{"id":6219,"date":"2025-07-31T13:37:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2025\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=6219"},"modified":"2025-09-03T11:22:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:22:33","slug":"the-tech-that-comes-next-how-changemakers-philanthropists-and-technologists-can-build-an-equitable-world","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2025\/session\/the-tech-that-comes-next-how-changemakers-philanthropists-and-technologists-can-build-an-equitable-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tech That Comes Next: How Changemakers, Philanthropists, and Technologists Can Build an Equitable World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RKnM75GFZxw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(0.875rem, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.542), 1.2rem);\">Technology is inseparable from inequity in our organizations and our communities, from digital divides to web accessibility, AI discrimination to dataset biases, VC and philanthropic funding imbalances to inadequate training. After multiple years in a global pandemic that has required so many of us to connect to friends, family, school, work, and support services through an online device, there\u2019s no question that technology is also inseparable from the world around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(0.875rem, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.542), 1.2rem);\"><br>What does it look like to change all of that? Amy and Afua Bruce&#8217;s co-authored book, The Tech That Comes Next: How changemakers, technologists, and philanthropists can build an equitable world, takes an intersectional approach in analyzing how technology is funded, built, and put to use today and presents alternative strategies for what it could look like tomorrow. 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