The Tech That Comes Next

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How Changemakers, Philanthropists, and Technologists Can Build an Equitable World

By Amy Sample Ward and Afua Bruce

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The Tech That Comes Next presents a compelling vision for a just and equitable world through reimagined technology use, development, and funding focused on social change. The book offers practical strategies to shift organisational culture and investment, inclusive technology development, and necessary reforms in data, security, and privacy policies to protect vulnerable populations and foster positive societal impact.
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Essential reading for nonprofit leaders, social activists, policymakers, technologists, entrepreneurs, founders, and managers who seek to ensure technology supports and advances social justice and positive change.

Description

Changing the way we use, develop, and fund technology for social change is possible, and it starts with you. The Tech That Comes Next: How Changemakers, Philanthropists, and Technologists Can Build an Equitable World outlines a vision of a more equitable and just world along with practical steps to creating it, appropriately leveraging technology along the way.

In the book, you'll find:

Strategies for changing culture and investments inside social impact organisations
Ways to change technology development so it incorporates more of society
Examples of data, security, and privacy laws and policies that need to change to protect vulnerable populations and advance positive change

Ideal for nonprofit leaders, social activists, policymakers, technologists, entrepreneurs, founders, managers, and other business leaders, The Tech That Comes Next belongs in the libraries of anyone who envisions a world in which technology helps advance, rather than hinders, positive social change.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781119859819

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 May 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 231.0mm

Weight: 431g

Pages: 256

Collections

Afua Bruce Amy Sample Ward Business & Entrepreneurship Education & Reference Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

AMY SAMPLE WARD is driven by a belief that the nonprofit technology community can be a movement-based force for positive change. They are the CEO of NTEN, a nonprofit creating a world where missions and movements are more successful through the skillful and equitable use of technology. Amy’s second book, Social Change Anytime Everywhere, was a Terry McAdam Book Award finalist.

AFUA BRUCE is a leading public interest technologist who has spent her career working at the intersection of technology, policy, and society. Her career has spanned the government, nonprofit, private, and academic sectors, as she has held senior science and technology positions at a data science nonprofit, the White House, the FBI, and IBM. Afua has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, as well as an MBA.