Of technology the programs of tomorrow are mostly developed by men three successful pioneers tell us why tech needs more women. These three women want to build a better world through technology but theyve had to fight bias in a sector dominated by men. One example over the past decade eighty eight percent of all i t. Patents in the u. S. Were registered by men the tech pioneers agree this needs to change Virtual Reality is seen as a technology with huge Growth Potential that transports users beyond the boundaries of the physical world to mind boggling new experiences whether for entertainment therapeutic or educational purposes v. R. Has many different fields of application but women are barely involved in its development. I dont think you know any thought defense in the technology itself that it would dive in. Particular gender stopping women from entering this is because the naturally thing that it is a very complex. Technology. Really easy. Study Computer Science in india after that she developed and program open Source Software at conferences around the world she speaks about to be our applications and web browsers our goal is to inspire other women. If a woman is involved in the building of any application the fear the kind of feeling because the art is all about the experience and feel so the kind of feel it gives to the user is more empathetic Computer Games are mostly aimed at a male audience they often paint a distorted picture of women. One reason may be due to the fact that only twenty percent of Game Development related jobs are held by women they face a lot of obstacles just a few women have to work much harder in this industry they need to accomplish two or three times as much to earn the same recognition. In two thousand and nine. Set up a batch was course for game design neverlands university of applied sciences she wanted half of her students to be women and reach that goal within just the first few years. Are the facts that women game as well and thats why women can and should also develop games. That games address a female audience i dont think women develop fundamentally different games just because theyre women that maybe they can approach things from a different perspective. Future technologies are profiting from input by women. Viewed as the internets next step of evolution that can be used to decentralize finances trade and state governance making them more transparent and fair so far block chain trailblazers are predominantly. Women are actually being trained not to take risks and thats the case with. It hasnt established itself in a way that i can explain it to my grandparents and tell them im working on block change technologies and theyd say thats my girl meets in pretoria ok and was willing to take the risk with a ph d. In physics shes worked at columbia and stanford in twenty seventeen she left science to begin managing the block chain startup gnosis. She is now also the head of a nationwide Digital Currency and block chain lobby group the German Federal block trade association. May have fallen and if more women were involved in developing chain it wouldnt make asses less equal than it already is right now white men between twenty and thirty five of the ones making a fortune they will shape tomorrow as well. Its women like beams who are shaping future technology and with their dedication to bringing more diversity to the world of tomorrow. Shift says keep up the great work. Now its time for our shift ranking the most successful women in the Tech Industry in fifth place Angela AhrendtsSenior Vice President and one of two senior female Board Members at apple and she was listed in forbes ranking of the most powerful women in the world in twenty fifteen and has been helping to drive apple sales since twenty forty. Eight. At number four meg whitman until recently president and chief executive officer of Hewlett Packard enterprise a millionaire activist and philanthropist she proved the appear to me of cool when she took part in the ice bucket challenge. Coming in third region youre already the first woman to serve as c. E. O. And president of i. B. M. She is degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and started working her way to the top of my b. M. As a Systems Engineer in one thousand nine hundred eighty one. Are runner up. Google sixteenth. Two thousand and six. Perspective. Number one. Founder Mark ZuckerbergClose Associates and author and activist shes committed to advancing womens empowerment. With the french president. Was working. Program. Whether shopping or researching algorithms could heavily influence the decisions we make but what happens when programs are sexist. Society. If you google the words secretary Search Engine stereotypical results. Secretaries are almost exclusively women at least according to the algorithm. Translation software is no better. Professional stereotypes even in finnish which has. Now she is a baby sitter she is a nanny. Is a secretary he is the leader. These prejudiced algorithms have huge implications for our daily lives for example. Women receive more suggestions for lower paying jobs than men a study by Carnegie Mellon university. Says its not only algorithms that are to blame because they are still programmed and fed with information by humans algorithms because we train it using Machine Learning either whether its deep learning with a Neural Network so to speak or shallow machines were feeding it data and were asking it to form an opinion. And of course when that opinion is based on data that has unfair treatment of groups then very much learned. Translation software millions of text teach it which would be most appropriate if these texts mention. Remember that picture recognition algorithms learn from large picture databases and you can find pictures of women in a kitchen men. Women with kitchen another problem. They have already learned to the point even identified this man woman. Changing difficult time consuming. One important thing is to know all of the sources of your data so to be very aware that if youre going to collect a lot of data over a period of years that perhaps you should have a human look through some of that or a group of humans and mark or the content that perhaps carries these harmful and fair treatment of groups or people the code behind these algorithms or how often top secret so its difficult to prove an algorithm is making unfair decisions or associations that program can check if an algorithm is discriminatory it simulates fake accounts that are identical in everything. Allowing an initial comparison accountability transparency and fairness are really the future of Machine Learning and we need to make them trustworthy and we need to. People to ask questions of how they work and allow people to see how theyre operating and how theyre trained to eliminate prejudice in algorithms it will take more social awareness human oversight. Short and sweet. Snapshot. Programming can be inspiring this is the idea behind the Nonprofit Organization code to inspire in afghanistan here nearly half the population is illiterate. In Helmand Province women are learning how to work with computers. The good at pushing people to give to be involved with technology can. To. Get its. First results a smartphone game that addresses real problems in afghanistan the users play soldiers fighting against opium and drug smugglers. With their new programming skills these women now have a better chance of finding a job. That was snapshot. 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But i also admire people who want to stay here and who decided to create something. New a new beginning in peace time for the people making it possible what needs to happen if tolerance and reconciliation are to stand a chance says find out if you should close one its a really difficult complicated difficult forgiveness reconciliation forgetting they get stuck in your throat again. How to start this citys history more. Starting march tenth on t w. This is d w news coming to you live from berlin the next russian spy reportedly in Critical Condition in a british Hospital Police time to decontaminate street where he took ill after exposure to an unknown substance media reports say the simple words halogens official who also spied on russia for the u. K. Also on the Program South koreas most senior delegation in a decade meets with the north Korean Leader kim jong il and the positive signals coming from those meetings form