Sarah Granger sur Twitter : "Ready for #TechCampRiga! (Unfortunately I'm 3 hours early thanks to jet lag...)... The Stats On Women In Tech Are Actually Getting Worse. Google just hired Ruth Porat, a former Morgan Stanley executive, to be its chief financial officer, and is paying her a reported $70 million.
You’d think that’s a sign that things are looking up for women in the tech industry. Not quite. The percentage of computing jobs held by women has actually fallen over the past 23 years, according to a new study. In 2013, just 26 percent of computing jobs in the U.S. were held by women, down from 35 percent in 1990, according to the study released Thursday by the American Association of University Women, a nonprofit that promotes gender equality. Women Startup Competition and TeleSummit. Visas, Immigration, and the Tech Industry. Federal Spending Bill – What’s in the ‘Cromnibus’ for Tech Policy? The House last night released the $1 trillion “Cromnibus” bill to fund the government through September 2015.
It combines an omnibus spending bill for 11 of the 12 annual appropriations bills for FY 2015 and a continuing resolution (CR) for DHS funding through February. The omnibus bill includes provisions on cybersecurity, cyber theft of intellectual property, internet governance, and more. A few highlights relevant to tech policy are given below. Europe’s “right to be forgotten” may affect search engines outside Europe. Google and other search engines may have to field requests from Europeans to de-list results from search engine outside of Europe, such as Google.com, Bloomberg reports.
Trends: A Fireside Chat. Conference session recap by Mary Anne Sacco Sarah Granger (pictured below), author of The Digital Mystique, was a nine-year-old girl who coded before kids coded.
Fascinated by technology and what it had to offer, she started taking programming classes and took this interest in technology to a healthy level. Her book is about a cultural movement, which began as a book about our digital lives. Beyond email and beyond Facebook, there is empowerment in the digital realm. Google Fiber business service will cause Internet price shifts - Kansas City Business Journal. Dave Kaup | KCBJ Ryan Weber is president of KCnext, the Technology Council of Greater Kansas City.
It's a good time to be a small tech firm in Kansas City. Google Fiber upended the area's Internet service market Friday in offering its gigabit network to businesses for $100 a month. While Google Inc. has declined to reveal details on the product and what areas of Kansas City will first land the service, the metro will likely see ubiquitous pricing cuts by area Internet providers. Why Isaacson's Rewrite of Tech History Is So Timely YouTube reveals which US internet providers are best and worst at streaming. Starting today, internet providers in the United States will finally be held to account for lackluster YouTube streaming speeds.
Google has brought its Video Quality Report — first launched in Canada at the start of this year — to the US, and is now ranking ISPs like Cablevision and Verizon FiOS based on the fidelity of their YouTube streams. If you've been experiencing buffering issues or playback interruptions despite paying for a speedy internet connection, this monthly report could help answer the lingering question of why. Mashable. View From the Valley. Journalist and author Mike Malone, who grew up in Silicon Valley and has written about the companies and the people here since 1979, came to the Computer Museum in Mountain View recently to promote his latest book, The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World’s Most Important Company.
His conversation with NBC Bay Area anchor Scott Budman on the Computer Museum stage in front of a packed house quickly veered beyond the book’s subject matter and became an opinionated romp through Silicon Valley’s past and into its future. Some highlights: On the people who represented the eras of Silicon Valley: “There are a series of key figures in the Valley’s history. The press and the tech bubble. Here’s a headline you don’t like to see if you’re worried about a possible social-media/tech bubble: Slate wrote this toward the end of March: Candy Crush’s Terrible Market Debut Shows We’re Not in a Tech Bubble The stock performance of one company among thousands doesn’t show much of anything, much less that tech valuations are reasonable.
Particularly when that company is not a growth stock. What's it going to take to get more women in tech leadership? Krystal Peak Jana Rich, managing director at Russell Reynolds spoke at the Lesbians Who Tech Summit about the current state of females serving on public boards.
We have a serious technology pipeline issue. Many estimates point to the fact that, worldwide, there will be 1 million more tech jobs vacant than qualified students ready to fill them by 2020. But one of the largest factors impacting this shortfall in the tech department is the lack of women entering computer science programs after high school, at least in the United States. Zaibatsu : How a Hacker Intercepted FBI... How a Hacker Intercepted FBI and Secret Service Calls With Google Maps. Why not fix the problem?
