Prepping for Policy: Philanthropy in the Digital Age

What do education, human service, or social justice funders need to know about digital policy? How does digital policy connect to philanthropic missions? Our ability to mobilize resources for positive change requires understanding issues including intellectual property, telecommunication infrastructure, data protection, and privacy rights in regard to both government and corporate surveillance. Join Lucy Bernholz of Stanford’s Digital Civil Society Lab for a participatory workshop on what digital policies matter, why, and how to get and stay informed. Civil society and philanthropy must become as fluent in the policies, actors, tradeoffs and options for protecting their rights to association, expression and privacy in digital spaces as they have been about the tax, corporate and charitable codes.