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Technology

Unbias the Future

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.

BY Aspen Digital

Publication

03.28.2023
Technology

What is the future of DEI in tech?

How can we hold tech companies accountable for making DEI a business imperative? The Rainbow Disruption CEO & Founder shares his take.

Event

03.24.2023
Employment and Jobs

Employer Opportunities and Challenges in the Digital Economy

This report report summarizes the main takeaways from a survey of 844 HR professionals across eight US cities – Atlanta, Chicago, El Paso, Miami, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, and San Bernardino.

BY Aspen Institute Latinos and Society

Publication

03.01.2023
Technology

People-Centered Digital Infrastructure

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.

BY Aspen Digital

Publication

10.06.2022
Technology

A Second Chance in Tech

To help companies navigate the process for hiring and supporting people returning from incarceration, the Aspen Institute and Slack are launching a new Playbook, which breaks down everything from legal and HR hurdles to the human elements of making hiring programs a long-term success. Divided into discrete, bite-sized content, the Playbook makes it easier for companies to answer the question, “Where to begin?”

BY Beth Semel & 1 more

Blog Post

09.12.2022
Technology

Rework Reentry Playbook

This playbook helps companies navigate the process for hiring and supporting people returning from incarceration, breaking down everything from legal and HR hurdles to the human elements of making hiring programs a long-term success. Divided into discrete, bite-sized content, it makes it easier for companies to answer the question, “Where to begin?”

BY Aspen Digital & 1 more

Publication

09.12.2022
Technology

A Hard Return

Leaders of for-profit and private organizations play a consequential role in breaking this cycle of recidivism and unrealized employment.

BY Aspen Digital & 1 more

Blog Post

06.29.2022
Technology

Hiring Tech Equity Experts

In 2021, Aspen Digital joined a diverse group of tech companies, researchers, and DEI experts in publishing the landmark ACT Report, which outlines a wide range of recommendations for improving the representation, inclusion, and empowerment of underserved and marginalized communities. As a next step to this work, the Aspen Institute is launching a new initiative to carry out the vision and recommendations of that report and translate them to measurable, collective action.

BY Zaki Barzinji

Blog Post

05.16.2022
Technology

Surveillance & Reproductive Rights

MAY 11, 2022 - By issuing warrants for search histories, combing through social media posts, and tapping location data to track movement, law enforcement will be able to exploit an ever-growing suite of unregulated digital forensic tools to find and prosecute so-called “offenders” en masse. What role can tech companies, advocates, and legislators play in protecting reproductive rights through better privacy protections, and how can individuals shield themselves going forward?

BY Aspen Digital

Video

05.11.2022
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