December 31, 2020
10 Reads for Your 2021 List
We made a list of notable books (and a few articles) from 2020 that will inform and inspire you and your organization this year.
Digital Impact was created by the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS and was managed until 2024. It is no longer being updated.
Civil society has a critical role to play in digital policy as analog shifts to digital and organizational ecosystems evolve.
Digital policy is the realm of laws and regulations that shape and are shaped by digitization, digitalization, and digital transformation. It includes local, national, and global rules about how digital data are managed—from intellectual property law to broadband access, net neutrality and free expression to data protection, privacy, and more.
November 20, 2020
A New Approach to Solving the Paradox of Platform Neutrality
Two architects of Ethos, a new suite of tools from GlobalGiving, explain how empathy can help to address the paradox of platform neutrality.
November 17, 2020
Platform Neutrality is Dead. Long Live Empathy.
GlobalGiving established a collaboration of more than 100 peers invested in this conversation. The verdict is in: neutrality doesn’t work.
October 30, 2020
Rethinking Civic Space in an Age of Intersectional Crises
Authors of a report on the closing of civic space are calling on funders to realize their potential through collaborative and targeted interventions.
October 29, 2020
Alix Guerrier, GlobalGiving
How can online platforms be held accountable for not doing enough to remove harmful content? Alix Guerrier and GlobalGiving have a plan.
October 27, 2020
Reinventing How COVID-19 Data Is Shared
As the spread of disinformation continues, CSOs and academic institutions are developing new ways to share data about the pandemic.
October 22, 2020
Computational Propaganda and the Global Disinformation Order
With disinformation on the rise and civic space closing worldwide, experts across the social sector are working to create a more independent and inclusive digital infrastructure.
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.
July 23, 2020
#RaceTechCS Twitter Chat
Activists, scholars, and policy experts discuss how tech contributes to inequity and offer ways to build a more resilient civil society.
July 22, 2020
Have We Forgotten the Human Aspect of Technology?
The pandemic has nonprofits accelerating their use of tech, overwhelming many whose operations aren’t designed for digital.