January 9, 2020
Building the Blueprint: Digital Civil Society Speaks
People from around the world share their thoughts on digital civil society, why it matters, and what makes them hopeful about it.
December 18, 2019
Digital as a Given: The Landscape of Digital Civil Society
Lucy Bernholz lays out a vision of digital civil society and the cycles of change society has experienced as we become more dependent on digital systems.
July 5, 2019
Ensuring Funder Support for Digital Infrastructure
Bahrain-based Esra'a Al Shafei has gone to great lengths to preserve the basic infrastructure that would keep digital civil society secure. Are funders listening?
April 23, 2019
Privacy, Ethics, and Data Access: A Case Study of the Fragile Families Challenge
"Researchers, companies, and governments holding data face a fundamental tension between risk to respondents and benefits to science."
April 16, 2019
Nonprofits and Artificial Intelligence
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?
October 30, 2018
#GivingTuesday Data Collaborative
Podcast and Transcript: Lucy Bernholz, Asha Curran, and Josh Levy discuss building a governance plan and digital infrastructure for giving data worldwide.
September 5, 2018
2018 Grant Applicants
Listed below are the applicants to the Digital Impact Grants 2018 cycle who agreed to share details about their proposed projects with the Digital Impact community and public at large. Digital Impact will share an interactive data visualization of these projects. You can also view applicants from 2016 and 2017. 21...
July 27, 2018
The Internet of Things: Risks and Rewards of a Connected Future
Podcast and Transcript: Nonprofit tech experts discuss how the Internet of Things has sparked a new era of social impact.
May 7, 2018
Data Labs: Applying the Model in Other Contexts
Project Data Labs: Applying the Model in Other Contexts Team [ess_grid alias=”datalabs”] Challenge Help public decision makers understand the value proposition for the creation of institutional infrastructure and governance to enable the use of administrative data for more data-driven governance and then understand alternatives for how to create such labs; and make the...
December 19, 2017
You Don’t Need a Data Scientist, You Need a Data Culture
This piece was originally published on Medium. The DataBasic.io project is supported by a 2016 Digital Impact Grant. Most of the larger non-profit organizations we work with are scrambling to figure out how to deploy complex technologies like machine learning and “AI” in service of the social good. These include inspiring...