Digital Infrastructure

Public Lab is developing a set of tools based on “location blurring,” a new system that would mitigate the abuse of big tech surveillance.

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.

In the last of a five-part series, Lucy Bernholz identifies larger, contextual shifts that are shaping philanthropy and digital civil society.

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

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.

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?

People from around the world share their thoughts on digital civil society, why it matters, and what makes them hopeful about it.

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

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.

A new open-source app from OpenArchive is designed to give citizen reports more agency over their mobile media.