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Helping People Get Control Over Their Digital Identity: Why We Invested in Cambridge Blockchain
We believe Cambridge Blockchain can play a big part in helping markets overcome those struggles. This is why Omidyar Network and Flourish joined PayPal, and others in a Series A extension investment, which totaled $10.5 million.
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Reflections on the NIIMS judgement
This week, the High Court of Kenya suspended core aspects of the National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMS), popularly referred to as Huduma Namba. Magdi Amin shares reflections on the judgement.
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Redefining Family Engagement for Today's Parents and Caregivers
Children with engaged families earn better grades, finish high school at higher rates, and are more likely to enroll in postsecondary education. Ashley Beckner shares some of the family engagement solutions she is watching.
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Why We Continue to Support Cadasta Foundation
In today’s rapidly advancing world, technology and human ingenuity are improving lives across the globe. However, millions of people are being left behind by lack of access to these innovations and the benefits they create.
READ ONRace to the Top: A New Business Paradigm for Identity Data
The decisions we make as investors, and the guidance we provide to our investees, send signals that help shape the future. At #KNOW2019, we are calling on VCs and impact investors to help build a tech sector that is both commercially successful and good for people.
READ ONSpotting Privacy Breaches Before They Cause Harm: Why We Invested in Terbium Labs.
With breaches becoming a daily occurrence, we need tools that keep watch in the places where stolen data is bought and sold, warning customers when their data has been used and traded without their consent.
READ ONRobust Ecosystems Are Key To Equitable EdTech
Scaling Access & Impact: Realizing the Power of EdTech evaluates what might be necessary to enable, scale, and sustain Equitable EdTech solutions that reach all learners.
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A Mental Health Pandemic: Is the World Getting More Addicted, Anxious, and Lonely?
Technology has negatively impacted mental health, but could it also be essential to making it better?
READ ON8 Billion "MEcosystems:" Transhumanism Becomes Reality
Advancing technology has the potential to push human evolution toward a "transhumanist" future where human bodies are optimized with technology. Could "wearables", 3D printing, gene editing, and digital cloning really extend life and augment humanity?
READ ONThe Quantum Race
With the emergence of a new and powerful technology, a looming question remains — will quantum computing be used as a tool of creation, destruction, or both, and who will decide?
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Omidyar Network India and Nexus Venture Partners Invest $1.3M in Whitehat Jr to Teach the Next Generation of Coders
Mumbai-based AI-centric edtech startup, WhiteHat Jr, has raised $1.3 million (INR 9 Cr) in a seed funding round from Nexus Venture Partners and Omidyar Network India.
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Healofy raises $8 Million dollars from BabyTree Group, Bace Capital, and Omidyar Network India.
Women-centric social network Healofy said Wednesday that they have raised $8 million (about Rs 55 crore) from BabyTree Group, China's maternity and child-focused community platform, Bace Capital, a fund anchored by Ant Financial Services Group, and existing investor Omidyar Network India.
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Hundreds of Millions Expect to Lose Their Homes Against Their Will, Largest Ever Study Reveals
Hundreds of millions of people in developing countries expect to lose their homes against their will in the next five years, a ground-breaking study has shown.
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