Have you noticed an uptick of emails from companies like Slack, Google, or PayPal, announcing new privacy policies and terms and conditions? Why the sudden onslaught of updates? The answer is easy. The companies sending these notices are changing their …
Predict-a-palooza: Civil Society Forecast 2019
Featured Speakers What new features, opportunities, and risks does 2019 have in store for civil society? Join Digital Impact as we kick off the new year with a virtual roundtable of experts to identify key trends and share predictions for …
Grantee Profile: Open Data and Economic Ownership in West African Agriculture
Mobile technology is changing the way of life for millions of rural farmers across the West African country of Ghana. They receive texts with up-to-date crop prices, weather alerts, and advice about planting. Using electronic payment services, they now have …
The Role of Civil Society in Ensuring AI Is Fair, Accountable, and Transparent
This piece was originally published by Charities Aid Foundation as “Sorting Algorithms: The Role of Civil Society in Ensuring AI Is Fair, Accountable and Transparent” on September 17, 2018. Some words have been changed to reflect American English usage. I …
Flipping Our Algorithmic Assumptions
I’ve had countless conversations with well-intended people from a number of social sectors and academic disciplines who are working on digital innovations that they firmly believe can be used to address shared social challenges. Some of these approaches — such as ways …
Toronto, Civic Data, and Trust
Earlier this year, Sean Martin McDonald, a former Non-Resident Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab, proposed the Data Review Board as a way forward for digital data governance, a model he described as an “independent, fiduciary governance of third-party …
How #GivingTuesday Transcended Borders: A Conversation with Asha Curran
This interview was originally published by GlobalGiving on October 31, 2018. You can visit the original post here. Asha Curran is the chief innovation officer and the director of the Belfer Center for Innovation and Social Impact at 92nd Street …
#GivingTuesday Data Collaborative
Listen to Lucy Bernholz, Asha Curran, and Josh Levy discuss how the #GivingTuesday Data Collaborative is building a secure digital infrastructure and robust governance plan for giving data worldwide. You’ve probably heard about #GivingTuesday, the thriving global movement launched …
Transcript, Algorithmic Bias: Better Policy and Practice for Civil Society
On October 1, 2018, Lucy Bernholz, Director of the Digital Civil Society Lab, was joined by author of Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks, Rashida Richardson of AI Now Institute, and Di Luong of Media Mobilizing Project to discuss the growing use …
Algorithmic Bias: Better Policy and Practice for Civil Society
Listen to Lucy Bernholz, Virginia Eubanks, Rashida Richardson, and Di Luong discuss the growing use of algorithms in our communities and how civil society organizations can work toward better policy for predictive technologies. Pretrial risk assessment algorithms are often …
Grantee Profile: Algorithmic Risk Assessment in Pretrial Detention
When Hannah Sassaman heard that the City of Philadelphia was looking to use AI to help judges determine whether someone accused of a crime should be released before trial, she was instantly worried. “I knew that any data used to …