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How can online platforms be held accountable for not doing enough to remove harmful content? Alix Guerrier and GlobalGiving have a plan.

A new report looks at how the GDPR can be used against social sector organizations and what they should do to prepare.

In an interview with ERST Foundation, Lucy Bernholz calls on Europe to impart to tech platforms a set of standards that uphold the ideals of democracy.

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.

Data advocate Heather Leson explains how local communities will help bring IFRC's Data Playbook to life.

Helen Turvey of Shuttleworth Foundation sheds light on the disconnect between funders and the communities they serve.

Since 2015, the Civic Tech Field Guide has offered a crowdsourced, global collection of civic tech tools and projects. Thousands of civic tech practitioners from over 80 countries around the world have contributed to this living resource. The guides catalogs not only the tools, but also the social side of the...

Project Open Data Intermediaries and Economic Ownership Rights Team [ess_grid alias=”africanminds”] Project Overview Absent in the research literature is a consideration of how data intermediaries may infringe on the ownership rights of the individual actors from whom they ‘extract’ data. At the individual level, data may hold less value and...

Zara Rahman of The Engine Room sheds light on a new partnership between WPF and Palantir Technologies, a US company with ties to intelligence communities.

A controversial smart city initiative in Canada has proposed using a data trust to help manage how it collects and uses data. But is it enough? Digital Public's Sean Martin McDonald investigates.