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Dynamic Solutions for Healthcare in the Global South
Global Digital Futures - August 23, 2019 04:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week we are joined by Dr. Rainer Tan to speak about Dynamic Solutions for Healthcare in the Global South. Rainer is Swiss, Malaysian and Canadian. He grew up in Canada and finished med school at the university of Lausanne, Switzerland in 2014. He was the Field Coordinator in Tanzania for t...
Navigating Online & Offline: Social Activism in China
Global Digital Futures - August 02, 2019 04:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, we welcome Zhang Leilei to speak about Navigating Online & Offline: Social Activism in China. The media and information landscapes in China present unique challenges for social activism. Zhang Leilei is a Chinese feminist activist whose strategic campaigns have effected profound chang...
Media for Development in Bangladesh
Global Digital Futures - July 19, 2019 04:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week we are speaking with BBC Media Action Bangladesh about Media for Development in Bangladesh. Joining us is Richard Lace, the Country Director in Bangladesh. Richard has worked in media and development for 15 years, in Europe and Africa as well as Bangladesh. He has been leading the BB...
The Rohingya Crisis and the Role of Media in Conflict
Global Digital Futures - June 21, 2019 04:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, we welcome Ronan Lee to speak about The Rohingya Crisis and the Role of Media in Conflict. Ronan is an Irish-Australian political advisor and completed his PhD at Deakin University researching Rohingya history and identity. Ronan has travelled extensively in Myanmar, first visiting...
Mobile Phones & Educating the Girl Child in Kenya
Global Digital Futures - June 07, 2019 04:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, we welcome Dr. Ronda Zelezny-Green to speak about Mobile Phones & Educating the Girl Child in Kenya. Ronda is a mobile technologist, educator, and researcher, whose professional experience spans the public, private, and civil society sectors. She specialises in educational technology ...
Digital Strategies for Counter Narratives
Global Digital Futures - May 03, 2019 04:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, we welcome Dr. Dounia Mahlouly to speak about Digital Strategies for Counter Narratives. Dr. Mahlouly is lecturing at SOAS Centre for Global Media and Communications. She conducted her PhD research at the University of Glasgow, in partnership with the American University in Cairo and ...
Molka & Online Violations of Women in South Korea
Global Digital Futures - March 22, 2019 04:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, we welcome Dr. Yenn Lee, to speak about Molka & Online Violations of Women in South Korea. Yenn is an active researcher in the field of digital culture and politics, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. At SOAS she also designs and delivers an institution-wide training programme f...
AI for Social Good
Global Digital Futures - March 08, 2019 04:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week, we welcome Angad Chowdhry and Anurag Banerjee, the co-founders of Quilt.AI, the company using big data to understand people better. We speak to them about AI for Social Good. Dr Angad Chowdhry completed his PhD from SOAS, the University of London. His academic specialization is an...
World Radio Day 2019 Special with RadioActive
Global Digital Futures - February 22, 2019 04:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingListen to our World Radio Day Special with Max Graef of Radioactive. Max started RadioActive in 2004 to support independent radio. They provide technical assistance and equipment to independent radio stations around the world, and believe in the power of radio as a tool for communication, sharin...
Technologies of Financial Inclusion in Low Income Countries
Global Digital Futures - February 08, 2019 04:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week we speak about Technologies of Financial Inclusion in Low Income Countries. a key focus for the Centre for Global Finance at SOAS, run by Professor Victor Murinde. Professor Victor Murinde is a financial economist, with more than 25 years’ expertise, mainly in academia, policy and co...
Queering the Internet, LGBTQ Representation Online
Global Digital Futures - January 25, 2019 04:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week we have 2 guests in the studio to talk about Queering the Internet, LGBTQ Representation Online. Following the repealing of section 377 in India. A law which gives hope for LGBT communities by making homophobia illegal. In this episode we explore the realities and how queer identity ca...
Online Spaces & Overcoming Government Censorship
Global Digital Futures - January 12, 2019 04:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week we are speaking with 2 SOAS students from Egypt about Online Spaces & Overcoming Government Censorship. Hossam Fazulla is a researcher and writer from Cairo. He has spent the last 7 years bridging the gap between art and human rights as Director of Freedom of Artistic Creation at the A...
Who Should Have The Right to Watch Over You?
Global Digital Futures - December 14, 2018 04:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week we are speaking with Griff Ferris from Big Brother Watch about exactly Who Should Have The Right To Watch Over You? Big Brother Watch aims to expose and challenge threats to our privacy, our freedoms and our civil liberties at a time of enormous technological change in the UK. Their wo...
Cultural Nuances & India’s Digital Economy
Global Digital Futures - November 30, 2018 04:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe speak with Soum Paul about Cultural Nuances & India’s Digital Economy. Soum is the CoFounder and CEO of Homescreen Network, a television network venture built for the smartphone era. Over the last two decades, he’s played instrumental roles in a series of disruptive startups - Knowlarity, Sta...
Research & Technology in Hard to Reach Locations
Global Digital Futures - November 16, 2018 04:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe speak with Dr. Matti Pohjonen about Research & Technology in Hard to Reach Locations. Matti is an academic at the intersection of digital anthropology, philosophy and data science. His work developing innovative research methods for hard-to-reach populations has taken him from Kenya and Eth...
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