Advocacy Examples Google Software 
The Hechinger Report
JULY 10, 2020
said Steve Yadzinski, who works on innovations in workforce technology for Jobs for the Future — an advocacy group that makes its own job finalists take on work-related projects as a part of the decision process. “With employers fielding a lot more applicants, how do we help create equitable processes for people at the top of the funnel?”
Iterating Toward Openness
NOVEMBER 18, 2019
Effective Advocacy. The problem with the main earlier label, “free software,” was not its political connotations, but that—to newcomers—its seeming focus on price is distracting. Christine and others who advocated for the new phrase “open source software” were prescient in doing so.
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Edsurge
MARCH 27, 2023
Code Next was launched by Google in 2016 in response to the stubbornly low numbers of people of color working in tech — only 3 percent of Google’s tech employees were Black or Latino back in 2014. Teenagers come to the lab to develop their own projects under the tutelage of Google employees and Code Next’s academic coaches.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Common Sense Privacy Evaluations Common Sense, a nonprofit education and advocacy organization, maintains a database that evaluates edtech tools on whether they are safe for use in schools. For example, ClassDojo , a classroom communication app, earned a badge from AppCensus for “transmitting sensitive data” on its app.
Iterating Toward Openness
APRIL 25, 2019
For example, I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the future of learning materials writ large. The Linux operating system is one of the most incredible success stories of the open source software movement. releases of the Linux kernel came from employees at Intel, IBM, Google, Facebook, Samsung, RedHat, and SUSE.
edWeb.net
JUNE 4, 2019
Strategic planning for edtech is an endless journey—and not just because of constantly evolving hardware and software. Most educators look at the cost of their device and software, but what they need to understand is that the total cost includes PD, tech support, sustainability. Are they prepared to adapt to other systems?
edWeb.net
JANUARY 22, 2019
But, they also saw a large number of resources being recommitted to just this one aspect of education: space for server farms, money for hardware and software upgrades, overworked personnel, etc. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.
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