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DIGITAL DEMOCRACY

Annual Report 2009-2010


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al Report 2009-2010 Digital Democracy

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In 2008, we launched Digital Democracy

(Dd) inspired by a s imple but powerful idea:

Technology should be used to empower even the

most marginalized groups to engage in democratic

action, on a local, national and international scale.

In January of 2011, we watched people in Egypts

Tahrir Square and throughout the Middle East and

North Africa raise their voices and call for a morejust political system. Using technology to share their

stories and coordinate the protests, we were reminded

of the work of our Burmese friends, who in 2007 also

used mobile phones and internet tools to coordinate

a hundred-thousand nonviolent protesters in Burmas

major cities. The Burmese military ended this hopeful

campaign with guns and shutting down internet

and mobile phone services for ve full days. The twin

potentials and dangers of new tools became clear to us,

and in that moment, the idea for Digital Democracy

was born.

We launched as an organization one year later,

and in the past two years we have worked in over

21 countries, strategically employing technology to

enhance the work of our partners addressing humanrights. From Burma to Indianapolis, Haiti to Zimbabwe,

Bangladesh to Kazakhstan, Dd works with local

partners to activate change and empower communities.

Working with local tech companies and community

organizations, Dds model focuses on human-centered,

innovative collaboration to amplify local voices. Where

conditions are the worst, where work is hardest, where

repression is strongest, where voices are the most

silenced, that is where our work begins.

But it is not where it ends. Two years into our launch

as an organization, Digital Democracy is just getting

started. The lessons we have learned about digital

literacy, organizing and governance are lighting the

way for an approach which focuses on nimble, strategicopportunities, using limited resources to make huge

strides. We are humbled by the ght that our partners

around the world take on each day and inspired by our

collaborations and the success we have had helping

them build better futures.

With deep gratitude to our global community

of supporters who have made this work possible,

we are thrilled to launch our rst annual report.

Covering the period from November, 2008, when we

incorporated under the auspices of the Institute for

Multi-Track Diplomacy until the end of 2010, when we

led for our own independent non-prot status, the

report documents our work to empower marginalized

communities around the globe, and the inspirational

ways they are using technology to build theirown futures.

Sincerely,

Emily Jacobi & Mark Belinsky

LETTER FROM THE FOUNDERS


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Overview

Founders letter

Mission

Vision

Description & Values

Overview & Program Phases

Where we act

Timeline

Programs

Digital Literacy

Project Einstein

Digital Organizing

Handheld Human Rights

Digital Governance

In-Depth Program Proles

Burma

Haiti

Bridges to the USA & International Community

The Tools We Use

Finances & Faces

TeamAdvisors

Financials

Acknowledgements

Supporters

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A public telephon

booth in Yangon

Myanmar/Burma


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Our mission is to empowermarginalized communitiesaround the world to use digitaltools to build their own futures.

Residents of Hara

Zimbabwe.

Our vision is a world whereall people can meaningfullyparticipate in decision-makingto build stronger and moreprosperous societies.
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Founded in 2008, Dd is a New York-based non-prot

organization that works with partners around the

globe to further their digital democracies. Dd has

brought its agile and adaptive approach to 21 countries,

using its combined expertise in technology and human

rights to customize trainings and solutions to local

needs. By sourcing local denitions of democracy

and remaining technology-agnostic Dds programsand services are customized to truly match local

perspectives and potential.

Through programs that develop digital literacy,

digital organizing and digital governance Dd helps

communities raise their voices, share and strengthen

them and build platforms to engage the institutions

that govern their lives.

Dd works collaboratively with local tech partners and

community organizations to build sustainable solutions

for that region.

DESCRIPTION

We value

Listening

CollaborationHuman Rights

Non-violence Resistance

Working with grassroots groups

Human-Centered Design

Systems Thinking

FOSS (Free and Open-Source Softw

Agile Development

Local

Technologists

Community

Organization

Digital

Democracy

Universal Declaration of Human

Rights: Article 19 Everyone has

the right to freedom of opinion

and expression; this right includes

freedom to hold opinions without

interference and to seek, receive

and impart information and ideas

through any media and regardless

of frontiers.
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Digital Democracy believeschanges comes from people,not tools alone.

Incorporating local denitions of democracy is key

to driving sustainable systemic change.

Digital tools enable people to elevate and amplify

their voices in new ways. Harnessed effectively, digital

tools can empower new forms of participation and civicengagement.

In successful programs,

technology is only 10% of the

equation. The other 90% is

human. Partnering closely with

local groups, we work to understa

local needs and apply appropriate

technology, spending the time on

training and deployment to create

successful initiatives.

