Transparency

Tag: Transparency

Could AI Speak on Behalf of Future Humans?

By Konstantin Scheuermann & Angela Aristidou 1

AI systems can give voice to previously unheard stakeholders and make collective decision-making processes more inclusive—but only if they are designed thoughtfully and deployed responsibly.

An Experimental Approach to Early-Stage Nonprofit Governance

By Kelly Hyunjung Shin, Yumin Jo & Jinwoo Cheong 1

Five lessons from a South Korean early-stage nonprofit on why establishing good governance from the beginning matters and how to adapt governance practices as an organization grows.

Lessons From Mutual Aid During the Coronavirus Crisis

By Samer Araabi

Community-led responses to the COVID-19 epidemic are providing a model for treating the vulnerable that should remain when this crisis comes to an end.

Driving Social Change With Data

By Adrienne Day

Data is a powerful tool for creating social change, but it can fail to deliver if it lacks rigor or exists in silos. With the right approach, “you can just let the tools do the work,” says the manager of digital infrastructure for the education nonprofit buildOn. Part of a series produced with the support of Salesforce.

Civic Engagement

Equity, Power-Sharing, and Renewal of Civil Society

By Dan Cardinali 4

The United States can restore the trust that allows civil society to flourish by emphasizing the values that have long bound us together and by adopting the newer values of shared power and racial equity.

Civic Engagement

When Aid Fails

By Abigail Higgins 2

The citizen journalism effort What Went Wrong? examines international development projects with the help of reports from people the project was supposed to benefit. A What's Next article from the Summer 2019 issue.

Philanthropy & Funding

China’s New Model of Blockchain-Driven Philanthropy

By Xiaofeng Wang & Kevin C. Desouza 1

Blockchain has done more than simply enable Chinese social entrepreneurs to improve the transparency, trustworthiness, and fundraising of the country’s charitable causes. It has helped launch a more decentralized and autonomous philanthropic sector.

Governance

Six Ways to Repair Declining Social Trust

By Kristin M. Lord 9

We must take proactive and preventive steps to restore trust across government, business, and civic institutions, or societies around the world may be at greater risk of chaos and conflict.