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Trends to Watch in 2020 & Beyond

March 9, 2020

Climate change. Generational discord. Belonging and erasure. The future of warfare. Eshanthi Ranasinghe weighs in on which trends will drive our future in 2020 and beyond.

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Not Just a Job: New Evidence on the Quality of Work in the United States

October 23, 2019

Omidyar Network partnered with Gallup, Lumina Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create the first-ever Great Jobs Survey, a comprehensive measure of job quality in the US.

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Not Just a Job: New Evidence on the Quality of Work in the United States

October 23, 2019

Tracy Williams shares insights on the Great Jobs Survey, providing a new job quality index that goes beyond wages and benefits.

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Power in the Palm of Your Hand: How Asia Transforms Screen Time into Learning Opportunities

August 13, 2019

Eliza Erickson and Erin Simmons share insights from the “Scaling Access & Impact: Realizing the Power of EdTech” Country Reports for China and Indonesia.

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Equitable EdTech: from the Top-Down How the US and Chile Power Equitable EdTech with Policy and the Purse

August 12, 2019

Eliza Erikson and Erin Simmons share key insights from the “Scaling Access & Impact: Realizing the Power of EdTech” Country Reports for Chile and the United States.

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Move Beyond the Mirage: Embracing Deep Collaboration to Transform Outcomes

July 22, 2019

Amy Klement shares why we are excited to support the launch of Beyond the Mirage, a new report to rethink how governments can ensure every child has access to high-quality education.

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Creating Good Digital Identities in Africa

June 21, 2019

Omidyar Network’s Thea Anderson speaks with CNBC Africa about the need for and pathway to Good ID.

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Omidyar Network’s Magdi Amin on Creating Good Digital IDs to Drive Africa’s Growth

June 19, 2019

Omidyar Network’s Magdi Amin speaks with CNBC Africa about the need for and pathway to Good ID.

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Mike Kubzansky Shares Insights with The Business of Giving

June 18, 2019

Mike Kubzansky shares insights about our refreshed strategy and Beneficial Tech work in a recent interview with The Business of Giving.    Listen here.

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Five Surprisingly Consequential Decisions Governments Make About Digital Identity

June 18, 2019

This week, leaders from 95 countries have traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa to attend the ID4Africa annual meeting and learn more about the rapidly growing d

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Why We’ve Invested in Fighting Disinformation and Dangerous Speech on WhatsApp and Other Encrypted Messaging Platforms

April 17, 2020

We’ve recently expanded our impact with some exciting partnerships that both get at the urgency of what’s required to stop the current “infodemic” and continue to strengthen civil society capacity to engage multiple stakeholders and perspectives, working toward sustainable change.

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We Must All Work Together to Combat COVID-19. That Starts with Giving People Control of their Data

April 15, 2020

An individual’s personal data is, by definition, personal. Any data collected for tracing people’s contact with COVID-19, therefore, must have both individual consent and public acceptance before private data is collected and used for a societal purpose. Digi.me has a comprehensive, nationwide solution for contact tracing that respects individuals’ privacy within two weeks.

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Facebook, Google Need to Flatten the Disinformation Curve of their Own Making

April 8, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an explosion of misinformation, fraud, and fear.

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