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Technology Changes Everything: Inclusive Tech and Jobs for a Diverse Workforce. Pierce Memorial Foundation Final Report
K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Institute on Employment and Disability
This document serves as the final report to the Pierce Foundation for funding to support the design and implementation of a 1.5-day Forum entitled "Technology Changes Everything: A Forum on Inclusive Tech and Jobs for a Diverse Workforce" conducted in New York City on October 26-27, 2017 at Baruch College. The conference idea was conceived to address the need to raise awareness across a number of distinct areas where technology is currently impacting employment outcomes for people with disabilities. The topics ranged from one as straightforward as the critical need for attention on equitably integrating individuals with disabilities into the rapidly exploding tech sector workforce, to the much more nuanced and complex application of algorithmic screening and job-matching tools increasingly used in online job applications and selection processes. Other topics focused on were equitable access to entrepreneurship opportunities, inclusive design in technology-based products and services, and the growing targeted focus of technology sector and tech-intensive industries in affirmative recruitment and hiring of individuals with Autism.
Descriptors: Information Technology, Disabilities, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Entrepreneurship, Design, Personnel Selection, Recruitment, Labor Force Development, Job Training, Job Skills, Employment Qualifications, Wages, Barriers, Inclusion
K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Institute on Employment and Disability. Cornell University, ILR School, 201 Dolgen Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853. Tel: 607-255-7727; e-mail: ilr_yti@cornell.edu; Web site: http://www.yti.cornell.edu/
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Authoring Institution: Cornell University, K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Institute on Employment and Disability
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