EQUITY@INTEL
At Intel, we recognize our shared responsibility to deploy our technologies and expertise in a way that helps build a more equitable world. To do this, we commit to advocating for all of our stakeholders and honoring our corporate mission and purpose to solve challenges by producing world-changing technologies that enrich the lives of every person on earth.
Equity@Intel is where we talk about social issues and explore how technologies and public policy can work together to drive systemic change that enables full inclusion at Intel and across the globe. Our views are data-driven and informed by the lived experiences of our workforce. This is part of our effort to be the most responsible, inclusive, and sustainable company.
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The technology sector has always been at the forefront of solving society’s most pressing challenges.
Today, because of the global pandemic, an equitable digital transformation is one of those challenges. And we know that supporting greater access to broadband, devices, and STEM training, and education for women and underrepresented demographics are critical steps.
Public Policy Principles: Intel supports public policies and public-private partnerships that make STEAM education, devices, and high-quality, high-speed broadband more affordable and accessible. We will advance policies that ensure emerging technologies such as AI are responsible and ethical. And, Intel demands a policy environment that protects user’s data and customer’s privacy rights.
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Leveraging Technology to Provide Global Pandemic Relief
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#AI4Youth
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Intel’s AI for Social Good Initiative
Intel knows that diverse teams with diverse perspectives are critical to producing world-changing and equitable technologies. That is why by 2030, we will increase women in technical roles to 40% and double the number of women and underrepresented minorities in senior leadership. We recognize that economic equity isn’t just a question of who we employ; it’s also about businesses that make our supply chain resilient, power research and help us drive economic equity.
Public Policy Principles: We support public policies that strengthen and provide greater access to capital for diverse, women, and veteran-owned businesses. Additionally, we will continue to support efforts that provide financial literacy and education initiatives.
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Diversity & Inclusion at Intel
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Intel’s Supplier Diversity Initiative
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Intel Capital Diversity Initiative
Intel has always prioritized the safety, health, and wellness of our workforce. 
Still, the global pandemic has highlighted alarming disparities and biases within healthcare that have impacts on our employees, especially our employees of color. We take protecting our employees seriously, and that means doing our part to combat inequity in healthcare and the social determinants that impact health outcomes.
Public Policy Principles: We support legislative actions that make it easier for people to access quality and affordable healthcare. And, we support public policies that expand access to telemedicine, mental health treatment, and that address inequity within healthcare, such as medical trials, cancer treatment, and maternal health.
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Intel Commits $50 Million with Pandemic Response Technology Initiative to Combat Coronavirus
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Telemedicine Making Medicine More Accessible
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Intel Grants Free Access to its Intellectual Property to COVID-19 Researchers and Scientists
Full inclusion is our goal. Achieving this demands equal access to quality education and STEM training. As we move deeper into the fourth industrial revolution, Intel remains committed to helping upskill and retool our workforce, ensuring that every person can compete for the jobs of the future.
Public Policy Principles: We support policies that provide greater access to early education. And we will continue to advance measures that provide equitable funding for minority-serving institutions and HBCUs. We will continue advocating for community colleges and certification and apprentice programs.
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Million Girls Moonshot
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Intel Supports the Promotes Act
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Oakland School District Learning Initiative
- Growing STEM Education in Native American Communities
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Intel Launches Expanded Initiative to Help Underserved Students, School Districts Overcome COVID-19 Barriers
Intel thrives when our employees, customers, and communities thrive. Intel supports social equity, racial justice, and bipartisan efforts to improve the criminal justice system. We are proud to support the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. Additionally, we are using our core competencies as a data-centric company to push for greater data collection and analysis to power data-driven change. We also believe that healing happens one person at a time and to that end, our Legal and Policy team actively supports a wide variety of pro bono opportunities that provide free or low-cost legal services to underserved communities. In particular, the Legal and Policy teams are focused on ‘second chance’ or expungement pro bono efforts and legislation to provide communities disproportionately impacted by the criminal justice system with better access to economic, housing, and civic opportunities.
Public Policy Principles: Intel supports a more equitable and just world where our employees, customers, and communities can thrive.
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Intel Foundation’s Matching Grant Program to Equitable Justice Organizations
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Intel’s Social Equity and Racial Justice Grants
The global pandemic has driven home a long-known but under-appreciated reality that low-income and communities of color bear the brunt of most environmental problems in the US and globally. Upcoming federal climate policy, energy policy, and infrastructure appropriation deliberations present opportunities for us to begin addressing these systemic inequities.
