Posts Tagged ‘ technology ’

Innovation and Technology: Are African Americans Prepared for the Future?

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By Tarice L.S. Gray
According to TechServe Alliance, a collaboration of IT services firms, clients, consultants and suppliers, as of November 2010, IT employment was at 3,906,200 jobs. The demand for workers who are skilled as software developers and web architects seems to be outpacing the supply. This is especially true when it comes to African Americans.



For Blacks and Latinos: Access to the Wireless Web = Access to the Mainstream

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By Lee A. Daniels
The so-called digital divide in possession and use of cell phones, laptops and other such devices – which once prompted anguished predictions that black Americans would be left behind on the information superhighway – is fast narrowing.