Why do we need to think about social issues in technology? Why is it important for technologists (programmers, entrepreneurs, etc.) to go through the inconvenience of inclusion?
Because anywhere that tech meets people, it matters. Tech is almost never purely tech — the only place this may be the case is the code artifact itself. But even that code bears the fingerprints of the person who conceived it and put it there.
At 6:30, a great passage!
- WHO codes matters
- HOW we code matters (processes and platforms we build, to be built upon)
- WHY we code matters
The INCODING movement.
https://www.ted.com/talks/joy_buolamwini_how_i_m_fighting_bias_in_algorithms