December 21, 2020
Internet Sleuthing 2.0: Standards for Digital Open Source Investigations
Author and human rights advocate Alexa Koenig explains how the Berkeley Protocol will empower the next generation of human rights defenders.
Digital Impact was created by the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS and was managed until 2024. It is no longer being updated.
December 21, 2020
Author and human rights advocate Alexa Koenig explains how the Berkeley Protocol will empower the next generation of human rights defenders.
December 18, 2020
With help from Digital Impact, the Human Rights Center at UC-Berkeley is working to standardize digital open source information for criminal and human rights investigations.
November 20, 2020
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
GlobalGiving established a collaboration of more than 100 peers invested in this conversation. The verdict is in: neutrality doesn’t work.
October 29, 2020
How can online platforms be held accountable for not doing enough to remove harmful content? Alix Guerrier and GlobalGiving have a plan.
July 23, 2020
Activists, scholars, and policy experts discuss how tech contributes to inequity and offer ways to build a more resilient civil society.
June 27, 2020
Prioritizing news distribution over reporting makes journalists and platforms active participants in spreading misinformation.
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.
May 14, 2020
Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline is helping to build people-first digital infrastructures, one content moderation request at a time.