What if we made data available to the communities it's gathered from in order to benefit them?

Throughout 2022, the Tech Accountability Coalition held conversations with over 100 tech leaders, experts, and community advocates. Their message was clear: the industry needs a shared set of standards to turn aspirational diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) commitments into transformative action - action that sparks the innovation needed for a better future. In response to that need, we developed the Equity Framework.

When it comes to digital infrastructure, communities lack more than just broadband access. Rather, the delivery of effective digital services at the local level has been hamstrung by three primary obstacles: an absence of data, poor community-government relationships, and insufficient digital literacy among key populations. At their core, these failures all have one thing in common: they designed for the community but not with the community. 

Andreas Weigend, former Chief Scientist at Amazon, and Daniel Kahneman, Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, was in conversation with Vivian Schiller, Executive Director of Aspen Digital.