August 31, 2020
Technology as a Strategic Tool for Moving Forward
A new guide from the Technology Association of Grantmakers, NetHope, NTEN, and TechSoup positions technology as a tool for overcoming adversity.
Digital Impact was created by the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS and was managed until 2024. It is no longer being updated.
August 31, 2020
A new guide from the Technology Association of Grantmakers, NetHope, NTEN, and TechSoup positions technology as a tool for overcoming adversity.
July 23, 2020
Activists, scholars, and policy experts discuss how tech contributes to inequity and offer ways to build a more resilient civil society.
July 22, 2020
The pandemic has nonprofits accelerating their use of tech, overwhelming many whose operations aren’t designed for digital.
June 27, 2020
Prioritizing news distribution over reporting makes journalists and platforms active participants in spreading misinformation.
June 24, 2020
Activists and policy experts look at how disinformation is being used to reduce Black voter turnout and further disenfranchise communities of color.
June 20, 2020
Police surveillance amid the pandemic underscores discriminatory policies against Black Americans.
June 13, 2020
Overreliance on platforms like Zoom could result in a further loss of rights for those adversely affected by predictive tech and the digital divide.
June 12, 2020
A recent report suggests that while technology today is advantageous for some, the culture behind it debases the core tenets of human dignity.
June 6, 2020
An alliance of CSOs and activists made recommendations to governments in response to “serious concerns about the state of civic space.”
June 3, 2020
The the first in a series of discussions on race, tech, and civil society examines police surveillance in Detroit.