Graphic & concept inspired by Chris Blow's vision forUshahidi Deployments.

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people tools
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OVERVIEW

In 2008, Emily and Mark traveled to the Thai-Burma

border with the Center for Peace Building International

to research the situation of Burmese refugee youth.

In interviews with 100 young people, the research team

discovered a correlation between internet access and

self-identication as activist. Even in remote refugee

camps, young people with access to internet via a phone

or internet cafe reported feeling less isolated, moreconnected and more hopeful about the future. That

fall, this nding proved prescient, as young people and

Buddhist monks inside the country leveraged digital

tools to coordinate the largest protests in a generation.

On September 29, 2007, the government responded

brutally, killing hundreds, arresting thousands, and

turning off the internet & mobiles for ve days.

From the great hope and tragedy of the Saffron

Uprising in Burma, the idea for Digital Democracy

was born.

To address the most marginalized communities

needs and have the most impact on their progress,

Dd works in three places.

digitalliteracy

digitalorganizing digitalgovernance

programphases

siveregimes,

rma/Myanmar

communities incrisis,

like Haiti

transitional states,

like Guatemala.

thedigitaldemocracyprocess

Dd builds partnerships with community groups. Dd

programs empower them to use technology to address

human rights in innovative ways, focusing on the three

program phases: Digital Literacy, Digital Organizing and

Digital Governance.
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ains volunteers

ap reports using

hidi after the 8.8

nitude earthquake

es Santiago.

Zimbabwe

In Harare, Dd investigates

uses of technology to

overcome the obstacles

inherent to a closed so-

ciety & survival despite

hyperination.

resents at universities,rences & institu-

, testies before

Congress & NYC

cil. Dd leads Project

ein Indianapolis, a

ong program with

tled Burmese high

ol youth.

temala

nducts a two-month

ct Einstein workshop

indigenous youth in

ted Zona Reyna.

Haiti

Working closely with

grassroots organizations

in Port-au-Prince, Dd trains

women to use digital tools

to combat gender-based

violence. Days before the

earthquake, Dd conducts

a Project Einstein training

in Gros Monde. (See page 34)

WHERE WE ACT

South Africa

With local partner orga-

nization Khulisa, Dd runs

Project Einstein with 13

street kids in Pretoria.

Kenya

Dd incubates "Sisi ni

Amani/We are Peace,

a program that amplies

peace actors work within

Kenya & includes photogra-

phy, innovative mapping &

peace-building workshops.

Sisi is fully independent

after six months.

Philippines

Collaborating with localvolunteer-led commu-

nity group, Dd creates

"Philippines Clean Elect

2010" website, enabling

people to report election

violence & voter intimi-

dation during and after

national elections.

China

Dd leads photography

training with Burmese

groups & investigates ho

community groups use I

along the Burma border

Kazakhstan

Dd trains students to

create public service an-

nouncement videos & use

social media to broad-

cast their videos locally

and globally.

Iraq

Dd, withSmall WorldNews & Irex, leads techni-

cal trainings on open

source software & presents

at a conference about

e-governance & media

and civil societys role in

protecting and promoting

internet freedom.

Georgia

Dd sends video cameras

to partners in Tbilisi who

lm for user-generated

documentary, Life in

a Day.

Armenia

Dd produces a report on

how new technology is

being used to amplify the

voices of Armenian citi-

zens & participates in the

rst Barcamp Yerevan.

Ukraine

Dd presents on the future

of libraries & trains librar-

ians from Ukraine and

Romania to use tech to

manage information.

Thailand

Working closely with

Burmese human rights

and educational groups

along Thai-Burma borde

Dd launches Handheld

Human Rights, leads

Project Einstein & prole

Thai netizens on DdTv.

Burma / Myanmar

Dd launches Handheld

Human Rights with

Burmese community-based

organizations working

along Burmas borders &

reports on use of ICT inside

the country. (See page 32)

Bangladesh

Dd researches ICT use

by Burmese civil soci-

ety groups and leads

rst Project Einstein

with Rohingya youth

from Burma who live in

a refugee camp on the

Bangladesh-Burma border.
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TIMELINE

2008 2009

2010

November

Establish ofce in NYC_

November 20:

Incorporatein New

York State

October

Research &

Programming trip

to South Africa &

Zimbabwe_

Launch Project

Einstein Pretoria,

South Africa

January

Launch Project

Einstein trainings in

Gros Monde, Haiti_

Support Ushahidi

Haiti Earthquake

Response

March

Release report on

Haiti_

Release report on

China/Burma Border_

Begin incubation of

Sisi Ni Amani We

are Peace program

April

Launch gender-based

violence program

with Haitian women

partners_

Conduct photography

workshop with women

in Haiti

May

Launch Project

Einstein Guatemala_

Present at the U.S.

