Companies won’t be able to grow in the long term if resources run out. This makes the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) — a group of 17 objectives introduced in 2015 as part of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — increasingly important for startups and investors. Examples of the SDGs include eliminating poverty, achieving gender equality and zero hunger.
Recently, ChatGPT & Co. have been the talk of the town. These Generative Language Models (LLM) will change the way we work. A new era of technology has thus dawned. But what is an Large Language Model (LLM) anyway? And why can their application be problematic? Today, we will explore these questions and explain how we can counteract any negative effects in our everyday work.
Using ChatGPT in employer branding and recruiting seems practical. However, unconsciously or uncontrolled, a number of problems creep in. First and foremost: non-inclusive language and biases.
In his podcastBehind the C, Atreus Director Franz Kubbillum takes a look behind the scenes at successful C-level managers.I feel truly grateful to have been interviewed by Atreus for his latest episode.In this personal episode, I talk about why I once wanted to be a war journalist, how I transitioned into the hospitality industry as a hotel manager, and why I am now passionate about promoting inclusive languagewith Witty Works.
Many organizations have seen the benefits of inclusive language across the organization and try to implement it into what has already been established in the company. Although it’ a great step for companies, it would be even better to see how companies incorporate it from the ground up. In our next LinkedIn Live, Nadia Fischer, CEO & Co-Founder of Witty Works, and Laraine McKinnon, Talent & Culture Strategist at Emtrain, will discuss the importance of startups leveraging SaaS technologies, like Witty Works, to incorporate inclusive language from the very beginning. In addition, Nadia will go into the benefits of using these technologies and how it can shed light on other areas of bias within companies.
We all know the gender asterisk in German and it is certainly a good way to take a step towards inclusion. But if you take a closer look at this topic, it becomes clear that you can exclude people in so many more ways. In this podcast, Lukas, CTO and Co-Founder at Witty Works, and Nils start with a simple job posting that led to a lengthy discussion on Twitter. For some it was demotivating, others didn’t even understand what was “wrong” with it. But is there a way to use language to include everyone and thereby make the IT industry a better place for all?
I am very honored to be the special guest in episode 88 of the Translation Confidential podcast. In this episode, the host Peter Argondizzo discusses with me about Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, and Language.
Editors and copywriters often unconsciously use terms that exclude or offend certain groups of people. To avoid this, a Swiss start-up has developed a correction aid that recognises such terms in real time.
Thanks to a capital injection of €700’000, Witty Works launches 'Witty', a browser plug-in to ensure inclusive language in marketing, communication and internal daily communications. Its Minimum Sellable Product to test the market had already attracted over 30 customers, including global brands.
Zwischen Gender-Debatte und generischem Maskulinum: Die inklusive Sprache kommt in der Wirtschaft an. Wie positionieren sich Unternehmen? Was gewinnen sie, wenn sie ihre Corporate Language inklusiv gestalten? Was geht ihnen durch die Lappen, wenn sie zögern? Ein Interview mit Nadia Fischer, CEO und Co-Founder von Witty Works.
Inklusives Schreiben legt Wert darauf, Zielgruppen aller Diversity-Dimensionen gleichermaßen anzusprechen und Diskriminierungen durch Sprache zu vermeiden. Das Startup Witty bietet hierzu clevere Tools für Unternehmen – nicht nur gendergerechte Sprache per Autokorrektur, wie Mitgründerin Nadia Fischer mir im Interview verrät.
Wer Texte verfasst, benutzt häufig unbewusst Begriffe, die gewisse Personengruppen ausschliessen oder beleidigen. Um dies zu vermeiden, hat ein Schweizer Startup eine Korrekturhilfe entwickelt, die solche Begriffe erkennt.
Bundesrat Alain Berset belegt im Ranking Platz eins. In die Top Ten schafften es auch sechs Frauen, darunter die innovativen Start-up-Gründerinnen Valérie Vuillerat und Nadia Fischer.
Diversität und Inklusion fängt bei der Sprache an. Wie müssen wir sprechen und schreiben, um ein Umfeld zu schaffen, in dem sich alle angesprochen und wertgeschätzt fühlen?
Die Gewinnerinnen des Fembizswiss Awards zeigen, wie Frauen die Digitalisierung in der Schweiz vorantreiben. Am vergangenen Freitag fand die erste Preisverleihung statt.
Mit ihrer KI-basierten Autokorrektur für inklusive und gendergerechte Sprache will das Startup Witty Works aus Zürich Aufklärungsarbeit leisten. Das Team ist überzeugt: Diversität fängt bei der Sprache an.
Nicht genannte Investor:innen – unter anderem aus dem Swiss ICT Investor Club (SICTIC) investieren 700.000 Euro in Witty Works. Das Startup aus Zürich, das von Nadia Fischer und Lukas Kahwe Smith gegründet wurde, setzt sich für gendergerechte und inklusive Sprache ein.
Nadia Fischer von «witty works» hat eine neue Software entwickelt, die beim Arbeiten am Computer problematische Wörter erkennt. Wer zum Beispiel «Liebe Kollegen» schreibt, wird darauf hingewiesen, dass nur Männer damit angesprochen werden.
Witty Works is one of the four start-ups that impressed the jury of the Deutsche Bahn’s ‘Human Resources 2021’, held as part of the Deutschebahn Mindbox programme.
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