Spotlight
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.
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How 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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Announcement
Potential to Unlock Over US $50 Billion in Online Commerce
Bain & Company, Google, and Omidyar Network announce a new report exploring the potential to unlock over US $50 billion in online commerce in India by driving awareness, usage, and transactions among the current and next set of internet users and shoppers.
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Steady Raises $9 Million in Series A Round; Shaquille O’Neal Joins the Company
Steady, an income-building platform for the Build-Your-Own (BYO) workforce, announced today that it has raised $9 million in Series A financing round from leading FinTech investors, including Omidyar Network.
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Silicon Valley Writes a Playbook to Help Avert Ethical Disasters
Wired recently featured Ethical OS, a tool kit developed by the Tech and Society Solutions Lab to help makers of tech, product managers, engineers, and others get out in front of problems before they happen.
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