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If you haven’t seen it yet, or if you can look again, please read through the details of this courageous and important Call to Action for computing and tech design shared by @AdapperProf @YoRankin Jasmine Jones @_RnBrewer @SheenaErete @Tawanna1 @QuincyKBrown 1/5 https://twitter.com/interactionsMag/status/1276269816798560261
Dismantling the institutional mechanisms that perpetuate systemic racism will involve building new forms of collective accountability, and these authors suggest several actionable interventions. Let’s get to work @interactionsMag @sigchi 2/5
For example, they propose the creation of an “equal opportunity accreditation committee that… will ensure that federal funding of computing is in alignment with existing statues for equal opportunity, namely Title VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964” 3/5
as well as a board of ethics with “a specific mandate to govern the way technological research is promoted among marginalized and vulnerable populations, especially those that have been proven to disproportionately impact Black and Brown communities” 4/5
Many of these recommendations speak to issues that run deep and get reproduced throughout academia. For more on how white supremacy works and how academic fields (like anthropology) sustain it, see this crucial work by @Beliso_DeJesus and @JemimaJPierre https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aman.13351 /5
