One reason why after 20 years in Cisco'm always excited to jump out of bed and start working everyday because we have a community and inclusive culture and protect and defend them in other parts of society they Can be marginalized or victimized. We have always emphasized the importance of celebrating difference and zero tolerance to those who undermine this culture. These aspirations largely met in my company are often more difficult in society in general. Some subcultures even words of encouragement and actions are designed to intimidate and sow fear, so that others are denied the opportunity to live in peace and freedom in our society.
For historical reasons, our legal community has built a set of rules and practices that make it too difficult for ordinary people to assert their rights. These various organizations like the FBI and the UC Berkeley have done a great job in providing online information resources to help victims of hate crimes learn what to do. Information tends to specialize, however, or are not directly exploitable.
The ABA has seen that victims are often discouraged from taking action because of the multiple steps required. People are used to using clean design applications in their everyday lives and the Center for Innovation working group has sought to develop a clearly organized and easy to use application site to determine whether a hate crime has been committed Committed, the steps that the victim could take with application of the law and in the judicial system.
The "design" sprint ABA lawyers convened, academics, designers and programmers for a working session of a Suffolk University at a day in Boston, whose dean, Andrew Perlman, heads the ABA Center for 'innovation. The challenge was to develop a website application to give those who believe they have been victims of hateful information and the resources they need.
Cisco was a sponsor of the event and I am proud to be there and firsthand witness the incredible challenges we can solve by working together. At Cisco we have always believed in the power of network technology that we invented and built to remove barriers to information. We are trying to deploy this technology to enable the incapable to build bridges.
