How does a modest cyber café become an Internet powerhouse?

Civil Society Futures And Innovation Podcast

English - November 11, 2022 11:10 - 38 minutes - 22.3 MB
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For the Centre’s 2022 Report on ‘Civil Society Innovation and Digital Power Shift’, we’re speaking with inspirational innovators from civil society organisations around the world to hear the stories of their inclusive innovation approaches to advance people-centred digitalisation, to either address system power imbalances or capitalise on emerging people power and technological capabilities.

In this episode, Michuki Mwangi, Verengai Mabika, and Joseph Bishi, talk about how a community network in Zimbabwe grows from a cyber café to a local hub of knowledge, healthcare, and development, realising the Internet as a place of possibility.

- Find out more about the Internet Society http://bit.ly/3Eno2iJ
- Explore the Centre’s ‘Civil Society Innovation and Digital Power Shift’ report bit.ly/3rBkNgM

We would like to thank the Centre’s innovation partner TechSoup for kindly supporting this report and we would also like to thank the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation and the Ford Foundation for their support in making this project happen.