Paula Goldman is global lead of the Tech and Society Solutions Lab at Omidyar Network, the Silicon Valley impact investment firm established in 2004 by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam to catalyze economic and social change.
The Tech and Society Solutions Lab 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.
This work builds on Paula’s previous role at Omidyar Network as the global lead for impact investing. Paula earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University, where she studied how unorthodox ideas become mainstream. Earlier in her career she was on founding teams of several for-profit and non-profit start-ups, mostly in emerging markets.
Community Insights
Investing to Train More Ethical Engineers
A group of tech leaders lead by the Omidyar Network and Craig Newmark will be awarding up to $3.5 million in prizes to creative efforts to integrate ethics into technical computer science education.
Community Insights
Omidyar Network and Institute for the Future Introduce Ethical Framework for Tech
Exclusive to Techonomy: The Omidyar Network and the Institute for the Future introduce an "Ethical Operating System," a toolkit for helping developers and designers anticipate the impact of technologies they’re working on today. The hope is that technologists can begin to build responsibility into core business and product decisions, and contribute to a thriving tech industry.
Ethics and Responsibility in Modern Technology
Description: Tech tools have become too powerful not to be conceived within an ethical framework and thoughtful awareness of their consequences. We need a new attitude of social responsibility from technologists and companies. The following transcript has been lightly edited and condensed for ease of reading. Speakers: Paula Goldman, Omidyar Network | Terah Lyons, Partnership on AI Moderator: Catherine […]
Conferences
Techonomy 18
Techonomy 2018 was a probing, wide-ranging conversation about the tech-inflected issues that affect business and our world. This year’s theme was Harnessing Tech for Responsible Growth, and as always we addressed many of the issues facing leaders today.
