Facebook says it's not a media company. But advertisers are saying it is, and it must take action. Will the company finally take the responsible steps its true customers now demand? More
Will Tech Finally Stop Excluding People of Color?
The tech industry is a redoubt of "white guys doing business." Only 2.8% of Google's U.S. employees are Black. Will today's historic protests finally lead to more inclusion? More
Artificial Intelligence Inclusion Tech & Society
AI Can Unlock the Economic Gains of Gender Equity
AI is not intrinsically valuable. We derive value from AI based on how we choose to use it. So the question is: how will we choose to apply AI in our businesses? From automating routine tasks to solving some of the world’s most complex problems, the possibilities are endless. More
Community Insights Inclusion Video
On Racial Inequality, Discrimination, and Exclusion in Tech
We mourn the murder of George Floyd. Racial inequality, discrimination, and exclusion are major problems as well in tech and business. To help amplify voices of those working for change, here are eloquent highlights from our events. More
Inclusion Learning Resilience Video
How the Covid Crisis May Help Transform Higher Education
Higher ed has changed almost overnight. Universities and colleges face huge new challenges, but when higher ed gets technologized, there are positives. We can, for example, glimpse a more affordable and accessible future for digitized higher education. What will things look like this fall, and beyond? More
Government Healthcare Inclusion
We’re Rip Van Winkled–What Happens When We Wake?
The idea of sleeping through a defining moment of American history resonates. What will it look like when we walk out of this world-wide pause and find ourselves in a world transformed? More
Artificial Intelligence Inclusion Tech & Society
Is AI Male?
It is, until those creating and testing it are no longer just a bunch of guys. It would improve the software and contribute more to progress if the AI workforce reflected society, both in gender and all sorts of human diversity. More
Business Inclusion Innovation Sustainable Development Goals
How Women Can Win in the Age of AI
Preparing women to succeed in the age of AI must be a global priority as we work towards one key United Nations Sustainable Development Goal: to achieve gender equality, and empower women and girls. More
This Woman Entrepreneur Gives Farmers Information –to Grow
Here's the story of Martha Montoya, a Colombia-born entrepreneur who is driving positive change in the agtech industry. More
Healthcare Inclusion Leadership
Bernard J. Tyson: Remembering a Pioneering Techonomist
Tyson was chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, one of America’s largest healthcare companies. He was also deeply committed to the idea that business and tech have a responsibility to drive social progress. On Nov. 10, he suddenly died. More
This Entrepreneur is Bringing Innovation to Food Inspection
Miku Jha grew up on a northern Indian mango farm, and left IBM to start her own agtech firm in the growing global food testing industry. More
Where Women Drive Innovation: Agtech
In the “Salad Bowl of the World,” government has prioritized investing in women agtech innovators. In our series, we share their stories. More
Community Insights Inclusion Innovation
How to Fix Tech’s–and Venture Capital’s–Diversity Problem
An innovation executive explains how--and why--we should be as diligent about fixing tech's diversity/inclusion problems as we are in triaging failing products. More
Bio & Life Sciences Inclusion Leadership
Noticing More Women in STEM? Here’s One Reason Why.
This strategy is boosting representation of women in science, tech, engineering and math—and could inspire young girls to enter the field. More
New Tools to Tackle the Business Diversity Crisis
Almost every company is embarrassingly uniform in its ethnic and gender makeup, even as data increasingly shows that in diversity is strength. Now, finally, software and other tools are emerging that may help bring a more natural human variety to organizations. Hiring women, minorities, and people who generally don’t look and think like the boss is not just good for society. More diversified workforces help create more profitable and faster-growing companies. More
How Software Can Help Move the Needle on Diversity
Even after spending my whole career in tech, I’m still taken aback by each new diversity stat that underscores the systemic and trenchant bias in our industry. One of my recent favorites: 76 percent of feedback given to women included negative criticism of a personality trait, while only 2 percent of men received such feedback. Or this from Fenwick and West: 45 percent of tech companies in Silicon Valley don’t have a single female at the executive level, compared with only 16 percent of the rest of S&P companies. More
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