{"id":9157,"date":"2023-07-06T07:51:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T11:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/?p=9157"},"modified":"2023-07-28T15:56:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T19:56:26","slug":"this-student-created-cds-workshop-examines-equality-in-the-technology-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/2023\/07\/06\/this-student-created-cds-workshop-examines-equality-in-the-technology-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"BU Today: This Student-Created CDS Workshop Examines Equality in the Technology Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Excerpt from BU Today |\u00a0<\/span>By: Alene Bouranova, Photo: Kristen Handricken | July 6, 2023<\/p>\n

Every sector can benefit from investing in diversity and inclusion work.<\/p>\n

Algorithmic bias, nonaccessible web design\u2014as a computer science major, Junia Janvier (CAS\u201923) thought often about the inequities in the field she was studying. Then there were the broader issues within the technology industry as a whole, from a lack of representation at top companies to the Wild West of AI content and copyrights. She realized there were plenty of opportunities to study more inclusive practices in tech.<\/p>\n

Initially, Janvier thought she\u2019d just dive into a research project for her job as a diversity and inclusion coordinator at\u00a0<\/span>BU Spark!<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>the tech incubator and lab for student-led computational and data-driven projects. But once she started bouncing ideas off Spark! faculty, a bigger idea began to take shape.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe talked about what\u2019s something long-standing we could create that would have a lasting impact\u201d at Boston University? Janvier says. \u201cAnd that\u2019s how the idea for a class came in.\u201d<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Check out this BU Today article on the Spark! Exploring DEI in Tech program tackles the many current areas in need of improvement with regards to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18839,"featured_media":9158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[231,230,35],"tags":[48,10,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9157"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9628,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9157\/revisions\/9628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}