Department of State_

Partner with

Philippines Clean

Elections

une

artner with local

roup in Ethiopia on

lection monitoring

estify on Open Data

o the NYC Council

resent Ignite Talk

t Foo Camp

rain NYC public

chool students

July

Launch Sisi ni Amani

in Nairobi, Kenya_

Iraq Tech Training

with Small World

News_

Film for "Life in A Day"

in Kenya, Guatemala,

Haiti, Georgia_

Livestream Event:

connect women in

Port-au-Prince with

live audience in NYC

August

Photo exhibit in

Guatemala by Project

Einstein participants,

in partnership with

HablaGuate

September

Release Report:

Armenia_

Commit to 2 year

program ghting GBV

in Haiti at ClintonGlobal Initiative_

Launch ofFree Jiew

campaign for Internet

Freedom in Thailand

October

Launch Citizen-

Reporting initiative

in Haiti on violence &

elections.

November

Release Report:

Burma/Myanmar_

Launch Project

Einstein

Indianapolis_

Begin Strategic

Planning with

Helsinki Group_

Release Report:

Zimbabwe_

Media training

with Irex for teens in

Atyrau, Kazakhstan

December

Train Romanian &

Ukrainian librarians

in Kiev

January

Begin working on

pilot programs with

Burmese partners

February

Attend Mobile Tech

for Social Change

in NYC

May

Handheld Human

Rights (HHR) wins

3rd place prize from

UC Berkely's Human

Rights Center & FACT

social justice award

from NetSquared

April

Conduct research on

ICT use inArmenia

& participate in

Barcamp Yerevan

June

Co-Sponsor

Participation Camp

NYC

July

Launch of Dd

Advisory Board

August

Launch Digital

Democracy TV (DdTv)_

Conduct research

in Burma/Myanmar

eptember

aunch HHRwith

artners in Thailand

aunch Project

instein Thailand

ivestream conver-

ation between par-

cipants in Thailand &

S audience

October

Testify toHelsinki

Commision at US

Congress

November

Launch Kickstarter

campaign to trans-

lateCory Doctorows

"Little Brother" into

Burmese

December

Reach Kickstarter

goal_

Launch partnership

with MIT Center for

Future Civic Media&

Eyebeam

Digital DemocracyEmpoweringCiv icEngagementThroughDig ital Technolog ies

Haiti Research 2010

Digital DemocracyEmpowering CivicEngagementThroughDigital Technologies

ArmeniaResearch 2009

Digital DemocracyEmpowering Civ icEngagementThroughDig italTechnolog ies

Burma/MyanmarResearch 2009

Digital DemocracyEmpowering Civ icEngagementThroughDig ital Technolog ies

ZimbabweResearch 2008

Digital DemocracyEmpoweringCiv icEngagementThroughDig ital Technolog ies

China-BurmaBorderResearch 2008
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DIGITAL LITERACY

What do the tools do?

Digital Literacy is the foundation for any work

with technology. Dd works with local partners to

develop their literacy on a variety of tools, focused

on building basic skills. This equips partners to share

their perspectives and tell their own stories. Dd tailors

trainings to partners goals and the local context.

Partners learn through Dd curricula; new skills

and security are the focus.

Dd Teaches:

Media: photo, video & audio production

New Media: blogging, Twitter, Facebook, virtual worlds

Mapping & Data Visualization

Mobiles: security, SMS & more

Legal frameworks: Creative Commons, GPL

Cloud Computing: storage, collaboration, coding

PROJECT EINSTEIN

Project Einstein is a Dd program that builds

participants digital literacy and self-expression. The rst

project Einstein was conducted in 2008 by Rohingya

refugee youth in Bangladesh. After a week of taking

photos on four different themes, the group of students

ages 11-14 were asked to name the project. They chose

Project Einstein because Einstein was a refugee who

could still do great things.

Following the initial training, the curriculum has

incorporated a digital pen-pal component to connectyouth in refugee camps with resettled refugees and

their classmates in the US. Project Einstein sites include:

South Africa, Thailand, Guatemala, Kazakhstan,

Haiti, and Indianapolis. Dd has published a free

20-page manual available in three languages as of

December 2010.

Project Einstein p

ticipant uses a i

camera in Pretor

South Africa.

