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The president and chief operating officer of Omidyar Network is Iqbal Paroo .

On July 14 , 2004 SourceForge .net announced that it had received a $400,000 grant from The Omidyar Network.

In addition to the corporate web site, Omidyar Network hosts Omidyar.net , a community discussion board/wiki for any number of issues ranging from Social Justice to Education to Cooperative s. Members are encouraged to give positive or negative feedback to contributions, similar to eBay's feedback forum. Working documents are editable by anyone in a Wiki style. The stated aim of building a community with the Network is to collectively empower people who want to make positive change in the world.


PARTNERS

Omidyar Network counts the following organizations as "Network Partners" (April 2006):

  • American India Foundation (education and livelihood projects in India)

  • Apache Software Foundation (meritocratic developer community for open source Server)

  • (grants to individuals for "citizen-sector" community projects)

  • AttentionTrust

  • Backfence (hyperlocal media network)

  • The Balkan Financial Sector Equity Fund

  • Benetech

  • BlueOrchard Microfinance Securities I

  • Carter-Baker Commission (US election reform)

  • Center For Public Integrity (public service journalism bureau)

  • Center For Responsive Politics (reporting on political contributions in the US)

  • CircleLending

  • Collaborative Drug Discovery

  • Creative Commons (using private copyright to expand public resources)

  • Digg

  • DonorsChoose (matching educational projects to small donors in the US)

  • Electronic Frontier Foundation (rights watchdog for cyberspace)

  • Electronic Privacy Information Center (advocating greater government accessibility)

  • Evdb (collaborative event database)

  • Federated Media Publishing (weblog publishing agents)

  • Feedster (RSS search engine)

  • FreeBSD Foundation (open source operating systems)

  • Global Social Venture Competition (publicity and capital for social ventures)

  • GlobalGiving

  • Grameen Foundation USA (Extending the noted Bangladeshi micro-credit project worldwide)

  • Grassroots Media (producer of journalism for next-wave news media)

  • Green Media Toolshed

  • Hagar (employmment project aimed at reintegrating trafficked persons in Cambodia)

  • InnoCentive®

  • Institute for Justice

  • KaBOOM!

  • Keystone (reporting on non-profits for philanthropic investors)

  • Kids Voting USA (voting education in US schools)

  • Krugle

  • Linden Lab (developer of Second Life global virtual community)

  • Meetup

  • Microcredit Summit Campaign (promoting global Microcredit projects)

  • Microfinance Information eXchange, Inc. (The MIX)

  • Microfinance Securities (pool of microfinance capital)

  • Microvest (developing a commercial capital market for microcredit)

  • Modest Needs (covering one-time unexpected expenses for struggling families)

  • Myelin Repair Foundation

  • New Voters Project (US voter participation campaign)

  • OneWorld International (news and information network)

  • Platial

  • Project On Government Oversight (investigation and publicity of government corruption and waste)

  • Project Vote (voter participation and advocacy for low-income and minority communities)

  • Prosper, peer to peer lending

  • Public Interactive®

  • Python Software Foundation (support for the Python Open-source Programming Language )

  • Science Commons

  • Secrecy News (documenting secrecy in the US government)

  • Socialtext (enterprise collaboration media)

  • Solar Electric Light Fund

  • Sourceforge .net (open source software repository and development community)

  • SpikeSource (certification, support and maintenance for open-source software clients)

  • United Villages (wireless connectivity for rural communities in developing countries)

  • Unitus (microfinance, microcredit -- provides expansion capital for microfinance institutions around the world)

  • Votewatch.us (promoting open election procedures in the US)

  • Voxiva (communications infrastucture for remote field workers)

  • Wikia

  • WITNESS (human rights documentation production and distribution)

  • World of Good

  • YackPack

  • YouthBuild (providing job skills and remedial education to US youth through homebuilding projects)

  • YOUTH NOISE



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