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Weekly Roundup 1/9/2020
The arrival of 2020 brings with it the dawn of a new decade, and somewhere, embedded in this excitement, are plenty of speculations about the next big tech trends coming our way. A few things to be on the lookout for:…
Read MoreMeet GeoPoll: Collecting Data for Society
The NDItech team recently had the pleasure of hosting leaders from GeoPoll to discuss how their mobile phone survey technologies can gather insights into critical development questions. Scott Lansell, GeoPoll’sVP for Business Development, broke…
Read MoreWeekly Roundup 12/19/19
Today we share our top weekly technology related articles, the last for the year 2019. Technology has been at the heart of major global changes we have witnessed over the last decade. The world has been changed by technology - and at the same…
Read MoreSurveying with Civi in Côte d'Ivoire
A couple weeks back, I spent an afternoon with my colleagues at NDI’s office in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire performing a task all too familiar to us on the NDItech team - setting up cheap Android smartphones with …
Read MoreLying Politicians Are Certainties - But Should They Buy Ads on Social Media to Do It?
On October 30th, Twitter’s CEO, Jack Dorsey, announced in a series of tweets that the platform will put a global ban all forms of political advertisements - a move widely praised…
Read MoreHello, World!
My name is Grace Chimezie, and I am delighted to be a recent addition to the NDITech team. I have been welcomed warmly by brilliant thinkers, invested in strengthening NDI’s core democratic principles.
During the next several months, I’ll…
Read MoreWe're Hiring! Product Manager and Project Lead to Shape Tech for Democracy!
Human Centered Design for Local Capacity Building
Every day civic activists, organizations, and governments are working to incorporate 21st century tools into antiquated practices and systems. NDI’s TechCivica Initiative aims to support this…
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