diversity

While digital platforms enable social connection, cyberviolence and hate speech are surging at an unprecedented rate. According to the UN, three quarters or more of the victims of online hate speech are members of minority groups, such as women, religious minorities, and people of color. Of late, we’ve witnessed how such norms  directly lead to real world violence against  families, businesses, and houses of worship.

Now is the time for tech leaders to use their unprecedented power to advance goals for diversity, equity, and inclusion in their own companies and across the industry. On January 27, 2021, we held the third and last dialogue of Tech X Talent. The focus was on addressing industry-wide goal-setting and actionable steps to drive sector change.

On December 8, 2020, we convened experts to examine methods for building inclusive work environments, ensuring pay equity, and enhancing performance management.

Local government purchasing, including how a jurisdiction decides what to buy, and how they decide who to buy from, makes a huge difference in how innovative and equitable that government will be.

On November 18, 2020, we convened the first of three roundtables on the operational approaches and structures that advance and promote an equitable and inclusive culture in tech. The conversation focused on the critical actions that managers and other company leaders must (or must not) take to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion.

NOVEMBER 19, 2020 - Local governments are big buyers. But for too long, how and with whom our local governments spend their money has reinforced economic inequities in our country.

For too long, how and with whom our local governments spend their money has reinforced economic inequities in our country.