Hackathon Gives Underrepresented Youth a Chance to Build Apps to Help Their Communities
Level the Coding Field aims to bring a new innovation to Silicon Valley: more diverse engineers, programmers and entrepreneurs. By Betsy Mikel (Contributing Writer, Women 2.0) When you envision a hackathon, it’s likely you picture a bunch of white dudes hunched over...
Technology and Social Impact: What I’ve Learned
Two speakers from our upcoming social impact panel talk about what excites them about tech-powered social change. By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) Technology is eating the world, swallowing just about every industry and impacting not only how products get...
Calling All Engineers: Please Tell Us Your Gender Numbers
Vivek Wadhwa calls on startups and tech companies to support Tracy Chou’s project to collect data on gender in engineering. By Vivek Wadhwa (VP of Research, Singularity University) One of the technology industry’s most serious shortcomings is that it leaves...