This document discusses how digital data and tools are being used by civil society organizations in various ways. It provides examples of how data is being used for decision making, advocacy, storytelling, as a catalyst for action, and for feedback and improvement. Data is playing an increasingly important role in the work of civil society and is helping organizations operate more effectively and scale their impact.

1. #pacs
Data and digital civil society
GIFE 2014
Lucy Bernholz
Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
Digital Civil Society Lab

2.
The
ways
we
use
private
digital
resources
to
organize,
create,
distribute,
and
fund
public
benefit.
What
is
Digital
Civil
Society?

3. 2010
Data
Many
types,
many
tools,
many
uses
• Structured
data
for
decision
making
– ….and
new
ways
of
working
– …and
paGern
finding,
storytelling
• QuanItaIve
and
qualitaIve
data
for
advocacy
• Public
data
as
catalyst
• Ambient
data
as
advocacy/protest
tool
• Data
as
a
byproduct
• Data
as
a
scaling
strategy
• Data
for
feedback
• …..more…..

4.
Structured
data
for
decision
making
• TransacIonal
• Contextual
• Impact

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BY-­‐NC-­‐SA
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Photo:
web
screenshot
hGp://en.Xi.org.cn/
…and
new
ways
of
working…

6. PaGern
finding
and
story
telling
hGp://content.newsbound.com/public/newsbound/gates_aid/index.html#s_1

7. QuanItaIve
+
qualitaIve
data
for
advocacy
(CC
BY-­‐NC-­‐SA
3.0)
hGps://datatherapy.wordpress.com/category/data-­‐mural/

8. Public
data
as
catalyst
(CC
BY-­‐NC-­‐SA
3.0)
hGp://www.slideshare.net/knighoundaIon/knight-­‐civictech

9. (CC
BY-­‐NC-­‐SA
3.0)
Photo:
Stephanie
Rudat:
hGps://www.facebook.com/takebackthepink
Ambient
data
as
advocacy/protest
tool

10. (CC
BY-­‐NC-­‐SA
3.0)
Data
as
a
(strategic)
byproduct
hGp://data.donorschoose.org/open-­‐data-­‐unleashed/

11.
(CC
BY-­‐NC-­‐SA
3.0)
Data
as
a
scaling
strategy
hGp://www.crisistextline.org/

12.
(CC
BY-­‐NC-­‐SA
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For
feedback
and
improvement

13. InvenIng
digital
civil
society
(CC
BY-­‐NC-­‐SA
3.0)
Types
of
data
influenced
by
Brad
Smith:
hGp://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/developing_a_culture_of_knowledge_management

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3.0)