Using Consequence Scanning to Mitigate Harm
Jun 2019
Samantha Brown of Doteveryone explains how data practitioners can design for the best possible outcome.
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Jun 2019
Samantha Brown of Doteveryone explains how data practitioners can design for the best possible outcome.
May 2019
For Cara LaPointe, coauthor of the Blockchain Ethical Design Framework, better questions make for better technologies.
May 2019
Nick Hamlin of GlobalGiving explains how the organization ran an impact study to measure its own effectiveness and why all nonprofits should follow suit.
May 2019
Tracy Ann Kosa, a former Non-Resident Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab, discusses how and why we need to measure data privacy.
Apr 2019
“Researchers, companies, and governments holding data face a fundamental tension between risk to respondents and benefits to science.”
Apr 2019
The world’s largest global crowdfunding community for nonprofits wanted to evaluate its impact, so it applied a new framework to find answers.
Apr 2019
The real question for nonprofits and foundations is not how will they use AI, but how is AI being used within the domains within which they work and how must they respond?
Apr 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?
Apr 2019
UNOCHA’s Stuart Campo explains how the challenges of managing data risk are breathing life into a new set of guidelines for the sector.
Apr 2019
Civil society organizations should guard against “authenticity theft,” a troubling trend that may yet reveal a silver lining.