D4PG 2026 took place July 22–24 at UROC, Minneapolis. Thank you to everyone who co-powered the creative futures in the present we are working towards.
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About D4PG
Data For Public Good (D4PG) is a collective space where we share insights, learnings, and have conversations on topics including; Digital Justice, Afrofuturism, Data and Data Privacy, AI and much more.
We aim to tap into the collective power of community-based changemaking through technology, democracy, and justice.
Whether you're a data scientist, student, artist, community advocate, parent, attorney, educator or community member, we are here to host these dynamic conversations with you!
D4PG 2026 Theme: Creative Futures
We invited you to join us as we experimented with ideas, activated our curiosity, and focused our collective genius towards seeding CREATIVE FUTURES.
Creative Futures was an all call for those who believe through collective action it is possible to effect the change we want to see in the world.
To imagine the futures, we want to see ourselves in, Octavia Butler reminds us that everything is shifting, and the world as we know it has changed.
By being a part of this experience, you will:
Learn about resources and tools
Gain insight into strategies and models to activate in your communities
Expand your network by connecting with others
Join conversations about the importance of democracy in technology for protecting our civil liberties, ownership, and privacy rights
Support D4PG's Mission
Help us create transformative conversations ranging from Education, Democracy, Vibrant Communities, Environmental Justice, Action Research, Data Justice, Open Source Transformations, AI Demystification, Complimentary Currencies and more. Our hybrid UnConference allows communities to lift up and give to voice to the work and its intersections. Your investment makes D4PG not only possible but accessible to
Visionaries of justice worlds for us all.
With your support, we can
Bring cross domain change-makers to the table
Counter surveillance capitalism with community-driven alternatives
Advance Data Justice Practices and Policies
Create dynamic responses to new opportunities
Create new patterns for stabilize and support Democracies
Build lasting networks that create systemic change beyond the D4 conference
Support grassroots organizers fighting algorithmic bias and digital harm
Amplify Afrofuturistic visions of sustainable community designs
Co-power beyond the walls of the event into the spaces which impact our collective lives
Support Communities reclaiming democracy
Advance the Steam Collective for skill development of youth and elders.
