Data, Tech & Black Communities

This year, in honor of Black History Month, the Codecademy Team is celebrating Black leaders that are working to build a more inclusive, more welcoming, and more diverse tech industry. It's important to celebrate Black people in all our roles and diversity. For UK Black History Month (BHM), we're keen to see similar profiling of technologists who want to raise their visibility, so we can celebrate their work.

Automated decision making threatens to disproportionately impact society’s most vulnerable communities living at the intersection of economic and social marginalization. The report discusses

'Machine learning is revolutionising healthcare provision and delivery, from mobilising previously inaccessible data sources to generating increasingly powerful algorithmic constructs for prognostic modelling. However, it is becoming increasingly obvious that if we do not learn from the mistakes of our past, that we are doomed to repeat them; if it isn’t already too late'

The difficulty to translate reported AI harms into consequences for those responsible

Mapping a child's digital footprint across England's state education landscape. Policy recommendations for building a rights' respecting digital environment

A strategy for education providers and the technology industry to help improve and increase the effective use of technology in education.

'Demonstrator schools and colleges are a network of providers who have shown they can use technology effectively and have the capacity to help other schools and colleges to do the same.'

A body aimed at promoting the education technology sector, Edtech UK, launches in London. [Launch date 2015]

Startups are creating toys that teach robotics, games that help kids code and apps for teachers in an industry forecast to be worth £129bn by 2020 [ published 2017]

The EdTech R&D Programme has grant funded £420k to EdTech companies and will test improvements in partnership with 58 schools this academic year.

Nesta surveyed over 7000 teachers via Teacher Tapp to better understand the challenges that they have been facing over the COVID-19 crisis.

The ethnicity of people stopped in their cars by @metpoliceuk will be recorded from today, in a new six month pilot by the force - aim is to better understand proportionality. It follows a number of controversial stops by officers including of MP @DawnButlerBrent.— Darshna Soni (@darshnasoni) January 18, 2021

Perhaps without even noticing, you have read about data racism several times in the news in the past months. What is it? This blog seeks to explain - in the context of an emerging strand of work at the European Network Against Racism exploring racism in the digital space.

Maybe more people are writing about the real and potential problems of technology today than ever before. That is mostly a good thing. The…

EU countries continue to avoid collecting data on ethnic minorities and ignore persistent problems they face.

Structural racism can be combatted only if there is political will, not more data.

Government considers shelving service again as figures suggest evidence of growing inequality. “The excuse is likely to be that businesses are badly hit right now but actually, it is employees, especially women and minorities, who have been badly hit.”

A growing number of firms are using artificial intelligence to pass or fail jobseekers.

Birthrights is convening an inquiry into racial injustice in maternity care, led by an expert panel with barrister Shaheen Rahman QC as Chair.

Childbirth rights group supports examination into disproportionate health outcomes

Rape victims from an ethnic minority background are significantly less likely to see their case lead to prosecutions or convictions, according to a new research paper. In a newly-published report, psychologists at Middlesex University call on the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to improve its guidance on supporting BAME rape survivors to stop them being "disadvantaged further". CPS figures show ...

"By embedding race into the basic data and decisions of health care, these algorithms propagate race-based medicine. Many of these race-adjusted algorithms guide decisions in ways that may direct more attention or resources to white patients than to members of racial and ethnic minorities"