Successful pioneers tell us why tech needs more with. These three women want to build a better world through technology but theyve had to fight bias in a sector dominated by men. One example over the past decade eighty eight percent of all i t. Patents in the u. S. Were registered by men the tech pioneers agree this needs to change Virtual Reality is seen as a technology with huge Growth Potential it transports users beyond the boundaries of the physical world to mind boggling new experiences whether for entertainment therapeutic or educational purposes v. R. Has many different fields of application but women are barely involved in its development. I dont think you know any such defense in the technology itself that it would dive into particular gender whats stopping women from entering this is because the naturally thing that it is a very complex. Area off technology. Really easy. Studied Computer Science in india after that she developed and program open Source Software at conferences around the world she speaks about to be our applications and web browsers our goal is to inspire other women. If a woman is involved in the building of any application the atmosphere the kind of feel because we are is all about the experience and feel so the kind of feel it gives to the user is more empathetic Computer Games are mostly aimed at a male audience they often paint a distorted picture of women. One reason may be due to the fact that only twenty percent of Game Development related jobs are held by women they face a lot of obstacles pronouced and feel women have to work much harder in this industry they need to accomplish two or three times as much to earn the same recognition. In two thousand and nine suzanne implant or set up a bachelors course for game design at berlins university of applied sciences she wanted half of her students to be women and reach that goal within just the first few years. Are the facts that women game as well and thats why women can and should also develop games has had the games address a female audience i dont think women develop fundamentally different games just because theyre women that maybe they can approach things from a different perspective. Future technologies are profiting from input by women. Viewed as the internets next step of evolution that can be used to decentralize finances trade and state governance making them more transparent and fair so far block change trailblazers are predominantly men. Is helping im hoping that women are actually being trained not to take risks and thats the case with technology it hasnt established itself in a way that i can explain it to my grandparents and tell them im working on block change technologies and theyd say thats my girl. Redoing the arabs was willing to take the risk with a ph d. In physics shes worked at columbia and stanford in twenty seventeen she left science to begin managing the block chain startup gnosis. She is now also the head of a nationwide Digital Currency and block chain lobby group the German Federal bloc trade association then on and if more women were involved in developing change it wouldnt make asses less equal than it already is right now white men between twenty and thirty five are the ones making a fortune they will shape tomorrow as well and. Its women like these who are shaping future technologies and with their dedication to bringing more diversity to the world of tomorrow. To. Shift says keep up the great work. Now its time for our shift ranking the most successful women in the Tech Industry in fifth place Angela AhrendtsSenior Vice President and one of two senior female Board Members at apple she was listed in forbes ranking of the most powerful women in the world in twenty fifteen and has been helping to drive apples sales since two thousand and fourteen. At number four meg whitman until recently president and chief executive officer of Hewlett Packard enterprise a millionaire activist and philanthropist she proved the appear to me of cool when she took part in the ice bucket challenge. Coming in third bridge and youre already the first woman to serve as c. E. O. And president of i. B. M. She has degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and started working our way to the top of my b. M. As a Systems Engineer in one thousand nine hundred eighty one. Our runner up susan. Pirate is googles sixteenth employee in one thousand nine hundred nine she had vacated its acquisition of you tube and is served as you tube c. E. O. Six. Perspective. Shes committed to it. The french president. Was working. Program. Whether shopping or researching algorithms could heavily influence the decisions we make but what happens when programs are sexist. If you google the words secretary Search Engine stereotypical results. Secretary. Women at least according to the algorithm. Translation software. Professional. Types even in finnish. He is a babysitter she. Is a secretary he is the leader. Algorithms have huge implications for. For example. Women receive more suggestions for lower paying jobs than men. As its not only algorithms that are to blame because they are still programmed and fed with information by human algorithm because we train it. Either whether its deep learning with a Neural Network so to speak or. Were feeding it data. To form an opinion and of course when that. That has an unfair treatment of groups. Very much. Like. Translation software millions of text teach it which words. Text. That picture recognition. Large picture databases and you can find pictures of women in the. Kitchen another problem. They have to the point even the. Difficult time consuming. One important thing is to know all of the sources of your data so to be very aware that if youre going to collect a lot of data over a period of years that perhaps you should have a human look through some of that or humans and mark. The content that perhaps carries harmful or unfair treatment of groups or people the code behind these algorithms are often top secret so its difficult to prove an algorithm is making unfair decisions. That program can check if an algorithm is discriminatory it simulates fake accounts that are identical in everything. Allowing an initial comparison that accountability transparency and fairness are really the future of Machine Learning and we need to make them trustworthy. People to ask questions of how they work and allow people to see how theyre operating and how theyre trained to eliminate the rhythms it will take more social awareness human oversight. Short and sweet. Snapshot. Of the nonprofit organization. Afghanistan years nearly half the population. Rich. In Helmand Province women are learning how to work with computers. Difficult because to be involved with technology can. Go to me. Scans. First results a smartphone game that addresses real problems in afghanistan the users play soldiers fighting against opium and drug smugglers. With their new programming skills and these women now have a better chance of finding a job. That was snapshots. And for more on the Digital World visit our Facebook Page g w digital. For all the latest digital news and trends interesting ups gadgets and helpful tutorials you can watch shift reports there to follow us and tell us what you think d. W. Digital. And as always we leave shift through the exit our internet find of the week this time facing revolution. Some make up a mirror and a camera m. R. Allen uses her own face as a canvas to tell stunning stories now on the artist has made a new stop Motion Animation a mouth that used to ring up humankind. Santiago was inspired by one of allens many followers and consists of twelve hundred fifty separate pictures each took about an hour to prepare. In just ninety seconds we watched time fly from the earliest beginnings to a fascinating future. Next time on the ship. Raising awareness of current affairs. As with video games how far is a game designed one of the Syrian Refugees that lets gamers experience uses scape for more than autobiographical adventure that gives insight into the plight of many. 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