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When Joseph Adjei enrolled at the Rochester Institute of Technology, he struggled as a newly deaf student from Ghana. “Where I lived,” Joseph said, “they believed that deaf people can’t do anything.” In class he tried to read lips, but he hadn’t yet learned American Sign Language. “It was very, very difficult.” Everything changed when Joseph’s class began using Microsoft Translator—a program that uses [...]
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Around the world, entrepreneurs, governments and academia are working to harness the benefits of emerging technologies. Few advancements are showing as much potential and opportunity to transform society as artificial intelligence (AI). From medical devices that are helping doctors and nurses diagnose patients quicker and more accurately, to self-driving cars that are making roads safer and reducing [...]
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The tech sector is committed to achieving greater diversity, inclusion, and equity. Making progress towards that aspiration has been slow. Fortunately, the future is brighter than the past, in part because of the partnerships we have built over the years and will celebrate this week as a part of the 48th Annual Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference and the 2018 Leadership Conference for [...]
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We are optimistic that a deal between Canada, Mexico, and the United States to modernize the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) could be reached in the coming weeks or even days. Since NAFTA first came into force in 1994, the world has become more digitized and interconnected, and new technologies have revolutionized the ways we do business. Because of this, we have always believed that a [...]
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by U.S. Rep. Alma Adams, Harold L. Martin Sr., and Dean Garfield Diversity is the key to unlocking exponential growth for the tech industry. The future of our country depends on building a more inclusive economy. We are at the precipice of innovations that could only be imagined a decade ago – driverless cars that reduce fatalities, curing incurable diseases, and a more sustainable planet are all within [...]
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More and more, American jobs are calling for a new set of skills, ranging from computer science and advanced manufacturing to coding and machine learning. As the workplace evolves and millions of new jobs are created, ensuring current and future American workers have the training, skills and education they need to get a good-paying job is a national imperative that requires immediate attention. This [...]
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It is an exciting time to be working on technology policy. Right now, the world is having a discussion on how best to govern and create policies around emerging technology like artificial intelligence, digital taxation, and data flows. We want to not only be a part of the conversation but we want to constructive and work with governments around the globe to create policies that will protect consumers [...]
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Forty-one million jobs across the United States depend on trade. If you look around your community, there is a good chance that either yours or one of your neighbor’s jobs exist because of it. Free trade has been a catalyst for economic growth and fuel for innovation across the globe. Historic trade agreements like the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have been crucial to the economic success [...]
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April 23, 2018At ITI, we have the honor of supporting the tech sector on the frontier of groundbreaking advances in environment and sustainability. ITI’s member companies take great pride in their commitment to achieving the triple-bottom line: creating a healthy planet while empowering people and promoting economic growth. Several ITI companies took time to commemorate Earth Day on April 22nd. The tech sector’s [...] -
The appropriate frustration and disappointment resulting from the recent Facebook and Cambridge Analytica disclosures are making it easy to forget the personal and economic benefits of social media. For example, let’s not forget that we choose to integrate these services into our daily lives because they allow us to deepen social connections and enable us to exercise our individual agency in a fashion [...]
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