AlterConf Detroit 2015
2015-10-17
Detroit, United States
who it's for
nonprofit technologists, community organizers, diversity and inclusion practitioners, women in tech advocates, game developers, open finance engineers, front-end developers
topics
Stellar open financial protocol; microfinance and remittances; phone wallet payment apps; gaming character representation; documenting racist game imagery; sexual violence as spectrum; survivor-support and consent practices; utility-billing scraping and matching; Bootstrap and Heroku rapid deploy; remote and flexible work practices; worker cooperative governance; anti-oppressive workplace practices
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Unlocking Economic Participation for Millions of Women | Eva Gantz | 18m |
Claims that an open financial network (Stellar.org) can scale microfinance and cut remittance fees get backed by specifics: two billion people are unbanked… | ||
| Invisibility Blues... | Samantha Blackmon, Alisha Karabinus | 22m |
A project called Invisibility Blues documents a concrete claim: mainstream games repeat racist imagery and omit realistic options in character creation, shown… | ||
| Toxic Masculinities, Sexual Violence, and Tech | Nikhil Trivedi | 25m |
This talk documents a Geek Feminism timeline of incidents since 1963—sexist jokes, stalking, groping, rape and death threats—and frames sexual violence as a… | ||
| Utility Data for Social Good... | Tiffani Ashley bell | 13m |
A grassroots site built in four hours uses Bootstrap and Heroku and free services to match donors to utility accounts, pays bills directly to the Detroit Water… | ||
| Building Healthy, Anti-Oppressive Workplaces | Elizabeth Mitchell | 16m |
A specific claim: remote and flexible work plus an explicitly anti‑oppression culture let people with chronic illness, caregiving duties, or anxiety keep… | ||
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