Announcing the results of the Future of Data Challenge: Meet the Winners!
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Anamitra Deb

Managing Director, Responsible Technology, Omidyar Network

As Managing Director on the Responsible Technology team, Anamitra leads Omidyar Network’s work on encrypted messaging, platforms and power, and alternative business models, with a vision for technology that underpins greater individual empowerment, social opportunity, and user safety.


Previously, Anamitra was global lead of the intellectual capital team, which helped to shape Omidyar Network’s strategic direction and incubate areas of work including Digital Identity and the Tech and Society Solutions Lab.


Prior to joining the firm, Anamitra was an associate partner at the Monitor Group (now Monitor Deloitte), where he co-founded the Monitor Inclusive Markets practice in 2007. Globally, xhe led senior client engagements in financial inclusion, livelihoods, healthcare, and impact investing.


His work has been featured in publications like The Washington Post, The Times of India, and the Financial Times, and included in seminal reports on market-based solutions and impact investing. He has spoken at landmark conferences and taught classes on these topics.


Anamitra received two master’s degrees from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and is a graduate of Mount Allison University and the Lester B Pearson UWC in Canada.

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Evaluation Panel Members

Evaluation Panel judges will score and provide feedback on the applications assigned to them using the scoring rubric, and each valid application will receive five sets of reviews with scores that have been statistically normalized to ensure a level playing field. Applicants are encouraged to use this valuable feedback to strengthen and refine their solutions as they implement projects and secure other funding sources.  

Meet the judges featured here, and more Evaluation Panel members will be added in the next few months.

J. Bob

J. Bob Alotta
VP, Global Programs, Mozilla Data Futures Lab

Dirk

Dirk Bergemann
Professor, Yale University

Bertrand

Bertrand de la Chapelle
Co-Founder & Chief Vision Officer, Datasphere Initiative; Executive Director & Co-founder, Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network

Sylvie

Sylvie Delacroix
Professor in Law and Ethics , University of Birmingham

David

David Eaves
Associate Professor in Digital Government, UCL

Lili

Lili Gangas
Chief Technology Community Officer, Kapor Center

Parminder

Parminder Jeet Singh
Executive Director, IT for Change

Astha

Astha Kapoor
Co-Founder, Aapti Institute

Rainer

Rainer Kattel
Professor & Deputy Director, Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London

Benjamin

Benjamin Moskowitz
Vice President, Innovation Lab, Consumer Reports

Safiya

Safiya Noble
Co-founder & Faculty Director, UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry

Paromita

Paromita Shah
Executive Director, Just Futures Law

Jeni

Jeni Tennison
Founder & Executive Director, Connected by Data; ex-ODI CEO

Salome

Salome Viljoen
Fellow, Columbia Law School

Richard

Richard Whitt
President, GLIA Foundation

Mahlet (Milly)

Mahlet Zimeta
Head of Public Policy, The Open Data Institute

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Selection Committee Members

The Selection Committee will review the top-scoring submissions and select up to ten winners based on considerations that may include, but are not limited to, Evaluation Panel resulting rank order, organizational capacity, geographic diversity, and feasibility. The Selection Committee will make the final recommendation to Omidyar Network for the winners who will each receive $100,000 awards, as well as up to five additional promising solutions that will each receive $20,000 awards.

Michele

Michele Jawando
Senior Vice President of Programs, Omidyar Network

Tazin

Tazin Khan Norelius
Founder, Cyber Collective

Tim

Tim O'Reilly
Founder, O'Reilly Media

Paul

Paul Romer
Professor, NYU