job Post: ICT Program Officer

By NDI Tech | Jun 02, 2011

NDI’s Move to Google Apps

By | May 31, 2011

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Last weekend NDI migrated off of the on-premise Exchange infrastructure we've used for almost a decade to Google Apps. It has been an interesting process leading up what we coined "Switch Weekend" - May 28-30 – Memorial Day holiday weekend in the…

Job Post: ICT Program Assistant

By NDI Tech | May 31, 2011

The NDItech team is recruiting a Program Assistant - one of the world's best entry-level jobs for technologists interested in human rights and international affairs.

Our program assistants have a chance to work on the the stratagy, design…

iHeart iHub

By Chris Doten | May 27, 2011

Today I visited Nairobi's iHub. To my mind it's the poster-child for everything encouraging about tech for development in the global South. You've got:

• Savvy local developers, some novices and some…

Hunting (Developers) in Kenya

By Chris Doten | May 26, 2011

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I'm currently in Kenya working with NDI's Somalia program* spinning up a communications platform to better link Somalis split between various regions of their country, living as refugees in Kenya, or having traveled to join the diaspora around…