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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">extern</font></div><div><p style="font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Tech and Society Solutions Lab</b> draws upon our founders, Pierre and Pam Omidyar’s, and Omidyar Network’s long-standing beliefs in the promise of technology to create opportunity, empowerment and social good. The Lab invests and co-creates solutions to help technologists better anticipate, prevent, and correct issues arising from current and potential future societal downsides of technology and maximize societal upside. A few examples of our work so far includes:</font></p><ul style="font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EthicalOS, a co-creation with Institute for the Future. This product framework designed to help tech teams plan for potential risks at the roadmap stage has been tested by 50+ companies, from Techstars startups to X.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Responsible Computer Science Challenge, a collaboration between us, Mozilla, Schmidt Futures and Craig Newmark Philanthropies that will award up to $3.5M for undergraduate faculty to integrate ethics into core, technical Computer Science coursework.</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Investees include Tristan Harris’ Center for Humane Tech, DotEveryone in the UK and Coworker.org, who work to help tech employees self-organize</font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Q1 Retreat that brought together 130 leaders, from big tech VPs to thought leaders, VCs and our grantees, to build shared identity and devise potential solutions</font></li></ul></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We are co-creating solutions with technologists and civil society to advance these goals. Examples include partnering with tech companies and others to find metrics that better track their contributions to the health of the public sphere, reinventing how we educate the next generation of technologists so that they think actively about these issues, developing a set of principles for responsible data usage among data scientists, and supporting change agents who are tackling emerging problems such as smartphone addiction. We are also advancing interventions that support more inclusive tech cultures and product design practices, and helping employees more effectively identify and prevent harms.</font></div><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Our hope is that these efforts help technologists build responsibility into core business and product decisions and contribute to a thriving tech industry.</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>In an Era of Tech Regret, Donors Want to Give Computer Science a Conscience</b></font></div><div class="category-date-row" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="content-category" style="margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;">From <a href="https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2019/5/23/in-an-era-of-tech-regret-donors-want-to-give-computer-science-a-conscience" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">Inside Philanthropy</a></span> <span class="date" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;">May 29, 2019</span></font></div><div class="body" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="text-only" data-module="text-only" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Inside Philanthropy highlights our work to inspire a new generation of technologists through the Responsible Computer Science Challenge, which turns its attention to computer science undergraduate education.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Read the full article <a href="https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2019/5/23/in-an-era-of-tech-regret-donors-want-to-give-computer-science-a-conscience" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">here</a>.</font></p></div></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml"><a href="http://www.ethicalos.org/" style="font-weight: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">the </a><a href="http://www.ethicalos.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;"><b>Ethical Operating System (Ethical OS)</b></a></span></span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml"> — to help makers of tech, product managers, engineers, and others get out in front of problems before they happen. The three-part guide is already being piloted by nearly 20 tech companies, schools, and startups, including </span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml"><a href="https://www.mozilla.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">Mozilla</a></span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml">, </span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml"><a href="https://www.techstars.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">Techstars</a></span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml">, and others. This is one of many partnerships Omidyar Network’s newly founded </span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml"><a href="https://www.omidyar.com/our-work/tech-and-society-solutions-lab" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">Tech and Society Solutions Lab</a></span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml"> is pursuing to address the growing concerns about responsibility in tech with long-term solutions, a topic of growing importance.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;">The Ethical OS (#EthicalOS) toolkit is available for Beta testing and community feedback here</span>: </span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml"><a href="http://www.ethicalos.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">www.ethicalOS.org</a></span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml">.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" xmlns:xml="xml"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What’s in the toolkit:</font></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml">1. Tomorrow's Risk, Today: </span></span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml">Fourteen scenarios to spark conversation and stretch your imagination about the long-term impacts of tech you're building today. </span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" xmlns:xml="xml"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;">2. Check Your Tech</span>: A checklist of eight risk zones to help you identify the emerging areas of risk and social harm most critical for your team to start considering now.