Using Technology to Catalyze Large-Scale Social Change

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• Using Technology to Catalyze Large-Scale Social
  Change
• Matt Halprin, Partner
• Stephen King, Director, Investments

• 10.29.09

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• About ON

• We work to create opportunity for people to
  improve their lives.
• A philanthropic investment firm founded in 2004
  by Pierre Pam Omidyar
• Invest in for-profit organizations and make
  grants to nonprofits
• Focus on market-based approaches to catalyze
  large-scale, positive social impact

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• ON Structure

• Omidyar Network

• Omidyar Network Fund, Inc.
• 501(c)(3) private foundation
• Makes grants to nonprofits

• Omidyar Network Fund LLC
• Makes for-profit investments related to our
  mission

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• Investments to Date

• Total committed 307 million
• For-profit investments 138 million
• Nonprofit grants 169 million

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• ON Initiatives

ONs work is organized around two initiatives.

• Media, Markets Transparency

• Access to Capital

• We support technology that promotes transparency,
  accountability, and trust across media, markets,
  and government.
• Social Media
• Marketplaces
• Government Transparency
• Geography US, India, and select countries in
  Sub-Saharan Africa

• We support organizations that create economic
  opportunity for the base of the pyramid through
  access to capital.
• Microfinance
• Entrepreneurship
• Property Rights
• Geography Global with focus on India and select
  countries in Sub-Saharan Africa

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• Access to Capital

• What we do
• We support organizations that create economic
  opportunity for the base of the pyramid through
  access to capital.
• We focus on 3 investment areas

• Microfinance extending access to high-quality,
  affordable financial services
• Entrepreneurship investing in high-growth
  entrepreneurs that provide low-cost products and
  services to underserved populations and help spur
  economic activity
• Property Rights promoting economic security,
  identity, and wealth creation by helping people
  establish, formalize, and leverage property
  rights

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• Media, Markets Transparency

• What we do
• We support technology that promotes transparency,
  accountability, and trust across media, markets,
  and government.
• We focus on 3 investment areas

• Social Media encouraging people to express
  themselves, connect to others with shared
  interests, and take action on what matters to
  them
• Marketplaces fostering greater choice,
  transparency, and accountability, so that people
  can provide and access products and services that
  improve their lives
• Government Transparency encouraging
  accountability and effectiveness of government by
  increasing peoples access to credible
  information about government activities and money
  in politics

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• Investment Principles

• Across Omidyar Network
• Individual opportunity empowers individuals to
  improve their lives
• Market-based encourages market-based solutions
• Impact potential for large-scale social impact
  (hundreds of thousands or millions of people)
• Innovation new approach, new business model,
  and/or new market
• Catalytic effect ONs financial and/or human
  capital will be catalytic
• Sustainability potential for partial or full
  sustainability
• Across Media, Markets Transparency Initiative
• Technology Significantly driven by technology
  platform Internet and/or mobile
• Market validation early and expansion stage
  companies with material market validation (not
  seed)

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• Sunlight Foundation

• Develops and supports technology that makes
  information about Congress and the federal
  government more accessible to the American
  public.
• Traction
• Sponsored the first searchable website of all
  federal grants and contracts
• Co-created a resource for citizens to track
  issues, bills, and lawmaker activities
• Hundreds of journalists, reporters, and bloggers
  trained to use its tools and databases to find
  government data on political activity
• Employees 30

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• Global Integrity

• Promotes government transparency and
  accountability by harnessing data, analysis, and
  on-the-ground reporting by local experts
  Internet platform enables easy information access
  for citizens, NGOs, governments, and funders.
• Traction
• Detailed quantitative and qualitative analyses on
  90 countries
• 18,560 Integrity Indicators scored in 2008
• 35,000 peer review inputs in 2008 report
• Conducts workshops with governments to offer
  pragmatic strategies for policy changes to
  enhance transparency
• Employees 7

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• Developing World Context

• Improved access to information and greater
  openness of government are critical drivers of
  development and prosperity in the developing
  world
• ON seeing greater activity and impact around
  budget tracking, election monitoring, and
  analysis of extractive industries and aid
  transparency
• ON invests in technology and media platforms that
  empower citizens in the developing world to hold
  their leaders accountable by providing access to
  credible information about government actions,
  influence, and stewardship of resources
• Our investment strategy will focus on global
  organizations national organizations and
  coalitions in Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya and a
  pan-African mechanism to disburse smaller grants

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• Access for All?

