UPDATE: Digital Democracy Won a $5000 FACT Social Justice Award!

This past week, I got invited to be a Project Champion for NetSquared’s N2Y4 Mobile Development Challenge. With some nice great encouragement from Beth Kanter, Amy Sample Ward and Justin Massa, I decided to become the Champion for Digital Democracy’s Handheld Human Rights.

From the project description:

“Handheld Human Rights provides a secure hub for groups around Burma’s borders documenting human rights abuses. By allowing users to submit data directly from their mobiles, Burmese refugees in community organizations will be able to turn data on abuses into action. Once abuses and alerts are channeled through the hub and mapped, this information can be used to raise international awareness and support advocacy campaigns to bring gross human rights abuses to the International Criminal Court…

Handheld Human Rights is designed to accomplish two goals: to make Human Rights data 1) more accessible, and 2) more actionable.”

I’m really excited to serve as an advocate for this project.

Check out their Digital Democracy’s website or read their latest posts below: