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Entrepreneurs and corporate leaders unite in support of Black-owned businesses

GeekWire

When Jasper Kuria considers strategies for addressing racial inequity and social injustice in the U.S., Kuria is doing his part in trying to drum up awareness for the support of Black-owned businesses, sometimes called BOBs, including a social media campaign dubbed “Do The BOB.” BOB Photo). BOB Image).

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Tech Moves: RealSelf appoints interim CEO; Hootsuite hires new CFO; Tune CEO lands at Roku

GeekWire

based social media management platform Hootsuite announced Tiziana Figliolia as its new CFO. Nderitu has served as a DEI consultant for nonprofits Doctors Without Borders and One Acre Fund. based BioLife Solutions announced Illumina Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer Joydeep Goswami will join its board in October.

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Microsoft’s Erik Arnold merges passion for tech and philanthropy to help nonprofits gain digital success

GeekWire

Arnold spent time at the Gates-owned Corbis, at PATH, which has a close partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and now Microsoft, where Arnold is CTO of the company’s nonprofit-focused Tech for Social Impact. For many nonprofits, it’s not a lack of willingness to modernize, it’s simply not knowing where to start.”

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Tech Moves: Zillow co-founder joins Palantir board; Hootsuite names new CEO; and more

GeekWire

based social media management platform Hootsuite named Tom Keiser as its new CEO. She previously served as CMO at strategy and design firm Artefact and was vice president of digital strategy at Weber Shandwick. contract management startup Icertis. GeekWire is a dot.LA partner and investor.). Vancouver, B.C.-based

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

Meanwhile, the 2022 State of Tech Diversity: The Black Tech Ecosystem report from the NAACP and Kapor Center, a nonprofit addressing racial inequities in STEM education and the tech industry, found that the proportion of Black students receiving bachelor’s degrees in computer science decreased between 2016 and 2020, going from 9% to 8%.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

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She has led foresight and strategy initiatives across several departments of the Government of Singapore over the past decade. She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state. Reyhan Huseynova. Location: Azerbaijan. Ayesha Khanna.

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