DigitalLiteracy

Additionally, Dd works with partners to adapt tools

and curriculum into local languages.
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DIGITAL ORGANIZING

How do I use these tools to make change?

Digital Organizing requires understandingsafety

and security, when using tools to connect with others

and build movements for change. Dd helps partners

be strategic when collecting, storing and using data.

Focusing on the most pressing human rights issues in

partner communities, Dd helps build movements for

change.

Key Concepts:

Secure data collection, storage & aggregation

Campaign strategies & non-violent organizing

Collaborative workows

Crowd- & Community-sourcing

Data visualization for advocacy

Hosting BarCamps & Unconferences

Juggling mobile

phones in Pretoria,

South Africa.

Dd SNAPSHOT

Work around the world:

Number of people trained by Dd staff: 505

Trainings & Workshops: 30

Tech & Security trainings: 8

Ushahidi Deployment trainings: 8

Project Einstein Deployments: 6

Election-Monitoring Projects: 3

Public work by Dd partners:

Photos taken in Project Einstein participants: 7,171HHR logs of human rights violations: 661

Research & Information-Sharing

Dd talks & presentations: 58

DdTv episodes released: 13

Country Reports: 5

ng

Women leaders

meet in Port-au-

Prince, Haiti

l
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Handheld Human Rights (HHR) is an approach to human

rights collection & advocacy that emphasizes incorporat-

ing new tools into the work of human rights defenders

to make their work more secure, and their ndings more

actionable.

HHR was rst implemented in Burma/Myanmar in

fall, 2009. Many human rights organizations operate

around Burmas border areas to document human rightsviolations and educate local populations on how to

recognize human rights abuses. For more than a decade,

these groups have bravely collected the testimonies of

survivors, writing reports to inform the international

community of the dire human rights situation inside

the country. In doing so, these groups face enormous

challenges including security threats, logistical

obstacles, and obstacles to collaboration.

Dd worked with these human rights organizations

and technology partners on the Thai-Burma border

to understand the complex security issues they

were facing, and begin testing mobile tools to

enhance communication. The result was a program

that accomplished two goals: testing more secure

communication within and between organizations, andcreation of a public map & data visualization tool to

aggregate more than a decades worth of rich human

rights documenation in one public resource.

The HHR model enables organizations to:

Disseminate key information and messages to eld

workers, via email & SMS.

Share critical information with other organizations

across international borders.

Share non-condential information on a public map

to be used for advocacy purposes. Rapidly disseminate news of human rights violations

to the international community and advocacy groups.

HANDHELD HUMAN RIGHTSng
http://www.handheldhumanrights.org/


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Digital governance is a frontierbeing defined in

part by Dd, and the final phase of Dd programs. Dd

works with marginalized groups because building their

skills and knowledge of tools leaves them best-placed to

move from the margins to positions of leadership and

influence in their communities. This third phase of Dds

programming engages citizens to influence governance

issues with a focus on transparency and participationDigital governance communicates citizens interests in

ways never before possible. Dd helps partners realize the

possibilities for digital governance through a variety of

tools and approaches, including:

DIGITAL GOVERNANCE

How do I use these tools to infuence decision-making?

Open data initiatives

Apps for democracy

Real-time citizen-informed emergency response

Testifying before domestic and international governing

bodies

Collaboration tools

Mark trains NYC

public school

students how to

map their ideas for

future public spaces

in New York City.

DigitalGovernance
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A main road in

Yangon, Myanmar/

Burma


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Burma/Myanmar is ruledby one of the most repressive

and abusive military regimes on the planet. There,

both internet access and speech are censored. Forced

labor is common and there are high numbers of political

prisoners. Armed conict affects much of the country,

and sexual violence is used as a tool of war against

ethnic minorities. Refugees International estimates

3 million refugees live around Burmas borders.Escaping ethnic violence, forced labor and political

incarceration that exists inside the country, many are

forced to ee the country.

Dd has worked with groups along the borders in

Thailand, India, Bangladesh, China and inside Burma/

Myanmar to help them enhance security, organize

more effectively, and build bridges to the population

in Diaspora. With Handheld Human Rights, Dd has

created a way to drive international advocacy and

attention to stop human rights abuses.

Working in this incredibly repressive environment

requires tenacity and patience. Much of the work,

including inside the country, cannot be discussed

publicly for security reasons. However, Dd has

successfully conducted trainings, sparked eventsand worked in coalition with many partners.

BURMA

Burmese monk

speaks to the press

in Delhi.

In Burma, the obstacle isinformation people insidethe country need information,and they arent getting it.

