Digital Equity Laboratory

We are thrilled to announce the release of our manual: Preparing for the First Digital Census. Based on expert risk assessments and a series of pilot workshops, we have compiled curriculum and resources available here. drive.google.com/file/d/1lW1UAd…

Proud of this manual to support us all being counted #Census2020

Pleased to announce the release of our ⁦@DigitalEqLab⁩ digital census learning guide! It’s is for anyone working with communities toward a complete count in 2020, when the census will be online for the 1st time. drive.google.com/file/d/1lW1UAd…

Props to CNET for taking on a critically underreported problem: 5G won't close the digital divide. Also quotes from me on the perpetual problem of bad data on broadband access (not to mention adoption) cnet.com/news/5g-hype-i…

Co-Director @gretabyrum qtd in the @nytimes: The proposed rule is a push to pre-emptively set a precedent at the federal level protecting tech firms & landlords. It closes the door to examining the impact of these tools. nytimes.com/2019/08/20/ups…

Co-director @gretabyrum weighed in for @abcnews piece about the damage (already) done by the citizenship question debate and the compounding risks that come with a digital census #Census2020 #digitalequity abcnews.go.com/Politics/citiz…

#NYCcounts2020 is one of our partners @DigitalEqLab @TheNewSchool along with libraries to help count our residents safely in 1st on-line #census. Workshopping tools to support #FairCount on #Census2020

From the #2020Census to partisan gerrymandering, it's a major week for our democracy at the U.S. Supreme Court. bit.ly/2X2N5yF

"Scaling back the planned testing means that the Census Bureau hasn’t confronted many of the on-the-ground realities of trying to administer a mostly online census." rollcall.com/news/congress/…

Are We Ready for an Online Census? - Next year the federal government will launch its largest public-facing online portal in years, for an undertaking facing risks ranging from foreign cyberattacks to collapsing under its own weight: #Census2020. msn.com/en-us/news/pol…

Our goal is to provide digital tactics and techniques to help prevent possible harms & enable communities and agencies to better prepare against the uncertainties of a digital census and the likelihood of a resulting undercount. #Census2020 digitalequitylab.org/preparing-for-…

Our #Census2020 report seeks to: 1) identify potential vulnerabilities of the digital census for individuals, at-risk communities, and organizations acting as census sites 2) suggest strategies to promote a complete count AND protect communities digitalequitylab.org/preparing-for-…

In the absence of coherent proactive messaging about the digital process and sufficient access / literacy support for digitally marginal and challenged populations, we are deeply concerned about the success of the digital transition of #Census2020. digitalequitylab.org/preparing-for-…

Collaboration and community trust are key. #2020Census

#Census2020 will be primarily conducted online. Given the demographics of the digital divide, this could lead to an overcount of affluent White populations & a systemic undercount of immigrants, PoC, and children, mirroring existing structural inequities. digitalequitylab.org/preparing-for-…

Announcing the release of "Preparing for the Digital Decennial Census: Building Consent, Equity, and Safety into Digital Transition," which includes an analysis of risk, safety, and trust for the first-ever digital decennial census. digitalequitylab.org/preparing-for-…

The #2020census is on track to severely undercount people of color—even more so than the past 2 surveys, writes @alv9n: urbn.is/2Z3YBve

DEL’s @gretabyrum spoke to @GOVERNING on the implications of a digital census and the faulty assumption that everyone can get online. #Census2020

"The overwhelming public focus on the citizenship q has taken priority and we are behind in addressing safety, security, functionality concerns surrounding #Census2020 digital transition": @DigitalEqLab co-director @gretabyrum in Governing Magazine. governing.com/topics/politic…

NEW: More than 4 million people could be left out of the #2020Census, according to new projections by the @urbaninstitute. Next year's count could lead to the worst undercount of black and Latinx people in the U.S. since the 1990 census👇 npr.org/2019/06/04/728…