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. …
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.
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…
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…
By Audrey Stienon, Associate, Reimagining Capitalism
Throughout the course of the pandemic, our lives have changed in ways that would have been nearly unthinkable when the crisis began. We entered lockdowns believing that it would be impossible to sustain such a drastic change to the status quo for more than…
In Support of Tech Whistleblowers Who are Holding Tech to Account
Digital technology today is more widespread, more convenient, and more ubiquitous than ever before. With a strong Silicon Valley heritage, Omidyar Network recognizes that the promise and the ethos of technology has always been about it being a distributed…
Corporations, Capital Markets, & the Common Good — How We’re Working to Reorient the Rules and Rebalance Power in Our Economy
By Chris Jurgens, Director, Reimagining Capitalism
At Omidyar Network, we believe business can be a powerful force for good. This is a belief rooted in Pierre Omidyar’s founding of…
