Who knew data could ignite such debate and emotion? Well, the speakers and attendees at Saturday’s Digital Impact Conference for starters…
The hugely successful Digital Impact Conference, presented by Stanford’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and ACPNS, brought together industry, government, nonprofits and peak bodies to discuss how technology is currently affecting civil society and how it will continue to in the years to come.
Key areas included the varying possibilities created by digital data and infrastructure for working across sectors and the demands that these relationships entail; an exploration of examples from indigenous communities across Australia that have built digital archives and cultural resources that align with and respect their longstanding information management practices; a round of presentations from sector leaders highlighting emerging and innovative organisational forms, collaborations and governance models enabled by digital data; and the role of bias in data and algorithms, strategies for addressing these biases and the broader implications for civil society.
Links to video recordings of the sessions and interviews with speakers will be available soon via Stanford’s site at https://dataworldtour.org/category/blog
And watch this space as well; posts from key speakers and experts on digital data will soon be available via this blog. In the meantime, we welcome your questions and views and encourage you to post via the Reply link.
