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A recent report suggests that while technology today is advantageous for some, the culture behind it debases the core tenets of human dignity.

An alliance of CSOs and activists made recommendations to governments in response to "serious concerns about the state of civic space."

MIT’s new surveillance rating system is ready to “capture details of every significant automated contact tracing effort in the world.”

The global pandemic gives new urgency to conversations about race, technology, and civil society. Existing inequities are exacerbated by the disease and exploited by the response to it. Technologies contribute to inequity, but also offer ways to restore justice. This crisis offers a moment to ask the types of questions...

Digital Impact and the Digital Civil Society Lab are working with partners to mitigate the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

In an interview with ERST Foundation, Lucy Bernholz calls on Europe to impart to tech platforms a set of standards that uphold the ideals of democracy.

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...

Project Avoiding Discrimination in Automated Decision Making and Machine Learning Team [ess_grid alias=”maxplanck”] Danilo Brajovic Niki Kilbertus Bernhard Schölkopf Adrian Weller Project Overview As automatic systems increasingly make decisions affecting humans, we must understand how our notions of fairness can be incorporated in a principled way. We implement various recent...

Project Housing Data Coalition (HDC) Team [ess_grid alias=”hdc”] Project Overview The Housing Data Coalition (HDC) is a group of individuals and organizations who collaborate to make public data more accessible and actionable for those seeking to further housing justice in New York City. Challenge Amid New York City’s current housing...

Dozens of people have contributed to the latest Blueprint and we invite you to join us. What opportunities and challenges do you see for digital civil society in 2020? Your ideas can help build a better future. Together, we can #BuildTheBlueprint. “Here, I hold myself to a challenge I put...