Underrepresented Communities in Code
summary
IBM announces a Call for Code for Racial Justice and posts runnable starter kits on GitHub including open sentencing and an incident accuracy reporting system as building blocks; 500 IBMers contribute to the initiative and organizers cite a 400,000‑developer Call for Code community. Black Girls CODE commits to reaching a million girls by 2040, Collab Capital is raising a $50 million fund and running a non‑investment Collab Studio to pair capital, mentoring and business development.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 1:47Panelists
- 2:52Christina Saunders
- 3:32Justin Dawkins
- 4:12Stephanie Thanamesa
- 4:58Call for Code for Racial Justice
- 10:24Incident Accuracy Reporting System
- 14:00Internships
- 36:38International Human Rights Law
- 38:56Why Partnerships Are Necessary
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