Democracy
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: Creating small crises for oneself
I have created three mini-crises for myself. It has been difficult, but very liberating.
🦾 AI avatars protect journalists in Venezuela
AI-created news anchors are used to protect journalists in Venezuela. The initiative involves approximately 20 Venezuelan news media and 100 journalists. The digital presenters report on government actions against opposition and media.
🙅♀️ Prebunking - how Taiwan resisted China's information warfare
Showing people in advance what the manipulators will claim gives people mental antibodies to resist disinformation.
📱 Ukrainian Qela organizes democracy activists with an app
Running a startup is hard. Running a startup in Ukraine is brutal. But that's what Tamara Tachynska is doing. With the Qela App, democracy activists and other communities can organize themselves.
🗳️ The startup VINICI creates a rhetorical timeline of what politicians have said - fighting for democracy in Georgia
Georgia has passed a Russian-inspired law that classifies many democracy activists as foreign agents. A step towards harsher repression. But there are many who are fighting back. VINICI is building a tool that can influence the election in Georgia this fall.
🗳️ Leopoldo López is building an alliance of democracy defenders – with the help of technology
Four years in solitary confinement did not break him. He continued to lead protests against the dictatorship in Venezuela. After being forced to flee the country, he now continues his work from abroad, building a democracy movement that threatens all dictatorships worldwide.
🤥 We live in a lie
How can we accept this, I thought after the first day of the Copenhagen Democracy Summit. How can it be that in 2024 we still have dictatorship in the world? How can it be allowed to exist? Because we live in a lie.
✊ The greengrocer's revolution
Nothing has done more to create human progress than democracy. There is nothing more important than achieving a fully democratic world as quickly as possible. Then even a grocer can make a difference.
🗳️ Record support for democracy, but people are disappointed with governments. Why and what do we do about it?
Almost 9 out of 10 want democracy. But far fewer are satisfied with the democracy they live in. This is based on the fact that the democratic system we have is over 100 years old and needs to be updated.