Latest Ict4d Podcast Episodes
Revi Sterling: Stategies to Close the Gender Digital Divide
ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - May 19, 2021 20:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRevi Sterling (Gender and Technology Specialist, DAI Global; Director, USAID WomenConnect Challenge) shares five proven strategies to close the gender digital divide and increase women’s economic empowerment.
Truth, Information & Synthetic Realities in Sri Lanka
Global Digital Futures - May 12, 2021 12:29 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, we are speaking to Craig Ryder, a PhD researcher at SOAS, University of London on Truth, Information & Synthetic Realities in Sri Lanka. Craig is a digital anthropologist concerned with disinformation, social media and the nascent technology of synthetic media. Building on his journal...
Claire Sibthorpe at GSMA: Digital inclusion barriers and actions
ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - April 06, 2021 12:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsClaire Sibthorpe (Head of Connected Women, Connected Society and Assistive Tech, GSMA) on delivering digital inclusion and connecting the unconnected. Resources mentioned: https://www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/ The State of Mobile Internet Connectivity Report: https://www.gsma.com/r/somic/
CRS Gambia: Youth Engagement in Data Collection for Health Programs
ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - March 27, 2021 15:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsOusman Njie, Head of Office, and Alieu Bah, Project Officer Malaria, at Catholic Relief Services Gambia, on engaging youth in data collection for health programs and building digital capacity in the Gambia.
Jocelyn Williams: Role of digital tech in empowering women
ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - March 05, 2021 16:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJocelyn Williams (Director of Business Development, Every1Mobile) on the role of digital tech in empowering women and addressing digital diversity and inclusion.
Special Episode: IT Priorities & Trends 2021
ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - February 16, 2021 19:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis special podcast edition is a summary of IT priorities and trends for 2021 mentioned in the interviews with CIOs and IT Directors, including resource mobilization, IT security, optimizing remote operations and digital work-spaces, strategic changes. Featuring Karl Lowe (CIO, Catholic Relie...
Michael Johnson: Digital Transformation at The Global Fund & ICT Priorities for 2021
ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - January 22, 2021 20:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMichael Johnson (CIO, The Global Fund) on their digital transformation journey so far, and IT priorities for 2021 including effective remote operations, continuous operational improvements, supporting in country partners, and collaborative tech innovations.
Marco van den Berg: digitization trends, cyber risk and interoperability concerns
ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - December 18, 2020 18:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMarco van den Berg (Chief Information Officer, Information & Knowledge Systems, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) on digitization trends, and associated cyber risk and interoperability concerns.
Thomas Rubatscher: digital transformation, technology trends, and ICT priorities
ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - December 07, 2020 10:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThomas Rubatscher (Intl. Director ICT at SOS Children's Villages International) on digital transformation, technology trends such as chat-bots, and ICT priorities for the coming year.
Thomas Rubatscher: digital transformation, technology trends, and ICT priorities
ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - December 07, 2020 10:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThomas Rubatscher (Intl. Director ICT at SOS Children's Villages International) on digital transformation, technology trends such as chat-bots, and ICT priorities for the coming year.
Dr Ronda Zelezny-Green: digital literacy and diversity, equity, and inclusion
ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - November 27, 2020 17:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDr. Ronda Zelezny-Green (Global Head of Training and Learning, The Internet Society; Co-Founder & Director, Panoply Digital) on digital literacy and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Priscilla Chomba-Kinywa: Covid-19 accelerated digital transformation & strategic changes
ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - November 20, 2020 19:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPriscilla Chomba-Kinywa (Head of Digital and Technology, ActionAid) on Covid-19 accelerated digital transformation, strategic changes, and need for more collaboration.
Sebastian Manhart: Adapting digital health innovations in response to Covid-19
ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - November 13, 2020 18:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSebastian Manhart (Chief Partnerships Officer, Simprints) on emerging eHealth trends and adapting digital health innovations and services in response to Covid-19.
Bobby Jefferson: Digital Transformation Trends & Risks in Global Healthcare
ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - November 06, 2020 21:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBobby Jefferson, VP and CTO at DAI Global Health, on emerging technologies in global health and associated risk, especially cyber security.
Mala Kumar: Opportunities, barriers, and trends in open source solutions
ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - October 31, 2020 00:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMala Kumar, Senior Program Manager for Tech for Social Good at GitHub, Inc. on opportunities and barriers of open source adoption in the development and humanitarian sector. More info in the recent report Open Source in the Social Sector https://socialimpact.github.com/#report
Media Spectacle & Democracy in the Philippines
Global Digital Futures - October 30, 2020 04:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, we are speaking to the esteemed journalist Veronica Pedrosa on Media Spectacle & Democracy in the Philippines. Veronica is an award-winning presenter with experience in news reporting, production and presenting. As a journalist she has worked at Al Jazeera English, CNN International...
