IBM - CALL FOR CODE

Tech is racist. Yeah, that’s right. There’s no end to the biases that are built within technologies we use every day. Whether it’s a bathroom hand dryer that doesn’t recognise darker shades of skin, or a mortgage application that rejects Hispanic applicants by default.

IBM recognised that the world is tech is littered with examples like this. But while technology has been the cause of racism in so many instances, could it also provide the solution? IBM’s Call For Code scheme calls on coders everywhere to use their ingenuity to override racism using code.