Data is changing the way philanthropy works.
Foundations are learning more about themselves and their grantees, assessing the accuracy and impact of their strategies, and using data to improve upon and sustain their work like never before.
While digital data holds tremendous promise for how the sector uses and shares its work, it also raises broader challenges associated with privacy, security, and responsible use. And for nonprofits – particularly those that work under oppressive regimes – these issues could not be more critical.
Download the recording to hear this compelling panel discussion featuring data privacy expert, Lucy Berhnolz, technologist and human rights activist, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, and global privacy strategists, Danny O'Brien, on the collection, use, and often sensitive nature of digital data in philanthropy.
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Lucy Bernholz is a senior research scholar at Stanford where she directs the Digital Civil Society Lab, a research initiative which aims to shape the future of civil society by finding new ways to utilize digital assets for the common good. She's served as a Visiting Scholar at The David and Lucille Packard foundation, and as a Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Program, the Hybrid Reality Institute, and the New America Foundation. Lucy has been quoted in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economic Times of India and on NPR.
Thenmozhi Soundararajan is a Dalit American transmedia artist, technologist and activist at Equality Labs, a South Asian American human rights arts organization working at the intersection of storytelling, design, technology, and digital security, to end caste apartheid, islamophobia, and religious intolerance. She’s received recognition from several organizations and programs, including but not limited to: The Annenberg Innovation Center, the National Center for the Humanities, and the National Science, Alfred P. Sloan, and Atlantic Philanthropy Foundations.
Danny O'Brien has been an activist for online free speech and privacy for over 15 years. In his home country of the UK, he fought against repressive anti-encryption law, and helped make the UK Parliament more transparent. Danny served from 2005-2007 as Activist for EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). After three years at the Committee to Protect Journalists, he returned to EFF to supervise global strategy. As the International Director for the foundation, Danny manages a team of advocates for privacy, free expression, and human rights protecting Internet policies. He is also the founder of Britain's own civil liberties organization, Open Rights Group.
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