Female Gamer Leads Industry Charge in Canada to Ensure Video Game Makers Reflect Their Audiences
By Yasmin Ranade
Female leaders in gaming have a tangible effect on the games that are being developed.
Tag: Women & Tech
Amplifying Women’s Voices Bolsters Business and Inclusivity in STEM
By Yasmin Ranade
Recruiting women into STEM is often the singular strategy that employers use to ‘tick the box’ for bringing diversity into the tech industry, but are recruitment initiatives enough to make tech inclusive, long-term?
The Knowledge Society: Empowering Canada’s Youth to be ‘Unicorns’
By Yasmin Ranade
In today’s world, if a teenager identifies an interest in a tech career, to be successful in tech at a global level requires an entrepreneurial mindset. Schools have a unique opportunity to adapt to the 21st century and expose teens to new career possibilities in tech, while developing the mindsets to be successful in this new industry,
STEM Scholarships a Woman’s Best Friend, Diamonds Not Withstanding
by Lee Rickwood
Diamond miner De Beers wants to get 10,000 women and girls in STEM and achieve gender parity across its workforce by 2030.
The Life-Work Balance: A Right to Disconnect, A Requirement to Work
by Lee Rickwood
With the era of the 9-to-5 workday over, companies and workers need new parameters to structure their work efforts and interact productively.
Canadian Woman Brings Equity-Based Thinking and Practice to Tech Companies
By Yasmin Ranade
Canadian tech needs to prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) because we’re at a critical moment in history where technology can either exacerbate existing inequities or make things a lot better.
Interactive Technology Puts Women, Homelessness, and Invention in Public Art Spotlight
by Lee Rickwood
A new public art activation in Toronto makes use of interactive technology to spotlight issues faced by women – including the challenges of homelessness, but also the obstacles of chauvinism.
The Tech Nose: Sniffing the Air with Technology to Detect COVID, Track Humans, Check Animals
by Lee Rickwood
Canadian technologists and researchers are among those developing techniques and technologies to sample the air for signs of disease, infection, even endangered animal species.