Burmese student

llowing pages

an overview of

n-depth commit-

to two communi-

urma/Myanmar

iti.
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digitalliteracy

Research on the use of digital tools by community-based

organizations in Thailand, India, Bangladesh & China

Project Einstein trainings in refugee camps in

Bangladesh & Thailand, with resettled refugee youth

in Indianapolis, Indiana

Campaign to translate Cory Doctorows Little Brother

into Burmese languages

Security trainings

Computer skill certication & trainings with ABITSU

Localizing Ushahidi into Burmese script

Blogging & website development with ABMA

Jumpstarters distributing local language computer

applications and media (including movies & books)

Producing DdTv episodes on local & international issues

digitalorganizing

Campaign building & risk-analysis

Organizing tech conferences

Logistical support during emergency situations

Distributed toolkits with materials including:videos, books, music, manuals, software programs

Hardware distribution

Secure communication

Mobile map-based messaging

digitalgovernance

Lectures & presentations on open government based

on a human rights framework

A young man plays

Burmese hip-hop

songs on his mobile

phone outside the

Mandalay Royal

palace.

With Burmese populations, Dd has focused on digital

literacy & organizing programs.

Partners

ABITSU (All Burma IT Student Union)

ABMA(All Burma Monks Alliance)

BIT (Burma Information Technology Team)

Guardian Project

InSTEDD

Kutupalong Refugee Camp, Bangladesh

Leadership Management Training College,

Mae La Refugee Camp, Thailand

North Central & Southport High Schools,

Indianapolis, Indiana

Ushahidi

Going to school in

Mayawaddy.

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HAITI

In January 2010, Dd sent a research team to Haiti to

explore economic livlihoods through an interactive

media project with local youth. On January 12the

team found themselves caught in the devastating

earthquakein Port-Au-Prince that killed 30,000 people.

In From the United States, Dd could not communicate

with the team in Haiti, but helped to facilitate the rst

international crowdsourced humanitarian response inhistory. The concept was for Haitians on the ground to

be able to send an SMS, Tweet or Facebook message to

ask asking for help, have the request placed onto a map

by volunteers abroad enabling so that international aid

workers on the ground to locate and save lives.

In the spring, Dd evaluated how it could best serve

the continue hardship on the ground. Watching gender-

based violence surge to alarming levels in the tent-

camps, a Dd team traveled to Haiti to participate in talks

focused on women. While in the meetings, Dd noticed

the absence of grassroots women activists amongst

international and domestic leaders convened by the UN.

Being that the majority of households in the country

are comprised of single mothers and given the fact that

rape was not criminalized until 2005, Dd knew that thelargest impact would be for the women to be empowered

to protect themselves in the short term and have a

massive shift in political engagement in the long term.

To bridge that gap, Dd partnered with women who

have advocated against GBV for over ten years, starting

with a digital photography training. Then Dd partnered

A woman in Port

au-Prince. Photo

FAVILEK.

with KOFAVIV (Commission of Women Victims for

Victims) and other womens organizations to build grow

digital literacy throughout the GBV movement in Haiti.

In fall 2010, Dd made a commitment through the

Clinton Global Initiative to harness technology tools

create a comprehensive response for preventing rape

in Haiti. The program focuses on empowering girls

and women to ght this epidemic by creating a digitaldatabase to document cases, by establishing a call center

to respond to cases and network responders via mobile

phones, data-mapping and tools for advocacy on the local,

national and international level, and comprehensive

training to women and girls to amplify their voices

and connect them to citizens around the world.

The technology trainings that

began in 2010 have brought about

a major change in the capacity

of grassroots women They have

given us more confidence in

ourselves, and have increased the

impact and visibility of our work in

the fight to reduce violence against

women and girls.

Eramithe Delva & Malya Villard Appolon,

Co-Founders of KOFAVIV

(The Commission of Women Victims for

Victims). April, 2011.
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digitalliteracy

Photography trainings with youth & womens groups

Empowerment and healing through visual and online

storytelling

Journalism & blogging trainings Frontline SMS & other software trainings

digitalorganizing

Creation of digital database

Call center

SMS-organizing & collaboration with Noula.ht platform

Connections to medical support

Support & equipment for technology center

Skype live-streamed calls bridging citizen-to-citizen

communication

digitalgovernance

Presentations by grassroots women leaders to

US government, academics, leaders of international

development and policy-makers Inuence bi-partisan statement signed by members

of US Congress

Citizen-led election reporting

Democracy & civic engagement training

Sharing data with local government

Partners

KOFAVIV(Komisyon Fanm Viktim Pou Viktim

Commission of Women Victims for Victims)

FAVILEK (Fanm Viktim, Leve Kanpe Women

Victims Get up Stand up)

KONAMAVID (Kodinasyon Nasyonal Viktim

Direk - National Coordination of Direct Victim

MADRE (Supporting Womens Rights

Internationally)

N-Map (New Media Advocacy Project)

IJDH (Institute for Justice & Democracy in Hait

BAI (Bureau des Avocats Internationaux

International Lawyers Bureau)

Ushahidi Haiti

Tufts Unversity(Center for Emerging

Marketplaces)

Women practice

taking digital video

at a training at the

BAI International

Lawyers Bureau in

Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

With Haitian groups, Dd has focused on digital literacy,

organizing and governance programs.

