Exploration and Future Sensing

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</span></span><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The Exploration and Future Sensing team</b> is at the heart of Omidyar Network’s innovation and its commitment to continually sharpen our focus on the deep-seated and emerging issues in society..</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; 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);">To do that, the team scans for emergent signals and trends, imagines futures very different from the present, and catalyzes dialogue and experimentation to test new avenues of change. Their research, diverse network, and early experiments provide critical insights that we can use today to prepare for what may come, and build a better future. </font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Sample topics include:</b> the mainstreaming of neonationalism, <a href="https://www.omidyar.com/sites/default/files/file_archive/10%20Trends%20to%20Watch%20in%202018%20&%20Beyond_Omidyar%20Network.pdf" 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 “moonshot economy” and applications of 3D and 4D printing</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/positive-returns/a-mental-health-pandemic-is-the-world-getting-more-addicted-anxious-and-lonely-4e45bf533ae5" 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 mental health epidemic</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/positive-returns/the-quantum-race-5e30f76ff59" 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;">quantum computing</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/positive-returns/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-social-media-influence-28ee82eabf5d" 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 media influencers</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/positive-returns/china-ascendant-soft-power-in-an-open-global-order-b3f447a48021" 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 ascendance of China</a>, and <a href="https://medium.com/positive-returns/8-billion-mecosystems-transhumanism-becomes-reality-800ce384cd71" 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;">transhumanism</a>.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; 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);">But most of all, the Exploration and Future Sensing team seeks to open the door to new perspectives. Early efforts include sponsoring the <a href="https://nextgenforesight.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;">NextGen Foresight Practitioners Award</a>, building a foresight community, and testing online engagement on emerging issues. Next for this team is incubating ideas out of the opportunities they’ve surfaced and building partnerships in realizing a future that includes and empowers us all.</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);">To follow our insights and join the conversation, you can reach us at <a href="mailto:explorations@omidyar.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;">explorations@omidyar.com</a>.</font></p></div><div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">---</font></div><div style=""><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline"><a href="https://medium.com/positive-returns/explorations/home" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://medium.com/positive-returns/explorations/home</font></a></span></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.omidyar.com/sites/default/files/OmidyarNetwork_Explorations_TrendReport.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.omidyar.com/sites/default/files/OmidyarNetwork_Explorations_TrendReport.pdf</font></a></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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The trends really range, from the rise of neotribalism, to 3D and 4D printing, to “cybrids”, or how Gen Z is developing differently from any generation before them. Despite this range, Ashley Beckner from our US Education investments team, observed, “every single trend in this document has implications for our work focused on early childhood development. From smart toys to the affectional economy and perhaps most importantly the rising generation of cybrids — we have to stay ahead of these trends as we think about the future for children and families.”The US Education team is in the middle of developing their own trends report, focused on early childhood in the US. Ashley shared with me that this document “sparked new thinking that will influence that [US early childhood education trends] report and our work more broadly.”</li><li name="cc63" id="cc63" class="graf graf--li graf-after--li" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em" style="margin-left: 30px; margin-bottom: 14px; --x-height-multiplier:0.375; --baseline-multiplier:0.17;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span class="markup--strong markup--li-strong" style="font-weight: 700;"><em class="markup--em markup--li-em" liga="liga" salt="salt">Examine intersections </em></span><em class="markup--em markup--li-em" liga="liga" salt="salt">—</em> as<span class="markup--strong markup--li-strong" style="font-weight: 700;"> </span>Alex Lazarow, a member of our Financial Inclusion investments team, observed, “Each of these macro trends has the potential to radically change the world. But what has the most potent potential is the intersection between</span>. How can moonshots accelerate moving to blue or 3D printing for social good? How will the tandem rise of neotribalism, the affectional economy, and cybrids intersect? There is both the potential for balancing out on a global scale, and rapid acceleration depending on how they mix.”</li><li name="ffc9" id="ffc9" class="graf graf--li graf-after--li" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em" style="margin-left: 30px; margin-bottom: 14px; --x-height-multiplier:0.375; --baseline-multiplier:0.17;"><span class="markup--strong markup--li-strong" style="font-weight: 700;"><em class="markup--em markup--li-em" liga="liga" salt="salt">Get personal </em></span><em class="markup--em markup--li-em" liga="liga" salt="salt">—</em> several folks shared personal reflections that I’d argue can hit on an even deeper insight than a professional read would, because it traverses culture and hits on what it means to be human among these trends. As Peter Drucker said, “culture eats strategy for breakfast”. Yoav Schlesinger of the Tech and Society Solutions Lab, said, “I found the Risk in the White Space section incredibly resonant with our Tech and Society point of view and it pushed the envelope of my individual thinking on how far we might expect technologists to be able to foresee the consequences of their creations. At the same time, as the father of two young girls (ages 4.5 and 2.5), the trends on ‘Cybrids’ was sobering and inspired many conversations with my wife this past week about what it might mean for their neural pathways to be fundamentally altered.” Our colleague on the Intellectual Capital team, Nidhi Hegde, shared, “Affectional Economy was one of the most interesting trends. I have a healthy amount of skepticism about computers having ‘empathy’ but leveraging AI and machine learning to understand different cognitive and emotional states is exciting because it could mean we can finally crack the door open on neurological diseases like Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s. With an aging world, I think that’s one of the most important problems we can solve and one that’s close to home for me.”