Draftlab

Harms screening for tech in development (with Global Partners Digital): Launch of techharmscheck.org

Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

techharmscheck.org is live. Program officers and civil-society staff can upload a project plan and get back a structured PDF assessment of likely human-rights harms, severity scores, and tailored mitigations, sourced from a curated indicator library covering 54 human rights.

Responsive privacy for safer digital presence: responsiveprivacy.org launches

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

responsiveprivacy.org is live. The framework, the decision guide, and the first round of platform plugins are available for everyone; we are looking forward to hearing from people using it.

Harms screening for tech in development (with Global Partners Digital): Data model, UX, and business strategy

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Translating between the tech harms framework and the tech build: defining the data model, UX for non-expert users, and drafting a business and sustainability strategy.

Better tracking of migrant detention worldwide (with Global Detention Project): Design workshop in Berlin

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Draftlab, Dot Studio, and the Global Detention Project team met in Berlin for a design workshop. We worked through the DBMS data model and interaction patterns for the data explorer.

Accessible website starter for civil society: Docs, search, and a clean entry for LLMs

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Added a multi-chapter docs section and an llms.txt at the root. Site search now spans articles, resources, and documentation.

Improving Internet Accessibility (with Weblate): Research delivered, findings handed to Weblate

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Final report shared with the Weblate team to inform their product roadmap, and with Ura Design to support prototype work. We provided detailed feedback on Ura's translation view mockups and proposed an exploratory dashboard concept drawn from the manager interviews, both reflected in Ura's iterated designs.

Accessible website starter for civil society: Lorem Ipsum for the modern practitioner

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Replaced the dummy content with a public-interest-tech and digital-rights theme so the starter previews look like the kind of site it's actually going to run. Also added a feature-showcase page so editors can see every section type before they dig in.

Until now, Scaffold's dummy content was generic — corporate stock language with stock people in stock departments. Replacing it with civil-society-flavoured content (digital rights, internet freedom, fictional public-interest projects) wasn't a vanity change. The defaults a starter ships with are an editorial signal: they tell adopters what kind of site this is for.

In the same push: a working cookie banner with a real consent flow (GA4 only loads after opt-in), a unified status field across every collection so drafts stay out of production builds, a CMS-editable homepage, and a Resources collection for reports and whitepapers.

Harms screening for tech in development (with Global Partners Digital): Interviews and scoping

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Interviews and scoping of existing solutions to support Global Partners Digital with an implementation plan, identifying how to best improve and streamline a tech harms screening tool.

Improving Internet Accessibility (with Weblate): Four pain points, four solutions

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

15 interviews and 68 survey responses analysed. The headline finding: Weblate has most of the features its users need, but interface complexity is preventing people from finding or using them. We proposed four solutions sequenced across three implementation stages, prioritising the lowest-effort highest-impact changes first.

Accessible website starter for civil society: First release

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Pushed the first usable cut of Scaffold with accessible-by-default components with drop-down navigation, a table-of-contents pattern, and entity filtering across articles, people, and partners.

Responsive privacy for safer digital presence: Unifying prototypes into a programme

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Started unifying the technical prototypes and the user research into a single brand and programme. The decision to develop this beyond a one-off project came out of seeing both the demand and the absence of any equivalent tooling for civil society.

Improving Internet Accessibility (with Weblate): Project kickoff and research scoping

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Aligned with Ura Design on tasks, timelines and responsibilities. Interviewed Localization Lab and Weblate to gain historical context and define user personas. Established shared research infrastructure. Started scheduling interviews

Better tracking of migrant detention worldwide (with Global Detention Project): Project kickoff and implementation plan

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Kicked off the GDP overhaul and built the first implementation plan: a phased rollout across the database management system and the public data explorer.

Responsive privacy for safer digital presence: Research synthesis published

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

First version of the research is online. The synthesis covers what civil-society organisations actually do when their staff are targeted, what tooling exists, and where the gaps are.

The research is hosted at https://research-superbloom.netlify.app/overview/synthesis/ — a Superbloom-led writeup that grounded the next phase of the work.

Humanitarian Data Stewardship (with Collaborative Cash Delivery Network): Ukraine Cash Working Group votes to adopt data stewardship

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The Ukraine Cash Working Group voted to adopt data stewardship as their governance model for data sharing.

Digital transformation for WVI's disaster management (with World Vision International): AI-assisted response-plan creator

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Launched the first working prototype of an AI-assisted response plan creator. It takes user input and produces a workable draft as a Word document, plus an Excel file with budget breakdown, delivered straight to the requester's inbox. The entire pipeline runs inside WVI infrastructure, safely and securely.

Humanitarian Data Stewardship (with Collaborative Cash Delivery Network): Data Stewardship Collective formed

Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Co-founded the Data Stewardship Collective with humanitarian.info and Humanitarian Data Solutions, with support from CCD. A group of humanitarian-data practitioners working to promote, strengthen, and support data stewardship across contexts and responses.

Digital transformation for WVI's disaster management (with World Vision International): Response Firehose PoC

Sat, 15 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Designed and presented the Response Firehose proof of concept, a near-real-time decision-making dashboard that pulls together internal logistics, financial, and response-planning data alongside external humanitarian context.

Digital transformation for WVI's disaster management (with World Vision International): Discovery interviews

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Stakeholder interviews and discovery in order to surface where data lives, who owns it, and where cross-system gaps might be found.

Digital transformation for WVI's disaster management (with World Vision International): Ecosystem map and maturity model

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Ecosystem mapping and digital maturity model designed covering governance, technology and data, processes, value, ways of working, and strategy.

Digital transformation for WVI's disaster management (with World Vision International): Kickoff

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Project scoped and kicked off — a longer-form follow-on to the earlier data-mapping work, broadened across WVI's disaster-management ecosystem.

Humanitarian Data Stewardship (with Collaborative Cash Delivery Network): Governance workshop in Odessa

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Governance and implementation workshop in Odessa, testing the first working implementation of the referrals and deduplication platform against the constraints of in-country teams.

Humanitarian Data Stewardship (with Collaborative Cash Delivery Network): Referrals workshop in Mikolayiv

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Ran a referrals workshop in Mikolayiv with information managers and field workers from the Ukraine Response Consortium, co-creating a shared referrals process and timeline grounded in field experience.