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Weekly Roundup 16 May, 2022

By Cat Ramsey | May 16, 2022

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A mess of glowing blue lines makes shapes similar to those on a computer chip on a black background, zeroes and ones also appear in this blue, and an eye in the same blues is the center of the image

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Image credit: Getty Images/Yuichiro Chino

To address a spike in online child sexual abuse material(CSAM) during the pandemic, the European Commission has published a …

Weekly Roundup 28 April through 6 May

By Cat Ramsey | May 09, 2022

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Image credit: Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images

28 April

Since the news broke that Twitter is accepting Elon Musk’s bid to purchase the platform,…

Weekly Roundup 14 April through 21 April

By Cat Ramsey | May 02, 2022

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A dark background with a red grid and blue ones and zeroes and a hexagon grid. In the center, over everything is a yellow triangle with an exclamation point in it. Everything is glowing.

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Image credit: Getty Images, Cyberscoop's "Zero-day exploits found and disclosed hit a record high in 2021, Google Project Zero says" article.

14 April
Meta has reported the takedown of a network of active Brazilian military personnel using the…

Weekly Roundup 24 March through 7 April

By Cat Ramsey | Apr 19, 2022

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A picture of the Sama office in Nairobi. The office is to the left, a big building with a lot of windows, while the office's sign in centered and to the right is a street. It's a sunny day.

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Image credit: Khadija Farah for TIME

Former content moderators are reigniting the debate over effective content moderation by suing big tech platforms for poor working conditions and psychological trauma. …

DemTech 1000 Course Puts Technology at the Forefront of Democratic Development for NDI Staff

By Jesper Frant | Apr 11, 2022

NDI has been a leader in democracy and technology, but to meet the challenges of our time, it is increasingly clear that the Institute needs to integrate technology into every program we undertake. In an article for the Journal of Democracy…

What We Learned from Hosting Linguistically-Inclusive Virtual HCD Workshops

By Priyal Bhatt | Mar 31, 2022

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Written by Priyal Bhatt & Elizabeth Sutterlin

In January, the DemTech team hosted online virtual workshops introducing human-centered design (HCD) and the …

Weekly Roundup 28 March, 2022

By Cat Ramsey | Mar 28, 2022

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We look, from the right side, at an open laptop with a glowing screen. Hands are typing, we can see the left forearm, the typist is wearing a watch and a simple professional blue shirt. The background is dark.

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Image credit: The Hill's "Alleged Microsoft, Okta Hackers Arrested in UK" article.

On Tuesday, the authentication platform Okta reported that its …

Emerging Technology and Democracy: What can we expect to see?

By Elizabeth Sutterlin | Mar 28, 2022

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Photo: Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego

The past year has yielded mixed results for technology and democracy. While some …

Hello, World!

By Vanessa Revilla | Mar 24, 2022

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Hello, world! My name is Vanessa Revilla, and I am thrilled to be joining NDI’s DemTech team as a Program Associate specializing in Cybersecurity!

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Weekly Roundup 18 March, 2022

By Cat Ramsey | Mar 18, 2022

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100 and 200 ruble notes with a pile of crypto coins covering the notes from the right side

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Image credit: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

Cryptocurrency, like other online platforms that have become increasingly mainstreamed in the digital era, provides both opportunities for and threats to democracy. A core value of advocates for cryptocurrency…

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