Projects - Diversity & Inclusion

Shaping HerCity

Dublin, Ireland

Civic tech and urban safety project that uses participatory research and co-design with women and LGBTQ+ communities to map safe/unsafe spaces and build community-driven tools— including a safe space certification, anti-harassment interventions, and a digital platform for trusted mobility, peer support, and collective care.

Fondation INRIA

48 Rue Barrault, 75013 Paris, France

Nous rapprochons le monde académique, celui de l'entreprise et la société civile pour soutenir des projets de recherche et d'innovation qui améliorent la vie des gens et le fonctionnement de notre société grâce au numérique.

Diversity in Early-Career Tech Policy Roles: Surveying Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities in the Field

At a moment when diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives face mounting political backlash and institutional retrenchment, this research asks a question that is both urgent and foundational: Who gets to shape technology policy, and what determines who stays long enough to lead?

Blacksky

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Urban Tech Jobs Program

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

The Urban Tech Jobs Program (UTJP) builds on this history and mission to connect workers to good-paying jobs in the Information Technology sector.

CodeYourFuture

At CodeYourFuture, they turn barriers into tech talent. Disadvantage into diverse workforce.

Multiracial Democracy Project

The George Washington University, I Street Northwest, Washington, DC

Through research, analysis, convenings, and public education, the Project produces solutions that facilitate our nation’s transition to a well-functioning democracy that truly represents our increasingly diverse population.

Pivotal Ventures

Founded by Melinda French Gates, Pivotal accelerates social progress through high-impact investments, philanthropy, partnerships, & advocacy.

Red Dot Foundation

Mumbai

Red Dot Foundation was founded in 2014 and is a non-profit organization committed to making public and private spaces safer and more accessible for everyone, especially women and girls.

women
youth

Diversity & Inclusion

Namesake

Boston

Namesake helps trans people in the U.S. change their legal name and gender marker.

Electa

Brussels

We train women to win elections. For candidates across the political spectrum from EU member states, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland.

Cyborgfeminista

Padre Cardozo 719 c/ Teniente Ruiz, Las Mercedes, Asunción

Una espacio virtual en el que buscamos ocupar y recuperar una internet democrática explorando el cruce entre género y tecnologías.

Āhau

Oceania

Āhau is a Whānau Data Platform that helps whānau-based communities (whānau, hapū, Iwi) capture, preserve, and share important information and histories into secure, whānau managed databases and servers. Keep track of whānau whakapapa information, preserve and share cultural records and narratives, own and control whānau data and servers, and build a stronger sense of whānau, community and identity. (whānau is an extended family or community of related families who live together in the same area. Origin: New Zealand)

Data Umbrella

Data Umbrella is a global community for underrepresented persons in data science.

Herstory in East Asia

South Korea (Republic of) (Hanguk or Namhan) 🇰🇷

We want to show "herstory" in East Asia from local perspectives with a timeline and a map in our local languages, so that people from different regions of East Asia can learn more about the stories and rights women and LGBETQ+ have fought for.

DigitalFems

Spain (España) 🇪🇸

digitalfems es una organización que defiende la diversidad de género en la industria tech.

Gender Equality

Diversity & Inclusion

codebar.io

codebar is a charity that facilitates the growth of a diverse tech community by running free regular programming workshops for minority groups in tech.

AnitaB.org

AnitaB.org is known for our Grace Hopper Celebration, and our various programs connecting, guiding and inspiring women and non-binary technologists.

Hashtag Generation

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Hashtag Generation is a non profit organization and movement led and run by a group of young tech-savvy, socially conscious Sri Lankans advocating for the meaningful civic and political participation of youth, especially young women and young people from minority groups

National Digital Inclusion Alliance

Columbus, OH

National Digital Inclusion Alliance advances digital equity by supporting community programs and equipping policymakers to act.

Majal.org

Amplifying underrepresented voices

Beloved

New Orleans, LA

Beloved Community offers a number of consulting services to support organizations and communities to drive change within organizations by providing teams with custom coaching and the necessary thought leadership to advance equity journeys.

AWA by Beloved

New Orleans, LA

The first virtual DEI assessment for the workplace with an emphasis on mutual accountability.

Kapor Center

Oakland

A family of interrelated justice-seeking organizations that both independently and collectively work to reimagine and reconstruct a more inclusive and equitable technology sector.

PeaceFem

The University of Edinburgh

PeaceRep – a consortium of research institutions, non-governmental organisations, and local research teams led by the University of Edinburgh Law School – has recently launched a mobile app provides insights and strategies to support women’s inclusion in peacemaking.

Common Voice

Mozilla, East Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, CA

Mozilla's Common Voice Project seeks to be a part of the solution. It's a platform where anyone can donate their voice to an open source data bank.

2023 Webby Awards

Vaseline See My Skin

A CSR project by Vaseline that created a database to "search conditions on skin of color"

Diversity & Inclusion

Name Reclaim

Canada 🇨🇦

ReclaimYourName.dic is the first custom dictionary to normalize thousands of Asian names in the world’s most popular word processing software, where non-English identities are arbitrarily targeted as errors.

Narrative Change Lab

Toronto

Inspirit Foundation program "to shift the Canadian narrative landscape for equity-seeking groups through pop culture."

Reduced inequalities

Hivos

Raamweg 16, Den Haag

Hivos is an international development organization guided by humanist values.

Decolonising Digital Rights

Amsterdam

The Digital Freedom Fund and its partner European Digital Rights (EDRi) are in the second phase of an initiative that emerged to decolonise the digital rights field.

CV Project

Trento

An open source Android app to drive data donations to Mozilla's Common Voice project

apps

Open Source for Equality

Germany (Deutschland) 🇩🇪

Open Source for Equality is a beginner-friendly, safe space for women to participate in open source projects that promote gender equality.

women

Why We Need to Change the Way We Write About Africa

Africa

A storyteller’s guide to reframing Africa

guides

Reading together

Reliability and Multilingual Global Communities

Wikipedia

Global Language Data Review

This Global Language Data Review sets out what language data you need for planning, where you can find it, and how you can help build the body of data to support inclusive services.

Ada Developers Academy

Seattle

A non-profit, tuition-free coding school for women and gender diverse adults. They focus on serving low-income people, underrepresented minorities, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.