Digital Civil Society & Democracy: How We Got Here and Where We Need to Go

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Digital Civil Society & Democracy: How We Got Here and Where We Need to Go

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By Columbia University, School of Professional Studies

Date and time

Thursday, October 15, 2020 · 3 - 4pm PDT

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Digital Civil Society and Democracy: How We Got Here and Where We Need to Go

Columbia University's M.S. in Nonprofit Management is pleased to present our next Master Class, part of our Professional Development Series.

Featuring

Dr. Lucy Bernholz

Stanford University

Director, Digital Civil Society Lab

Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society

Over the last 20 years – and ever more so in the last seven months – people, nonprofits, and foundations have become dependent on commercially made and government-monitored digital systems for basic operations, communications, fundraising, program delivery, advocacy, organizing, and reporting. In so doing, we have enclosed civil society within the bounds of the marketplace and public sector, obliterating any meaningful sense of an independent sector. Digital threats to democracy run much deeper than digitally influenced elections and include the demise of independent civil society. Dr. Bernholz will describe how we got here and what we need to do to reclaim civil society and democracy.

For questions, please contact us at SPS-Nonprofit@columbia.edu.

For additional information about program offerings at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies, please contact an Admissions Counselor at 212-854-9666 or inquire@sps.columbia.edu.

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