Just Digital Future
Technology has the potential to build a better world… but its applications and uses are often biased and can reinforce systems of inequality. We teamed up with our friends at The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard to unpack the roots of inequality in tech and chart a course toward a digital world that works for everyone.
Our 10-episode listening tour brings scholars, practitioners, and activists into conversation about disparities in technology and the tech sector. The articles below share the big ideas from the series.
Interviews with computer scientists and data experts explore the social and political roots and uses of the data we collect and analyze.
Interviews with designers and researchers shed light on how systems and products can be built to exclude or include.
Interviews with organizational scholars and practitioners offer insight on the state of diversity in tech and how we can advance equity and inclusion in the sector.
Community Conversations
Intimate virtual events for the Just Digital Future community. In these gatherings, students, alumni, researchers, and practitioners engaged in informal, wide-ranging conversations about the complexities of inequality in tech and shared ideas about how to galvanize and effect meaningful change.
Workshop Toward a Digital Future
A four-part workshop for tech practitioners working to advance equity and justice in their companies and communities. The workshop included participants from a diverse range of fields (software, pharmaceuticals, higher ed, life sciences), roles (people ops, UX, marketing, project management, business development), and companies (startups to large companies to nonprofit organizations). Led by Candice Morgan, Christine Ortiz Guzman, David Dylan Thomas, and Michael Luca, these interactive sessions offered conceptual and practical approaches to combatting inequality in tech.