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3 nonprofits committed to empowering women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

A 2017 poll in the Pew Research Center report found that 50% of women said they had experienced gender discrimination at work , while only 19% of men said the same. I am, and have always been, blown away by what Ada can offer students as a nonprofit organization,” says Burrows, who now works as a software engineer at RealSelf.

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NCWIT digitally transforms the DEI journey to help uplift women in IT

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Founded in 2004, NCWIT’s mission has always been to “increase the meaningful and influential participation of women in tech” while respecting intersecting identities, with an overall emphasis on avoiding “treating women as a monolithic group,” says Catherine Ashcraft, a senior research scientist at NCWIT.

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14 organizations that support LGBTQ+ tech workers

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LGBT Tech conducts research on LGBTQ+ individuals’ personal experience with technology and the tech industry and works at the “national, state, and grassroots level on programs and policy informed by research.” The organization also offers resources to members of the LGBTQ+ community and allies.

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9 ways IT leaders can impact sustainability initiatives

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Decision makers are realizing that technology is essential for reaching their ESG goals,” noted Bjoern Stengel, IDC global sustainability research lead, in the report. This should not just be a discussion about costs; sustainability should be considered as a business outcome.” Now is no time for sideline sitting, however.

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Skills-first hiring has CIOs rethinking talent strategies

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Some researchers and tech leaders are using the strategy. In practice, I think leaders are too afraid to take that risk; it’s a change, and we’re inundated with change, and this is one more change they’re not willing to take on,” says Brittany Lutes, a research analyst at Info-Tech Research Group.

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CDH Users: If you have done impactful things with data please share how what and why

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GOVERNMENT, NONPROFIT, & NGO. Research VP, Gartner. Merv Adrian is a Research Vice President following RDBMS, NoSQL, Hadoop and other big data technologies as digital business transforms assumptions about how to activate and leverage unused information assets. SECURITY & COMPLIANCE. Pat Fiorenza. Bob Gourley.

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Which Government, Non-Profit and NGO Have Big Data/CDH Lessons Learned To Share?

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GOVERNMENT, NONPROFIT, & NGO. Research VP, Gartner. Merv Adrian is a Research Vice President following RDBMS, NoSQL, Hadoop and other big data technologies as digital business transforms assumptions about how to activate and leverage unused information assets. Mr. Vesset is also the co-lead of IDC’s Big Data research.

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