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Code for Progress - Disrupt - Rootscamp2014
The document discusses strategies for increasing diversity in the technology industry, including hiring more women and people of color directly, asking innovative questions about what problems need to be solved rather than predefined skills, and training and supporting a more diverse pool of coders and non-coders. It also encourages desegregating tech and addressing the lack of opportunities as a void to be filled in 2016.
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- 1. Ida B. Wells was a data genius.
- 4. This is notan innovation environment.
- 5. It is alsonot a new story.
- 6. And as withso many old stories...
- 7. ... we believe that we will win.
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- 11. Hiring is notthe end of the employment pipeline. Many of the employers and coders in this room worked with us on the next phase. Thank you.
- 12. We have foundthat one of the best ways to hire more women and people of color is to hire them. Sometimes this meant that employers had to ask innovative questions about what “innovative” means, namely: what needs to be built?
- 13. “Can you makesoftware with us that could _____?”
- 14. If industries spendresources on inclusion instead of on finding “the best,” what happens to quality? I dunno, ask basketball.
- 15. For 2016: Desegregatetech Call the talent void what it is: an opportunity void. Then fill it. Help us train innovative people to be innovative coders. Then support them. Find non-coder champions in the organizing world to pilot new tools beyond contact management and targeting. Innovate.
- 16. @codeforprogress Take thediversity survey we just tweeted!