Austin says there's a cottage industry around flooding Google Maps with fake listings for businesses like locksmiths, the most notoriously abused sector, and then forwarding the calls from unsuspecting Google users to call centers. February 13 & 14 - Women 2.0 Conference 2014 - San Francisco. Top Tech Policy Stories of 2013. As the year draws to a close, it’s time to review the top tech policy stories of 2013. (1) NSA Surveillance. The most important story by far was the revelations about the scope and scale of surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency and allied services. It took a major leak of documents by Edward Snowden to enable this conversation. Codecademy Releases Its First Educational App, A.K.A. My New Subway Time Killer. Although I write a lot about apps and Internet stuff, I never really learned to code.
I threw the “really” in there to soften the blow, but the fact is, I straight up don’t know how to do it. I started learning at one point in middle school, but my high school didn’t push CS, and by college I spent all of my waking hours writing for the student newspaper or reading books written by dead white guys. The tech industry’s woman problem: Statistics show it’s worse than you think. One of the most frustrating things about the tech industry’s woman problem is the paucity of reliable data on the number of women working in technical roles.
Now, thanks to a public Google spreadsheet created by Tracy Chou, a software engineer at Pinterest, we have data on how many women engineers work at 84 different tech companies. To collect the data, company employees have been performing internal head counts, and most contributors have identified themselves openly, though Chou invites anonymous submissions via email. Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas Women in Computing Conference. Sarah Granger. Wired can’t find women on the Internet because it’s not looking for them. Honoring Tech Inclusion Champions of Change at the White House. Posted by Todd Park on August 08, 2013 at 09:10 AM EDT Last week, the White House honored 11 heroes as Champions of Change for Tech Inclusion —leaders who have done extraordinary work to connect kids from underrepresented and underserved communities to tech skills and opportunities.
CoderDojo Divas - All Girls Coding Event - July 27th,... Tickets, Mountain View. Livestream. NDI : Madeleine Albright test drives... Carly Fiorina, former HP CEO, says women leaders heavily scrutinized. Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina has a solution to ease a lot of the world’s problems, whether it’s poverty, food shortages, war or deficiencies in public education: Get more women involved. Elon Musk's mission to Mars. This article was taken from the December 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Where are the women in e-government, tech policy and politics? The question has again been asked, where are the women leaders and innovators in e-government, digital diplomacy, online politics, tech policy and related? Kansas City: In Flyover Country, Startups Fly Under the Radar.
In a city of under half a million, just south of Iowa, the Kansas City startup community is quietly gaining momentum. 9 Cities You Wouldn't Think Are Hubs for Tech Startups. Knightfoundation. Tech Trends for 2012 (with tweets) · mjenkins. Twitter Bets On Girls Who Code. Courtroom tension boils in Apple-Samsung showdown. More transparency into government requests. Women In Tech Infographic. NASA Opens Space Data To Take On The World\\'s Toughest Problems. Spring reading list: geeks, wonks, innovation and inspiration. California Launches Ed-Tech Task Force - Digital Education. TED 2012: 10 innovations that could help shape a better world. Become a Mentor. Paul Allen, Burt Rutan, and SpaceX team up for new space venture, Stratolaunch.
New Justice Department unit to fight tech crimes, identity theft. eBay Adds Facebook Platform And Mobile Marketing Exec Katie Mitic To Board. Observations from TechCrunch Disrupt : Sarah Granger : City Brights. Disrupt. Standing Desks Are on the Rise. Submit.cfm?fuseaction=app. Ca4h4mj Shared by AnnatState. Google wind farm investment: Google invests $55 million in Mojave Desert wind farm - latimes.com.
Sony blames Anonymous distraction for breaches. Using My Words: There are girls in tech...but there can be more (with your support) Beth Blecherman - 140 Best Twitter Feeds. Senate Judiciary names Franken head of new privacy, tech subcommittee. Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability; Accessibility of Web Information and Services of State and Local Government Entities and Public Accommodations. Prominent Web 2.0 Companies Do Not Have Any Women on Their Board of Directors. White House details sweeping changes to federal computing.
BET on Yourself: Inviting Women Seeking Business, Entrepreneurism, Tech Mentoring. Wozniak's computer history tour (video) U.S. Public Policy Council of the Association for Computing Machinery. On tech issues, Obama falls short of high expectations. Spectrum: Who's Inside the New U.S. Cyber Command? Internet privacy could be priority in next Congress. Join 200 candidates - protect Net Neutrality. Hillary Clinton Calls on TechWomen and Green Girls to Change the World. Clinton to Tech Innovators and Entrepreneurs: “We Want You” CyberSecurity: Preventing The Next 9/11. Media - Google plans pay-per-view films. Pentagon's DARPA Unit Goes Wiki With Crowdsourced Tech Project. Spectrum: Technically Speaking: Hacking the Planet. 16 Techi-rific Google Logo Doodles. NASA offers $5 million in contests for robots, satellites.
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