Five years from now, Chen hopes Embrace will have gone further to achieve her vision of empowering the disadvantaged through disruptive technology.

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So, Price, who used to work in software, and chose fire fighting as his second career, is now going back to his roots and working with his fire district to create a technology that is empowering the community to help save lives.

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Today's technology is profoundly empowering.

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Our programs focus on empowering and educating girls and women with technology tools, resources and opportunities that can help them transform their lives.

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In addition to empowering girls and women to get trained on technology in preparation for the jobs of the future, initiatives like this also help companies reach new levels of innovation with a more diverse labor force and promote growth of the global economy by filling unmet need for ICT-skilled workers.

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Empowering innovation requires a rethink of strategy and using technology as the backbone to building a future enterprise.

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Roominate, founded by Alice Brooks out of Stanford, is manufacturing modular dollhouses that are not only making technology and engineering fun, but also empowering girls.

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We recognize the impact a great teacher can make, and Partners in Learning is focused on empowering more than 8 million educators in over 114 countries to creatively and effectively use technology in their curriculum to help improve the way students learn.

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