Digital Equity Laboratory

The Digital Equity Laboratory @TheNewSchool uncovers and addresses structural inequities embedded in tech/social systems. Co-Directors @mayawiley & @gretabyrum.

[Digital Equity Laboratory @DigitalEqLab]

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. https://t.co/5NayUkrxF1

[Maya Wiley @mayawiley]

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

[Greta Byrum @gretabyrum]

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. https://t.co/qV4a2aqyl2

[Greta Byrum @gretabyrum]

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) https://t.co/cJ6bM3DVGO

[Digital Equity Laboratory @DigitalEqLab]

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. https://t.co/3utd5as62n

[Digital Equity Laboratory @DigitalEqLab]

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
https://t.co/yhnTTwie3T

[Maya Wiley @mayawiley]

#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

[The Leadership Conference @civilrightsorg]

From the #2020Census to partisan gerrymandering, it's a major week for our democracy at the U.S. Supreme Court. https://t.co/oYkxDWkGn0

[Digital Equity Laboratory @DigitalEqLab]

"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."

https://t.co/OlTMR4d4IL

[Digital Equity Laboratory @DigitalEqLab]

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.

https://t.co/et07MzmOkF

[Digital Equity Laboratory @DigitalEqLab]

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

https://t.co/5TJbWZQII9

[Digital Equity Laboratory @DigitalEqLab]

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

https://t.co/5TJbWZQII9

[Digital Equity Laboratory @DigitalEqLab]

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.

https://t.co/5TJbWZQII9

[FUSE @FUSECorps]

Collaboration and community trust are key. #2020Census

[Digital Equity Laboratory @DigitalEqLab]

#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.

https://t.co/5TJbWZQII9

[Digital Equity Laboratory @DigitalEqLab]

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.
https://t.co/5TJbWZQII9

[Urban Institute @urbaninstitute]

The #2020census is on track to severely undercount people of color—even more so than the past 2 surveys, writes @alv9n: https://t.co/j4xpUDgSot

[Digital Equity Laboratory @DigitalEqLab]

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

[GOVERNING @GOVERNING]

Census officials warned Congress last week about undercounts in 2020 -- and not just because of the citizenship question https://t.co/kwqJ9mlfcM

[Digital Equity Laboratory @DigitalEqLab]

"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. https://t.co/4XGGkAiEAN

[Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang]

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👇

https://t.co/jEb4gz31sa