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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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