June 2, 2020
Digital Infrastructure in Times of Crisis
If digital infrastructure is the backbone of civil society and democratization, then why aren’t we doing more to protect it?
Digital Impact was created by the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS and was managed until 2024. It is no longer being updated.
May 30, 2020
Who Watches the Watchers?
MIT’s new surveillance rating system is ready to “capture details of every significant automated contact tracing effort in the world.”
May 6, 2020
EDRi Launches Hub to Track Digital Rights Amid Pandemic
EDRi’s investigation of COVID-19 era surveillance includes recommendations from digital rights watchdog organizations.
April 29, 2020
Watched and Still Dying
Social justice advocate Tawana Petty writes, “We fear the unknown and what we don’t understand and sometimes that fear turns us into people we might not otherwise be.”
March 27, 2020
How Can Digital Impact Help to Mitigate the Effects of COVID-19?
Digital Impact and the Digital Civil Society Lab are working with partners to mitigate the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.