Outside Looking In: Working to Reshape...
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Claim: projects carry the cultural imprint of their creators and that shows up in concrete failures and fixes. Evidence: English Wikipedia contains roughly 55% of Philippine content, editor demographics are skewed (about 17% women), Quora’s early Silicon Valley users shape topic bias, Facebook’s Safety Check misses non‑Western disasters. Interventions attempted: zero‑rating via Wikipedia Zero in ~40 countries, outreach into schools and partnerships to recruit and retain editors, with mixed success.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:05Systemic bias in tech
- 3:41Algorithms inherit human bias
- 6:10Cultural memory of tech bias
- 9:44Unconscious bias and resistance
- 11:55Inclusive participation networks
- 14:06Diverse stakeholder conversations
- 16:56Why communities resist change
- 19:24Challenging status quo
- 20:29Q&A
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