Digital Democracy

About this original series

Empowering civic engagement with digital technologies and programs that promote education, communication and participation.

Category
News & Politics
# Episodes
14 episodes
Rating
TV-PG

Episodes of Digital Democracy

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  Life After the Earthquake: The Situation for Hai...
  
  Since January's devastating earthquake the women of Haiti have been subject to increased rates of gender-based violence. This violence is due in large part to the relocation of many to the displaced persons camps, where the threat of attack is high and security low. While women are frequently the head of the household, they have very little representation in diplomacy, government and the economy in Haiti, and therefore little opportunity to combat this violence and other issues. On this episod...
  - Release date
    
    Aug 2, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    07:33
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  The Dreams of Stateless Youth
  
  In this episode of DdTv venture back with us to January 2008 to see the origins of Digital Democracy's digital photography program Project Einstein. Digital Democracy Co-Directors Mark Belinsky and Emily Jacobi spend several days in Kutupalong refugee camp in Southern Bangladesh, home to thousands of Rohingya refugees from Burma. Stateless, the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic group from western Burma have fled to Bangladesh to escape the human rights violations they've suffered in Burma, where they ...
  - Release date
    
    May 31, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    04:30
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  Stories from a Thai Refugee Camp
  
  Digital Democracy Co-Directors Mark and Emily travel to Northern Thailand to Mae La refugee camp to launch Dd's digital penpal program Project Einstein with Burmese youth living in the camp.
  - Release date
    
    Apr 13, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    07:08
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  Earthquake in Haiti
  
  In this episode of DdTv, Chrissy Martin discusses her experiences being in the Earthquake, witnessing first-hand the toll it took on the country and its people, and her reflections on the photo training that took place only 3 days prior.
  - Release date
    
    Mar 1, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    04:36
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  Handheld Human Rights
  
  While in Northern Thailand, Mark and Emily meet with Digital Democracy's partner The All Burma IT Students' Union (ABITSU) to set up equipment and train ABITSU's core staff, as well as members of other human rights groups working along the border, in the uses and features of Handheld Human Rights (HHR) for its initial launch. HHR enables organizations to communicate securely through the use of mobile phones, and to make human rights data accessible and actionable. ABITSU, an organization that ...
  - Release date
    
    Feb 1, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    07:23
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  Surviving the Haiti Earthquake
  
  Chrissy Martin just returned safely from Haiti. This is the first interview with her personal story of what it was like to be in the earthquake and be evacuated to the US.Over the weekend, our colleagues Chrissy Martin and Joshua Haynes launched Project Einstein: Haiti, a joint project of Digital Democracy and Fletcher’s Center for Emerging Market Enterprises (CEME). (See the introductory blog post, and the photoset.) On Saturday and Sunday, they worked with a group of young people between the...
  - Release date
    
    Jan 17, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    09:54
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  Burma's Political Prisoners
  
  The number of political prisoners has increased exponentially since Burma's Saffron Revolution in 2007. This number, as told by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners' Aung Myo Thein, is a clear indicator of the political situation in Burma. In this episode of DdTv, Mark and Emily travel to northern Thailand to launch Handheld Human Rights. While there, they meet with Aung Myo Thein, a former political prisoner, now working along the Thai-Burma border to help prisoners like he once...
  - Release date
    
    Dec 8, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    05:29
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  Thai Netizens
  
  While continuing to explore the technology community in Bangkok, Mark and Emily meet some of the courageous people working in online Journalism today. Among them is Jiew, the Executive Director of Prachatai, an online alternative news source for Thailand.
  - Release date
    
    Nov 9, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    05:14
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  Opendream
  
  Bangkok is one of the centers of tech innovation in Asia, but it hasn't always been that way. Tune in as our newly inoculated team moves from Bangkok Hospital to speak with John Berns, one of the co-founders of Barcamp Bangkok, about the rise of the local tech community. After a bike tour of the city, Emily and Mark then travel to Open Dream to meet Thai developers building digital tools for civil society and business. They give us a tour of their office co-working space. What do open governme...
  - Release date
    
    Oct 6, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    06:04
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  Medical Tourism
  
  As the debate over health care reform rages in the United States, Mark and Emily explore another option: medical tourism. Inoculation against certain tropical diseases is a routine precaution for traveling in Southeast Asia but even getting a handful of shots in the U.S. can quickly become very expensive. So Mark asked: "Why not just get them in Thailand?" Can he expect the same quality of care overseas? Can he afford it? And if so, what does that say about our own health care system in Americ...
  - Release date
    
    Sep 21, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    05:16