December 18, 2020
Introducing a New Cyber Sleuthing Manual for Students
With help from Digital Impact, the Human Rights Center at UC-Berkeley is working to standardize digital open source information for criminal and human rights investigations.
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Krysten Crawford is a freelance writer and editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
December 18, 2020
Krysten Crawford, Human Rights Center
With help from Digital Impact, the Human Rights Center at UC-Berkeley is working to standardize digital open source information for criminal and human rights investigations.
September 15, 2020
Krysten Crawford, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
With racial unrest shedding new light on AI’s fairness problem, an open source tool developed with the help of Digital Impact aims for a more holistic fix.
April 24, 2020
A geolocation system developed by citizen scientists could provide potentially life-saving data without eroding the right to privacy.
February 20, 2020
Digital Impact grantee JustFix.nyc is using New York City’s housing crisis to lay the groundwork for a nationwide movement built on public data.
April 11, 2019
For most people in the world, getting online is too expensive, and for those who can afford it, service is often unreliable or non-existent. What could this mean for democracy?
December 6, 2018
Mobile apps are empowering millions of rural farmers across the West African country of Ghana. But there may be a flip side.
September 10, 2018
With the help of a Digital Impact grant, one Philadelphia-based nonprofit is taking on predictive technology in the criminal justice system, one algorithm at a time.
June 26, 2018
Krysten Crawford, The Engine Room
The Collaborative’s overarching goal is to jump-start a conversation across the sector—especially among smaller civil society players—about responsible data.
April 24, 2018
With the help of Digital Impact, a Drexel University professor is developing an interactive tool that would map thousands of nonprofits in their local neighborhoods, starting with Philadelphia.
April 4, 2018
With the help of Digital Impact, MIT’s Rahul Bhargava helped to launch the Data Culture Project, a set of free online tools designed to help organizations build data skills across their teams.
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