Microsoft and Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC), a nonprofit, civil rights organization, has launched a first-ever digital platform to support the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community.
About the platform: Developed in collaboration with Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California (AJSOCAL), the Asian Resource Hub emerged in response to a community survey in California revealing that over 50% of Asian Americans felt a lack of support against the surge of discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The digital platform seeks to counteract discrimination by presenting data from diverse sources on hate incidents against AAPI communities and offering a directory of resources and services. The website is currently accessible in Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Korean and Vietnamese, and it is set to include additional languages such as Tagalog and Thai in the near future.
“The Asian Resource Hub is a direct response to the ongoing discrimination against our community during, and because of, the COVID-19 pandemic,” AJSOCAL CEO Connie Chung Joe stated. “There is a crucial need for AAPIs to find vetted, language accessible and culturally competent resources when and where help is needed. The impact of hatred and discrimination is too often devastating and complex.”
By the numbers: The Asian Resource Hub employs public data to highlight the prevalent anti-Asian hate in the U.S. It utilizes storytelling narratives and Microsoft-powered PowerBI data visualizations, drawing information from sources such as StopAAPIHate.org, the U.S. Census Bureau, FBI reports and local law enforcement. The aim is to raise awareness and enhance understanding of the challenges faced by the AAPI community, covering periods before, during and after the COVID-19 era through visually compelling presentations.
AAPI resource directory: Although the site’s mission is similar to Stop AAPI Hate‘s Reporting Center, the Asian Resource Hub…
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