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Dismantling Bias: Toward Ethical and Inclusive Health Innovation

NonProfit Quarterly

As organizations, networks, and individuals sought solutions, a movement to address inequality through technological innovation started gaining momentum. Understanding the cruel history behind many of the world’s leading medical innovations is a stark reminder that technology is not made out of thin air.

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Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties

NonProfit Quarterly

Not only has AI forever altered the technological landscape, but it also carries monumental and potentially corrosive impacts on the economic, political, and interpersonal terrain that makes up our everyday lives. Among the most recent and rapid developments of AI is facial recognition technology.

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Essential Skills for Staying Competitive in the Global Job Market

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Companies can now hire workers without being constrained by geography, thanks to developments in communication and technology. Although English is the most common language in international business, knowing other languages can be a big advantage when collaborating with clients or coworkers from around the world.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Wealthy philanthropic organizations often view issues through the lens of scientific, technological, and financial superiority. Unfortunately, our blind faith in solutions and the capabilities of new technologies can lead to a careless attitude towards creating problems.

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In Search of Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This is directly connected to another essential component of scale which usually requires a great amount of capital to be implemented: technology. Thus, unsurprisingly, most social enterprises originating in poor communities are not technology intensive. It is also about gender, race, and prejudices across society.

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Precision Medicine Has a Data Equity Problem

NonProfit Quarterly

Advances in DNA sequencing technology are leading to a new understanding of cancer and new ways of diagnosing and treating it that are saving lives. It has led to improved treatments and therapies for rare diseases, which affect 30 million people in the United States and more than 300 to 400 million worldwide.

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4 free ways to access Candid’s demographic data 

Candid

To date, over 55,000 nonprofits have shared some information on their staffs’ and board members’ race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability status, through their Candid profile. Here are the four solutions the Candid tech team built to suit our various peers, partners, and collaborators’ needs.