Innovation For All - Diversity in Tech and Business

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Google and Facebook are monopolies. Does it matter? feat. Sally Hubbard Aug 12, 2020

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Sally Hubbard is Director of Enforcement Strategy at Open Markets Institute. Learn whether giant tech companies are building monopolies (spoiler alert: they are) and why that unfair advantage matters. In this episode, you’ll learn:

What is Antitrust law?
Is fake news an antitrust problem?
How monopolies amplify inequality
What would it look like to unmonopolize big tech companies?

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Placing the Displaced: Running a Refugee Staffing Company Aug 06, 2020

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In this episode you will learn:

How the CEO started Amplio Recruiting and why?
What were some of the challenges in starting the business?
How are companies vetted to ensure that the refugees are protected?
What are the assumptions about the refugee community and are they true?
What are the challenges with finding opportunities for women refugees?
What is Amplio Ventures?
What are some of the success stories?
How has this work in diversity and inclusion influenced his personal views?

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Disability Advocacy for Self-Driving Cars with Henry Claypool Jul 15, 2020

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In this episode you will learn:

About the immense diversity of need within the disability community
How ride share services can either be beneficial or challenging depending on different disabilities
Examples of both simple and highly extensive modifications to vehicles that accommodate physical disabilities
How certain populations with disabilities could benefit from autonomous vehicles
What types of mechanical challenges for people with disabilities could be the same even in an autonomous vehicle
How disability advocates are working with automotive manufactures to be more inclusive in the early stages of vehicle development
How echolocation could be a model for the blind community to locate their car
How ride sharing will fundamentally shift the automotive market to accommodate disabilities
How we can build better data sets around people with disabilities

Links and mentions:

Hans Wiberg, Founder of Be My Eyes
Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)
Haben Girma

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Gig Work is Different Undocumented Immigrants and Women, with Julia Ticona Jul 01, 2020

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Did you enjoy this episode? Text it to a friend or tag us on Twitter at @inforallpodcast.

Please note: this episode was recorded before the COVID-19 Pandemic and the George Floyd protests.

Revenge Porn Is Really A Tech Problem with Darieth Chisolm Jun 17, 2020

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Two years after her revenge porn nightmare began, Darieth Chisolm won the case against her ex-boyfriend. Should tech companies make it harder to weaponize their platforms against women?

In this episode you will learn:

About Darieth's personal experience with revenge porn
Her challenge of taking legal action outside of the U.S.
The impact of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
Examples of first steps on how victims can take legal action
Obstacles to taking down nude content that is published online
A brief history of policies like the SHIELD Act and Enough Act
How Freedom of Speech should not apply when it is enacted with the intent to do harm
The pervasiveness of victim shaming and victim blaming
The importance of parents having conversations about nude photos with their children
Resources for victims of revenge porn (linked below)
How Darieth is supporting victims today

Links and mentions:

50 Shades of Silence Documentary
SHIELD Act
Enough Act
SpeakServeSoar.com membership
Cyber Crimes Act of 2015 in Jamaica
www.50shadesofsilence.com/
Candi Castleberry
DMCA.com
Che Pinkerton

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Please note: this episode was recorded before the COVID-19 Pandemic and the George Floyd protests.

The Ghost Workers Behind the Tech Industry, feat. Mary Gray Jun 03, 2020

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You'll learn

How contract workers are essential in aiding AIs and search engines
Examples of a ghost work in everyday technology
How the tech industry often devalues contract employees
What data labeling is
What a ghost worker's daily schedule looks like
How the growing telehealth industry is a prime example of under-appreciated, yet essential contract work
The three elements that undermine job happiness
How business are benefiting from contract workers
The growing challenges of moving towards more contract-driven business
Why we should mind the gap rather than close the gap
How the pandemic is demonstrating the value of contract and ghost work
What are the limits of tech and where does human creativity and spontaneity become irreplaceable

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How McDonald's empowered black America (but it's complicated) with Dr. Marcia Chatelain May 13, 2020

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In this episode you will learn:

How the civil rights movement impacted the growth of McDonald’s in black America
How McDonald’s utilized black-centered marketing strategies to fuel advertisements
The pros and cons to working in a franchise
How the fast food industry was seen as a win for low-income communities initially
How black-run McDonald’s franchises pooled resources to benefit the community
The differences of how white and black America viewed McDonald’s and its impact on advertising
How racist systems use black entrepreneurship as a way to avoid addressing racism
COVID-19: Challenges to the food justice movement and what environmental racism is
Corona virus: What are the limits of the private sector?
Experience and complexities of black franchise owners
How to reframe historical storytelling to highlight the community rather than the business

Franchise is available now wherever books are sold.

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Invisible women: data bias in a world designed for men with Caroline Criado Perez Apr 15, 2020

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Caroline Criado Perez is a writer, journalist and feminist campaigner. She has written two books: Do It Like A Woman and Invisible Women. In her most recent book Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men she describes how very old data bias can affect women today. In this episode, Sheana learns about the different ways data bias is affecting women today, from trivial things such as phone size to not so trivial things such as seat belt safety. Caroline tells all this and more in this episode of Innovation For All Podcast.

In this episode you will learn:

What is male default thinking?
What are the consequences in tech?
Why the market is so bad at providing for women?
What is low hanging fruit for those of us who want to make money by providing solutions for women?
A stove example of male default thinking.
What can entrepreneurs and consumers do about these issues?

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It's illegal for Uber workers to strike. Marshall Steinbaum explains why. (Really though, WHY?) Apr 01, 2020

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"Set the market and work when and how you like. You have complete control." At least that is what gig economy companies like Uber would have you believe. In this episode of the Innovation For All podcast, Sheana speaks with Marshall Steinbaum, Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Utah, to talk about the pitfalls of the gig economy. Find out how employers can have control over the workforce without being a monopoly and how gig workers may be getting the short end of the stick.

You’ll learn:

Why did Uber driver’s strike?
What makes the gig economy examples more complex?
What is the difference between the gig economy labor and employment relationships?
What should an independent contractor relationship look like?
What are the markers of employer and employee relationships as opposed to independent contractor relationship?
How does antitrust factor in to these issues?
Proposed solutions to the gig economy and labor laws
How these companies exercise control over their underrepresented workers

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Be My Eyes: Mobile micro-volunteering for the blind with Hans Wiberg Mar 18, 2020

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Host Sheana Ahlqvist speaks with Hans Jørgen Wiberg, founder of Be My Eyes, a free mobile app that connects blind and visually impaired individuals with sighted volunteers through live video calls. Wiberg explains how Be My Eyes works, how he monetized an app while keeping it free for both sides of the marketplace, and how important it is to consider how blind people interact with the world around them when designing products and services.

You’ll learn:

What is microvolunteering?
What is Be My Eyes and how does it work?
How can we design products so that they are more accessible to the blind?
How can one monetize and keep sustainable a product or service, especially one that is designed for a low-income population, without charging users?
What are some challenges facing Be My Eyes and similar apps in their efforts to support specific populations worldwide?

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