August 12, 2015
Community Insights: Andrew Means
For the first interview in our Community Insights series, we sit down with Andrew Means, Co-Founder of The Impact Lab.
Digital Impact was created by the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS and was managed until 2024. It is no longer being updated.
July 8, 2015
Distributed Communication Can Help Us Reach Our SDGs
Using digital technologies within a distributed social framework can inspire solutions that bring us closer to reaching our Sustainable Development Goals.
June 10, 2015
The Financial Transparency Act of 2015 Has Been Introduced
The farthest-reaching open data legislation since the DATA Act highlights how open data will impact investors, regulators, and the financial industry.
May 20, 2014
Why the DATA Act Matters
The US Digital Accountability and Transparency Act is a bold bid to transform government spending information from disconnected documents into open data.
January 7, 2014
Dealing Your Own Best Hand (Unlocking Data From Silos)
We’re now far along into the narrative on how data will “change the way we live and work.” Further, that narrative is beginning to develop into more than an abstract promise, as we see examples and case studies chronicled regularly in such sources as The Harvard Business Review and the Stanford Social Innovation Review. But, […]
October 3, 2012
Let Our Data Define Us – Part II
Lucy Bernholz outlines a new definition for the sector at the forefront of taking on our biggest challenges.
October 2, 2012
Let Our Data Define Us – Part I
In the first of a two-part post, Lucy Bernholz issues a challenge to the social sector: discover the potential in our data and change the way we use it.