The Red Bull Amaphiko podcast brings you the grassroots champions changing up their communities. Each episode introduces a cast of amazing characters using their talent and energy to make a difference. First up, five episodes recorded in Baltimore.
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Getting People Engaged with the Toughest Subjects
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Some subjects make people look away. That’s why the toughest problems need the most energetic and committed people behind them. People like Brittni Kellom who works with survivors of child sexual abuse in Detroit or D Watkins who breaks down the social cost of racism in his best-selling books. Baltimore film maker Malaika Aminata Clements and trans…
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A good story can get you places. Take Muhammad Najeeullah who gets local kids into science and technology by running robot battles in portable drone zones, or Baltimore engineer Brittany Young who’s using dirt bike culture to generate young engineers. Amy Kaherl explains how she’s creating a tonne of engaging tales with her micro-granting dinner De…
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Getting people behind your idea is a must – and it not easy. Luckily, these good people know how. Meet the woman who went viral with her Nasty Woman t-shirt, an urban farmer repurposing the drug narrative to sell healthy greens and a Baltimore creative uplifting the youth. The head of basketball operations for NBA Africa and UCLA academic Gayle Nor…
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Everyone has to start somewhere. Who better to ask for tips on the early days than super-successful Omni founder Tom McLeod? Telling it from the grassroots we have Florida chef Chad Cherry who teaches cookery in food deserts, Jon Dengler who works alongside local homeless people on a collaborative earn-a-bike scheme and Marisa Hamamoto who used her…
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Staying well is a tough one for all of us. That’s especially true for the good people using their talent and energy to deal with a problem in their corner of the world. Hip hop entrepreneur Shanti Das, best-selling author and Baltimore don D Watkins, Changa Bell of the Black Male Yoga Initiative, Lakota educator Ali Moran and an addictively likeabl…
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TOR180: The Global Knowledge Initiative with Sara Farley
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You cannot live in today's world without being witness to the power of networks. Networks are all around us and constantly influence us in ways both conscious and subconscious. Immediate family and close friends, global-reaching social networks, professional networks, passion networks... the list of all the networks you're connected to gos on and o…
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TOR179: KopaGas with Dr. Sebastian Rodriguez-Sanchez
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I take for granted that I can walk away from my microphone right now, head over to my kitchen and turn on my stove to boil water, bake a cake or cook myself a meal. And, I don't even think about the fact that I have hot water available on demand at any time of the day. I just turn on the tap and its there. This is not the case for millions and mill…
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TOR178 - Ladies Get Paid and Red Bull Amaphiko with Claire Wasserman
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Even though we work on hundreds of different issues across a similarly diverse group of settings, I think the argument could be made that the work of the social sector is ultimately focused on creating a world where all humans have equal opportunity to flourish. This is at the base of what we’re doing with programing that seeks to improve financial…
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TOR177 - The mSTAR project with Troy Etulain of FHI360
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If you're an ideas person, no matter what your field or expertise, there is nothing I can think of that is more attractive than a clear, tangible problem in need of a solution. As much as we hate to admit it in the social sector, these types of problems are not terribly common and they are almost never the lowest hanging fruit in a given situation.…
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TOR176 - The International Rescue Committee with Jodi Nelson
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The International Rescue Committee is a well known force in humanitarian aid. As the organization has continued to evolve since 1933, they have literally written the book, multiple times, on how to best serve those in need. My guest for today's 176th Terms of Reference Podcast is Jodi Nelson who is IRC's Senior Vice President, Policy and Practice. …
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TOR175: The SPONGE Project with Sanjay Prasad of IVL
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Last week, we dove into an especially practical example of innovating to improve the plight of the agriculturalist. Or, more specifically, those who benefit from their yields. I'm happy that this week we have another agricultural innovation around water - but one that works in a very different way, solving a very different problem. My guest for the…
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TOR174 - The Bhungroo Innovation for Agriculture with Trupi Jain of Naireeta Services
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One of the things I love most about hosting this podcast is the sheer range of ideas, aspirations and impact I've been lucky enough to listen to over the past three years. In some cases we've talked about a digital future that we can only just now begin to see coming into shape and in others, extremely practical how-did-we-solve-this-problem-today …
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TOR173 - Patents for Humanity with Edward Elliot
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For most of us seeking to innovate in the social sector, solving existing problems in new ways is accomplished by bringing technologies or processes from other sectors to bear on the problems faced by the vulnerable. However, innovators are sometimes also true inventors - devising first of their kind solutions for today's most pressing problems. In…
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TOR172 - A New Model For Higher Education with Eric Glustrom of Watson
