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Who
we are
The Digital
Freedom Network (DFN) promotes human rights education and
activism around the world, primarily through the use of Internet
technology.
Since 1997, DFN
has increased awareness of human rights issues on the Internet,
made technical information more readily available to activists,
and provided an online voice to those not free to express
themselves.
How DFN makes
a difference
DFN develops and
promotes the use of Internet technology for human rights education
and activism aroudn the world. The organization encourages
networking among all those interested in global human rights
issues and serves an audience that ranges from dedicated human
rights activists to those who are less informed.
Highlighting
the issues
To further enhance
its audience's understanding of current events in the human
rights field, DFN publishes original human rights news articles
as well as articles from other news sources on its Web site.
Filling a voice left by mainstream media, the articles typically
focus on issues that are not found on the front page or delve
deeper into issues already being covered.
Bringing activists
and experts to the people
DFN promotes human
rights education through its online human rights conversations
with prominent activists and experts.
These conversations
include online chats, which are real-time discussions on our
Web site, and "ask the source" interviews, which invite the
public to e-mail questions to DFN so that they can be posed
to experts in the field.
Past chat guests
have included famed Cuban ex-political prisoner Vladimiro Roca,
actress and UN High Commissioner for Refugees Goodwill Ambassador
Angelina Jolie,
and executive director of Amnesty International USA William Schulz.
Geoffrey Nyarota,
editor of Zimbabwe's independent Daily News, and Aung
San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League of Democracy
party in Burma, provided in-depth information to DFN readers
by participating in "ask the source" interviews.
Providing tools
to activists
To provide tools
to streamline activists' dissemination of material, DFN has
created Web site templates that enable activists to design
and maintain their own Web sites with ease.
DFN also supports
activists and other organizations in developing clean, easily
accessible Net-based campaigns. In this vein, DFN has brought
global attention to an indigenous
Kenyan people threatened with displacement, as well as
individuals falsely accused of treason in
Russia.
In October 2001,
DFN and Columbia University's Center for the Study of Human
Rights launched the Columbia
Human Rights Advocates Network. The Advocates Network
site continues the process of collective learning that takes
place at Columbia's Human Rights Advocates Training Program
by connecting the alumni of the program to each other. The
site includes a technology tutorial
for human rights activists.
More information
DFN is a registered
not-for-profit corporation in New York State and is exempt
from U.S. federal income tax as an organization described
in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. We currently
receive funding from the IDT Foundation and private sources.
For media inquiries,
contact Executive Director Bobson Wong via e-mail at bwong@dfn.org. Use our online subscription form
to be added to our press list. You can also contact us at:
Digital Freedom
Network
1372 Broadway, 20th Floor
New York, NY 10018
U.S.A.
Phone: +(1-646) 223-1266
Fax: +(1-646) 223-1290
E-mail: info@dfn.org
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