29 October 2010
PR Newswire

Omidyar Network and Hivos have announced the creation of the Africa Transparency and Technology Initiative (ATTI). It is the first fund in Africa to support the incubation of technology-driven initiatives that give citizens the tools to hold their governments to account. Omidyar Network will invest up to $2M over the next two years as part of the philanthropic investment firm's Government Transparency investment area. Hivos, a Dutch NGO, will administer the Nairobi-based fund on Omidyar Network's behalf.

"By identifying and making single-instance grants to small, innovative organizations across the continent, ATTI will complement Omidyar Network's direct investments of larger, more established government transparency organizations in sub-Saharan Africa," said Stephen King, investment partner at Omidyar Network. "Hivos' experience and reach will be a tremendous asset to Omidyar Network, enabling us to extend the use of technology for government transparency across all of