By Tracy Williams, Director and John Joanino, Associate, Reimagining Capitalism At Omidyar Network, we know that a more inclusive economy is only possible when working people have greater power and voice. Power allows working people to advocate for better wages, policies, benefits, training, job opportunities, and working conditions — and…

By Tracy Williams, Director and John Joanino, Associate, Reimagining Capitalism At Omidyar Network, we know that a more inclusive economy is only possible when working people have greater power and voice. Power allows working people to advocate for better wages, policies, benefits, training, job opportunities, and working conditions — and…

By Tracy Williams, Director, and Audrey Stienon, Associate, Reimagining Capitalism At Omidyar Network, our Reimagining Capitalism team aims to address the structural challenges at the heart of our economic system, and to shape a new, inclusive economy where markets serve the interests of people, our societies, and our planet. To…

Emma Leiken, Chief of Staff, Programs At Omidyar Network, we envision a technology ecosystem that recognizes young people as active stakeholders and partners, where youth cultural, political, and economic power is supported and amplified to make technology outcomes more accountable, more equitable, more inclusive, and more imaginative for the benefit of current and future stakeholders. Internet-connected…

Omidyar Network commits $10 million toward making private messaging more trustworthy Private messaging platforms like Messenger, Signal, Telegram, WeChat, and WhatsApp have, in the last decade, grown at a staggering rate to become nearly ubiquitous components of our digital existence. …

By Alexis Krieg, Senior Manager, Strategic Communications As the year draws to a close, we want to share a brief update on our efforts to reimagine capitalism and offer a window into our strategy going into 2022. Since we launched the program at the end of 2019 we have invested…

This post expands on the fifth key pillar for building a new economic paradigm as outlined in Our Call to Reimagine Capitalism. Read the first post in this series, “An Introduction to Ideas, Rules, and Power and How They Shape Our Democracy and Economy” here. — By Audrey Stienon, Associate, Reimagining Capitalism This time last year, many of us were making new year’s resolutions for 2021 with hope that after months of chaos, this would be the year where some normalcy would be restored to our lives. On many levels, this came to pass. Most notably…

By Nicole Allred, Strategic Communications, Omidyar Network What role does the economy play in the fight for racial justice and the defense of our democracy? Can we have a strong democracy without both racial and economic justice, or are they separate and distinct? From the socially constructed idea of race…

2021 continues to be a pivotal time for digital identity as interest and perspectives emerge from every sector of society. The Covid-19 pandemic, a long overdue global reckoning on racial and economic justice, and challenges to the roles and responsibilities of tech companies catapulted the debates around identification systems into…