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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

Following Dirty Money Around the World

We are in a golden age for organized crime and corruption, according to watchdog groups.

BY Aspen Ideas to Go

Podcast

08.24.2022
Technology

The Network Helping to #AccelerateDigitalEquity

In our effort to support communities working to close the digital divide on both national and regional scales, the Digital Equity Accelerator relies on a diverse network of industry leaders, who help our cohort further unlock their potential for impact. Check out the folks lending their expertise to the Accelerator as Mentors and Technical Experts, and join us in offering them a warm “hello”!

BY Hazami Barmada, Lead, Digital Equity Accelerator

Blog Post

08.18.2022
Technology

Formerly Incarcerated People as Tech Workers

Inside Slack’s bold bet on training formerly incarcerated people to be tech workers - Fast Company

BY Fast Company

Blog Post

06.30.2022
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

La Subrepresentacion Latina En El Sector Tecnologico De Los Estados Unidos

La economía global atraviesa actualmente una nueva revolución industrial acelerada por el avance de tecnologías como la Inteligencia Artificial (IA), ...

BY Diego Deleersnyder

Publication

05.31.2022
Technology

Continuing Our Journey to #AccelerateDigitalEquity

With over 170 phenomenal applications from around the world, getting down to seven members was an inspiring challenge, and we are so grateful to the dozens of organizations that took the time to share with us their groundbreaking projects. Please welcome the inaugural cohort of the Digital Equity Accelerator!

BY Zaki Barzinji

Blog Post

05.24.2022
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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