12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Esther Dyson, longtime analyst of the IT and Internet worlds and author of the blog "Release 0.9," addressed the topic, "A Virtualist Tours the World: The Internet and the Emergence of Democracy," at the New York Democracy Forum.
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Sponsored by: The Albert Shanker Institute,The American Federation of Teachers
Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Chairman of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Developmental Studies and Professor of Political Sociology, The American University, Cairo, gave a Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture on heading towards Islamic democracies
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Retiring NED Vice Chairman Thomas R. Donahue was honored by the Endowment with the presentation of the Democracy Service Medal on March 16, 2006.
