I wrote this report for the Internet and Democracy Project at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. The paper investigates the influence of the citizen journalism Web site OhmyNews during the 2002 South Korean Presidential election. It begins with a discussion of the phenomenon of ... Leer más
In April of this year I was hired by the OpenNet Initiative to go to Lagos, Nigeria, to install election-monitoring software which tested whether the government was filtering the Internet during the presidential elections. (No filtering was found, either during the elections or in the two weeks preceding, though several ... Leer más
Back in 2006 I wrote The Election Blogging Guide with Solana Larsen and Zephyr Teachout. At the time we wrote it, Solana was an editor at openDemocracy, and now she is also co-managing editor at Global Voices. Zephyr Teachout was Director of Online Organizing for Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign ... Leer más
I wrote this 110-page report in 2007 for Res Publica, the New York NGO which created Avaaz.org. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had hired Res Publica to write a report outlining possible funding options that the Gates Foundation could undertake to help NGOs and movements in the global south ... Leer más