Announcements

• Please be prepared to use Zoom for today’s class.
  • The link to download Zoom is https://nyu.zoom.us/download. Please make sure you have downloaded Zoom before class!
  • The link for today’s meeting is https://nyu.zoom.us/j/775131978
  • I won’t record today so as to be consistent with Tuesday’s presentations, but I would like to record guest speaker sessions.
• If you have a Google Doc or Google Slideshow link in your midterm post, please CHECK NOW to make sure that it can be accessed from the lectern computer. It should not lead to the “You Need Permission” page when I click the link.
• Our guest speaker and field trip schedule is updated and still evolving.
• If you have any suggestions for the second half of D&T class, you are welcome to share them through this form. Thank you!
• In case you missed it: COVID-19-related class updates

Agenda

• Zoom Video and Audio Test.
• Roll Call
• Midterm Presentations (in random order). 1-2 questions per presentation.
  1. Landon: questions
  2. Shehara
  3. Helen
  4. Harry
  5. Nicola
  6. Weixiong
  7. Maggie
  8. Jade
  9. Luiza, Joey, Derick
  10. Jennifer
  11. Barry
  12. Henry
  13. Rafael

Assignments

• I will start grading on Monday, so you have until then to continue refining your midterm, doing extra credit, and preparing your blog for evaluation.
• You can continue to refine your work and do extra credit after Monday, but depending on the timing, I might not evaluate your post-Monday work until I’m grading your final projects.
• Reading, due March 24: Please read The Economic Case for LGBT+ Inclusion in Kenya by the research group Open For Business. Play special attention to page 29, “How Inclusion Can Fuel Kenya’s Creative and Tech Startup Economies.” We will discuss this report with a guest speaker on March 24.
• Extra credit: Also take a quick at Open For Business’s global reports and jot down discussion notes as a blog post.
  • “CHANNELS OF INFLUENCE: HOW COMPANIES CAN PROMOTE LGBT+ INCLUSIVE SOCIETIES” and
  • “NEW GLOBAL CHAMPIONS: WHY FAST-GROWING COMPANIES FROM EMERGING MARKETS ARE EMBRACING LGBT+ INCLUSION.”
• Extra Credit: Write a blog post about the D&T midterm project (not your own) that most struck you.
  

Announcements: External

• April 9, NYU: Blackness & Biodiversity Conservation: Earth Day at 50
• May 1, Data & Society: Unsettle, an all-day workshop in New York City to interrogate the colonial logic behind global, data-driven governance