April 24, 2020
Creating a New Global Standard for Privacy and Location Sharing
A geolocation system developed by citizen scientists could provide potentially life-saving data without eroding the right to privacy.
April 24, 2020
A geolocation system developed by citizen scientists could provide potentially life-saving data without eroding the right to privacy.
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.
February 20, 2020
Digital Impact grantee JustFix.nyc is using New York City's housing crisis to lay the groundwork for a nationwide movement built on public data.
February 11, 2020
Public Lab is developing a set of tools based on "location blurring," a new system that would mitigate the abuse of big tech surveillance.
February 4, 2020
Project Community Data Privacy Toolkit (CDPT) Team [ess_grid alias=”publiclab”] Project Overview The Community Data Privacy Toolkit (CDPT) is a set of web-based data management tools for privacy-first, user-friendly data input, archiving, and sharing among social sector organizations. It includes tools to produce and manage semi-anonymous personal data and geodata and...
January 28, 2020
A new report from the Centre for Humanitarian Data aims to increase awareness of data that is available and missing across humanitarian operations.
January 21, 2020
Digital Impact grantee JustFix.nyc is leading a data coalition whose aim is to further housing justice in New York City and beyond.
January 16, 2020
Project Housing Data Coalition (HDC) Team [ess_grid alias=”hdc”] Project Overview The Housing Data Coalition (HDC) is a group of individuals and organizations who collaborate to make public data more accessible and actionable for those seeking to further housing justice in New York City. Challenge Amid New York City’s current housing...
January 14, 2020
As civil society is now digital we face new decisions at every level, from the individual to the organizational. Who and what will we be?
January 9, 2020
People from around the world share their thoughts on digital civil society, why it matters, and what makes them hopeful about it.