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Event Highlights: How Technology Can Inspire Citizen Engagement
The second edition of Tech for Citizen Engagement was held in New Delhi in December to spark ideas on how to leverage the power of technology in engaging with citizens for better public service delivery. Centered on the belief...
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Tech Figures Join to Fund Change.org Petition Site
In a twist on how Silicon Valley companies are financed, several technology luminaries have banded together to effectively do the work of a traditional venture capital firm.
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Grant to The One Campaign Follows the Money
Omidyar Network is pleased to announce a three-year grant of up to $3m to The ONE Campaign to build the policy, advocacy and campaigning infrastructure for a global campaign on transparency and accountability.
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New Tool in Fighting Corruption: Open Data
Yesterday in Brisbane, the G20 threw its weight behind open data by featuring it prominently in the G20 Anti-Corruption working action plan.
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Growing pains for Openness?
Through our work at Omidyar Network we see, on a daily basis, the growing tensions between competing ideals and philosophies.
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Open Up?
We at Omidyar Network have long advocated the merits of opening government data. Its potential to strengthen governance, drive economic growth, and build trust is attractive for those of us working to improve the relationships...
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Getting Strategic About Openness and Privacy
Information is powerful. And in a world where the amount of information generated, captured and stored has grown exponentially in recent decades, getting hold of the information you need, when you need it, relies upon having...
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OpenUp Corporate Data While Protecting Privacy
Consider a few numbers: By the end of 2014, the number of mobile phone subscriptions worldwide is expected to reach 7 billion, nearly equal to the world’s population. More than 1.82 billion people communicate on some form...
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The Data Trust Deficit
The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) has just released a new Data Manifesto which looks at what the next UK Government could do to improve the use of data to improve policymaking, democracy and prosperity. One particular area...
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How Can Openness Help to Protect Our Privacy?
We have a tendency to think of openness as the opposite of privacy, and in particular that opening up data carries the risk of exposing our private information. You don't have to look far to know that those risks are real:...
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Could Contract Transparency Be Bad?
Omidyar Network’s annual conference on transparency, Open Up? 2014, is titled “Boundaries of Openness and Privacy.” We’ll launch the Center for Global Development’s Working Group on Contract Publication report at...
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What's In A Name?
We at Omidyar Network have long advocated the merits of opening government data. Its potential to strengthen governance, drive economic growth, and build trust is attractive for those of us working to improve the relationships...
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