Tech equity: Fighting bias and building wealth

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Sep 19, 202300:17:54Technology

How can we build more equitable and inclusive platforms and organisations? In this episode of The Next Stage, Janaye Ingram of Airbnb talks about how the platform conducted a civil rights audit to uncover biases and made...

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