</li><li name="75ae" id="75ae" class="graf graf--li graf-after--li" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em" style="margin-left: 30px; margin-bottom: 14px; --x-height-multiplier:0.375; --baseline-multiplier:0.17;"><span class="markup--strong markup--li-strong" style="font-weight: 700;"><em class="markup--em markup--li-em" liga="liga" salt="salt">Be skeptical</em></span><em class="markup--em markup--li-em" liga="liga" salt="salt">! —</em> the tone of this report is bold and confident in what are still very much early observations of emerging signals and trends. Question the speculation, but not the facts. And click on the links! Also, keep in mind we selected a handful of trends among hundreds. Stay tuned, more to come…</li><li name="478a" id="478a" class="graf graf--li graf-after--li" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" em="em" style="margin-left: 30px; margin-bottom: 0px; --x-height-multiplier:0.375; --baseline-multiplier:0.17;"><span class="markup--strong markup--li-strong" style="font-weight: 700;"><em class="markup--em markup--li-em" liga="liga" salt="salt">Don’t overthink it</em></span><em class="markup--em markup--li-em" liga="liga" salt="salt"> </em>— this is brain food; don’t read this worrying about how you’re going to plan for robots affecting human emotion or gaining Saudi Arabian citizenship, knowing that the trajectory of all of this could change on a dime. Sarah Morgenstern from our Financial Inclusion team, had a great approach, sharing the report provided, “a refreshing opportunity to step back from my day-to-day and reflect more expansively on the big questions of tomorrow. From the evolving nature of innovation to the shapeshifting challenges of risk mitigation, this… was wonderful food for thought”</li></ol></span></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The “Moonshot” Economy</b> – “Moonshots” signal a seismic shift from the innovation we see today to an entirely new era of uninhibited imagination across all industries, changing the how and who in leading innovation </font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><u>Risk</u> in the White Space</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> – Technology and its impact on society are changing so rapidly, that the calculation and identification of risk is becoming almost prohibitively difficult. Not only are things changing too quickly for risk assessment to ever catch up, but </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">much more of the risk could be considered unpredictable and intangible – not tying back to any clearly liable entity [as long a tech remain platforms not content provides? [do they claim 1st amend publisher protection?]</span></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The “Affectional Economy” </b>– A technological revolution is allowing advanced machines to read, recognize, decode, process, and even mirror human emotion, to enhance their ability to interact with and understand us </font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Rise of Neotribalism</b> – Humans originally evolved to live in a tribal society, but growth in international travel, communication, and education created a sense of global identity. In 2017 we saw tribalism reemerge, platforms used to connect also used to disconnect. Trumpism, Macronism, are humanity’s divisions becoming more intractable? </font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The <u>Industrial</u> Internet of Things (IIOT) </b>– Powerful enterprise counterpart to the consumer Internet of Things, IIoT is transforming manufacturing and the mindset such firms need to succeed</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b> “Cybrids”: The Younger Global Generation – Gen Z</b> have a fully symbiotic relationship with the digital world around them</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">; this symbiosis will profoundly affect their cognition, perception, emotions, relationships, values and attitudes, learning capabilities, consumer behavior, and future career </span></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Moving from Green to Blue</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> – </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The future of sustainability is having a net-positive impact on the ecosystem by putting more back than was taken [seen where? reforestation?]</span></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> 3D & 4D Printing as Forces for Social Good and Humanitarian Efforts </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">– 3D printing offers an affordable, sustainable, on-demand manufacturing for immediate, local, and underserved needs;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> 4D printing adds the dimension of time, leveraging “intelligent” materials that can self-assemble, change shape, and self-repair </span></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nation, Inc.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> –</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> The role of institutions is changing and the line between the nation and the corporation is blurring – <b>countries will need to provide jobs</b> or job equivalents {UBI?], <b>corporations are shaping public policy</b>; where will the roles of these institutions, and the balance between them, fall? </span></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Infrastructure of the Future </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">– Competitive cities, countries, regions, and companies will depend on an entirely different set of infrastructure needs,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> e.g., smart sensor networks to sustainable urban farming</span></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></span></div></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);">eg</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In an Era of Tech Regret, Donors Want to Give Computer Science a Conscience</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="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;">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="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;">here</a>.</font></p></div></div></div></div></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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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: normal; 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml">Visit </span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; 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; 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font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml"><a href="https://www.omidyar.