Anthony Makumbi: Digital transformation and digital skills in Uganda
ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - October 23, 2020 15:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAnthony Makumbi, Chief Technology Officer and Senior IT Director Solutions at Shared Action Africa, shares insights on digital transformation and digital skill trends and gaps in Uganda, especially during the pandemic.
Deepak Pareek: Supporting Farmers with Digital Tech During COVID-19
ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - October 16, 2020 16:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDeepak Pareek, Founder of Digi Agri, Director at HnyB Tech Incubations and Tech Pioneer at World Economic Forum, shares digital trends in agriculture during the pandemic - like a 18-20% rise of WhatsApp use -, emerging technologies that truly support farmers and what role NGOs play.
Deepak Pareek on Supporting Farmers with Digital Tech During COVID-19
ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - October 16, 2020 16:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDeepak Pareek, Founder of Digi Agri, Director at HnyB Tech Incubations and Tech Pioneer at World Economic Forum, shares digital trends in agriculture during the pandemic - like a 18-20% rise of WhatsApp use -, emerging technologies that truly support farmers and what role NGOs play.
What AI Told Us About Covid-19
Global Digital Futures - October 10, 2020 04:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, we are speaking to Quilt.AI Founder and Chief Product Officer, Dr. Angad Chowdhry on What AI Told Us About COVID-19. Quilt.AI describe the internet as “a repository of human behaviour, opinions, preferences, and social interactions.” Their team of Anthropologists, semioticians, d...
Rosa Cortada: digital transformation at Oxfam
ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - October 09, 2020 20:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRosa Maria Cortada, CIO at Oxfam Intermón, talks us through their digital transformation progress so far; which tools they use to support staff work better remotely and gain more control during these times of general uncertainty.
Chris Houston: Humanitarian Grand Challenge Request for Proposals
ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - October 09, 2020 20:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsChris Houston, Director of Humanitarian Innovation at Humanitarian Grand Challenge Canada, talks about innovations for humanitarian response, investing in local leadership and solutions, and the upcoming Request for Proposals at https://humanitariangrandchallenge.org/
Sreeni Narayanan: digital skills and partnerships in the Philippines
ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - October 09, 2020 20:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSreeni Narayanan, Group Managing Director at ASSIST Asia, addresses how in the Philippines digital skills and literacy as well as partnerships to support those have developed over the past years and especially in the past months during the pandemic.
Sreeni Narayanan: digital skills and partnerships in the Philippines
ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - October 09, 2020 20:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSreeni Narayanan, Group Managing Director at ASSIST Asia, addresses how in the Philippines digital skills and literacy as well as partnerships to support those have developed over the past years and especially in the past months during the pandemic.
Imogen Wall: stress management during the pandemic
ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - October 09, 2020 20:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsImogen Wall, Frontline Aid Worker, Therapist & Mental Health First Aid Instructor, talks about stress management during the pandemic, and the benefits and challenges of providing mental health support via digital tech. For example discover why we are suffering from Zoom fatigue.
Karl Lowe: High Five Focus areas for IT road mapping at CRS
ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - September 29, 2020 13:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsKarl Lowe, CIO at Catholic Relief Services, shares insights on their agency-wide ICT priorities and strategy, or as he refers to as his “High Five Focus Areas”
Online Influencers & Irregular Migration in North Africa
Global Digital Futures - September 25, 2020 04:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week we are joined by Amine Ghoulidi to speak about Online Influencers & Irregular Migration in North Africa. Amine is a researcher at King’s College London currently focusing on European security. A career political risk consultant, Amine advises leading multinational corporations on rep...
Designing Chatbots for Social Development
Global Digital Futures - September 11, 2020 04:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week we are joined by Isabelle Amazon-Brown to speak about Designing Chatbots for Social Development. With ten years experience in 'mobiles for development', working on projects funded by UNICEF, DfID, USAID and the World Bank . She started out running and designing feature-phone friendly m...
The Politics of Language Online
Global Digital Futures - August 28, 2020 04:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, we are speaking to Marie Thaut, a student at SOAS. A conversation we had at one of the Coding Club workshops presented the perfect opportunity to discuss The Politics of Language Online. There are more than 7,000 languages on Earth, yet half of the world’s 7.6 billion people speak jus...
Landscapes of Journalistic Practice in the Middle East
Global Digital Futures - August 14, 2020 04:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week we are joined by Aida Al-Kaisy to speak about Landscapes of Journalistic Practice in the Middle East. Aida is a Media Reform Advisor and has worked extensively on media development projects across the MENA region including in Iraq, Palestine and Jordan. She is currently working on a ...
Related Ict4d Topics