Diversity

19 Oct

African-American Millennials Use of Digital Platforms Raising Influence and Visibility According to Nielsen Study Written by Hassahn Liggins

Black Millennials are 11.5 million strong and leading a viral vanguard that is driving African-Americans’ innovative use of mobile technology and closing the digital divide. Nielsen highlights this group in a new report called “Young, Connected and Black: African-American Millennials Are Driving Social Change and...

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18 Oct

Getting real on diversity in tech: Three tactics that will actually make a change by Lauren Alix Brown

On Oct. 13, at Quartz’s The Next Billion conference in San Francisco, I had the privilege of moderating a panel on diversity in tech with Kimberly Bryant, the founder of Black Girls Code, and Kate Mitchell, a co-founder of Scale Venture Partners. Panelists like these notwithstanding,...

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18 Oct

Tiger Woods, Entrepreneur: Inside The Superstar’s New Startup, TGR by Elizabeth Segran

When he was the chief digital officer at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sree Sreenivasan created the museum’s much-lauded app and redesigned its website, attracting millions of digital visitors and helping to increase attendance by young people. Then, in June 2016, the financially troubled...

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17 Oct

The MIT grad building Nigeria’s first STEM campus by Katie Pisa

(CNN)Most graduates of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston have their choice of six-figure-salary jobs after graduation. But for one graduate, a different calling has meant he's sacrificed a comfortable life and taken a big risk to follow his dream: to open...

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17 Oct

President Obama explains the difference between Silicon Valley and the real world by April Glaser

When U.S. President Barack Obama spoke at the White House-hosted Frontiers Conference in Pittsburgh last week, he closed with a rather apt nod to Silicon Valley types. The President reminded the entrepreneurial tech enthusiasts in the room that government doesn’t work like a startup — on...

11:20 / Diversity

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