Trust is a core element to good public services and it’s easy to forget that it goes both ways: Do residents trust their local governments? Do governments trust their residents to make policy and budgetary decisions?To build equitable cities, we must start with trust. But the big question is: HOW?
Join Next City for a discussion with Tiasia O’Brien of co:census regarding how technology can be best used to amplify the voices and needs of overlooked community members.
Brooklyn native Tiasia O’Brien is the co-founder of a new tech start-up, cocensus.io. (Photo: Seam Social Lab)
The technology industry is known for its paucity of diversity. In an industry dominated by white men, the number of women in technology is dismal, and the number of small business owners led by Black women is even lower.
According to a study from the Kapor Center, Pivotal Ventures and Arizona State University’s Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology found that women of color make up 80 percent of all new women-led small businesses in the United States. However, in technology, that figure tumbles to 4 percent.