The adventure of new ventures. When it comes to hiring, Silicon Valley has long been a bastion for white and Asian men. In fact, at several of the world’s most well-known tech companies, including Google, Apple, Yahoo and Facebook, women account for fewer than one in...
BLUE1647, a tech incubator and learning lab in Pilsen, announced Wednesday that it has parented with Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.'s Rainbow PUSH organization to increase tech diversity nationwide with educational training and pipeline programs. The alliance, called the PUSH Excel/Blue1647 Technology Partnership, will establish a pipeline...
Santa Clara, Calif. • Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson spent most of this year pressuring the technology industry into facing up to the glaring scarcity of women, blacks and Latinos at companies renowned as great places to work. Now comes Diversity 2.0 — finding ways to...
LaunchCode is partnering with Chicago-based BLUE1647 to promote diversity in the tech industry by training underserved youth in St. Louis. LaunchCode is the St. Louis-based organization pairing budding computer programmers with jobs at established companies. BLUE1647 is an entrepreneurship and technology innovation center focused on professional development,...
Only 24% of 2013 employees were female Intel CEO Brian Krzanich pledged $300 million to increase the company’s workforce diversity during his keynote address at the Computer Electronics Show (CES) Tuesday. “It’s time to step up and do more,” Krzanich said, acknowledging that the task of achieving...
Why Silicon Valley needs to open its doors to make its workforce more diverse. Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, 73, has done everything from run for president to negotiating with Saddam Hussein for the release of American hostages. His latest challenge is tackling diversity at notoriously...