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Navigating Climate Justice: Empowering BIPOC Youth with Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

NonProfit Quarterly

2 Despite these risk disparities, there is a significant underrepresentation of individuals from these communities in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—fields that design and use tools to understand, predict, and mitigate the impacts of climate change.

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

Which path wins out will depend on the datasets and designs of the emerging technologies as well as whether or not robust regulations are put in place to guide the scientists at the helm. 9 In addition, those who are diagnosed often experience more severe and disabling symptoms than those experienced by other races and ethnicities.

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The Double-Edged Sword of Health Innovations: Navigating the Intersection of Technology and Equity in Nigeria

NonProfit Quarterly

Emerging technological innovations in healthcare have the potential to transform public health and healthcare delivery systems, making them more efficient, personalized, and accessible. Emerging Technologies: Potential and Risks Technological innovations are often lauded as a panacea for global health challenges.

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Harnessing the Power of AI for Positive Impact: A Conversation with Juan Lavista Ferres

NonProfit Quarterly

Ultimately, AI, like all technologies, is a tool that reflects the processes used to develop and deploy it. Their partners include the United Nations, American Red Cross, The Nature Conservancy Group, PATH, Seattle’s Children’s Hospital, Harvard University, Stanford University, and Johns Hopkins University.

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Building Boundaries in Love for Equity and Justice: An AI Manifesto

NonProfit Quarterly

When we build AI, we must ask: Who benefits from this technology? Ironically, the technology that promises a more efficient future is also contributing to a great strain on the planets resources. 10 Protecting workers economic security requires policies that guarantee they arent left behind in the technological shift.

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Precision Medicine Has a Data Equity Problem

NonProfit Quarterly

Advances in DNA sequencing technology are leading to a new understanding of cancer and new ways of diagnosing and treating it that are saving lives. It has led to improved treatments and therapies for rare diseases, which affect 30 million people in the United States and more than 300 to 400 million worldwide.

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20 Leaders Selected for 2023 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship

NonProfit Leadership Center

Their race or ethnicity have unjustly served as roadblocks in their careers due to the inequitable systems that continue to impact our society today. Our community continues to elevate resources, innovative technology, but more importantly, we stay connected. If we won’t save ourselves then no one will.