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How can User-Centered Technology be Deployed in Edtech?
The ability to listen to your users to deliver differentiated and inclusive learning is hugely important in classrooms with large and diverse student populations, particularly those where one teacher might simultaneously serve students across multiple grade levels.
WATCHHow can we rewrite narratives?
Omidyar Network was honored to have Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, speak at our global staff retreat.
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How do you see the world today?
Today, things are changing faster than ever. We’re clearly at a moment of great global transition and transformation. It is also a moment of great opportunity.
WATCHHow can civic technology help transform Brazil?
When Priscila Belfort disappeared in Rio de Janeiro, in 2004, her mother Jovita turned to the local police for help. Jovita quickly realized that the government was not properly set up to resolve cases like her daughter’s.
WATCHHow can we improve adoption of digital financial services in India?
In this video we explain the research report "Currency of Trust: Consumer Behaviors and Attitudes Toward Digital Financial Services in India".
WATCHHow Does Cignifi Work?
In the latest video in our Omidyar Network Learning Series, we explain how our investee Cignifi uses the digital footprints left behind by mobile phone usage to help consumers gain access to credit in emerging markets around the world.
WATCHWhy a hybrid structure?
When eBay went public, founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam suddenly found themselves with an incredible amount of wealth — and an immediate sense of responsibility to put it to good use.
READ ONWhy are Indian consumers slow to adopt digital financial services?
Omidyar Network’s new report “Currency of Trust” surfaces 10 key behavioral insights that answer this question.
READ ONWhat do people think about their property rights?
One in four people are worried about losing their home against their will in the next five years, according to a nine-country survey conducted by Gallup.
READ ONOpen government: how far has it come and what does the future hold?
To capture the progress made across the global open government movement since the signing of Sweden’s seminal 1766 right to information law, we asked the 200 attendees of Open Up 2016 and our wider network to help us create
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Excited to see more equity in learning. Landmark findings from @DFID_UK report shows parents’ income & education is… t.co/25JKWEUcne
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1 in 4 adults think their property rights are at risk, according to brand new data from @PrindexGlobal in 15 countr… t.co/ComOV02tRZ
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New Competition Wants to Bring Ethics to Undergraduate Computer Science Classrooms
Tina Nazerian at EdSurge covers the launch of the Responsible Computer Science Challenge, the latest exciting initiative incubated at the Tech and Society Solutions Lab.
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Silicon Valley Funders Issue Ambitious Challenge to Embed Ethical Thinking into Computer Science Curriculum at Colleges and Universities Nationwide
Final projects will be judged by an external review committee of academics, tech industry leaders, and others.
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How Can Tech Companies Restore Trust? One Engineer at a Time
The Responsible Computer Science Challenge, incubated at Omidyar Network’s Tech and Society Solutions Lab, comes with a letter signed by more than 30 tech founders and executives reinstating the importance of teaching ethical standards to engineers.
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