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This technology company is on a mission to prevent police brutality. According to Black Business, WestMason — a Black-owned, design and development studio based in Orlando — announced the launch of its first mobile app, MyOneOne. The new mobile experience — now available on Android and iOS — will provide a personal security network made up of the friends and families of its users. Due to the problem of minorities who are constantly over-policed and far too often persecuted in their own homes and neighborhood, MyOneOne will give them the opportunity to not only protect themselves but their loved ones too. View this post on Instagram A post shared by MyOneOne (@myoneoneapp) When in danger, users of the app can quickly alert their lifeline and livestream directly from their device. The platform also has a location and chat option and leverages current and future technology to form a community that looks out for itself — something it says previous security applications don’t do....
When he was just 13-years-old, George Hofstetter was working as a sound technician at his local church. That same year, he was invited to his local Hackathon and brought his team to compete against Stanford’s best and brightest. With such an early interest in tech, it’s no wonder that he was able to host a TedTalk , start his own business, and create a life-saving app. “ GHTech, Inc., leads workshops on design thinking, radical social entrepreneurship, and presents keynotes on how to fight white supremacy through technology creation,” he told AfroTech. “We develop web & mobile app platforms centered around social justice as well as create free innovative online curriculums designed for students of color to bridge the ‘digital divide.’” George Hofstetter doesn’t just talk the talk in tech — he actually walks the walk, specifically with his creation of the CopStop app. Currently available on the App Store, the CopStop app aims to diffuse those tense situations between Black men and...
The social reckoning that sparked a national conversation around police brutality and racial justice last year became part of the origin story for many companies and their initiatives. Much of this was in response to George Floyd’s murder that occurred in Minneapolis, MN and as a result, three men living in the center of this movement decided to take matters into their own hands to help protect their communities. Late last year, Mychal Frelix, Andre Creighton and Jazz Hampton — co-founders of TurnSignl — left their corporate jobs to develop an idea around an app that protects both drivers and police officers during routine traffic stops by recording interactions that are guided by a lawyer on-call in real time. The app was developed in conjunction with both local Minnesota police chiefs and attorneys to help advise on the best way for this technology to exist. The premise of the app is to ultimately make these interactions less intense by giving all parties involved a level of...
Venerated entertainment industry magazine Variety has announced its newest partnership with a Black-owned tech company named Yappa. In a press release announcement, it was revealed that Yappa, an audio and visual commenting tool for the web, will be the exclusive new commenting solution for the magazine’s official website. The Yappa commenting widget will live at the bottom of each story throughout Variety’s website, allowing readers to leave audio and/or video comments based on what they just read or interacted with on the page. This partnership, which was made official as of yesterday, comes hot on the heels of Yappa’s most recent valuation of $200 million. They also recently secured more funding to further their technology, expand their team, and roll out new products. Jennifer Dyer, the Webby Award-winning CEO of Yappa, also said that this new infusion of funds will also allow the company to form partnerships with other online brands, including Vox Media, iHeart Radio, The Hill,...
San Francisco has a goal to reinvest its multi-million dollar police budgets into Black-owned businesses in its community. According to an announcement from San Francisco Mayor London N. Breed, she shared that the city would be awarding $3.75 million from the Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) and the San Francisco Human Rights Commission (HRC) to its small Black business community as a means to divert the $120 million funding from law enforcement. The new move is part of the city’s Dream Keeper Initiative, which aims to mitigate the economic hardships in San Francisco’s Black community and help support rebuilding its economic power. “Across this country, and in our City, we’ve seen how the Black community’s economic growth and prosperity has historically been disrupted and marginalized,” Mayor Breed said in her statement. “This funding is part [of[] our efforts to undo the harm of generations of disinvestment and economic inequities. As we work to recover and make...
When it comes to wealth, Black Americans have always gotten the short end of the stick. In part, a lot of this is due to the lack of financial literacy which comes from a deep history of racism that has held our community back for centuries. “It is the most important issue facing Black Americans. Period,” said Kevin Cohee, Owner, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of OneUnited Bank. In an interview with AfroTech, he told us the role that the largest Black-owned bank in America plays when it comes to not only teaching the importance of financial literacy but providing the community with the tools and resources needed to survive and thrive in a place where the playing field has been everything except level. “It’s fairly understandable how we got into this situation,” continued Cohee. “We were slaves, then we weren’t but we were given no education, we were given no money, no compensation, and we were denied the opportunity to do things like for example, live in neighborhoods where...