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Digital Impact was created by the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS and was managed until 2024. It is no longer being updated.

Erin Fogg

Posts by Erin Fogg

Introducing: Digital Impact

We’re thrilled to announce that we’re bringing all our communities of digital do-gooders under one roof. Today we will begin transitioning Markets for Good and digitalimpact.io to one new shared identity – Digital Impact. All of the content, collaboration, and digital exploration we know and love will continue growing under the new Digital Impact – an initiative of the Digital Civil Society […]

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Better data has the power to save more lives, says Melinda Gates

Our digital world runs on data; from Amazon book recommendations to Netflix movie suggestions, data is vital to companies’ success and longevity. Gates suggests, however, that “in [global] development we still rely primarily on educated guesses,” not data driven solutions. In 2000, the Millennium Development Goals were established with specific targets to be met by […]

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