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Tech Crunch
Ahead of Facebook's annual developers conference, F8, Facebook shared the demographic makeup of this year's expected attendees exclusively with TechCrunch.
Of the people who chose to disclose, 28.7 percent self-identified as women (a 4.9 percent increase from last year) and 19.3 percent self-identified as underrepresented ethnicities in tech (black, Latinx, Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander), representing a 5.6 percent increase from last year.
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Recode
U.S. President Donald Trump will order a full review of the country's high-skilled immigration visa program tomorrow, part of a continued push to clamp down on companies — including, potentially, some in the tech industry — that hire foreigners instead of Americans. In a forthcoming executive order, Trump will commission the Department of Homeland Security, which issues the popular H-1B visa, to review the way they are rewarded.
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Venture Beat
In case you missed it, Howard University and Google recently announced that they were partnering to attract more African American students to study computer science, targeting a segment of the tech population that is notoriously underrepresented (along with women).
The Google/Howard partnership is a small step (albeit an important one) with a specific goal — to bring more people of color into the tech workforce.
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Comcast NBCUniversal
 NBCUNIVERSAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, the industry's premiere diversity short film festival, is a nationwide search for talent focused on discovering the next generation of content creators. The bicoastal festival seeks narrative works made within the last two years in the categories of DRAMA, COMEDY, WEB SERIES and Comedic PILOTS. The goal is to not only scout up-and-coming directors, writers and actors but to introduce them to top industry executives, agents and tastemakers while awarding prizes ranging from camera packages, monetary grants, development meetings and holding deals. Notable alumni include Randall Park (FRESH OFF THE BOAT) and Hasan Minhaj (THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH). To learn more and submit, visit NBCUshortsFEST.com
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AlleyWatch
Much has been said and written about the lack of women in the tech sector, be it as investors (or associates), founders, or in management positions at major companies. Is the problem the old boys network – or that success in technology is seen as a young man's game? In this series, we speak with some of the top women in tech in New York as they discuss the challenges they face, the perceptions that need to be changed and the work that’s being done – or not – to help to promote women in tech.
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Black Enterprise
Intel Corp., the planet's more valuable (and largest—based on revenue) computer chip maker, just announced Barbara Whye as its newest chief diversity and inclusion officer and vice president of Human Resources.
Whye began her career at Intel in 1995 as an engineer and has steadily moved up the corporate ladder. She spent 15 years there "in various leadership roles responsible for acquiring and ramping up new facilities, and integrating talent for Intel worldwide," according to a post on Intel's corporate blog.
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The Atlantic
On a recent weekday, an unlikely crew of 18-to-24 year-olds gathered in a classroom in an office building, proving wrong a mantra often heard in economic development: Training programs aren’t effective at getting people good jobs.
From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., the students, mostly minorities from poor families, will tinker with computers, hone their e-mail skills,work on PowerPoint presentations, and even practice giving professional handshakes.
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WUSA-TV
There's a new gathering space in D.C. that focuses on creating an inclusive space for minorities to become involved in both entrepreneurship and the tech world.
The new center is called the Inclusive Innovation Incubator. It is located off Georgia Avenue right next to the Howard University campus.
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Forbes
That there aren't enough women in top leadership roles isn't a recent discovery. That people with diverse backgrounds find it hard to get in, or fit into, some corporate cultures isn't news, either. This lack of diversity has a remarkable human condition cost: Talented people are not finding work in the jobs they can do or are being diverted out of the training pipeline entirely, costing them the opportunities the tech field brings.
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Austin American-Statesman
For three years, Dell Inc. has issued statistics on the number of women and racial minorities the company employs as part of its annual "Legacy of Good" report. Like a lot of tech companies, these numbers show that Dell's workforce is overwhelmingly white and male.
Since 2013, 68 percent of the people employed by Dell are men. Three of every four senior managers are men, which hasn't changed in three years.
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