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Digital Diversity Network
DDN's AI: Access & Ingenuity conference and Innovation & Inclusion Awards showcase diverse digital media and tech professionals and acknowledge our history in American innovation.
Photos are now available from Digital Diversity Network's (DDN) s fourth annual New York City conference, AI: Access & Ingenuity, and inaugural Innovation & Inclusion Awards reception hosted on Wednesday, Sept. 28 at Civic Hall in the heart of NYC's Silicon Alley. Since November 2012, the association has been among the first to convene diverse tech professionals from a broad spectrum of industries and disciplines in a daylong forum to provide community, education and resources to further enable them to fully participate, compete and benefit as inventors, producers, creators and users in the Innovation Economy. Through recognition programs like the Innovation & Inclusion Awards, DDN hopes to dispel the notion that diverse tech talent is hard to find.
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USA Today
Google is opening tech labs in Oakland, California, and Harlem, New York, to build bridges to underserved communities as it seeks the next generation of African-American and Latino computer scientists.
Code Next, a new initiative which officially launched Oct. 6, puts on free programs for middle school and high school students, working with local organizations such as Black Girls Code and local schools to nurture their interest in computer science.
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Startup Smart
Black Eyed Peas frontman and tech entrepreneur Will.i.am has called out the Dreamforce conference for a lack of diversity and encouraged the startup and tech communities to do more to help underprivileged members of society through mentoring and education.
During a keynote speech at the Dreamforce event in San Francisco, Will.i.am remarked that the demographics of the people in front of him wouldn’t have looked very different from back in the 1950s.
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Forbes
The tech industry is dominated by men and has been widely criticized for its lack of racial diversity. For the millennial generation, which is larger and more diverse than any generation before them, this lack of diversity is a real business problem.
However, many believe that the landscape is beginning to change. Below, some of the people at the forefront of the battle to change it discuss why they, in partnership with others, created the Tech Opportunity Fund to increase educational access and support diversity in the ever-growing world of technology.
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Chicago Inno
Gary, Indiana is as unlikely a place for a tech hub as you can find. With crumbling infrastructure, thousands of abandoned homes, and an unemployment rate double the national average, Gary is a city well-known for its struggles. And it's a place that generates the type of headlines that make it almost impossible for the city to escape its narrative.
But Emile Cambry knows a thing or two about changing narratives, and he sees a different story in Gary — one that involves using technology to ignite change.
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Business Insider
Porter Braswell and Ryan Williams are co-founders of an unusual job hunting site called Jopwell and it all started when they became friends while working at Goldman Sachs, jobs they took straight of college.
They quickly discovered they had a similar interest: Mentoring other young black people when they joined the large prestigious finance firm.
"At our old company, we were not part of the official diversity team. Being black males we just wanted to assist. Diversity is something we're both passionate about. It was just us raising our hand wanting to help out," Braswell told Business Insider.
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WABE-FM
Hundreds of programmers descended on Atlanta last weekend for the Southern Interactive Entertainment and Games Expo. Gaming is a $23 billion industry where women are still in the minority, even though they make up half of the nation's video gamers.
The Dear Games project is hoping to move the needle on this.
Exhibit A? The video game console at Charis Books & More, Atlanta’s oldest feminist bookstore in Little Five Points. It looks like something you'd have played "The Legend of Zelda" or "Donkey Kong" on back in the day.
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The Huffington Post
The tech industry is one of, if not the most, innovative industries in America, which is why it's so concerning when companies don’t take the industry's diversity issue seriously.
Many companies, it seems, blame the so-called "pipeline problem" ― the belief that the tech industry isn't diverse because of a scarcity of available talent ― for its strikingly low levels of minority representation.
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New York Magazine
I'm in a suburban basement, much like the ones I spent time in as a kid — unfinished, dusty, full of random forgotten belongings. To my right is a velveteen stuffed bunny, next to my feet is a convertible backpack-suitcase in dirty lime green. On top of a stack of magazines is an issue of Time, the cover a headline about how war is coming soon. I don't catch the date, but I don't have time to look closer anyway — the giant is approaching.
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The Drum
A lack of diversity is imperiling the future of London's tech industry according to a new report compiled by Tech London Advocates, which found that 46 per cent do not believe a diverse workforce improves company growth.
The findings paint a picture of wilful ignorance fueling a diversity crisis in the sector, with nearly 1,000 of 40,000 firms based in the capital operating with an entirely male workforce.
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Ebony Magazine
Jonathan Waldrop is one of those people with a complicated sounding job title and responsibility that is vital to big corporations like YouTube and Adobe. The patent litigator specializes in trademark litigation involving interactive web technologies, video-on-demand, cable technology, telecommunications and medical devices for commercial litigation firm, Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP.
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Charleston City Paper
There are many roles to fill when it comes to making Charleston a more diverse, inclusive place to work. Two of those roles, however, are particularly vital: The Talkers and the Quiet Movers.
Everyone knows the Talkers. These are the people who are loudly banging drums, gongs, trash can lids, cowbells and whatever else will make a loud enough noise to get your social media-shortened attention span to rest upon this subject long enough for it to stick.
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Columbus Business First
Over several years helping entrepreneurs start their first businesses, the majority black or other minorities, Kimberly Gayle became increasingly troubled by a trend. "There was just not a lot of interest in technology companies," she said. "Those jobs are increasing (but are) not available to women and underrepresented minorities."
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