PyCon Nigeria Annual Conference

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Python Community

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Boluwaji Akinlade

Creative Director, Bliu Digital. A Marketing Communications Agency. Boluwaji is a creative with a deep passion and commitment to growth and development resulting in producing thought-provoking, mind-reorienting and environmental-changing knowledge based reforms using all and various available learning and development platforms.

Description

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are three closely linked values held by many organizations that are working to be supportive of diverse groups of individuals; and as a community, we need to be able to provide these values in growing and improving our community.

Abstract

Diversity can help to strengthen organizations, as studies have shown time and again. Quite simply, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is used to describe values that many organizations today strive to embody to help meet the needs of people from all walks of life. While concepts such as biodiversity are important offshoots of the core idea of diversity, this presentation will focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion in community development and society.

Organisations that are diverse, equitable, and inclusive are better able to respond to challenges, grow their community and meet the needs of different member bases. With DEI in mind, organisations are considering how to better support members. Over the past few years, we have taken strides to building diversity, equity, and inclusion into our policies and practices, and this will be a present, continuous effort to better the Python community in general.

Audience level: Not Applicable