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OpenStreetMap Without Servers [Part 1] OpenStreetMap Without Servers [Part 1]
We’ve built mapping tools based on OpenStreetMap that work offline and without any server, which indigenous communities in the Amazon are using to create territory maps to defend their ancestral rainforest home from oil drilling, mining and logging. Read more…
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OpenStreetMap Without Servers [Part 2]: A peer-to-peer OSM database OpenStreetMap Without Servers [Part 2]: A peer-to-peer OSM database
osm-p2p is a decentralized peer-to-peer database for storing and editing OpenStreetMap nodes, ways, and relations. Learn about how it works and how to create your own OSM database and synchronize with other peers offline. Read more…
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Digital Drinks is Back! April 20 in Oakland Digital Drinks is Back! April 20 in Oakland
The Amazon is muggy, but Oakland is perfectly sunny. Celebrate the change of seasons and meet other technologists for good at our first Digital Drinks of 2016. Read more…
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Notes from Peru, Now on Medium Notes from Peru, Now on Medium
Inspired, and with ample time and notebooks to sketch and write, I jotted down some observations. These informed two posts that are now up on Digital Democracy's Medium page. Read more…
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Welcome Ruth Miller to the Team Welcome Ruth Miller to the Team
Digital Democracy is thrilled to be starting the new year with a new team member, Ruth Miller. Ruth is joining for the spring to us figure out how to scale our team and our impact. Read more…
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[VIDEO] Our Work in Ecuador [VIDEO] Our Work in Ecuador
I’m in Ecuador right now, I’ve just finished drone training with a group of community environmental monitors from a region of the Ecuadorian Amazon heavily affected by oil drilling over the past 4 decades. Today I am flying to the Waorani communities of Nemopare and Kiwaro to kick of a territory mapping project, helping the villages communicate their vision of their territory and their forest to the outside world through maps participatory video. Watch the video to learn more about our work in Ecuador. Read more…
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Open Maps for Everyone Open Maps for Everyone
Today we’re super excited to be one of 22 amazing projects to win support from the Knight Prototype Fund. We will use the funds to prototype new ways for anybody to make a map of the world around them using simple, open source tools that work in low-tech and low-connectivity environments. Read more…
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Code with us Code with us
We’re hiring. Are you a javascript developer with a passion for maps, the rainforest, human rights, or making a difference doing cool stuff? Join our dynamic team, building cutting edge tools to meet the needs of indigenous communities in Peru, Ecuador, Guyana and around the world who are on the front lines of the struggle to protect the world’s most beautiful places. Read more…
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Honoring the life of Dan Fredinburg Honoring the life of Dan Fredinburg
Dan Fredinburg, an adventurer, mountain climber and passionate social change-maker, was at Mount Everest basecamp with colleagues from Google on April 25, when a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal. Read more…
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Drone Crash! Drone Crash!
When your colleague has traveled 5,000 miles to South America to work with a remote indigenous community using their own custom-built drone to monitor deforestation, the last thing you want to receive in your inbox is an email titled “Drone Crash!” That’s the problem I get for working with someone with a classically British sense of humor. Read more…