Making telecom more inclusive and diverse with Chris Lewis at Lewis Insight, and Monica Paolini at Senza Fili. With Inclusively, we want to create a place for everyone in the telecom ecosystem to share insights and experiences; to discuss new approaches, policies and technologies; and to document our progress in making telecom more inclusive, diverse, and sustainable for the workforce and users.
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Inclusively with Mansoor Hanif | The cities of the future
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We were joined on Inclusively by Mansoor Hanif, recently of Neom, previously with BT/EE and Ofcom. Mansoor is currently enjoying himself as an angel investor (for instance in Darabase) and strategic advisor after his recent stint in the desert. He brings vast experience to the discussion about how we build more inclusive cities in the future. His i…
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Inclusively with Giovanni Severini, Microsoft | Better sound quality for assistive hearing devices
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Current Classic Audio Bluetooth connectivity to assistive hearing devices does not deliver a good quality of experience and requires too much power. Bluetooth Low Energy Audio (LE Audio) is a new technology for audio streaming over Bluetooth that allows audio devices to run longer on a charge, with increased audio quality and reduced latency. We ta…
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Inclusively with Salesforce | Building accessibility into products from scratch
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Salesforce has built accessibility and inclusive design into its processes, products and services and established an accessibility group at the heart of the business. Its multi-pronged approach benefits from executive buy-in and builds up from the bottom with a specialist accessibility team spreading the word throughout the organization. In this In…
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Inclusively with BeMyEyes | Creating a more accessible world with AI for blind people
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Be My Eyes is a fantastic example of how human volunteers and, now, AI, leveraging the power of smart phones, can help blind people interact with the world around them. From a simple start using the phone camera to help guide someone around their home, it has now evolved into a global business helping blind people, as well as businesses serving the…
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Chris Lewis and Lewis Insight, and Monica Paolini at Senza Fili, the hosts of Inclusively Telecom introduce the new podcast. They talk about the format, goals, topic and approach. You can find out more about Inclusively Telecom and the live Inclusively events at https://senzafili.com/inclusively_in_telecom/ Send us feedback, questions, and suggesti…
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Inclusively | How can both women and men benefit from gender diversity?
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Diversity benefits everyone—people, businesses and customers. How can we improve gender diversity in the workplace, in our daily work practices and in our environment to benefit both women and men? In this Inclusively conversation, in collaboration with UKTIN, women and men compare their perspectives on how gender diversity plays out and how to cre…
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Inclusively | Can Wi-Fi sensing help elderly and disabled people?
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Inclusivity starts at home. Being able to live independently at home is, for many of us, fundamental to our quality of life. How can technology help us live on our own more safely and give our caretakers better tools to assist us? We talked to Saibal Chakraburtty, Director of Product Management at Cognitive Systems, about how Wi-Fi sensing can do t…
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Inclusively | Driving accessibility, inclusion and diversity from the top at Colt
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Rachel Collins, Head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Colt joined us in this Inclusively event. Rachel brings a wealth of experience and will describe how accessibility, inclusion and diversity form a key part of building the business and culture of which Colt is rightly very proud. This comes from the very top of Colt and the CEO’s very open ES…
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Inclusively | AI and ML: friend or foe of inclusion?
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AI and ML are powerful tools that can improve our lives, but also can create social and economic challenges, and increase inequality. What role can they play in promoting inclusion, reducing biases, helping people with physical and mental disabilities? Or can they hinder these efforts? Is there something we need to do to ensure that AI and ML will …
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Ibrahim Gedeon, CTO at TELUS, joined us in a live conversation to explore how he sees the organization and the wider ecosystem building towards a more inclusive future both inside of the telco but also extending out to customers in Canada. We explored how technology and business model shifts bring many exciting opportunities to build a better-conne…
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Inclusively: How can women succeed and improve the workplace?
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This year, at Inclusively, we celebrated our first International Women’s Day as we are still in our early infancy, having launched it last fall, with a wide-ranging conversation on how gender diversity is valuable in telecoms for women, men and business. Increasing women’s participation in the workforce, especially at high levels, is more than a bo…
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Inclusively | Thinking inclusively in telecoms
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A more inclusive approach from all parts of the communications industry will bring benefits to everyone. It will open access to digital services to those formerly excluded. It will create new services. It will generate new revenue opportunities. And it will underpin the customer experience every customer expects. Chris Lewis, Lewis Insight, and Mon…
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Inclusively with Rakuten | Embracing diversity and inclusion
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We were honored to have Tareq Amin, CEO at Rakuten Mobile and Rakuten Symphony, as our first guest on Inclusively. Tareq shared his experience at Rakuten in creating and supporting a diverse customer base and workforce. Diversity at Rakuten is an integral part of the culture and of the success of the company, and for Tareq, both a business and pers…
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