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• Technology Making a Difference

• Internet and mobile technology allow rapid
  sharing of information and tools for organization
  and mobilization.
• Mobile phones aid prosperity World Bank
  estimates that adding an extra 10 mobile phones
  per 100 people boosts growth in GDP per person by
  0.8.
• Technology allows cross-platform access
  Web-based platforms can gather real-time data on
  budgets, parliaments, and legislation and can be
  accessed by phone.
• Market penetration continues to escalate.
• Rapid Internet adoption
• China has more people online (338M total) than US
  (228M).
• Most rapid African growth is in Nigeria, Ghana,
  Kenya, and South Africa. However, on average,
  lt10 of population online radio and TV are more
  popular mediums.
• Mobile phone coverage Ownership in the
  developing world now accounts for 75 of a
  worldwide total of 4 billion.

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Ushahidi

• Scalable, open source Internet platform to
  create, report, and share data in the aftermath
  of a crisis.
• Enables the wider coverage of crisis and other
  situations that would otherwise be unreported or
  underreported
• Easy-to-use tool that is freely and instantly
  available to individuals and NGOs, allowing them
  to focus on mobilizing the content and the
  response
• Facilitates transparency and accountability by
  amplifying citizen voices with a consumer-focused
  tool, designed for areas with limited access
• Traction
• 200 deployments of Ushahidi platform in 18 months
  10,000 monthly unique visitors
• Multiple usages from monitoring elections to
  monitoring swine flu to mapping political
  violence (Uganda)
• Employees 5

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Ushahidi
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Ushahidi
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• Infonet

• Web portal that acts as an information hub for
  all national and devolved budgets in Kenya used
  by NGOs, citizen groups, and the media to hold
  leaders accountable.
• Huge increase in funds devolved to constituencies
  and under control of MPs creates need for greater
  scrutiny (1M to 5.5M)
• Simplified and aggregated data that can be used
  to monitor expenditure
• Searchable tool via SMS to find information on
  districts and constituencies
• Objectives
• To become the hub of accessible information for
  all national and devolved budgets in Kenya
• To grow to 25,000 unique monthly visitors and
  5,000 SMS queries by 2011 elections
• Employees 2

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Infonet
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Infonet
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• Mzalendo

• Website that aggregates information about and
  monitors the activities of Kenyan Parliament and
  its members.
• One-stop shop for citizens and activists to
  track activities of MPs
• Helps Kenyan voters get information on which to
  base their voting decisions particularly
  important leading up to the 2011 elections, given
  the fragility of the current coalition government
• Objectives
• To reach 20,000 unique monthly visitors
• To be first point of reference for activists,
  NGOs, and the media prior to 2011 elections
• Employees Run on a volunteer basis

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Mzalendo
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• FrontlineSMS

• Two-way mass communications tool using laptops
  and mobile phones for organizations without
  Internet access, e.g.,
• Reporting tool for election monitoring,
  information on drug stocks to outlying clinics in
  Malawi, immediate security information to aid
  workers in Afghanistan
• Synergy with Ushahidi for immediate crowdsourcing
  of information
• Traction
• 3,500 usages in more than 40 countries in 18
  months
• Employees 1

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• FrontlineSMS

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• Quikr

• India-based online marketplace that allows people
  to post and respond to free local classifieds for
  apartments, cars, jobs, services, used goods,
  events, and more.
• Traction
• Broad reach gt2.5M unique monthly users
• Extremely rapid growth gt70 growth in unique
  users in August
• Highly efficient operations achieving impressive
  metrics with only 15 FTEs
• Rigorous focus on the user experience, e.g.,
  best-in-class ease of new ad submission,
  aggressive purging of old or duplicate ads
• Developing mobile and social media platform
  extensions to increase outreach
• Employees 15

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• How to Find Us

• Matt Halprin, Partner
• mhalprin_at_omidyar.com
• Stephen King, Director, Investments
• sking_at_omidyar.com

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• Thank You!