Technology Magazine April 2020 | Page 57

“ IT CAN ’ T BE A TOKEN GESTURE AND I DON ’ T THINK IT IS . IT SHOULD BE PART OF THE FABRIC IN TERMS OF WHAT YOU DO ”

— Lee James , EMEA CTO , Rackspace
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Studio you can create your own world . They use YouTube to understand some of the coding and how it ’ s put together and five or six of them have created a world together .”
Together in culmination , such efforts stand a chance of closing the skills gap and consequently creating a fair , more equal technology scene . “ There ’ s two girls in that group that have created that world as well , because they want to create an environment and see how it works and the way it operates ,” James explains . “ And then , when they press play , they can see the output of that . That ’ s now so much more creative than it ever was . And I believe that is what ’ s now driving an uptake .” www . technologymagazine . com