- look at race deeply and understand that race affects virtually every area of society
- factor in historical processes for example redlining, predatory lending, and blockbusting

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- Engage Race
- Ask Different Questions
- Don't make people your problem

3 ways to make technology more equitable

Brown, Sara. (2020, Nov. 17). 3 ways to make technology more equitable. MIT Management Sloan School. https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/3-ways-to-make-technology-more-equitable

3 ways to make technology more equitable: Engage Race

- Roy Wilkins argued that Black people should have a stake in the computing revolution and that computing systems could be used to look at race unbiasedly.
- Charlton McIlwain states that automated criminal justice information systems target Black people through predictive policing, facial recognition technology, and risk-scoring systems.
- MCllwain states that if more people pursued Wilkin's ideas, we'd be in a different place today.

3 ways to make technology more equitable: Ask Different Questions

We cannot make people our problems to solve, for example we cannot label Black and Brown people as the problem when it comes to disease, crime, etc. 

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