Social Media
The End of the Digital Divide
Series with Cheryl Contee, co-founder of Jack and Jill Politics; co-founder and partner of Fission Strategy, an Internet strategy and web development firm. Tuesday, Nov. 27, 12 p.m. #contee
- Listen to the full audio of Cheryl's talk:
- Learn more about her work with Fission Strategy and Jack & Jill Politics:
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- And then she takes the stage...
Excited to hear @ch3ryl #contee today talking through 'the digital divide' @ShorensteinCtr #NetFreedom @Internews
@ch3ryl sorry to miss you at @Kennedy_School today - I have heavily encouraged my #mppdigital students to attend!- Cheryl shares some of her personal history, and how she came to the tech industry. Her two projects, Jack & Jill Politics and Fission Strategy aim to use social media to bring about social good.
#contee organization fission strategy uses social media to advocate social justice @ShorensteinCtr- In her early days as a computer lab assistant in college, Cheryl experienced a cultural and gender divide, but also acceptance and respect.
- @ch3ryl was not born a "blerd", or, black nerd. Inserts photo of Urkle @ShorensteinCtr
- Despite being only black person and one of only a few women, @ch3ryl never felt different in a room full of tecky misfits. @ShorensteinCtr
- She then moved on to describe the "Digital Divide" and how it came about.
Cheryl #Contee asks, when did the #DigitalDivide die? When phones became cheaper, more accessible.- Today whites are the ones who lag behind advanced computer media - digital divide ending says @ch3ryl @ShorensteinCtr
- Women dominate social media quotes @ch3ryl @ShorensteinCtr
Cheryl Contee @ch3ryl on when the digital divide died -- "Mobile social network usage is 55% female" @ShorensteinCtr #contee #mppdigital- In 30 years whites will be the minority says @ch3ryl @ShorensteinCtr
- Silicon Valley likes to think of itself as bigotry free- right attitude to have but not reality says @ch3ryl @ShorensteinCtr
Great talk going on now by Cheryl Contee @ch3ryl re #digitaldivide & America's future pic.twitter.com/j9T723S1om/j9T723S1- While tech users and consumers are mostly minorities and women, the creators of content on the industry side is full of "white college dropout male nerds." What is needed to change that? Cheryl says investment and training.
- Investment lacks for women and minority entrepreneurs says @ch3ryl @ShorensteinCtr
- Cheryl Contee @ch3ryl on new digital divide “Unfilled vacancies in Silicon Valley have tripled in last year.” #mppdigital @ShorensteinCtr
- Poor and minority schools/neighborhoods are fertile grounds with overlooked talent says @ch3ryl @ShorensteinCtr
- There will be no job in the future that will not require knowledge of technology says @ch3ryl @ShorensteinCtr
- .@ch3ryl "Inner city schools are where the next best tech geniuses will come from" #mppdigital
- @ch3ryl @ShorensteinCtr true power comes from nurturing new power. Decimate the new digital divide!
#contentisking RT @ShorensteinCtr: Young minority students need the confidence to not only consume but create in the tech industry. #contee- Need political, educational, and cultural shift to tap into untapped talent in america says #contee @ShorensteinCtr
- @ch3ryl as you cried during your presentation @ShorensteinCtr I understood new visceral realities of reaching real diversity. Thankyou.
- many more black than white smartphone users in US but much lower creators of content #contee @ShorensteinCtr
- Blacks and latinos more likely than whites believe technology can advance causes says #contee @ShorensteinCtr
- SV xquisitely aware social good tools they create but not investing in non-white males to work on them @ShorensteinCtr @ch3ryl
- Small but growing change in willingness to invest in women and minority tech companies says #contee @ShorensteinCtr
- there are more tech jobs than people. chinese and indian ppl on work visas are not displacing minorities in US @ch3ryl @ShorensteinCtr
- not enough examples of minority tech leaders to inspire others? big catch up needed? @ch3ryl @ShorensteinCtr
- Thank you for a thoughtful and inspiring discussion, Cheryl!
- Watch Cheryl speak at the 2012 PDF conference on the End of the Digital Divide:
