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A new open-source app from OpenArchive is designed to give citizen reports more agency over their mobile media.

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?

Benetech is a nonprofit that empowers communities with software for social good. Benetech received a 2017 Digital Impact Grant for the project “Gamified Digital Security Training.” Team [ess_grid alias=”benetech”] Project Overview Through gamified training, we created an immersive, simulated environment in which players are required to implement their knowledge in...

Project Data for Action: Bringing Responsible and Secure Data Practices to Community Surveys Team [ess_grid alias=”civicus”] Project Overview CIVICUS-DataShift utilizes best practices in e-learning to develop an organizational shift from using data for reporting to using data for action. This project seeks to improve our secure and responsible data lifecycle...

Civil society organizations should guard against "authenticity theft," a troubling trend that may yet reveal a silver lining.

Team [ess_grid alias=”dataorchard”] Data Orchard is a research organization providing skills in research, statistics and data with shared passions around making the world a better place socially, economically and environmentally. Data Orchard received a 2017 Digital Impact Grant. Learn more about Data Orchard’s work here. Project Overview Data Orchard will...

Project Research and Decision-Making Framework for Philanthropic Organizations Sharing Grants Data for Human Rights and Social Change Projects Team [ess_grid alias=”ariadne”] Project Overview The project explores the decision-making process for philanthropic institutions as they collect and share open, comparable grants data, including current approaches, risks and emerging best practice. An...

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...

Pro Bono Net is a national nonprofit, founded in 1999, dedicated to increasing access to justice. Through innovative technology solutions and expertise in building and mobilizing justice networks, Pro Bono Net transforms the way legal help reaches those in low income and vulnerable communities. Pro Bono Net received a 2017...

Podcast and Transcript: An expert panel and our virtual audience forecast the most important trends and challenges facing digital civil society in 2019.