Tag Archives: california
Interesante helps you discover more about your interests
April 16, 2014 – 8:42 am
Imagine arriving at your hotel in Cancún, México, logging on to their Wi-Fi and immediately having the hotel’s landing page pop up with personalized recommendations… more
Latino broadband access limited in CA
July 30, 2013 – 12:36 am
A Public Policy Institute of California report examining the use of Internet tech by Californians includes some interesting data on Internet access among minorities, including… more
In CA, TX, immigration reform & tech both benefit Latinos
May 21, 2013 – 2:22 pm
Immigration and tech may not seem to be intricately linked on the surface, but the current immigration reform debate in Congress and some recent data… more
How do you get more Latinos to vote? CA’s online voter registration
March 27, 2013 – 1:21 am
Latinos and Latinas under the age of 35 benefitted the most from California’s online voter registration during the 2012 election cycle, according to a new… more
Silicon Valley is thriving, not for Latinos and blacks
February 14, 2013 – 9:44 am
A recent article highlighted the fact that Latinos and African Americans are not benefitting as much from the Silicon Valley’s growing and high standard of… more
UrbanTxT inspires young Latinos to work in tech
February 4, 2013 – 10:56 pm
Teenage boys, especially low-income ones, are often typecast as problematic regardless of race. Although the problems facing low-income young men are great, Oscar Menjivar and… more
Affordable ed in California with open source textbooks
November 14, 2012 – 8:32 pm
Rising costs of tuition and textbooks are not unknown to college students and there’s historically been little in terms of relief for these rising costs… more
CA official policing mobile privacy
October 30, 2012 – 11:51 pm
California Attorney General Kamala Harris sent out notices to 100 mobile apps without a conspicuous privacy policy on their websites to do so or face… more
CA’s online voter registration may help the Latino vote
October 26, 2012 – 12:05 am
California launched online voter register this year and the results have been pretty impressive: 1 million visitors to the site. Online registrants tended to be… more
Working to bring diversity to Silicon Valley
September 10, 2012 – 3:00 pm
TechCrunch published an interesting interview with Laura Weidman Powers, one of the founders of CODE2040, a non-profit working to match:
high performing black and latino… more
