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.
Digital Impact was created by the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS and was managed until 2024. It is no longer being updated.
March 18, 2013
The Grand Challenge of Data Interoperability
The Gates Foundation and Markets For Good have announced a new Grand Challenge of Data Interoperability for ideas that connect data to inform social action.
November 2, 2012
Upgrading the Infrastructure for Social Change
Markets for Good has shared a draft of a “vision paper” that signals how and why we think the sector needs to upgrade its information infrastructure.
October 22, 2012
Children’s Parties and the Demise of the Soviet Union
GlobalGiving CEO Mari Kuraishi speaks her view on the explicit and implicit structures that would define a new information infrastructure for the social sector.
October 2, 2012
Jacob Harold on GuideStar and Digital Infrastructure
Social strategist and author Jacob Harold shares his vision of a solid information infrastructure and how it could work in the social sector.