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Nicol Turner Lee
Posts

TechTank: Bank Failures and the Tech Sector
Recently the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failure became one of the largest bank failures in the U.S. since the global financial melee. SVB’s instability was...

TechTank: Will the U.S. attain a competitive global spectrum strategy?
Consumer demand for wireless services continues to increase in the United States, making the need for more commercial spectrum a priority as more services migrate...

TechTank: How Social Media is Changing Politics
Digital natives, millennials, and Gen Z who grew up with the internet have a unique relationship with social media and online movements. These constituents also...

TechTank: How Memes are Impacting Democracy
Memes, the so-called “inside jokes” of the internet, are a ubiquitous facet of the online world. While often dismissed due to their humorous nature, they...

TechTank: Reclaiming Local News in the Age of the Internet
The consumption of news and other media have been essential to the history of the United States. News has progressively evolved in both the delivery...

TechTank: Technology Adoption in Africa: Current and Future Use Cases for Development
Conversations around the tech industry typically focus on the United States, largely ignoring Africa despite its status as the world’s second largest continent. Over decades,...

TechTank: How Does the Internet Facilitate Worsening Gun Violence?
Not a single week of 2022 has passed without multiple mass shootings. 343 people have been killed and 1,391 injured through July 4 of this year....

TechTank: Will Americans Finally See Bipartisan Federal Privacy Legislation?
Earlier this month, Congress made an important step forward in finalizing comprehensive federal privacy legislation with the release of a draft of the American Data...

TechTank: Can Policymakers Level the Playing Field in the Computer Sciences?
In this technological age, workforce demands for computer science (CS) skills have evolved and keep evolving. Demand for CS specialists have evolved across all fields,...

TechTank: A Conversation on Improving the STEM Pipeline with UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski
Even with the investments made to educate and train computer and data scientists in the United States, the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math...

TechTank: Civil Rights and Artificial Intelligence: Can the Two Concepts Coexist?
Artificial intelligence is now used in virtually all aspects of our lives. Yet unchecked biases within existing algorithmic systems, especially those used in sensitive use...

TechTank Podcast: Online behavioral advertising can be discriminatory, so what’s the plan to fix this?
Social media companies like Facebook are being called out on the racial discrimination appearing in and resulting from their machine-learning algorithms. Advertising platforms use these...