Data 360 is proud to announce the IDEA Awards, a major new initiative to foster inclusion, diversity, equality, and allyship in the field of data & technology.
This April Data 360 will hold the IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Allyship) Awards to celebrate and honor the leaders, innovators, and practitioners who make a positive impact in the world of software, technology, data analytics, data science, AI and machine learning.
The IDEA Awards will also honors leaders who are pushing for change in the sector by promoting collaboration and innovation as well as their efforts to build capacity across communities of color, women, and other underrepresented groups.
The IDEA Awards program will feature the past year’s most innovative and important contributions across the fields of data analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, natural language processing (NLP), and data science. The awards will also feature Data 360 Labs hackathon winners and participants and new innovative underrepresented entrepreneurs from 2020 to 2021.
IDEA is an acronym for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access. IDEA highlights efforts toward underserved communities by addressing structural inequities. Organizations that embrace IDEA are able to foster cultures that minimize bias and recognize and address systemic inequities, which, if unaddressed, create disadvantage for certain individuals or groups.
Inclusion: All feel welcomed and valued
Inclusion is the act of creating environments in which any individual or group can be and feel welcomed, respected, represented, supported, and valued to fully participate.
Diversity: All the ways we differ
Diversity includes all of the ways in which people differ, encompassing the different characteristics that make one individual or group different from another. While diversity is often used in reference to race, ethnicity, and gender, we embrace a broader definition that also includes age, national origin, religion, disability, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, education, marital status, language, physical appearance, geography, and any other identifiers that make one individual or group different from another.
Equity: All having the opportunity to fully participate
Equity encompasses the policies and practices used to ensure the fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all people, while at the same time trying to identify and eliminate barriers that have historically prevented the full participation of some individuals or groups.
Access: Of any and all abilities
Access refers to the commitment for everyone to be included in all programs and activities.