June 6, 2020
Civic Freedom and the Pandemic
An alliance of CSOs and activists made recommendations to governments in response to "serious concerns about the state of civic space."
June 6, 2020
An alliance of CSOs and activists made recommendations to governments in response to "serious concerns about the state of civic space."
April 22, 2020
A report from the Digital Civil Society Lab looks at how organizations are evolving to address policy issues in the digital age.
April 15, 2020
A new report looks at how the GDPR can be used against social sector organizations and what they should do to prepare.
March 27, 2020
Digital Impact and the Digital Civil Society Lab are working with partners to mitigate the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
February 27, 2020
A report from OSF looks at how nefarious actors have tried to use the GDPR to stifle public interest research and reporting in the social sector.
July 5, 2019
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 19, 2019
The Global Open Data Index from Open Knowledge International provides the most comprehensive snapshot available of the state of open government data publication.
April 3, 2019
While not foolproof, de-identification techniques unlock value by enabling important public and private research, allowing for the maintenance and use – and, in certain cases, sharing and publication – of valuable information, while mitigating privacy risk. This visual guide from the Future of Privacy Forum walks users through practical data...
March 12, 2019
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...
January 30, 2019
Podcast and Transcript: An expert panel and our virtual audience forecast the most important trends and challenges facing digital civil society in 2019.