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Long ago, in the days of yore, when I was completing high school and looking to what was next, college was the path of least resistance. Unfortunately, as it turned out, following that path put me on a trajectory that would take 3 colleges, many majors and an embarrassing amount of tuition to finally spit me out the other side with a degree. And, h…
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TOR171 - The Office Of Transition Initiatives with Stephen Lennon
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For many years now - and its just crazy that I can say that about this podcast at this stage - I’ve been saying the social sector is filled with lots of very smart, well educated people who truly want to lift up others in pursuit of greater human flourishing. Almost always, this is a fantastic thing, I mean, having intelligent, thoughtful people on…
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TOR170 - Adding Value To Technology With Indigenous Knowledge with Muthoni Masinde
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When you think of innovation, you think about the future, right? At least, that's what I think about. My mind is usually filled with flying cars, holographic displays and a moneyless world. But, I know, that's just the super geek talking. Innovation is really about solving an old problem in a different way. But the reason I bring up the future is t…
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TOR168: The World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator with Bernhard Kowatsch
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When I think of innovating for food, well, I have to admit I’m usually focused on how my family can make dinner something special. Finding a way out of the rut of eating the same food as my children is a pain. But I know, that you know, we’re not here to talk about how I can become an Iron Chef. And indeed, in today’s 168th Terms of Reference Podca…
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TOR167: A Strategy For Digital Financial Inclusion with Badal Malick of Catalyst
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I know that I take for granted that I am able to perform financial transactions, around the world via a multitude of channels, essentially any time I want. In fact, only because of my lifestyle, my biggest headache comes from a banking system in the US that often flags my non-US transactions as suspect for fraud. Today's episode is about how we can…
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TOR166: Venture Funding For Social Actors With Alix Zwane Of The Global Innovation Fund
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Most social sector work, if not all of it at this stage, is driven by some type of results framework that is focused on outcomes. Unsurprisingly, when people (or a government or foundation) give you their money to do some good in the world - they want to know that it actually happens… or, as often happens, at least you gave it your best shot. Under…
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TOR165 - Investing In Freedom Of The Press with Harlan Mandel of MDIF
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Its taken me a while to figure out how to introduce today’s topic. Not because its totally radical - but rather, because my brain is freaking out that its something I have to introduce in the year 2017. So, I’ve decided the best approach is just to dive right in: Today’s topic is, essentially, freedom of the press. Now, while I don’t spend my day t…
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TOR164 - The Power and Promise of Open Contracting with Gavin Hayman
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How much money did your government spend in 2016? The Government of the United States spent over $3.5 trillion dollars. China threw down $2.8 trillion and the UK just over $1 trillion. Worldwide, governments spent a combined total of $22.7 trillion. My point here is that there is a ton of money being spent by governments around the globe to procure…
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TOR163: Building Leadership In Advocacy with Jamie Bay Nishi of the Global Health Technologies Coalition
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Today’s conversation has two themes that I think are important for our listeners. On one level, you’re going to hear about advocating on behalf of health sector innovators, but on another level you’re going to hear about what it takes to pivot a career and take on an entirely new role, in a new sector after almost a decade of dedicated service in a…
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TOR162 - How Creative Tech Agencies Can Accelerate Social Impact with Sam Applebee of Super Global
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For as long as I’ve been in the social sector, there has been a consensus that those organizations who depend mostly on grant funding (whether from government or foundations or private donors) need to find better, and more sustainable ways to partner with the private sector, or more specifically, for-profit companies. The main reason behind this dr…
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TOR161: Supporting The Open Data Movement with Pavel Richter of Open Knowledge International
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According to the May 6th, 2017 issue of the Economist, data has officially displaced oil as the world’s most valuable resource. If you’re like me, the most surprising part of this declaration is that its taken until now for it to appear. Data drives the business models of most, if not all, of the world’s most valuable companies, governments rely up…
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TOR160: Supporting the Economy of Prestige with Kurt Shaw of the Shine A Light Foundation
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You’ve heard me lament more than a few times on this podcast about the fact that innovation in the social sector is often times synonymous with technology. We talk a lot about how phones and apps and data are accelerating change and opening up opportunities for those in need. And, of course, being something of a super geek, I admit I love these con…
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TOR159: Keeping The Lights On with Noah Klugman and Jay Taneja of Gridwatch
