Does your work, or your interests, involve both technology and making the world a better place? If so, you might be part of a growing field—what we like to think of as a tech justice league.
How Working Families Can Impact Private Equity
With the looming risks that come with automation and other technology-related shifts in the nature of work, the tension between what’s good for investors and what’s good for workers has seemed increasingly difficult to resolve.
With the looming risks that come with automation and other technology-related shifts in the nature of work, the tension between what’s good for investors and what’s good for workers has seemed increasingly difficult to resolve.
A Sci-Fi Fan’s Journey Into Public Interest Tech
"The good news is that your starting point hardly matters—almost any background can contribute to a strong foundation for this work."
“The good news is that your starting point hardly matters—almost any background can contribute to a strong foundation for this work.”
Darren Walker’s NYT Op-Ed on Strengthening Cultural Institutions Through Diverse Leadership
Darren Walker encourages art museums and other institutions to step into the future by diversifying their leadership.
Darren Walker encourages art museums and other institutions to step into the future by diversifying their leadership.
Why the Privacy Conversation Needs More Voices
Increasingly, we also need to consider how data is being used to make decisions that can marginalize people, exacerbate inequalities, perpetuate bias, and chill fundamental freedoms.
Increasingly, we also need to consider how data is being used to make decisions that can marginalize people, exacerbate inequalities, perpetuate bias, and chill fundamental freedoms.
The Racial Wealth Gap: A Stark Reflection of Structural Inequality . — Lessons Learned from Two Decades of Work
We need to focus on unequal wealth, not just incomes, and seek structural change.
We need to focus on unequal wealth, not just incomes, and seek structural change.
What Does a Mission Driven HR Department Look Like?
When we make diversity, equity, and inclusion a staffing priority, our work has greater impact.
When we make diversity, equity, and inclusion a staffing priority, our work has greater impact.
What Happens When Artists Use Tech to Confront Inequality?
Artists exploring emerging tools like augmented reality, AI, and bio-tech can use these tools to advance inclusion and equity. But artists must confront the fact that the tools themselves are not neutral—indeed, they can uphold the same forms of discrimination many of us are fighting against.
Artists exploring emerging tools like augmented reality, AI, and bio-tech can use these tools to advance inclusion and equity. But artists must confront the fact that the tools themselves are not neutral—indeed, they can uphold the same forms of discrimination many of us are fighting against.
Natural Climate Solutions Are the Future, and Indigenous Rights Are Key to Their Success
How can we ensure that large numbers of trees are able to reduce emissions and suck up more carbon? One important answer is to give indigenous peoples and traditional communities greater rights to the forests where they live.
How can we ensure that large numbers of trees are able to reduce emissions and suck up more carbon? One important answer is to give indigenous peoples and traditional communities greater rights to the forests where they live.
On the Future of Work(ers)
Addressing the future of work is central to the mission of The Ford Foundation, and also essential to the stability and success of our democracy.
Addressing the future of work is central to the mission of The Ford Foundation, and also essential to the stability and success of our democracy.
Mapping the Future of Brazil
Here's how mapping technology are helping Indigenous Peoples and traditional communities in Brazil prove that they are the best #Guardiansoftheforest
Here’s how mapping technology are helping Indigenous Peoples and traditional communities in Brazil prove that they are the best #Guardiansoftheforest
Fighting the ‘Coded Gaze’
Joy Buolamwini is fighting the “coded gaze” - a term she uses to describe bias in algorithms that can lead to social exclusion and discriminatory practices. She is one of the many people in #PublicInterestTech working on algorithmic justice.
Joy Buolamwini is fighting the “coded gaze” – a term she uses to describe bias in algorithms that can lead to social exclusion and discriminatory practices. She is one of the many people in #PublicInterestTech working on algorithmic justice.
Changing the Face of Disability in the Media
Disability rights leader and Ford Fellow Judy Heumann discusses the essential findings of her new report, Road Map for Inclusion: Changing the Face of Disability in Media.
Disability rights leader and Ford Fellow Judy Heumann discusses the essential findings of her new report, Road Map for Inclusion: Changing the Face of Disability in Media.
Reclaiming Innovation to Transform the Future of Work(ers)
As the very fabric of work changes, we need robust, scalable solutions that foster worker well-being and thriving economies, both locally and globally.
As the very fabric of work changes, we need robust, scalable solutions that foster worker well-being and thriving economies, both locally and globally.