Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of techies_of_color

Timestamp:

Aug 18, 2010, 6:01:15 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

alfredo

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techies_of_color

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 2 -- We don't get training. Because no techie training program exists specifically for people of color and training programs reflect a predictable bias in their development and conceptualization. And they are intimidating since most white trainees start with many advantages.
 
-3 -- The Internet has, in fact, been slower in introduction into Third World communities and this "digital divide" (as it was once called) is systemically linked to the absence of techies of color since the presence of the technology in his or her community is a techie's first encounter with it.
+3 -- The Internet has, in fact, been slower in introduction into Third World communities and this is systemically linked to the absence of techies of color since the presence of the technology in his or her community is a techie's first encounter with it.
 
 4 -- The "Techie Culture" that has grown around technologists' functioning and interactions with each other reflects white culture in virtually every way.  Because interactions among techies are so intense the cultural imprint is that much sharper and vivid. Techies of color would find self-introduction in that culture very difficult and intimidating.