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Aug.01.08

Count to 5! Campaign
Digital Development (DD) is a nonpartisan organization that seeks to increase voter
turn out among young voters during the October 2008 presidential election in Azerbaijan.
The organization will concentrate its efforts on Kurdemir and Imishli regions of the
country as well as the capital city and projects to contact approximately 20,000 voters
in the two regions as well as reach nearly 100,000 through text messaging in the rest of the country.
The organization will use text messaging and distribute election-related materials and information as a
means of reaching and engaging potential voters. The organization plans to conduct a post-election
assessment of the project by contacting the volunteers who took part in the campaign.

Count to Five!

Feb.20.08.

Digital Development is nGOmobile Award competition winner. "DD"pledges to sign up 80,000 voters via SMS messages to swing 2008 presidential elections through innovative get-out-the-vote activities.

nGOmobile

Feb.20.08.

Digital Development launched a new web site on Climate Change

click here

Feb.20.08.

"DD" prepares cut-edging websites and logos. There are considerable discount for non profit organizations. It is not a business that we make. Just we try to keep sustainable our fight for poverty. Help us to be sustainable.

 

 



 

 

 

Projects implemented
 
Since 2006 many NGOs in Azerbaijan obtained websites, received professional consulting services for internet technology, new media tools, online presence, online courses, online funding, e-mail lists, how to use internet safely, how publish articles online, how to make search via search engines and most importantly how incorporate ICT into NGO and CBO work and activities.

 

Projects in 2008
DD with funding from AlertsFond from the Netherlands implements a project on climate change issues in Azerbaijan.


Description in short

 Azerbaijan is becoming one of the biggest suppliers of oil and gas in Europe and it builds on it for future increase, which is having and will have an impact on the environment. The general public is unaware of the global warming danger and takes no actions. Responding to the needs of the youth and provide awareness we decided to develop an interactive website where the youth can learn, share and campaign about the approaching danger

Main goal

The goal is to provide accurate and accessible messages on climate change to target audiences, make the youth more aware of the climate change implications and motivate to take relevant climate friendly actions, and raise awareness of general public on climate change problems with easily understandable fact sheets

Achievements

1. Educational website http://climate.didev.org;

2. Translation of fact sheets into local Azerbaijani language from English and publishing on the web;

3. Publication of A4 print out containing information about the project, small facts about global warming, possible actions and on how to access the website;

 

Count to 5! Campaign

Digital Development became the winner of nGOmobile competition (information is available on www.ngomobile.org) with its Count to 5! Campaign.

2008 presidential elections are forthcoming in Azerbaijan and DD wishes using SMS to prepare civil society for it through Count to 5! Campaign. So, we’ll use phones to swing elections through innovative get-out-the-vote activities and wage campaigning for passive voters to show up for the elections.  Also we shall use it to gather activists together and send media alerts to journalists. This initiative will help us to get-out-the-vote and contribute to fair and just elections in the country.

Methodology
Each person involved will send 5 SMS to other potential voter from his/her surrounding/relatives/friends etc. asking to come to vote and send the message to 5 more. The process should obtain a chain process and involve the most of potential voters in the country.