HAITI
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Connecting the voices of Dds grassrootspartners

to audiences around the globe is key to furthering their

empowerment, and supporting a global movement

for local democracy. Sharing stories and building

international advocacy serves their interests on the

ground. Dd bridges these communities by fostering

support from groups in countries around the globe.

Dd writes writing reports from the eld, and thatresearch is used by academics and other activists. Dd

presents at conferences and universities across the

Americas, Europe, Africa and in Asia. Dd also focuses

energy on sharing with its community at home in the

United States, through social media and the Dd blog as

well as live events.

BRIDGES TO THE USA &

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

Southport High

School Student

Sherry Paw pract

portraiture with

Project Einstein

Indiana.

t attendees in

York participate

conversation

Haitain women

rt-au-Prince via

e.

Burmese monk

U Agga speak-

ing on the role of

technology in the

Saffron Uprising

in Episode 1 of D

Presentations

MobileActive Johannesburg, South Africa

Womens Refugee Commission New York, NY

United States Institute of Peace Washington, DC

Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI) Washington, DC

Tufts University Medford, MA

The Change You Want to See Brooklyn, NY

American University Washington, DC

New York University New York, NY

Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference

Washington, DC

PowWow New York, NY

Tides Momentum Conference San Francisco, CA

Goucher College Baltimore, MD

Columbia University New York, NY

Harvard University Cambridge, MA

University of Maryland College Park, MD

Alliance of Youth Movements London, UK

Global Kids Conference New York, NY

U.S. Department of State Washington, DC

Ignite,Foo Camp Sebastopol, CA

Open Video Conference New York, NY

Iraq E-Media Conference Erbil, Iraq

International Conference on Crisis Mapping

Boston, MA

New School New York, NY

Tribeca Film Institute New York, NY
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Dd uses the best tech for each particular context.

By working with partners to understand the issues

most pressing to them, and by networking with its

community at the front edge of tech developments,

Dd can match the tools best suited to elevating

partners impact to the next level. Whenever possible,

Dd uses free and open-source tools to meet partners

needs. If proprietary tech is most appropriate,though, it is integrated into programs.

THE TOOLS WE USE

Free and Open Source

Dd uses free and open-source technology whenever

possible. Open-source tools encourage transparency,

accountability and participation, embedding

democracy into their code and terms of service.

Because users can see and edit the lines of the code,

they can see how they work and who writes them.

Code seen by many eyes is more secure. Free tools are

more accessible and affordable, keeping cost low and

usability high for Dd and partners.

Creative Commons

Dd benets from Creative Commons licences, which

were invented to create a more exible copyright

model, replacing "all rights reserved"with "some

rights reserved". Our CC licensing lets others remix,

tweak, and build upon our work non-commercially,

as long as credit is attributed and new creations are

licensed under identical terms.

Scan for Dd's

iphone appg
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ect Einstein

icipants take

tographs in Zona

na, Guatemala
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TEAM 2008-2010

emilyjacobi Co-Director

Emily manages staff, oversees strategic

planning and development and works

directly with grassroots partners on

program design. Emily spearheads our

programming in Haiti and Indianapolis.

Her background is media andinternational development.

markbelinsky Co-Director

Mark oversees technology and legal for

Dd. He implements programs and trains

groups worldwide on tech, media &

security. His background is computer

science and lmmaking.

lizhodes Programs Manager

A founding member of the Dd team,

Liz manages the nances, operations

and logistics for Dd. She also produces

DdTv, drawing from her work in lm

and television.

emiliereiser Haiti Trainer

Emilie joined Dd in 2010 as a trainer

working with grassroots womens

organization in Port-Au-Prince,

conducting trainings in computer

and social media skills, and how to

use tools to report on Haitis elections

in November 2010. Her background is in

youth media education and computer

programming.

gabehopkinsDevelopment Coordinator

A founding member of the Dd team, Gabe

focused on grant research and writing as

well as donor outreach from 2008-2009.