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The availability of continuous power - that is, the assumption that you can plug in an appliance, or flip a switch without wondering whether or not electrons will flow - is a hallmark of civilization. So much so, that a great deal of what holds up our global economy would not be possible without the assurance that we can keep the lights on (or at l…
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TOR158: Why Getting Feedback (Should Be) The Expected Thing To Do with Dennis Whittle
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I’d like to start today’s episode with a quick, informal poll. Ask yourself: as a social sector professional, do you regularly receive calls or emails from the people who you’re trying to help where they ask - with great anticipation - about when the next version of your project or programme will be released? While this regularly happens for other …
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TOR157: How Crowdfunding Is Shifting The Financial Landscape For The Social Sector with Jason Best
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If there is any one question I get asked more than any other from professionals in the social sector, it is some variation of this: “How do I raise money for my organization, cause or program?” And, there is usually a quick follow up that goes something like, “and, how do I raise money sustainably?” Fundraising, marketing, business development, sal…
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TOR156: Designing Products For Underserved Populations with Krista Donaldson of D-Rev
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A great deal of the actual “work” delivered in the social sector comes in the form of services. Of these services, the lowest hanging fruit is skill building, often known as capacity building. But there are, of course, many other flavors of services - everything from helping to draft policies and plans, to the know-how behind running a power grid, …
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TOR155: Empowering Legacy Cities with Lev Gonick of DigitalC
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As you may have noticed over the past few months, I’ve been talking more and more about the “social sector.” As I’m sure you’ll have assumed, this has been intentional on my part to begin to reach out beyond my comfort zone of humanitarian aid and international development to the wider community of social actors; people who consider themselves soci…
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TOR154: Understanding Blended Financing with Joan Larrea of Convergence
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For as long as I have been a social sector professional, there has always been a desire to do more partnering with the “private sector.” And, by that I mean traditional, for profit or commercial enterprises like Coke, Toyota or Airbus. In fact, 14 years ago, the capstone project of my Masters degree at American University was, I’m not kidding, “The…
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TOR153: Defragmenting agricultural markets with Jason Wendle of the Rural and Agricultural Finance Learning Lab
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Because I am something of a super geek, and what I like to think of as the new-old guard (I mean, I had a TRS-80 in my house growing up), when I hear the term "defragment," the first thing I think of is hard drives. Fortunately, for everyone's sake, that's not what we are here to talk about today. Instead on today's 153rd Terms of Reference Podcast…
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TOR152: Embracing Failure And Iteration To Find Sustainable Solutions In The Social Sector with Nithya Ramanathan of Nexleaf Analytics
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How much do we really embrace failure in the social sector? I ask this question because, as someone who has been lucky enough to be a part of the evaluation revolution over the past decade, embracing failure at an institutional level still remains elusive. Organizations and individuals alike still remain reluctant to lay bare the shortcomings of th…
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TOR 151: Disrupting Existing Silos Of The Social Sector with Tim France of Inis Communication
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One of my favorite things about data analysis is when trends emerge unexpectedly. So often, when sifting through data we find exactly what we’re looking for. But its those moments when we’re presented with something unusual that are the real special event. This holds for why I love the monitoring and evaluation process in the social sector. So ofte…
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TOR150: Testing The Assumptions Of The Social Sector With Chris Blattman Of The University of Chicago
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Professor Chris Blattman is the Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The University of Chicago, at the Harris School of Public Policy, as well as a research associate at National Bureau of Economic Research, among many other things. He's a heavyweight in the world of understanding what works - and more importantly what doesn't…
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TOR149: Rethinking the social sector with Paula Kravitz of the Social Progress Imperative
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There is a beautiful simplicity to the commercial sector. Anyone can create products and services that satisfy a real or perceived need in whatever market(s) they want. Then, with the right marketing and (hopefully) added value from the "better mousetraps" people create, the business can realize a profit. And that, ultimately, is the measure of you…
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TOR148: How To Leverage Scale And Experience With Jamey Butcher of Chemonics
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We’ve be fortunate enough to have guests on this show from across the entire spectrum of the social sector and from around the world. One of the common issues we’ve talked about is resource scarcity and how that presents both unique opportunities for innovation and challenges in terms of programming, priorities and management. Today, we’re going to…
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TOR147: Balancing The Scales For Local Communities With Flaviano Bianchini of Source International
