Digital Good Network
An ESRC-funded, £4m research network, building a research community focused on what a good digital society should look like and how we get there.

Join our upcoming webinars.
Hear more about the Digital Good Index: a set of tools to evaluate whether digital technologies have good societal outcomes. The team will discuss the process for developing the Index and their reflections on values-based evaluation of digital technologies.
9 June, 14:00
Digital Good Network researchers Danielle Kelly, Arathy Sb and Carlos Camara, share their research project's findings on gender and the digital good, including protocols to measure meta-perspectives in online environments, menstrual tracking app users in India, and evaluating OpenStreetMap’s equity through participatory data visualisation.
24 June, 14:00
Visit the link in our bio to book.

Read Gina Halliwell's reflection on the keynote lecture from our recent Digital Good Network Summit.
Gina reflects on the role of policy and decision making when it comes to young people using social media.
Read the blog on our website.

Nahuel Aranda reflects on a recent a workshop in Argentina, bringing together union members, legal experts, and researchers to discuss two closely related processes shaping the world of work: recent labour reform and ongoing technological change in industry.
Read the blog on our website.

We hosted our 2026 Digital Good Network summit in Birmingham last week.
It was great to hear from our Digital Good Research Fund recipients and other network members about their work exploring what a good digital society looks like and how we get there.
Professor Amy Orben, Research Professor at the University of Cambridge, joined us for our keynote talk, sharing her work on the impact of digital technologies on the mental health of young people, and the challenges of shaping policy. Visit our website to watch the recording of Amy’s lecture.
Thank you to our partners, Birmingham Museums Trust, for hosting us, and to everyone who attended, shared their ideas and contributed to the work happening across the network.

We hosted our 2026 Digital Good Network summit in Birmingham last week.
It was great to hear from our Digital Good Research Fund recipients and other network members about their work exploring what a good digital society looks like and how we get there.
Professor Amy Orben, Research Professor at the University of Cambridge, joined us for our keynote talk, sharing her work on the impact of digital technologies on the mental health of young people, and the challenges of shaping policy. Visit our website to watch the recording of Amy’s lecture.
Thank you to our partners, Birmingham Museums Trust, for hosting us, and to everyone who attended, shared their ideas and contributed to the work happening across the network.

We hosted our 2026 Digital Good Network summit in Birmingham last week.
It was great to hear from our Digital Good Research Fund recipients and other network members about their work exploring what a good digital society looks like and how we get there.
Professor Amy Orben, Research Professor at the University of Cambridge, joined us for our keynote talk, sharing her work on the impact of digital technologies on the mental health of young people, and the challenges of shaping policy. Visit our website to watch the recording of Amy’s lecture.
Thank you to our partners, Birmingham Museums Trust, for hosting us, and to everyone who attended, shared their ideas and contributed to the work happening across the network.

We hosted our 2026 Digital Good Network summit in Birmingham last week.
It was great to hear from our Digital Good Research Fund recipients and other network members about their work exploring what a good digital society looks like and how we get there.
Professor Amy Orben, Research Professor at the University of Cambridge, joined us for our keynote talk, sharing her work on the impact of digital technologies on the mental health of young people, and the challenges of shaping policy. Visit our website to watch the recording of Amy’s lecture.
Thank you to our partners, Birmingham Museums Trust, for hosting us, and to everyone who attended, shared their ideas and contributed to the work happening across the network.

We hosted our 2026 Digital Good Network summit in Birmingham last week.
It was great to hear from our Digital Good Research Fund recipients and other network members about their work exploring what a good digital society looks like and how we get there.
Professor Amy Orben, Research Professor at the University of Cambridge, joined us for our keynote talk, sharing her work on the impact of digital technologies on the mental health of young people, and the challenges of shaping policy. Visit our website to watch the recording of Amy’s lecture.
Thank you to our partners, Birmingham Museums Trust, for hosting us, and to everyone who attended, shared their ideas and contributed to the work happening across the network.