bizghormley Communications Designer

Biz joined Dd in 2010 to work oncommunications strategy, from donor

outreach and events, to press and

relationship-building with corporations

and foundations. Her background

is in strategic communication and

fundraising.

abbygoldberg

Principal, Latin America/Caribbean & Gender

Abby was a Dd advisor in 2009. In 2010,

she joined th team to develop programs

in Latin America & the Caribbean

focused on women. She bought strategic

development expertise from her workbuilding successful non-prots.
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ADVISORS

patriciacampbellExecutive Vice President

Tufts University

noelhidalgoDirector of Engagement

Technologies World Economic

Forum

joelhodesPartner, Chair of the

Healthcare Practice Group

Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP

ambassadorjohnmcdonaldChairman & CEO Institute for

Multi-Track Diplomacy

seanmcdonaldExecutive Director Front-

lineSMS: Legal

htunhtunsurteInformation and Public

Relations Coordinator

Burma Information & Technology

ralphtaylorProject Coordinator Mayors

Office of International and Cultural

Affairs, Indianapolis

janetharrisChief Development Officer

California Academy of Sciences

jackhealyFounder and Director Human

Rights Action Center

patrickmeierPhD Candidate Fletcher School

at Tufts University

Director of Crisis Mapping

and Partnerships Ushahidi

olgatuchmanEnglish Language Learning

Specialist Indiana Department

of Education

stanleyaungChairperson All Burma IT Stu-

dents Union

johnclarkSenior Research Fellow

The Sagamore Institute

for Policy Research
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FINANCIALS

Dds scal sponsor is the Institute for Multi-Track

Diplomacy (IMTD)._

Dds New York ofce is generously donated by

Bill Hopkins Media._

Helsinki Group for the Dd strategic planning process,

Fall 2010._

Drew Frist designed the Dd logo. Zago designed this

Annual Report._

The rest of Dds support comes from the advisory

board and generous individuals likeyou.

2009: $25,586.61

2009: $96,840.00

2010: $89,642.83

2010: $205,205.00

46% Research & Development

38%General

16% Programming

41% Research & Development

20% General

39% Programming

16% Individual Donations

12% Grants/Awards

10% Subcontracts/Honorariums

* In-Kind Donations 62% Of Total Income, Valued At $60,010

15% Individual Donations

19% Grants/Awards

21% Subcontracts/Honorariums

* In-Kind Donations 45 % of Total Incole, Valued at $90,802

enses

enue

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank You.

The Dd team was completely volunteer for the period covered by this report.
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Anonymous