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;">Omidyar Network</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 Silicon Valley impact investment firm, has collaborated with 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="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"> (IFTF) on the development of a new toolkit — </span><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-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;">the </a><a href="http://www.ethicalos.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; 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);"><b><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-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-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml">Fourteen scenarios to spark conversation </span></b><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 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-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" style=""><b><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. </b></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="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">“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 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></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-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;" xmlns:xml="xml"><b>Other Tech and Society Solutions Lab partnerships and investments include:</b></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 </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; 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;">Data for Democracy</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">, a global community of data practitioners and technologists dedicated to increasing tech worker participation in civil society; 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/techequity-collaborative" 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;">TechEquity Collaborative</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 is engaging the tech community to build a more equitable and inclusive twenty-first century economy; as well as 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/markkula-center-applied-ethics" 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;">Markkula Center for Applied Ethics</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 brings the traditions of ethical thinking to bear on real-world problems; </span><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="margin: 0px; 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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="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"><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"> (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></font></p></div></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);">
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</div></div><div style=""><div style="margin: 0px; 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);">Eshanthi is a senior manager on the Intellectual Capital team at Omidyar Network where she advances strategy and research across the firm’s initiatives, incubates new areas of impact, and leads the firm’s work on future sensing and foresight.</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; 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);"> </font></div><div style="margin: 0px; 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);">Prior to joining Omidyar Network, Eshanthi was a management consultant at the <b>Boston Consulting Group, </b>working on a range of projects, from analyzing international market dynamics for long-term expansion and exit opportunities for healthcare companies to developing growth strategies for nonprofit charter school startups. Before that, Eshanthi worked for CARE Bangladesh as a William Davidson Institute fellow to value and negotiate a joint-venture social enterprise that empowers rural Bangladeshi women to become entrepreneurial salespeople. She also worked for Ford Motor Company India, where she set up a public-private partnership between Ford, the Tamil Nadu health department, a local NGO, and a university-run rural tech incubator to establish a mobile health initiative.</font></div><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;" /><div style="margin: 0px; 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);">Eshanthi attended the University of Michigan where she received an <b>MBA</b> from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and an M.S. from the School of Natural Resources and Environment, with a focus in sustainable systems. She also earned a B.S. in business and a <b>B.A. in journalism </b>from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.</font></div></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);">
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</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; font-family: museo-slab; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(30, 33, 44);"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Raina is an <b>entrepreneur-in-residence</b> for Omidyar Network’s Tech and Society Solutions Lab, which tests, builds, and scales solutions that address the unintended consequences of technology. </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; font-family: museo-slab; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(30, 33, 44);"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She is also CEO of Juggernaut, </font><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">an agency focused on digital, design, and <b>disruption through behavioral and brand strategy</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; font-family: museo-slab; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(30, 33, 44);"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Raina previously co-founded Mavin, a mobile startup focused on a<b>ffordable internet access that created India's first net neutral co-op engagement and advertising platform</b>. She also served as co-director of innovation at the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the world's largest international media organization, where she advanced its mission to reach global audiences and protect journalists under the Obama Administration. She previously served as the senior new media advisor in the<b> State Department's Office of eDiplomacy.</b> Raina also spent a number of years at agencies, including leading the conversion of Wieden+Kennedy New York to a full-service digital agency as director of digital strategies and working in<b> digital advertising,</b> planning, and strategy at R/GA and Bartle Bogle Hegarty.</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; font-family: museo-slab; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(30, 33, 44);"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She holds a B.S. in film production from Boston University, an M.A. in interactive telecommunications from NYU’s ITP program, and an M.Des.S. in design studies for digital applications in urban planning and architecture from Harvard University. Her work has been published in several journals and is part of The Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection. She is a member of the <b>Council on Foreign Relations.</b></font></p></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">==</font></div></div></div>