<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi everyone - <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please see below, this looks like a great opportunity, right in the wheelhouse of several of you! I am sure Govind would be happy to answer questions.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Andy<br class="">
<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Govind Shivkumar <<a href="mailto:gshivkumar@omidyar.com" class="">gshivkumar@omidyar.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">“Open Source Landscape Analysis” – Request for Proposal </b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">June 30, 2021 at 1:12:12 AM EDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: -7.1pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Open Technology Ecosystems such as Open-Source Software, Open Standards, Open Protocols etc. have played a significant role in lowering barriers of innovation, making systems interoperable, and providing alternatives to proprietary software.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: -7.1pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;">Omidyar Network is seeking a consultancy to conduct a landscape analysis of this Open Technology Ecosystem, identify critical challenges that need capacity building, and issue a set of recommendations for Omidyar Network to evaluate and intervene.</span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: -7.1pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"> </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;">Please indicate a preliminary budget, team credentials, and expression of interest by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 240);">July 12<sup class="">th</sup>, 2021, and a full proposal by July 26<sup class="">th</sup>, 2021. Please include “Open Source Landscape Analysis” in your subject line and send it to <a href="mailto:gshivkumar@omidyar.com" class="">gshivkumar@omidyar.com</a></span> </p></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">G</div><div class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>