Sharon Abbondanza

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& Jill Garrido

Scott Andrews

Ari Appel

Nathan & Laura Arico*

Dietrich Ayala

Ben Babcock

Gina Bachtel

Alexander Baker

Geoffrey & Donna Basik

Heinz Bauer

Allan Beatty

Melissa Batchelor -

Warnke

Stania Bedford

Stuart Belkin

Rise Bellini

Jonathan Berger

Joe Beshenkovsky

Andrea Birger

Blaine Bookey

Tom Brackett

Sarah Brafman

Emily Brooks Randle

Alison & Owen Brown

Bob Brown & Sindee

Ernst

Shirley Brown

Thomas Brown

& Susan Weingast*

Norbert Bukowski

Gregg ButenskyPatricia Campbell*

Angela Carr Klitzsch

Jose M Cerqueira-Esteves

Linda Chapman*

Eunah Choi

Patricia Chou

David & Kristal Clark*

Leah Cofn

Bruce Cohen & Gale

Mondry

Allison Cohen

Eric Cooper*

Ann Corbett & Simon

Billenness*

David Cross

Jamie Cruickshank

Rob Cruickshank*

Judi Cunningham

Lorraine Cunningham

Robert Cuoco

Meghan Curran

Judith Darr

Jay Dedman

Cory Doctorow

Kyle B. Doeden

Dolby Family Fund

Deborah Drysdale

Matthew Edmundson

Joseph Eldridge*

Lily Emerson

Ben Emmel

Enigma Images

Joseph & Sophie Ettinger

James Everett &

Donna Jean Smith

Trish Everett

Jerome Feldman

Pamela Fischer

Leah & Charles Fisher

Sherry Floren*

Drew Frist

Frank G

Barbara Gabioud*

Dennis & Betty Gamache*Eddy Garrido

William Ghormley

Elizabeth Ghormley

Eric Gibson

Avril Gibson

Laura Glassmeyer

Abby Goldberg

Steven Goldberg &

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Maryl Goldberg

Laura Jones &

Brian Matthay

Kathryn Karlovitz

& John Quinn

Alton Kastner*

Michael Katz

Rodney & Jeanne Kelsay

Evan Kelsay

Jason Kende

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Anna Msowoya*

Ann W. King*

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Phil Knapp

John & Susan Koeppel

Ursula Kwong Brown

John & Diana Laviolette*

Sandra Lawlis*

Michael Learning

John & Gene Leary

Pamela LeBlanc

Charles Lenchner

Sarah Leonard

Lee Linden

Leland Linn

Scott & Cappy Linn

Judy Lykins*

David Manheim

Isaac Mao

Christine Martin

Brielle Maxwell

William &

Kate McLaughlinShirley Meier

Nathalie Meurens*

Nara Milanch

Lena Millard

Kevin Miniter

Robert & Kathleen

Schafer

Cristina Moon

Adelia Moore

Andrew Moss

Ashley Mui

Ariel Muller

Matthew Murphy*

Leonid & Sabina

Nabedrik

Darren Nelson

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Danny OBrian

Vanessa Ortiz

Peggy Parsons

Christine Pasalo

Dale &

Katherine Pellman*

Matthew Penn & Candace

Broecker Penn*

Jeanne Penvenne

Tristan Perich

Kari Phelan

Mark Pike

Martha & David Plager

Stephan Poppick

& May Ng*

Julia Posteraro*

Beth Prevor*

Blaine Price

Matthew Queree

Sarah Ann Ran

Sandra Ray

Usasinee Rewthong

Michael Ricci

Kevin Riggle

Carl Rigney

Mary Robinette

Linda RobinsDavid Ross

Timo Rossi

Juliana Rotich

Nora Rowley

Sally Rudoy

Ellen Sampson

Raphael Santo

Beverly Savage

Anne Schaufele

Kim Scheinberg

Megan Sheehan

Alex Shepard

Ashish Shetty

Gene Shor

Lara Shortridge

Barbara Shoup

Barbara Shragge Stack

Luisella Simpson

Dr. Paul Slaton

Smith Family Trust

Donna & James Smith

Robert Soden

Amelia Spooner

Lina Srivastava

Alex Steed

Marie Stratton

Yancey Strickler

Jeffrey Stroebel

Elizabeth Stucki

Patipat Susumpow

Martin Sutherland

Dan Svirsky

Eliot Sykes

Rosemary & Gene

Tanner*

Stephanie Taylor*

Telegraph 21

Sue Ann & Richard

Tempero*

Lhadon Thetong

THM Capital Corp.

Tolle Family Charitable

Fund

Robert Tomasko*Tor Books

Joseph Trapanese

Phil Ugelow

Cody Valdes

Maureen Valdes

John Paul Valdes

Stephanie Valdes

Wendy Valdes

Steve Valdes

Jaroslav Valuch

Adam Van Osdol

Linda Van Schaick*

Karen Von Haam

David & Nonie

Vonneut-Gabovit

Irving Walker

Liz Wall

Heather Wallace

Joan M. Warrick*

Chrys M. Watson Ros

Brad Weikel*

John Wells

Jane Wells

Aaron Welo

Karen Wielunski

Marjorie

& John Williams

Andrew Willis

Cynthia Wong

Pete Young

Deanna Zandt

Linda Zenick

Nora Zietz

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Albert and Judith

Goldberg Foundation

Danielle Gould

Sam Gregory

Adriana Gutierrez

Susan Haber

Brian & Pamela Hagerty

Toma & Alex Hahn*

Anna Hahn

Meri Haitkin

Mary Susan Hansen

& Alan Waltner

The Harlamert Family

Janet Harris*

Zoe A Hayes

Nancy Hechinger

Cheryl Heller*

Kris Herrick & Lee Smith

Shirley Heslop

Victora Hess

Noel Hidalgo

Liz Hodes*

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Robert Hole

Carol Holzman*

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Nan Penman Honsa*

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& David Moore*

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Robert A Hulse

Michael Hunter& Pamela Freese

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"Technology helps the mind to develop

further. It makes new connections possible

and gives me the chance to know that isgoing on in the rest of the world."

Carline Villard, Haitian Activist from Dd'sPartner KOFAVIV (Commission of Women

Victims for Victims).

Digital Democracy Team

Annual Report 2009-2010 Digital Democracy
http://digital-democracy.org/who-we-are/team/http://digital-democracy.org/2010/08/03/ddtv-ep-13-life-after-the-earthquake-the-situation-for-haitian-women/

digital democracy 2009-2010 annual report

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