June 13, 2020
Is the Jury Still Out on Zoom?
Overreliance on platforms like Zoom could result in a further loss of rights for those adversely affected by predictive tech and the digital divide.
Digital Impact was created by the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS and was managed until 2024. It is no longer being updated.
June 13, 2020
Overreliance on platforms like Zoom could result in a further loss of rights for those adversely affected by predictive tech and the digital divide.
June 12, 2020
A recent report suggests that while technology today is advantageous for some, the culture behind it debases the core tenets of human dignity.
June 6, 2020
An alliance of CSOs and activists made recommendations to governments in response to “serious concerns about the state of civic space.”
June 3, 2020
The the first in a series of discussions on race, tech, and civil society examines police surveillance in Detroit.
May 30, 2020
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’s investigation of COVID-19 era surveillance includes recommendations from digital rights watchdog organizations.
April 29, 2020
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
Digital Impact and the Digital Civil Society Lab are working with partners to mitigate the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
January 9, 2020
People from around the world share their thoughts on digital civil society, why it matters, and what makes them hopeful about it.
May 1, 2019
Tracy Ann Kosa, a former Non-Resident Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab, discusses how and why we need to measure data privacy.