marco campana's List: Diversity in tech-social media

A must-read on this: Why does everything suck?: Arrington, Race, and Silicon Valley http://t.co/vXH28NIH #inclusion #diversity

RT @awsamuel: Why White Men Should Refuse to Be on Panels of All White Men http://su.pr/3YZd4e from @good via @citymama @kristysf

RT @tbains: Found this gem while do research...//Are Minorities Being Forced To Ride On The Back Of The Social Media Bus By Whitey?: htt ...

The Invisible Ladder: Social Networks vs. Social Mobility - making #diversity a tech startup priority http://j.mp/k5TTgw

#Philanthropy & #diversity: identifying the triggers for giving http://ow.ly/58FtY Related @artezonline webinar http://ow.ly/58FtZ

#Philanthropy & #diversity: identifying the triggers for giving http://ow.ly/58FtY Related @artezonline webinar http://ow.ly/58FtZ

How the environmental movement can better incorporate #diversity http://ow.ly/5gFAd Leadership profile of Sonia Dong http://ow.ly/5gFAe

RT @eGlobalLearning: #Millennials say 'race still matters.' interesting take on post-racialism. http://t.co/bKqBVop @DBPGenY #diversity ...

Casting Diversity | ACTRA's catalogue of diverse actors http://ow.ly/5hIXk #diverse #media #acting

If you don't think diversity is important, you are an idiot. (SmartData Collective) http://ow.ly/5iIvo #diversity #tech #netculture

Nuances of Brain Drain (Inside Higer Ed) http://ow.ly/5m41V #education #immigration #diversity

The U.S. needs this man. But it won’t let him in. The Orwellian tale of an immigration ordeal. Ganti’s experience at the hands of U.S. immigration officials is just one of many dismal stories I have heard in the course of my research from people desperate to return to wives and children and interrupted American lives. I have heard from a senior scientist at a San Francisco Bay Area company, an award-winning engineer from the University of Texas who helped design Intel’s latest generation of memory chips, and a young woman whose entry into a Ph.D. program in chemical engineering was jeopardized by six months of bureaucratic delays—and many, many others. Taken together, they offer this troubling conclusion: the United States, a country built by generations of ambitious, hardworking newcomers, no longer wants to attract skilled immigrants. “We educate the best and brightest from around the world, and then we tell our companies that they can’t hire them,” New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said, describing current immigration policy as “a form of national suicide.” “We ship them home, where they can take what they learned here and use it to create companies and products that compete with ours. The rest of the world is thanking us. They’re doing everything they can to attract those very people—and we’re doing our best to help them.”

At this special event we heard many illuminating stories about how the utilization of social media is helping Vancouver’s diverse ethno-cultural communities to connect and strengthen their identities, roots and relationships with tools such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube.

The principal intent of this evening was to illustrate the many different ways these media tools have been employed to effectively communicate a message or idea without having to spend a lot of money. Also, this event endeavored to make a close examination of how people identify themselves in Canada, since there are several backgrounds.

Worth a view: Multiculturalism 2.0: More Than Ethnic w/ Alden Habacon of @schema_magazine

Coverage from OpenFile Vancouver before and after the event. Includes links to live blog, photos on flickr and storify curation of tweets of the event.

Social Media and Multiculturalism: Buzz Words or Opportunities? http://ow.ly/4tvQK #netculture

Useful from @tbains Canadians' Social Media Habits, incl interesting info re. newcomers & social media use http://ow.ly/4u2DI #netculture

RT @jeremylim: First round of photos from #NetCulture are up! All the speakers and key moments are there. Blog it out. http://ow.ly/4u8kh