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Protecting Citizens in Political Movements
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I've blogged quite a bit lately on security matters related to working with groups in closed societies because it's an important subject and from my standpoint there are a few more topics that need to be covered. This post is about protecting…
Read MoreSelling Cell Phones
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I woke up waaay too early this morning to go see Alec Ross, the State Department's Senior Advisor for Innovation speaking on 21st Century Diplomacy, the Obama Administration's branding…
Read MoreTechnology is Your Future. And Your Past.
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Bill Easterly, the only development academic provocative enough to have his own Twitter spoof account, has a new piece in Foreign…
Read More'Till November: Haiti, Mobile, and the Coming Elections
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Mobile phones are everywhere in Port-au-Prince. Digicel, with one of the tallest buildings in town, also seems to be among the biggest employers - Digicel credit stations, with matching red kettle-drum desks and umbrellas, populate the side of…
Read MoreHoly iCow
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The Apps4Africa event has wrapped up, and the winner has the most charming app name I've ever heard: iCow.
Apps4Africa, as you doubtless recall, is the State…
Read MoreNDItech is Hiring: Election Monitoring in Closed Political Space
We're looking for an online messaging guru to travel to the Middle East for a 3-week field assignment to work with NDI partners (local NGOs) who are monitoring and highlighting government conduct during an electoral period. This position is…
Read MoreTalking "Liberation Technology" With Friends at Stanford
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Last Friday I had an opportunity to talk to the Liberation Technology Seminar at Stanford University - led by democracy scholar …
Read More"Seize the Day, Seize the Data" - NDItech's Chris Spence on Liberation Technology
Chris Spence, our Dear Leader and NDI's Chief Technology Officer, is giving a presentation today at the Stanford Program on Liberation Technologies. The talk, entitled…
Read MoreNDItech is Hiring: Data, Democracy, Burma
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We are hiring. Will you work with us for three months in Thailand?
In November, Burma is preparing to hold its first elections in 20 years. By all measures, this should be a remarkable event, and yet observers don't expect these historic…
Read MoreThe 50% Solution; Or, The Glass Is Entirely Full
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Wired has a nice piece on the successes of for-profit development. You can argue back and forth on the place of international NGOs for…
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