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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 Garrett Glass via e-mail at gglass@dfn.org. Use our online subscription form
to be added to our press list. You can also contact us at:
Digital Freedom
Network
520 Broad Street, 3rd Floor (in the IDT Building)
Newark, NJ 07102
(Between Lombardy and Bridge Streets)
U.S.A.
Phone: +(1-973) 438-3712
Fax: +(1-973) 438-1735
E-mail: info@dfn.org
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