</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" xmlns:xml="xml"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;">3. Future-Proofing Strategies</span>: Seven future-proofing strategies to help you take ethical action today. </font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml">Omidyar Network's </span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml"><a href="https://www.omidyar.com/our-work/tech-and-society-solutions-lab" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">Tech and Society Solutions Lab</a></span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml"> draws on Omidyar Network’s long-standing belief in the promise of technology to create opportunity and social good, as well as the concern about unintended consequences that can result from technological innovation. The team aims to help technologists prevent, mitigate, and correct societal downsides of technology—and maximize positive impact.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml">“We envision a world where technology companies take proactive measures to ensure products are responsibly designed and brought to market. That time is now,” said </span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.omidyar.com_people_paula-2Dgoldman&d=DwMGaQ&c=9wxE0DgWbPxd1HCzjwN8Eaww1--ViDajIU4RXCxgSXE&r=o1hiH0krqzSzWL-olAgbbabxMPoIBUIUdTgrJ3YF1dE&m=MFTsVMN1tNYHKJ0EQ6Z6nK3u4p1PU9wNSD8-9LjPFfQ&s=RQ9lyU8D_3X7wOxKjJ6MlTZIF5OD3I9OTjP88e0pZps&e=" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">Paula Goldman</a></span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml">, global lead of the Tech and Society Solutions Lab. “Inspired by industry standards to mitigate security risk, the Ethical OS helps developers think not just about innovation but long-term societal impact.”</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml">“As makers of tech become more mindful of the unintended effects that their products and services have upon society, we saw a need for a practical toolkit and easy to apply framework for learning, discussion, and eventually better products with fewer potential downsides,” added </span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml"><a href="https://www.omidyar.com/people/raina-kumra" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">Raina Kumra</a></span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml">, the founder of Mavin and Juggernaut and entrepreneur-in-residence at the Tech and Society Solutions Lab. “Something as simple as a checklist can be a real game changer.”</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Building a startup takes a lot more than just funding,” said <span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml"><a href="https://www.techstars.com/mentors/cody-simms/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">Cody Simms</a></span>, partner at Techstars. “At Techstars, we are building a worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed. Helping founders anticipate future ethical challenges that their technologies could encounter or incite is critical to their ultimate success. We’re thrilled to be working with Omidyar Network and the Institute for the Future on this initiative and to help our global network of more than 1,500 startups get ahead of problems before they happen.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml">“The future is like a game. We have to play it to see how it turns out. But if we wait until the future actually happens, it’s too late to shape it or change our strategies for a better outcome,” said </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml"><a href="http://www.iftf.org/janemcgonigal/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">Jane McGonigal</a></span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml"> from IFTF, a renowned expert in collaborative foresight and human interaction. “But we can play it in advance. Our goal is to engage tens of thousands of tech workers in anticipating the long-term impacts of what they're building today, so they can use that foresight to make better, more ethical choices now.”</span></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml">“Most people create technology with the hope that it will make the world a better place, but our best intentions must incorporate actionable safeguards to ensure others don’t corrupt our ideas along the way,” added </span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml"><a href="http://www.iftf.org/samwoolley/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">Samuel Woolley</a></span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml">, director of IFTF’s Digital Intelligence Lab. “This toolkit helps anyone creating new technology contemplate worst-case scenarios and familiarize themselves with major areas of potential risk. Considering unexpected risks is a must for the entire tech community. Our collective future will be the better for it.”</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml">Feedback on the toolkit and inquiries regarding trainings and workshops related to the toolkit are encouraged by contacting </span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml"><a href="mailto:ideas@ethicalos.org" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">ideas@ethicalos.org</a></span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml">. Join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #EthicalOS.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml">Other Tech and Society Solutions Lab partnerships and investments include: the </span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml"><a href="https://www.omidyar.com/investees/center-humane-technology" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">Center for Humane Technology</a></span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml">, which was co-founded by Tristan Harris, a former design ethicist at Google, to align technology with humanity’s best interests; </span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml"><a href="https://www.omidyar.com/investees/data-democracy" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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The hope is that these efforts help technologists build responsibility into core business and product decisions and contribute to a thriving tech industry.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml"><a href="http://www.iftf.org/home/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">Institute for the Future</a></span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (IFTF) is celebrating its 50th anniversary as the world’s leading non-profit strategic futures organization. The core of IFTF’s work is identifying emerging discontinuities that will transform global society and the global marketplace. They provide organizations with insights into business strategy, design process, innovation, and social dilemmas. The organizations research spans a broad territory of deeply transformative trends, from health and health care to technology, the workplace, and human identity.</span></span></font></p></div></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div></div><div style=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Yoav is principal for the Tech and Society Solutions Lab at Omidyar Network, where he is focused on building</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> long-term resiliency</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and maximizing the tech sector’s contributions to society.