We hosted our 2026 Digital Good Network summit in Birmingham last week.
It was great to hear from our Digital Good Research Fund recipients and other network members about their work exploring what a good digital society looks like and how we get there.
Professor Amy Orben, Research Professor at the University of Cambridge, joined us for our keynote talk, sharing her work on the impact of digital technologies on the mental health of young people, and the challenges of shaping policy. Visit our website to watch the recording of Amy’s lecture.
Thank you to our partners, Birmingham Museums Trust, for hosting us, and to everyone who attended, shared their ideas and contributed to the work happening across the network.

We hosted our 2026 Digital Good Network summit in Birmingham last week.
It was great to hear from our Digital Good Research Fund recipients and other network members about their work exploring what a good digital society looks like and how we get there.
Professor Amy Orben, Research Professor at the University of Cambridge, joined us for our keynote talk, sharing her work on the impact of digital technologies on the mental health of young people, and the challenges of shaping policy. Visit our website to watch the recording of Amy’s lecture.
Thank you to our partners, Birmingham Museums Trust, for hosting us, and to everyone who attended, shared their ideas and contributed to the work happening across the network.

We hosted our 2026 Digital Good Network summit in Birmingham last week.
It was great to hear from our Digital Good Research Fund recipients and other network members about their work exploring what a good digital society looks like and how we get there.
Professor Amy Orben, Research Professor at the University of Cambridge, joined us for our keynote talk, sharing her work on the impact of digital technologies on the mental health of young people, and the challenges of shaping policy. Visit our website to watch the recording of Amy’s lecture.
Thank you to our partners, Birmingham Museums Trust, for hosting us, and to everyone who attended, shared their ideas and contributed to the work happening across the network.

We hosted our 2026 Digital Good Network summit in Birmingham last week.
It was great to hear from our Digital Good Research Fund recipients and other network members about their work exploring what a good digital society looks like and how we get there.
Professor Amy Orben, Research Professor at the University of Cambridge, joined us for our keynote talk, sharing her work on the impact of digital technologies on the mental health of young people, and the challenges of shaping policy. Visit our website to watch the recording of Amy’s lecture.
Thank you to our partners, Birmingham Museums Trust, for hosting us, and to everyone who attended, shared their ideas and contributed to the work happening across the network.

In a new report, Reema Patel argues for a fundamental shift in mindset to address deep-seated challenges in data governance. The report maps ten different mental models of thinking about data governance, and demonstrates that many are failing. In the report, Reema proposes Data Stewardship as the foundational ‘meta-mental model’ for a just and viable future.
Read the report on our website.

We are pleased to announce the 15 successful projects for the fourth and final round of the Digital Good Research Fund. Each project will produce a blueprint and a briefing document for a good digital society in a particular aspect of social life.

We are pleased to announce the 15 successful projects for the fourth and final round of the Digital Good Research Fund. Each project will produce a blueprint and a briefing document for a good digital society in a particular aspect of social life.

We are pleased to announce the 15 successful projects for the fourth and final round of the Digital Good Research Fund. Each project will produce a blueprint and a briefing document for a good digital society in a particular aspect of social life.

Platforms like @Kickstarter and @CrowdfunderUK offer social entrepreneurs ‘crowd power’ for mobilising resources towards social and environmental challenges, yet crowdfunding platforms have mixed success rates.
This new report follows Digital Good Network Fellow Catherine Wang’s project on crowdfunding and social entrepreneurship, and investigates the critical success factors for platforms like these, drawing on interdisciplinary insights and sharing best practice for digital crowdfunding.
Read the report on our website.

🇧🇷🇵🇭We’re looking to interview current and former media / democracy / development workers and discuss how they’ve worked thru foreign aid shocks in the past year.
🫶🏽 Our interview compares the civil society landscape in Brazil and the Philippines in terms of resilience and sustainability. Our project’s human-focus is especially keen to explore themes of worker wellbeing and activist burnout: How do media/development workers imagine democratic futures in their societies. How do they see themselves participating in political or civic life? Or have they grown disillusioned from both shocks and slow-burn of democratic backsliding in global context?
🙏 We hope y’all share this call for respondents far and wide and help us put together practical proposals pertaining to organizational sustainability as well as worker justice and movement-building in the Global South.
👋🏼 We wanna hear your story! Pls contact jcong@umass.edu / Thales.lelo@gmail.com / rgberizo@siglaresearch.org!

