So your name’s been mistreated by autocorrect. What harm does that cause? And what would it take to fix it?

In this episode, Northeastern University law professor Rashmi Dyal-Chand discusses her research into autocorrect's bias and shares her blueprint for change - from what consumers can do to where the law might need to step in.

Plus: journalist Dhruti Shah on her viral 2018 BBC article that first brought the issue to light.

This is Part 3 of "What's in a Name?", our mini-series about autocorrect and inclusive technology.

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About Rashmi Dyal-Chand

Rashmi Dyal-Chand is a law professor at Northeastern University. Her research and teaching focus on property law, poverty, economic development and consumer law. She is the author of the article, “Autocorrecting for Whiteness”, published in the Boston University Law Review in 2021.

Learn more about Rashmi Dyal-Chand: https://law.northeastern.edu/faculty/dyal-chand/

Read the “Autocorrecting for Whiteness” article: https://www.bu.edu/bulawreview/files/2021/03/DYAL-CHAND.pdf

About Dhruti Shah

Dhruti Shah is a creative practitioner, storyteller and journalist who focuses extensively on belonging. She is a collaborator with I Am Not A Typo.

Read Dhruti’s article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46362259

Follow Dhruti on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhrutishahstoryteller/

Follow Dhruti on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dhruti_journo/

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The I Am Not a Typo campaign managed to get tech companies' attention. So what happened next?

We hear from one of the campaign organisers about the conversations with tech giants - and whether anything actually changed.

This is Part 2 of “What’s in a name?”, a new mini-series about autocorrect and inclusive technology.

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About Cathal Wogan

Cathal Wogan is a lead collaborator with I Am Not A Typo, a collective aiming to create social change so no one feels like an oversight. I Am Not A Typo looks at the link between identity and technology, and its flagship UK-based campaign asks tech giants to update their name dictionaries to better reflect the modern multi-cultural United Kingdom.

Cathal is a Senior Consulting Director at communications consultancy Blurred, the agency that convenes I Am Not A Typo and its many cross-industry collaborators.

Learn more about I Am Not A Typo: https://www.iamnotatypo.org/

Follow Cathal on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathal-wogan/

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For years, people added their "unusual" names to their phone's dictionary, treating it as a minor inconvenience. Then some decided to fight back.

In this episode, we meet the people whose names are constantly "corrected" by their devices and hear how I Am Not A Typo, a grassroots campaign to fix autocorrect, got the attention of tech giants.

This is Part 1 of “What’s in a name?”, a new mini-series about autocorrect and inclusive technology.

Listen to Part 1 and Part 2

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If someone came to mind while you were listening, send this episode their way. And if you have an autocorrect story of your own, we'd love to hear it. Email us at madeforuspod@gmail.com.

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Guests

Cathal Wogan, Xaymaca Awoyungbo, Vedrana Koren, Wanyu Zhang and Angharad Planells

Learn more about I Am Not A Typo

Website: https://www.iamnotatypo.org/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamnotatypo

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/i-am-not-a-typo/

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