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The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2020

A new report from the Centre for Humanitarian Data aims to increase awareness of data that is available and missing across humanitarian operations.

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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.

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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.

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Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

Project Avoiding Discrimination in Automated Decision Making and Machine Learning Team [ess_grid alias=”maxplanck”] Danilo Brajovic Niki Kilbertus Bernhard Schölkopf Adrian Weller Project Overview As automatic systems increasingly make decisions affecting humans, we must understand how our notions of fairness can be incorporated in a principled way. We implement various recent...

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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...

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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?

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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.

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Crowdfunding a Space for Civic Engagement

GivingTuesday's Asha Curran explains how the movement has inspired a new generation of donors.

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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.

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What Does It Take to Be a Data Champion?

Rachel Rank of UK-based 360Giving introduces a new kind of "data expedition" for professionals looking to connect with their work and each other.

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