“TWe have seen many symbolic gestures, but not the significant and sufficient measures that are necessary”, he said, at a press conference at the first edition of the Web Summit that takes place in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.
For the activist, the time has come to “charge big companies and big funds, which said they would take initiatives and invest in black entrepreneurs, to fulfill their promises”.
“The real work we have now is accountability for these symbolic gestures”, he stressed.
“I was with a group of black entrepreneurs this week and I realized that this type of event is extremely important. It is necessary to meet and talk about experiences, difficulties and tools”, stressed the North American activist.
Ay? Tometi also said that it is very important for the black community to see itself reflected in leadership positions, whether in the business sector or in the government sector.
“We have to see black and indigenous people represented”, he said, adding that what is really important are “the policies implemented for ‘ordinary people’, people from the favelas, in indigenous communities”.
“Black people are the majority in this country and the data we see (on discrimination) are alarming”, he said, considering that “for a multicultural and diverse society such as Brazil” is not “doing enough” to combat this discrimination.
Co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, Ay? Tometi, the president of Banco do Brasil, Tarciana Medeiros, top managers of Brazilian banks and companies, the executive president of the Onlyfans platform, Amrapali Gan, and the Prime Minister of Cape Verde, José Ulisses Correia e Silva, join the most from 300 speakers, to around 900 ‘startups’, investors and journalists, from over 100 countries, in a summit in which topics such as technology, society, artificial intelligence, climate change, among others, will be discussed.
Among the various speakers are the Portuguese Secretary of State for Internationalization, Bernardo Ivo Cruz, several Brazilian actors and presenters, the Minister of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil, Sonia Guajajara, the former player of the Portuguese national football team Deco and the Portuguese presenter Cristina Ferreira.
The technological event, which was born in 2010 in Ireland, started to be held in the Parque das Nações area, in Lisbon, in 2016, and will remain in the Portuguese capital until 2028. The company recently announced its expansion to the Middle East , with the Web Summit Qatar scheduled for early 2024.
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