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Tech-Ed for Good is a series of videos created by lecturers throughout the Faculty of Computing, Digital and Data, TU Dublin that showcases how the work undertaken in the Faculty has a positive influence on society, the environment, our communities, and that helps to shape the positive use of digital technology. Much of the work showcased in Tech-Ed for Good aligns with the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including: SDG 3: Good Health & Well-Being, SDG 4: Quality Education, SDG 5: Gender Equality, and SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities. To view the resources developed for the project, visit: https://lnkd.in/g89E6AEF Check out this project overview video, featuring Professor Pramod Pathak, Dean of the Faculty of Computing, Digital and Data, TU Dublin; Jennifer Boyer, Vice President for Sustainability, and Dr Brian Gormley, Head of Sustainability Education. https://lnkd.in/eYsJdVhX National Forum T&L #SDG3 #SDG4 #SDG5 #SDG10 #GoBeyondLearning #TUDublinSustainability

“Choosing to believe in yourself even when it feels scary is the most important step to abolishing imposter syndrome.” ✨ Our fearless leader, Erika Hairston, recently spoke with Her Campus Media to discuss Edlyft and her vision for a more inclusive tech industry. 🌟 Erika reflects on the significance of building community and connections: "Surrounding yourself with peers that you aspire to be is key to success.” Creating a supportive community of peers is exactly what we aim to do here at Edlyft and we couldn’t be more proud seeing the accomplishments of our members. 🚀 Her advice to those battling imposter syndrome ? "Think about what you bring to the table and what sets you apart from others…” 💡 Check out all her other tips and read the full article below: #DiversityInTech #WomenInSTEM #Edlyft

"Imagine you apply for jobs but never hear back. Imagine you search for a home for your family but are never successful. Imagine you experience harassment or violence that leaves you deeply traumatised." This quote is taken from the 2023 European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights "Being Black in the EU: Experiences of People of African Descent." The report highlighted many challenges that persist for our community living in the diaspora. The findings in the report are alarming as many echo the survey results from our 2020 Sangano Black Business Hub report, suggesting that little has changed in the last four years, despite more visibility. This year's Sangano Hub Bi-Annual Entrepreneurship Survey is an important tool for understanding the nuances of the challenges that people of African Descent face and how what resources and support are needed to address these issues. Your voice is essential in shaping institutions, supporting organisations and the entrepreneurial ecosystem Black entrepreneurship. The survey is open until March 31st: https://lnkd.in/eMEGEpXC Report: https://lnkd.in/d5HC3523

Where there is lack of diversity, there is lack of diverse thoughts. While inclusion has always been a fundamental driver to make our society fair, it’s even more important today when we are trying to teach machines to take decisions like humans and talk like humans. Lack of diversity, may lead us to pass on our own biases to machines through historical processes and data, and through algorithms we code. For example, when trying to build a model that can decide who is credit worthy using historical data, the historical biases that exist in processes may end up getting copied. Same goes for transformation programs or any other work for that matter. Power of #collectivewisdom is driven by better #inclusion and by embracing #diversity. Let’s #inspireinclusion and get #bettertogether! Vidya Rao Munish Dargan Rajendra Rao Kartik Sundararajan Ruchika Srivastava Neeraj Agarwal Habeeb Rahman Jitendar Singh (Jack) Barry Rodricks

Study after study shows the positive impact diverse teams have on businesses. Diversity is a prerequisite for the best collaboration and creative thinking. It's on us, as business leaders, to push for and make progress.

Marlo Rencher, PhD, CDE and Dawn Batts, Ph.D., two TechTown team alumni and architects of several of our organization’s entrepreneurship programs, recently had their research published with two other colleagues in the Journal of Business Anthropology! 👏 Their essay, “Re-Centering Race in Emancipatory Entrepreneurship: Black Female Tech Founders, Money, and Meaning in a Detroit-Based Incubator Program,” explores “the perceptions and attitudes of Black female tech entrepreneurs towards capitalism in the context of an incubator program in Detroit” and the importance of understanding “minority entrepreneurs’ historical inequalities and lived experiences with capitalism.” Data presented in this essay comes from an ethnographic study of STEM Entrepreneurial Excellence Program (STEEP), our business incubator program. We congratulate Rencher and Batts for this accomplishment and for including TechTown in this important work! 📝 Read the full essay: techtowndet.org/3tR5CVk

This is a good article. It addresses this pertinent question. How do we respond when lawmakers have proposed at least 81 bills in 28 states and the U.S. Congress aimed at curbing or eliminating DEI efforts? Well, we know that that giving up is not a response. We have to continue to frame the work in terms of providing the resources necessary to enable people in both historically marginalized groups and historically privileged groups to thrive. "More specifically, Dovidio suggests clearly articulating the broader goals of EDI, including productivity, fairness, justice, and building a society where everyone has the opportunity to achieve their full potential. Advocates can also explain that EDI brings together all groups (including those who have traditionally held power in society, such as White men) and that efforts to improve diversity are win-win (one group benefitting does not mean another group loses). Existing EDI programs could also be reworked to better reflect what psychologists know about creating change. Efforts to change individuals and to broaden the understanding of the science of diversity may lead to reactance and lack effectiveness over the long term. A focus on shifting norms, structures, and leaders—as well as building relationships—is more likely to generate lasting change, Dovidio said." #diversityandinclusion #diversitymatters #diversitytraining #diversityequityandinclusion https://lnkd.in/g4qqCKHH “Threat makes us myopic. We get divisive and defensive,” he said. “How can we, in a time of threat, be smarter and wiser than that?”

Another excellent and important piece of sense-making from The Consilience Project. All of their Featured Articles are worth reading in full, and this one brings together insights and information from many fields and topics, to offer a tremendous summation of maturity and wisdom for a world that has gone dangerously far down a path of immature progress. Topics include: The long-term effects of externalities in tech and agriculture Quality vs quantity in regard to life expectancy, poverty, and education Design improvements for social media The history of progress Scientific reductionism/materialism and the loss of value The narrow focus and willful blindness of techno-optimism Perverse incentives and the failure of law Holistic betterment vs narrow optimization External incentives vs motivation, connection, and clarified desire Toxic vs healthy pessimism & toxic vs healthy optimism Yellow Teaming and synergistic satisfiers If the topic of 'progress' ever comes up for you - utilize this research and resource to help orient the conversation, and to enliven your dialectical dance of healthy optimism and healthy pessimism... Thank you Daniel & Zak and the team at CRI.

Check out this post by Madeleine, our Co-President, about her involvement in WATT!

🌟 Meet Vazantha R. Meyers, Esq. Meyers, a mentor, #LegalTech leader, and a true advocate for #DEI. Recently nominated for Relativity's Inclusion Innovation Award, V shares her journey in advocating for others, and how her mother (a fellow attorney) instilled in her the passion and commitment to speak up for others. 💬 V shared, "I also advocate on a micro level. If I think someone should be included, advocated for, or protected in any way, I speak up. [Even if it] is not always practical, it is always done; change requires consistency." Read the full article to learn how V helped start affinity groups at HaystackID and what's next for her in furthering DEI efforts to create a more equitable and inclusive industry: https://bit.ly/4bu1CdQ. #eDiscovery