Civic Tech Field Guide

Omidyar Responsible AI funding

$30 million initial investment will bridge gaps between industry, civil society, and policymakers, broadening generative AI infrastructure in service of society

Omidyar Network - The Tech We Want

1991 Broadway Street, Suite 200, Redwood City, California 94063

The Tech We Want is four-year, $8 million portfolio of work focused on connecting and empowering a new wave of leaders, companies, and technologies that are built on inclusivity, mutualism, sustainability, accountability, and responsible innovation.

Omidyar's Tech and Society Solutions Lab

1991 Broadway Street, Suite 200, Redwood City, California 94063

Omidyar Network

1991 Broadway Street, Suite 200, Redwood City, California 94063

Omidyar Network is a social change venture that reimagines critical systems, and the ideas that govern them, to build more inclusive and equitable societies—for the benefit of the many, not just the few—across the globe.

Responsible Technology program at Omidyar Network

We believe digital technology can and should have a positive impact on society.

Bio ID Evaluation Tool

Africa

With support from the Omidyar Network, the joint team worked with local researchers in Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe to extract a snapshot of the state of digital identity, using an evaluation framework specifically designed by CIS for assessing digital identity ecosystems.

Identity

Responsible Technology Initiative

Goa

A platform to evaluate the most complex of India's technology policy conundrums

Digital Futures Lab

Goa

Digital Futures Lab is a multidisciplinary research network that examines the complex interactions between technology and society in the global south.

Responsible Computing Challenge

Mountain View, CA, USA

The Responsible Computing Challenge - supported by the Mellon Foundation, Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, USAID, Mozilla - fund academic teams that combine faculty and practitioners from Computing, Humanities, Library and Information Science, and Social Science fields in order to reimagine how the next generation of technologists will be educated.