Twitter released its Inclusion & Diversity data for the first half of 2021, which show some progress regarding women representation in its global workforce and representation of under-represented communities in the U.S. The company said women now make up 43.7% of its global workforce, up from 42.7% in 2020. But in terms of leadership there […]
Current inclusion and diversity practices in technology are inadequate – but perhaps even more alarming is that leaders seem to have not recognised this lack of inclusion, a new research by the Capgemini Research Institute has found. According to ‘The key to designing inclusive tech: creating diverse and inclusive tech teams’ report, a vast majority […]
The EU Commission wants to know why many member states are so slow in implementing new copyright rules that should be in all member states’ laws. The Commission has opened infringement procedures against more than 20 member states as they have not yet, or only partially, included the union’s updated copyright directive in national legislation. […]
More girls are in school today than ever before, however they are particularly under-represented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, and consequently in STEM careers. According to UNESCO’s report ‘Cracking the code: Girls’ and women’s education in STEM,’ only 35% of STEM students in higher education globally are women. HP’ Generation Impact initiative […]
Fin-tech Klarna, which became successful by providing the possibility of shopping payment by instalments, announced the acquisition of Swedish start-up APPRL, a SaaS platform that connects influencers to e-commerce retailers for branded content. Klarna aims at growing the shopping possibilities via their app, which has grown by now to 90 million global active users and […]
Today Dimitra Letsa and Moonshot News have the pleasure of hosting an in depth interesting discussion with Myladie Stoumbou, Regional Director for Microsoft, managing 24 markets based out of Athens, Greece. We are talking about resilience, inclusion, how to be the best possible people’s manager in a remote environment and about the type of skills […]
I consider ‘Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work’ one of the most important books of the year in the field of gender diversity in the workplace; it is not a book that includes only statistics and conclusions. The authors, Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman, have worked really hard to […]