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Let's say you woke up tomorrow to the sound of someone knocking at your door. And, when you answer, the person standing outside politely explained that they were a representative of a energy company that had recently acquired the rights to extract the natural gas in the area. Oh, and a great deal of that resource happens to be located under your ho…
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TOR146: How AI And Machine Learning Prove The Journey Is More Important Than The Destination With Dr. Kenneth Stanley
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How obsessed are you with goal setting? I mean seriously - if you've been living on planet earth you know that, those invested in the science of achievement, have done an incredible of not only convincing, but actually getting us as a whole to adopt goal setting as a lifestyle. And, full disclosure, I am not only a living, breathing product of this…
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TOR145: High Tech Humanitarians With Giulio Coppi
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Two very common themes in the aid and development community are “resource scarcity” (some even call this resource starvation) and “locally driven solutions.” The particular resource scarcity I am referring to is a lack of funding. This is a conversation you cannot avoid, because the challenges always seem to be greater than the available pools of m…
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TOR144: Innovation To Disrupt Supply Chains With Andrew Lamb Of Field Ready
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While we live in a world of unprecedented prosperity for many, we also live in a world that is experiencing unprecedented levels of humanitarian crisis. You know the examples: protracted violent conflicts, devastation caused by earthquakes or hurricanes, the specters of famine or disease outbreak... unfortunately the list goes on and on. The good n…
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TOR143: Effectively Communicating Social Impact With Angus Hervey Of Future Crunch
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We've had a lot of change makers on this show over the past two years - people and organizations that are redefining old systems and creating new products and processes that demand completely new ways of thinking about how we serve those in need. Across these interviews, one of the factors critical to the success of any endeavor is the ability to c…
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TOR142: Creating An Innovation Mindset With Corrine Gray Of UNHCR
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One reason that innovation has become one of those words that you just cannot escape in social impact, is the fact that the institutions that have occupied this space for the bulk of history are the anthesis of what we would consider "shiny new objects." But really, if we sit back and think about it, for many (and maybe most, or even all) of them, …
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TOR141: The Power Of The Impact Evaluation Revolution With David Evans Of The World Bank
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I invite you to pause just for a second and take a moment to think about the last time you changed your mind about something. Specifically, I'd like for you to identify something that was either very important to you or your worldview, or something that you had taken for granted, that today you have either the complete opposite or at least a very d…
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TOR140: Communicating Effectively At Scale About Human Exploitation With Tara Dermott Of IOM X
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So, imagine for a moment that you're a college student getting ready to spend a summer working internationally. Maybe in a hotel in a tropical resort, or as an eco tour guide, or maybe helping teach children in an orphanage. The options are almost limitless if you look hard enough. This is exciting stuff! So, now your bags are packed, you've said g…
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TOR139: Investing In An Integrated Approach To Development With Patrick Fine Of FHI 360
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The challenges faced by communities in developing contexts around the world are anything but simple. Climate change, protracted conflict, gender issues, food scarcity, natural resource management... these and the hundreds of other topics that development professionals work on everyday are complex by their very nature. Working effectively within the…
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TOR138: How To Create Lasting Change At Scale With Dr. Kevin Starr Of The Mulago Foundation
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Do you ever have the feeling that your work in the Social Impact sector is akin to "plowing the sea?" That is - despite all of the time and effort you've put into your particular program or project, the effects are less than expected or, worse, completely disappear in a relatively short time? This was a lament of Rainer Arnhold, a pediatrician who,…
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TOR137: Supporting Social Impact Through Digital Strategies With Christopher Wolz
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If you're listening to this podcast, you're clearly a part of the digital revolution. Social media is a part of your life. Blogging may even be something you do. And... you even have a host of expectations about what minimum requirements you have for a job or an organization regarding your interaction with all things interweb. But how do we align t…
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TOR136: Coordinating ICT4D at UNICEF with Sean Blaschke
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Would you agree with me that it is easy to become overwhelmed - in general? If I'm honest, which I always try to be, it actually pains me that this reality is, well, a reality. But, the truth of the matter is we are all a part of this brave new world where information, opinions, new ideas and old obligations are hurtling at us with both unprecedent…
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Have you ever stopped to think about how many things in your life depend on the weather? Everything from your mood to your travel plans to whether or not you'll get to wear that awesome brand new pair of blue suede shoes you've been dying to show off. The weather is also, of course, important for farmers. Being able to predict when it will rain (or…
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