🇧🇷🇵🇭We’re looking to interview current and former media / democracy / development workers and discuss how they’ve worked thru foreign aid shocks in the past year.
🫶🏽 Our interview compares the civil society landscape in Brazil and the Philippines in terms of resilience and sustainability. Our project’s human-focus is especially keen to explore themes of worker wellbeing and activist burnout: How do media/development workers imagine democratic futures in their societies. How do they see themselves participating in political or civic life? Or have they grown disillusioned from both shocks and slow-burn of democratic backsliding in global context?
🙏 We hope y’all share this call for respondents far and wide and help us put together practical proposals pertaining to organizational sustainability as well as worker justice and movement-building in the Global South.
👋🏼 We wanna hear your story! Pls contact jcong@umass.edu / Thales.lelo@gmail.com / rgberizo@siglaresearch.org!

🇧🇷🇵🇭We’re looking to interview current and former media / democracy / development workers and discuss how they’ve worked thru foreign aid shocks in the past year.
🫶🏽 Our interview compares the civil society landscape in Brazil and the Philippines in terms of resilience and sustainability. Our project’s human-focus is especially keen to explore themes of worker wellbeing and activist burnout: How do media/development workers imagine democratic futures in their societies. How do they see themselves participating in political or civic life? Or have they grown disillusioned from both shocks and slow-burn of democratic backsliding in global context?
🙏 We hope y’all share this call for respondents far and wide and help us put together practical proposals pertaining to organizational sustainability as well as worker justice and movement-building in the Global South.
👋🏼 We wanna hear your story! Pls contact jcong@umass.edu / Thales.lelo@gmail.com / rgberizo@siglaresearch.org!

Advising policymakers on young people and digital technologies: reflections from the front line
Amy Orben, Research Professor at the University of Cambridge, will be delivering the keynote lecture as part of the 2026 Digital Good Network summit.
Join us in-person or online as Amy discusses the growing interest in the impact of digital technologies on the mental health of young people, and the challenges of influencing policy in this space. Amy will share what she has learnt from providing scientific advice to the UK government and ways to better understand the needs of different stakeholders to ensure that scientific insights are heard and translated into meaningful change.
The event will take place at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum, where we will also be hosting a drinks reception from 17:30.
Visit our website to register.

Join our next 'Digital good in progress' webinar, exploring digital healt.
Access to quality healthcare remains a major problem in sub-Saharan Africa. Digital technology can overcome barriers; but it can also create ethical dilemmas for healthcare workers, decision-makers and communities who want affordable services without compromising quality or losing control over health data. The Digital health project articulates and conceptualises these dilemmas through a series of vignettes, while developing a shared language and framework.
25 February, 14:00, online. Visit our website to register.

In this new blog, Dylan Yamada-Rice discusses the ways in which young people interact with and understand AI imagery.
This follows Dylan's work as part of a team researching children's attitudes towards digital good/bad. The project developed a number of zines and visual prompts for children to explore the use of AI and other technologies.
Read the blog and download the zines on our website.

Are you a teacher, parent or youth worker looking for a fun, engaging way to get young people to think critically about digital technologies?
Use our new zine series, which provides arts-based activities and prompts for children to explore the personal, social and environmental impacts of the technologies that shape their lives.
And tell us if you use them, we'd love to hear young peoples' reflections - children are often overlooked as emerging digital citizens.
Visit our website to download the resources.

Are you a teacher, parent or youth worker looking for a fun, engaging way to get young people to think critically about digital technologies?
Use our new zine series, which provides arts-based activities and prompts for children to explore the personal, social and environmental impacts of the technologies that shape their lives.
And tell us if you use them, we'd love to hear young peoples' reflections - children are often overlooked as emerging digital citizens.
Visit our website to download the resources.

Are you a teacher, parent or youth worker looking for a fun, engaging way to get young people to think critically about digital technologies?
Use our new zine series, which provides arts-based activities and prompts for children to explore the personal, social and environmental impacts of the technologies that shape their lives.
And tell us if you use them, we'd love to hear young peoples' reflections - children are often overlooked as emerging digital citizens.
Visit our website to download the resources.
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