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[Hat tip to: Aspen Institute Program On Philanthropy And Social Innovation (PSI) and PSI’s Nonprofit Data Project] Today, President Obama issued an Executive Order — Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information Our take at Markets For Good? It was big news when the President’s FY 2014...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: The following post is a dispatch from both the classroom and the field. Nicolas Galarza looks at an example of social entrepreneurship in Colombia and finds links between open data and the diffusion of innovation. The result is a route to market development that better reaches...

We find ourselves in the flurry of activity that is to be expected of the dawn of any movement. On this ground, there is an equalizing factor as the social sector, business, and government are all staring into an opportunity that demands immediate ramping of high-quality data practice. In that...

Today, the social sector (and Markets For Good, in particular) is not only asking critical questions about data, but also dealing with them head-on… Which data? Who pays for it? Where’s the accountability? and others. In this post, David Bank of Impact IQ, a firm that is seeking to track...

These materials provide professionals with information about how digital fundraising systems can affect their organization's ability to keep its data and donors safe.

As the spread of disinformation continues, CSOs and academic institutions are developing new ways to share data about the pandemic.

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...

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...

View the full lists of submitted projects from previous cycles and meet our grantees here. Digital Impact is an initiative of the Digital Civil Society Lab at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS). We work to improve the digital infrastructure for civil society and help social sector practitioners and policymakers...

Listed below are the applicants to the Digital Impact Grants 2017 cycle who agreed to share details about their proposed projects with the Digital Impact community and public at large. Digital Impact will also share an interactive data visualization of these projects. Click here to view the list of applicants...