Global Digital Futures Chipo Mapondera

This week, we are speaking to Samuel Olaniran, and Dr Stephanie Diepeveen, who have worked on the article, “Demystifying the COVID-19 infodemic: Conspiracies, context and the agency of users,” which has just been published in Social Media & Society. 
Samuel Olaniran is a PhD Candidate in the department of media studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, and has lectured at Plateau State University in Nigeria. His research focuses on digital dis/misinformation, social media and politics, computational propaganda and digital culture. 
Dr Stephanie Diepeveen is a Research Fellow at ODI and a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, where she also obtained a PhD in Politics and International Studies. Her work focuses on the social and political implications of the increasingly digital world.
Host & Producer: Chipo Mapondera
Researcher: Deirbhile Ni Bhranain
Editor: Eliza Bacon
Sound Engineer: Fungai Nengare
Theme Music: Anna De Mutiis
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This week we are joined by Paromita Vohra to talk about her platform, Agents of Ishq. Paromita is a filmmaker and writer whose work focuses on gender, feminism, urban life, love, desire and popular culture. It spans many forms, including documentary, fiction, print, video and sound installation. She is the founder of Agents of Ishq, a multi-media online project about sex education and sexual culture in India which platforms discussions and materials around sex, love and desire.
Host & Producer: Chipo Mapondera
Researcher: Eliza Bacon
Editor: Deirbhile Ni Bhranain
Sound Engineer: Fungai Nengare
Theme Music: Anna De Mutiis
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This week we are joined by Darlington Akogo to speak about Global Dynamics of AI in Healthcare. Darlington Akogo is the Founder and Director of Artificial Intelligence at GUDRA, and its subsidiaries; including minoHealth, an AI Healthtech company and minoHealth AI Lab, an AI Healthcare, Biotech and Biomedical Research Lab.
Darlington is the also lead for TG-AI4 Radiology under the United Nations ITU and World Health Organization's Focus Group on 'Artificial Intelligence for Health' (AI4H). He is also an Advisory Board Member and Ambassador to West Africa at AI Expo Africa, the largest business focused AI community in Africa. He is a member of MIT Tech Review Global Panel, and he's a Global Shaper under the World Economic Forum's initiative.
Host & Producer: Chipo Mapondera
Researcher: Eliza Bacon
Editor & Sound Engineer: Fungai Nengare
Theme Music: Anna De Mutiis
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This week we are joined by Hannah Metcalfe to speak about Mobile for Development in Tanzania. Hannah has had an 8 year career in mobile for development and technology for development. Since 2017 she has been working for Viamo, and since 2019 she has been the Country Director in Tanzania. Viamo is a technology for development organisation with a platform capable of reaching anyone in the world, with a mobile phone. Viamo partners with a wide range of NGOs and other organisations. They can tailor excellent behaviour change communication campaigns, hotlines, infolines and subscription services, as well as providing the data analysis and visualisation to go with it.
Host & Producer: Chipo Mapondera
Researcher: Eliza Bacon
Editor: Deirbhile Ní Bhranáin
Sound Engineer: Fungai Nengare
Theme Music: Anna De Mutiis
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On this episode we are speaking to Tais Koshino and Amelie Maia, co-founders of the DiverseNFTArt initiative which aims to provide a community for Women, BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ NFT artists. Tais Koshino is a digital artist from Brazil whose work is featured on Hic et Nunc . Amelie Maia is an artist and senior creative developer currently based in Toronto, Canada.
Host & Producer: Chipo Mapondera
Researcher: Deirbhile Ní Bhranáin
Editor: Eliza Bacon
Sound Engineer: Fungai Nengare
Theme Music: Anna De Mutiis
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This week, we are speaking to Bhavjit Singh, the founder of the Twitter account @Tractor2twitr. The account was set up to support the Indian Farmers’ Protests and counter the narrative being promoted by the mainstream media and the IT cells of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party led by President Narendra Modi. It currently has over 50,000 followers and is run by several hundred volunteers across the globe.
Host & Producer: Chipo Mapondera
Researcher: Eliza Bacon
Editor: Deirbhile Ní Bhranáin
Sound Engineer: Fungai Nengare
Theme Music: Anna De Mutiis
Discover more about this interview on our website here.
Twitter: @global_futures
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YouTube: Global Digital Futures
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