Tech Talk

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.