Ignite is a program that helps raise $100,000 in under 10 days. Modern communication networks like social media have helped expose human rights abuses by dictatorships and support democracy movements. Democracy activists in Myanmar have benefited from near-instant communication technologies that weren't available to pro-democracy groups in the past.

16. 100,000 in under 10 days.

17. "...[any] victory will owe something to today’s extraordinary communications networks. If the junta prevails by force, technology will have exposed its depravity to the civilized world. Myanmar’s democracy movement has a precious ally – instant, speed-of-light communications – that past victims of brutal dictatorships couldn’t have dreamed of."