Cross posting
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>The part about increasing the supply of female tech workers - there's nothing wrong with that.
But why are they increasing the supply, and how is the UN doing it?
Why: Without restating the obvious points, let me once again point out that Google and Disney were directly involved in helping with the report, Disney quite substantially, even writing certain sections. [1] Why are these companies so invested in the tech fields? What about the Ed Tech field specifically (i.e. Serious Games, DiGRA, Microsoft Research, etc) - are corporations trying to expand into Ed Tech related to the IGF in any way? Would corporate and government interests stand to gain from an influx of tech workers?
>The NY Times' Eric Lipton was just awarded a 2015 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting that shed light on how foreign powers buy influence at think tanks. So, it probably bears mentioning that Microsoft's 'two-pronged' National Talent Strategy (PDF) to increase K-12 CS education and the number of H-1B visas — which is on the verge of being codified into laws — was hatched at an influential Microsoft and Gates Foundation-backed think tank mentioned in Lipton's reporting, the Brookings Institution. In 2012, the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings hosted a forum on STEM education and immigration reforms, where fabricating a crisis was discussed as a strategy to succeed with Microsoft's agenda after earlier lobbying attempts by Bill Gates and Microsoft had failed. "So, Brad [Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith]," asked the Brookings Institution's Darrell West at the event, "you're the only [one] who mentioned this topic of making the problem bigger. So, we galvanize action by really producing a crisis, I take it?" "Yeah," Smith replied (video). And, with the help of nonprofit organizations like Code.org and FWD.us that were founded shortly thereafter, a national K-12 CS and tech immigration crisis was indeed created.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/04/25/2219209/think-tanks-how-a-bill-gates-agenda-becomes-a-law
https://archive.is/K9CcB
>Disney Replaces Longtime IT Staff With H-1B Workers
>Use of visa workers in a layoff is a public policy issue, particularly for Disney. Ten U.S. senators are currently seeking a federal investigation into displacement of IT workers by H-1B-using contractors.
http://it.slashdot.org/story/15/04/29/2146247/disney-replaces-longtime-it-staff-with-h-1b-workers
https://archive.is/O4pjG
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Basically: Create a need to educate the next generation in order to produce more tech workers. Make it easier to bring lower-cost tech workers from other countries. Once a path for lower-cost tech workers into American tech is secured, displace American tech labor with the cheaper tech labor, resulting in lower salary expenses. The displaced workers flood the market with a higher supply of tech workers, joining the next generation-in-training, who also flood the market with tech workers. Create the desire for more women to enter tech fields. Once they bite, more American female tech workers flood the market. And so on and so forth. High supply of tech workers, low demand for employers. Low demand = lower pay.
It would be tinfoil if we didn't already see them manufacture crises before through think tanks, which is supported by the 2015 Pullitzer Prize-winning investigation cited above.