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07 Apr New Center for Cyber Security Engineering and Technology | Diversity in STEAM Magazine

Imagine these scenarios: A massive data breach puts the personal information of four million federal employees at risk. Syrian rebels hack into the U.S. electric grid and cause a blackout in a major city. And a major retailer pays $10 million to settle a lawsuit related to the breach of credit card account information. As cyberattacks threaten the security, prosperity and privacy of the United States and its citizens, the University of San Diego announces the creation of its Center for Cyber Security Engineering and Technology to address these challenges through education, training, and research.

07 Apr Diversity at the Core of AccelerateAB 2016

Diversity – it’s a hot topic for the tech industry, especially in Alberta. AccelerateAB, Alberta’s flagship technology event, will showcase both diversity and diversification in Edmonton on April 27. The annual event gives Alberta’s tech players a chance to gather and meet the up-and-comers in the province’s startup community.

06 Apr Twitter head speaks in Hub on diversity, faces public scrutiny

The high-profile head of Twitter and Square emphasized the need for diversity in tech companies at a conference for black engineers, but missed an opportunity to make a bigger statement, attendees said.

06 Apr Tech Industry Lacks Diversity, Keeps Facial Recognition Program from Seeing People of Other Races – Atlanta Black Star

Black people are strongly underrepresented in Silicon Valley. It has long been speculated that the tech industry is mostly white and male. According to Cambio, the result is that the products developed by companies like Facebook and Apple don’t always fit Black people.

05 Apr How RightsCon brings press freedom, technology and social change together

This week in San Francisco, CPJ's Technology and Advocacy teams will participate in RightsCon 2016, an annual conference focusing on human rights and technology. Organized by digital rights group Access Now, RightsCon is one of the most important regular gatherings on technology policy, and the conference has been the site of effective discussions around issues that affect journalists and journalism. We expect this year to be no different.

05 Apr Why does a tech media site have a focus on diversity?

Last week, we added two new topics to the taxonomy we use to group content on diginomica. One of the new topics is exactly what you’d expect a tech media site to cover — it defines a category of enterprise software. The other is, from one point of view, nothing to do with technology — it’s about how people treat other people. But we believe the topic of diversity is just as relevant to the emerging digital enterprise as the more conventional subject matter of HR admin and payroll. Here’s why.