A New Class of the ‘Tech Left-Behind’
Jun 2020
A recent report suggests that while technology today is advantageous for some, the culture behind it debases the core tenets of human dignity.
Digital Impact was created by the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS and was managed until 2024. It is no longer being updated.
Jun 2020
A recent report suggests that while technology today is advantageous for some, the culture behind it debases the core tenets of human dignity.
Jun 2020
An alliance of CSOs and activists made recommendations to governments in response to “serious concerns about the state of civic space.”
Jun 2020
The the first in a series of discussions on race, tech, and civil society examines police surveillance in Detroit.
Jun 2020
If digital infrastructure is the backbone of civil society and democratization, then why aren’t we doing more to protect it?
May 2020
MIT’s new surveillance rating system is ready to “capture details of every significant automated contact tracing effort in the world.”
May 2020
UK-based Data Orchard shares key lessons from producing its first online self-assessment and benchmarking tool.
May 2020
UK-based Data Orchard is rolling out a self-assessment tool designed to empower nonprofits in their decision-making.
May 2020
Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline is helping to build people-first digital infrastructures, one content moderation request at a time.
Apr 2020
Social justice advocate Tawana Petty writes, “We fear the unknown and what we don’t understand and sometimes that fear turns us into people we might not otherwise be.”
Apr 2020
A geolocation system developed by citizen scientists could provide potentially life-saving data without eroding the right to privacy.