Public Policy Principles: Intel supports environmental equity provisions as central elements of future climate, energy, and infrastructure legislation. We will support policies that enable the role of the Internet of Things (IoT) and other technologies in monitoring and addressing environmental equity issues. We accept our shared responsibility to enable all communities worldwide to monitor their neighborhood environmental conditions to inform efforts to improve those conditions.
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Intel’s Microprocessors are Conflict Free
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Data-Driven Food Industry IoT Solutions
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Intel & the Environment
Intel is proud to be a member of Civic Alliance, Business for Voting Rights, and Make Time to Vote. Our commitment to civic equity includes providing our US workforce with paid time off to make their voices heard by voting.
Public Policy Principles: We oppose discrimination in all forms, including any legislation that seeks to reduce the voting rights or opportunity of any group of citizens. Our country is stronger with more voting, not less, and with the evolution of technology, voting can be more secure and equitable.
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Prioritizing the Need for Maternal Health Services to Promote Social Equality - By: Rhonda Foxx, Head of Social Equity Policies & Engagement, Intel Over the last year, Intel has worked to advance equity and equality by promoting an environment of inclusion at Intel and within our communities. We launched Equity@Intel to provide a platform to discuss how our technologies and public policies can work together to addresses...
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Fighting a Pandemic Through Technology: One Year Later - By Jeff Rittener, Chief Government Affairs Officer for Intel What a year it has been. At this point in 2020, we were at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and no one knew how long it would last. Few expected that a whole year later, we would just be cautiously emerging from the pandemic’s major...
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Why I Support the Equality Act - By Marissa Du Bois, Intel From an early age, I was acutely aware of my gender dysphoria but didn’t know how to talk to my parents about my gender. For my entire childhood, I was coerced into expressing my gender as masculine and forced to repress my mannerisms and preferred grooming habits. This left me...
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Why Stopping the Hate Matters to Me - William Moss, Director of Reputation Communications, Intel The killing of eight people, including six Asian women, in Atlanta this week, is a sad capstone to a year of growing violence against Asian Americans and Asian people living in America. While the violence in Atlanta is drawing attention to the longer-term problems of racism against Asians...
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The Data is Clear: We need bipartisan support for the Justice in Policing Act - By Natasha Martell Jackson, Social Equity Program Office at Intel At Intel, we acknowledge that what happens outside of Intel affects our employees inside the company as well. I've been an Intel employee for more than 20 years and held many roles throughout my career. My most important...
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Driving Racial Equity and Equality in the Workplace and Beyond - By: Rhonda Foxx, Head of Social Equity Policy & Engagement Guest Voices: Werner Schaefer, Intel’s VP/GM of Network Platforms & Communications Service Provider Sales and LaTanya Flix, Greater Houston Partnership’s Senior Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Last year, Intel declared that standing on the sidelines in the fight against inequality was not an...
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Advocating for Social Equity and Equality for LGBT+ Communities - By Talli Koppel, Director Global Talent Acquisition Growth and Corporate Groups, Intel As an Oregonian, I am proud that Oregon State Senator, Jeff Merkley, reintroduced the #EqualityAct. The Equality Act was initially introduced in Congress in 1974. It's terrible that nearly 30-years later, we're still fighting for this...
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Intel Investing in Diverse and Inclusive Pipeline of Tech Law and Policy Talent - By Rhonda Foxx, Head of Social Equity Policy & Engagement at Intel Today, Intel announced its pledge to North Carolina Central University (NCCU), a historically Black college and university (HBCU), with a $5 million grant over the next five years to help the school create a tech law and policy center. Intel will contribute legal...
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Intel and Axios Convene Conversation on Global Data-Driven Change and Equity - By Rhonda Foxx, Head of Social Equity Policy & Engagement at Intel This week, Intel and Axios convened a critical conversation on the power of data and technology to drive social change. The grave inequities brought to light by the global Covid-19 pandemic and the killings of George...
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A Policy Framework for Digital Transformation in Africa - By Dr. Bienvenu Agbokponto Soglo, Government and Policy Director for Africa at Intel & Rhonda Foxx, Head of Social Equity Policies and Engagements at Intel The global pandemic has accelerated the need for a swift and equitable worldwide digital transformation to address the digital divide. Achieving this demands a particular focus on critical geographies like...
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