DiversITy-talent

DiversITy-talent is a Community Impact Company (CIC) set up to inspire young people and other untapped, underrepresented talent pools from diverse backgrounds into business and technology careers. The British Computer Society – BCS (The Chartered Institute for IT), CIONET and The ESG Institute are our founding partners. Our unwavering purpose is to pave the way towards a world where talent diversity reigns supreme, where both digital ways of working and enabling technologies empower us to tackle the most pressing world, business, and community issues through groundbreaking innovation. Our mission is to ignite curiosity, awareness and the development of young people and other untapped, underrepresented talent pools regarding the vast possibilities offered by a modern career in business and technology, thereby cultivating a diverse, skilled, digitally literate talent pool that will shape the future DiversITy-talent seeks business sponsorship to drive an industrial movement for a diverse, digitally competent talent pool, offering a future competitive advantage for all businesses. Together we can impact 60,000 untapped talent pools in 5 years. The ‘DiversITy-talent Awards’ A national competition open to all schools, youth groups, disadvantaged teenagers, young adults and minority groups representing untapped talent pools The competition’s aim: To solve society or community challenges through applying modern business skills, digital ways of working, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and appropriate technology to find winning, practical solutions that can be implemented successfully. In addition, we will be offering modern business and tech core skills training to our supporting partners, our communities , with underrepresented talent pools, and to support the effort in reskilling our ageing population with enhanced digital know-how.