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It is always a delight to talk to @JuliaAngwin. It was particularly special to talk with her about my new book, MORE THAN A GLITCH: CONFRONTING RACE, GENDER, & ABILITY BIAS IN TECH, coming in Feb 2023. Here are some more links from our conversation. 🧵 mitpress.mit.edu/books/more-gli…
@JuliaAngwin I first started thinking about the intersection of tech & gender identity thanks to a conversation with @jvn on @CuriouswithJVN. They got me thinking about how to be a better ally to the LGBTQIA+ community by redesigning tech 2 go beyond the gender binary. tinyurl.com/mw8hkb42
I learned a lot from reading scholars like @histoftech @schock @annaeveryday @farbandish who have been writing about the intersection of gender & tech for years. Read their work!
Taiwan is the world's best experiment in participatory democracy, says @piawaugh.
They're changing the approach to encourage people to co-create approaches to wicked problems.
The notion, she says, is that government is *part( of society, not separate from it.
#FWD50
They're changing the approach to encourage people to co-create approaches to wicked problems.
The notion, she says, is that government is *part( of society, not separate from it.
#FWD50
@piawaugh My mistake: @piacandrews.
She's talking now at #FWD50 about a wicked problem for governments everywhere: how to provide trustworthy public services & info, both of which are mission-critical in war, peace, pandemic, & disasters.
High veracity:
veracity.wgtn.ac.nz
She's talking now at #FWD50 about a wicked problem for governments everywhere: how to provide trustworthy public services & info, both of which are mission-critical in war, peace, pandemic, & disasters.
High veracity:
veracity.wgtn.ac.nz
"Rather than asking for trust, you need to start being trustworthy"– @PiaCAndrews
One way to do that for digital government services is to use open source code, with audits to ensure algorithmic accessibility & "explainability."
wossat.nz/archive/2021-0…
#FWD50
One way to do that for digital government services is to use open source code, with audits to ensure algorithmic accessibility & "explainability."
wossat.nz/archive/2021-0…
#FWD50
I spent 8 years as a civil servant in the U.S. federal government including helping to stand up and support tech teams such as @18F, @USDS, @PIFgov. A short thread on how we can better support tech careers in the federal government... 1/
Agencies are thinking differently about how they buy, build, and implement tech tools - which starts and ends with civil servants. But gov still hires civil servants for tech jobs of 20 years ago vs for the skills of today (the IT jobs classification was last updated in 2001) 2/
Or, gov hires techies for short-term “tours of duty” into short-term appointments. Some people want this - that’s great! But others want set up for careers - for them, not so great! 3/
