July 22, 2020
Have We Forgotten the Human Aspect of Technology?
The pandemic has nonprofits accelerating their use of tech, overwhelming many whose operations aren’t designed for digital.
Digital Impact was created by the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS and was managed until 2024. It is no longer being updated.
Posts by Chris Delatorre
June 27, 2020
Metrics are Driving Disinformation
Prioritizing news distribution over reporting makes journalists and platforms active participants in spreading misinformation.
June 24, 2020
Protecting the Black Vote During COVID-19
Activists and policy experts look at how disinformation is being used to reduce Black voter turnout and further disenfranchise communities of color.
June 20, 2020
Unmasking Racial Inequality Amid COVID-19
Police surveillance amid the pandemic underscores discriminatory policies against Black Americans.
June 13, 2020
Is the Jury Still Out on Zoom?
Overreliance on platforms like Zoom could result in a further loss of rights for those adversely affected by predictive tech and the digital divide.
June 12, 2020
A New Class of the ‘Tech Left-Behind’
A recent report suggests that while technology today is advantageous for some, the culture behind it debases the core tenets of human dignity.
June 6, 2020
Civic Freedom and the Pandemic
An alliance of CSOs and activists made recommendations to governments in response to “serious concerns about the state of civic space.”
June 3, 2020
Legitimizing True Safety
The the first in a series of discussions on race, tech, and civil society examines police surveillance in Detroit.
May 30, 2020
Who Watches the Watchers?
MIT’s new surveillance rating system is ready to “capture details of every significant automated contact tracing effort in the world.”
April 15, 2020
GDPR Compliance and Closing Civic Space
A new report looks at how the GDPR can be used against social sector organizations and what they should do to prepare.