Ben WaberA warm fall day in Boston meant a good amount of time for a run and some great talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/5)
First up was a nice lecture on corporate governance and #CSR by Emem Anwana at #AfeBabalolaUniversity. Anwana did a great job framing real CSR as sustainable, situated development rather than one offs, and the importance of governance and stakeholder engagement for companies and societies to succeed. It also got me very excited about the work going on at the #DurbanUniversityOfTechnology. The talk itself starts at around 45 minutes, and is well worth it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auR_h6OyJhI (2/5)
Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility and the SDGs in Africa
Next was a fantastic discussion/lecture by Rueben C. Warren at the #HarvardMedicalSchool Center for #Bioethics on population #health, #ethics, #equity, #SocialJustice, and more. This conversation was deep, enlightening, and makes me optimistic for the future of ethical development. Also apparently #TuskegeeUniversity has a bioethics minor, which if you're recruiting folks I would suggest grabbing those students immediately. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbMrQ-skG-Q (3/5)
The 100th Annual George W. Gay Lecture in Medical Ethics with Dr. Rueben C. Warren
Next was an excellent panel on #algorithm #ethics at #UTS with Alondra Nelson, Ed Santow, Nicholas Davis, and Verity Firth. This panel is stunning, and gets to the heart of ethical concerns in #tech and how #regulators, #organizations, and developers can and must do better. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykzDnpz86Pg (4/5)
Recording: Humanising technology
Last was an incredible, devastating talk by Rem Koning at #MITIDE on a quantitative view of #bias in the #VC industry. Wow. This thorough analysis of #ProductHunt #data, combined with data on #startup survival rates, funding, and more, paints a bleak picture of #gender bias across the whole consumer startup ecosystem. Depressing, but highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBm5nR6Tq50 (5/5)