</font></b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Before joining Omidyar Network, he served as the founding executive director of The Kitchen, a groundbreaking religious community in San Francisco from which he also launched Hello Mazel, a first-of-its-kind quarterly subscription box of Jewish goods and guides. Under his organizational leadership, The Kitchen became a nationally-recognized leader in millennial and Generation X engagement in Judaism and social justice. Prior to that, Yoav was the <b>executive director of Reboot, a national network of cultural creatives aimed at reinventing ritual and community. </b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prior to becoming an Executive Director, Yoav had extensive experience in nonprofit strategy, fundraising, and development, holding roles such as founding partner and senior consultant with BuildingBlox Consulting, associate director of development at Stanford Law School, and development officer at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Yoav received his B.A. from Stanford University, where he graduated with a major in religious studies, a minor in political science and honors in international security studies.</font></p></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Drinkwater</b> london</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></div><div style=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sarah is director at the Tech and Society Solutions Lab at Omidyar Network, where she works to test and scale interventions that help maximize the tech industry's positive contributions to a healthy society. </font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prior to Omidyar Network, Sarah was head of<b> Campus London, Google's first physical startup hub offering innovative education programs</b>, a work and event space, and access to a vibrant startup community. Campus London was a pilot that has since scaled to six locations around the world, including Seoul and Sao Paulo<b>. At Google, Sarah also built and led a global Google Maps community team.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sarah previously worked in community and content roles for early-stage startups in Europe. She also advised brands such as Nokia on their social strategy and was a journalist for newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian. </font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sarah received her<b> MA in Renaissance to Enlightenment</b> from University College London. She earned her BA in English literature from the University of Reading. </font></p></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2017</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Goldman is vice president and global lead for Impact Investing at Omidyar Network. </b> She leads the firm's global efforts to accelerate the impact investing industry through investments, strategic partnerships, and thought leadership. She frequently serves as an advisor to family offices, high net worth individuals, and foundations seeking to engage in impact investing, and sources co-investment opportunities through these partnerships. In 2014, she acted as Executive for the National Advisory Board on Impact Investing, a partnership with the White House and G7 which helped produce significant policy changes to allow pension funds and foundations to more easily put money to work in impact investing. </font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2014 mtk & comm</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></div><div style=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Paula Goldman</b> is an entrepreneur, anthropologist and movement strategist. She leads a team at Omidyar Network that seeks to advance the impact investing industry through a combination of investments, strategic partnerships, and thought leadership. She also acts as an advisor on advocacy efforts across Omidyar Network investment initiatives. Paula has served on a number of industry advisory boards--including PEERS,<b> World Economic Forum I</b>mpact Investing Working Group, and the Harvard Business Review’s Insight Center on Scaling Social Impact—and is a strategy advisor to a number of tech start-ups.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Born in Singapore, Paula has lived in eight countries across four continents. Paula came to Omidyar Network with extensive background in frontier markets enterprise, managing businesses ranging from an affordable private school in rural India to a <b>micro-enterprise syndicate in post-war Bosnia. </b>She has led innovations that harness the potential of technology, advocacy and entertainment. As founder and director of Imagining Ourselves, a project of the International Museum of Women, she led the creation of one of the world’s first online museums, alongside a book, traveling exhibits and series of global events with more than a million participants. This work was recognized with the 2007 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140626134632/http://anitaborg.org/about/who-we-are/paula-goldman/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">Social Impact Award</a> from the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and a 2008 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140626134632/http://www.aam-us.org/about-us/grants-awards-and-competitions/muse-awards" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">Muse Award</a> from the American Association of Museums.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Paula earned a PhD from Harvard University, where she studied how unorthodox ideas become mainstream.</b> She holds a masters in public affairs from Princeton and a BA with highest honors from UC Berkeley. She has been on faculty at both UC Berkeley and Mills college and contributes as an author to outlets such as the Financial Times, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140626134632/http://hbr.org/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">HBR.org</a>, and Huffington Post.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div></div><div><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180208181214/https://www.omidyar.com/blog/geeksforhumanity-announcing-tech-and-society-solutions-lab"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://web.archive.org/web/20180208181214/https://www.omidyar.com/blog/geeksforhumanity-announcing-tech-and-society-solutions-lab</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></div><div><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">#GeeksForHumanity | Announcing the </span>Tech and Society Solutions Lab</font></h3><div class="category-date-row" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="date" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b>February 8, 2018</b></font></span></div><div class="body" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="text-only" data-module="text-only" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">At Omidyar Network, we fundamentally believe in the power of technology to deliver enormous benefits for humanity -- but we have also become increasingly concerned with the growing number of </span><b>unintended consequences </b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">we have seen emerge.