The Shirley Card: Racial Photographic Bias through Skin Tone
Successfully capturing black skin in photos has been a challenge in the photography world for decades, partially due to the Shirley Card.
OPEN-ODI-2020-01_Monitoring-Equality-in-Digital-Public-Services-report-1.pdf
Many of the public and private services we use are now digital. The move to digital is likely to increase as technology becomes more embedded in our lives. But what does this mean for how essential public services understand who is using, or indeed not using, them and why?
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Data about the protected characteristics of people using these services isn’t currently collected andstatistics aren’t published in a consistent or collective way. This means it is harder tofind out who is excluded from using these services and why.
Protected Characteristics in Practice – The ODI
Many of the public and private services we use are now digital. The move to digital is likely to increase as technology becomes more embedded in our lives. But what does this mean for how essential public services understand who is using, or indeed not using, them and why?
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Data about the protected characteristics of people using these services isn’t currently collected andstatistics aren’t published in a consistent or collective way. This means it is harder tofind out who is excluded from using these services and why.