February 11, 2020
Location Privacy: How Protected Are We?
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
Public Laboratory for Open Technology (Public Lab)
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...
February 1, 2020
Upholding Transparency in the Age of Misinformation
Rachel Smith of GlobalGiving is calling on the social sector to help with a new set of standards that will address today’s ethical challenges.
January 29, 2020
What Happens if We Ignore the Warning Signs of Change?
In the last of a five-part series, Lucy Bernholz identifies larger, contextual shifts that are shaping philanthropy and digital civil society.
January 23, 2020
Harry Potter at the Crossroads: We Need New Open Systems
As Lucy Bernholz writes, we need to lose the old-fashioned concept of going online and address how and why we're controlled by our digital systems.
January 21, 2020
Can Data Make Bad Housing Practice a Thing of the Past?
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
JustFix.nyc
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
Where Is Digital Civil Society in 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
Building the Blueprint: Digital Civil Society Speaks
People from around the world share their thoughts on digital civil society, why it matters, and what makes them hopeful about it.
December 18, 2019
Digital as a Given: The Landscape of Digital Civil Society
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.