December 21, 2020
Internet Sleuthing 2.0: Standards for Digital Open Source Investigations
Author and human rights advocate Alexa Koenig explains how the Berkeley Protocol will empower the next generation of human rights defenders.
February 4, 2020
Public Laboratory for Open Technology (Public Lab)
Project Community Data Privacy Toolkit (CDPT) Team [ess_grid alias=”publiclab”] Project Overview The Community Data Privacy Toolkit (CDPT) is a set of web-based data management tools for privacy-first, user-friendly data input, archiving, and sharing among social sector organizations. It includes tools to produce and manage semi-anonymous personal data and geodata and...
January 28, 2020
The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2020
A new report from the Centre for Humanitarian Data aims to increase awareness of data that is available and missing across humanitarian operations.
January 23, 2020
Harry Potter at the Crossroads: We Need New Open Systems
As Lucy Bernholz writes, we need to lose the old-fashioned concept of going online and address how and why we're controlled by our digital systems.
November 22, 2019
Save, a New Open-Source App, Empowers Citizen Reporters
A new open-source app from OpenArchive is designed to give citizen reports more agency over their mobile media.
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April 19, 2019
Global Open Data Index
The Global Open Data Index from Open Knowledge International provides the most comprehensive snapshot available of the state of open government data publication.
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December 6, 2018
Open Data and Economic Ownership in West African Agriculture
Mobile apps are empowering millions of rural farmers across the West African country of Ghana. But there may be a flip side.
April 25, 2018
Digital Impact Grants 2018 Cycle Now Open!
Digital Impact Grants are back! Digital Impact is pleased to announce the opening of the 2018 cycle for our Digital Impact Grants program to advance the use of digital data and infrastructure for social good, and to support better data-informed decision making in philanthropy (particularly individual giving) and in the social sector...
October 13, 2017
The Open 990 and US Nonprofits
Listen to Lucy Bernholz, Cinthia Schuman Ottinger, Beth Simone Noveck, David Borenstein, and Neville Vakharia discuss the new machine-readable Form 990 and the opportunities and challenges presented to U.S. nonprofits and civil society. Recent regulatory changes have made e-filed Form 990s, the data-rich annual financial disclosure forms for U.S. nonprofits, publicly available as machine-readable digital...