</span></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And so we have founded the Tech and Society Solutions Lab, an emergent effort to test, build, and scale solutions that address these negative effects – and, more importantly, help maximize the tech industry’s contributions to a healthy society</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Our work is just beginning, but we’ve already seen that we are just one of many who have expressed concerns about the impacts of rapidly evolving technology on our society. We are joining a chorus of voices from mainstream media to academic leaders, from former tech employees to current executives and entrepreneurs, all of whom are calling for the industry to live up to its core ethos of creating tremendous good for the world. </font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This week alone, we’ve seen three of our initial efforts make a significant impact on the conversation. Take our investee Tristan Harris, a former Design Ethicist at Google, whose concerns about smartphone addiction led to the founding of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180208181214/https://humanetech.com/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">Center for Humane Technology</a>. As noted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180208181214/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/04/technology/early-facebook-google-employees-fight-tech.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">The New York Times</a>, the Center brings together a remarkable group of former tech employees who are concerned about the impacts of the products their companies – and in some cases, they as individuals – built. We are incredibly excited about their early efforts, which range from a public ad campaign to combat smartphone addition to encouraging tech employees to think more critically about what they are asked to do. </font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We are also pleased to join the</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> seed round of</span><b> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180208181214/https://www.loris.ai/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">Loris.ai</a>, a startup that uses a data-driven approach to help companies <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180208181214/https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/06/loris-ai-a-crisis-text-line-spin-out-raises-2-million-to-help-companies-have-hard-conversations/?ncid=mobilenavtrend" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">navigate hard conversations</a>.</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> The effort will build on the success of </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180208181214/https://www.crisistextline.org/" style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">Crisis Text Line</a><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> to bring empathy, active listening, and collaborative problem-solving to businesses, helping them better anticipate and navigate difficult situations</span></font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. We see this as a critical component to building a tech culture that better supports its employees, giving them the tools to relate more directly to the constituents reached by their products. Fostering empathy is one way we can begin to mitigate unintended consequences, and we are excited to see what changes will result from founder Nancy Lublin and her team.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="font-weight: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Finally, on Tuesday we </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">participated in </span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b style="">Bloomberg’s Data for Good Exchange </b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">in San Francisco, where we partnered with tech, media, and civil society leaders to support a grassroots campaign to create a </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180208181214/https://datapractices.org/" style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">code of ethics</a></span><span style="font-weight: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> for the data science community to adopt principles of responsible data use and sharing. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Modeled after the Hippocratic Oath, we are eager to support the pledge in its goal of reaching 100,000 signatures. Under the leadership of </span></span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180208181214/http://datafordemocracy.org/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">Data4Democracy</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit;">, in partnership with many others, this effort will be instrumental in building a coalition dedicated to promoting responsible behavior, sending an important message to the broader tech community that its employees are concerned and ready to take action to build a productive, more humane industry.</span></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(30, 33, 44); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">These are just three examples of important work being done to advance the conversation about the societal impacts of technology. We are humbled to play a small part in supporting these innovators and look forward to continuing to build a portfolio of innovative, solutions-focused endeavors that share our commitment to technology as a force for good. And we’re looking to expand our team of colleagues dedicated to the cause – please take a look at our job descriptions <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180208181214/https://boards.greenhouse.io/omidyarnetwork/jobs/1019297#.WnlDKiOZO9Y" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">here</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180208181214/https://boards.greenhouse.io/omidyarnetwork/jobs/1019296#.WnlDNSOZO9Y" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s, border-color 0.25s linear 0s, opacity 0.25s linear 0s, color 0.25s linear 0s;">here</a> if you’re interested in joining the Solutions Lab as it works to create a responsible path forward for the tech industry. We’ll be sharing more about the Solutions Lab in the weeks and months to come. Stay tuned!</font></p></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div></div>