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Omidyar Network 2022: A Year In Review

2022 was a year of resilience, hope, growth, and learning, for us at Omidyar Network, and in the world more broadly. We peeked our head ...
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The Omidyar Network 2022 Playlist

Books (And Other Media) We Loved This Year By Beth Kanter, Chief Advocacy and Strategic Communications Officer The stack on my nightstand is getting so ...
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Omidyar Network supports the first of its kind Journal of Online Trust and Safety

Omidyar Network is pleased to announce its support of the Journal of Online Trust and Safety through a gift to its publisher, the Stanford Internet ...
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Omidyar Network Applauds California’s Landmark, First-of-its-Kind Children’s Online Safety Law

Earlier this year, kids, teens, and parents called on the California legislature to protect them online. The bipartisan leadership team of Democrat Buffy Wicks and ...
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Omidyar Network Joins Forces with Digital Luminaries to Build “The Tech We Want”

Omidyar Network today announced a new initiative: The Tech We Want, a four-year, $8 million portfolio of work focused on connecting and empowering a new ...
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Omidyar Network and Grantees Celebrate Historic Public Investments in the Inflation Reduction Act

As an organization dedicated to building a more inclusive and equitable society, Omidyar Network is heartened by the House and Senate’s recent passage of the ...
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It’s in Everyone’s Interest to Sustain our Open Digital Future

By Govind Shivkumar, Director of Responsible Technology, Omidyar Network and Alex Krasodomski-Jones, Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, Demos Omidyar Network has ...
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New Innovation Challenge to Rethink the Future of Data

Omidyar Network, alongside Carrot, today unveiled The Future of Data Challenge, which will award $1.1 million toward up to 10 transformative solutions that reimagine the ...
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Reflections and Actions from Our Grantee Perception Report

Mike Kubzansky, CEO Part of how we in philanthropy make ourselves more accountable is by listening and acting upon what we hear even—especially—when it’s critical. ...
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Reimagining Capitalism: Major Philanthropies Launch Effort at Leading Academic Institutions

(Photo courtesy of Howard University) Reposted from Hewlett.org First Grants from Hewlett Foundation and Omidyar Network to Harvard, Howard, Johns Hopkins Universities, MIT, and Santa ...
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