This is the third in a series examining questions about power and offering ideas for more equitable partnerships in global development. In the first piece, Pat Scheid discusses the conversation around shifting the power and the path forward, and in the second piece, Joseph Asunka shares insights on the role of funders in fostering equitable…
Alicia Wanless is the director of the Partnership for Countering Influence Operations at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a grantee of our Cyber Initiative. Influence operations—the kind of coordinated efforts, often using social media platforms, to affect public opinion and interfere in elections that have played out in democracies around the world in recent…
Bobby Chesney is the James A. Baker III Chair in the Rule of Law and World Affairs and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Texas School of Law, where he also directs the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, a University-wide, cross-discipline research center that works to improve…
The Hewlett Foundation’s Economy and Society Initiative supports a growing movement to replace neoliberalism with a new intellectual paradigm better suited to meeting the challenges of the 21st century. The initiative funds thinkers, academics, activists and leaders who are working to develop a new “common sense” about how the economy works and the aims it…
The Hewlett Foundation’s Economy and Society Initiative supports a growing movement to replace neoliberalism with a new intellectual paradigm better suited to meeting the challenges of the 21st Century. The initiative funds thinkers, academics, activists and leaders who are working to develop a new “common sense” about how the economy works and the aims it…
A free-flowing river has an aura of inevitability. As creeks and small streams merge into one, the river finds its way. Left to its own devices, it goes where gravity says it must – scouring its own banks, starting course changes when obstructed, and moving material to rebuild its bed. On its way, gaining volume…
The second round of our Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions supported 10 new works of theater, musical theater, and spoken word by world-class artists partnering with Bay Area nonprofits. And while the pandemic has disrupted plans for this round of commissions, all of the projects are making adjustments and adapting to a changed world. We asked…
Around the world, women continue to bear the brunt of COVID-19’s impact. Women are 88% of caregivers and health workers worldwide. They dominate jobs hit hardest by layoffs and closures—in retail, food service, hospitality, urban markets, and as cooks and caregivers in other people’s homes. And they are spending even more time caring for children…
In recent months, advocates everywhere have been discussing how systemic racism impacts their areas of work. We asked two leading scholars in the open education movement to speak with us about what this discussion sounds like in their discipline. Both authors were recently featured in an edition of the Open University’s Journal of Interactive Media…
Thomas Rid is professor of strategic studies at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, and a grantee of the Hewlett Foundation’s Cyber Initiative. His new book Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare has received glowing reviews on both sides of the Atlantic, including from the Washington…