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313. Partnerships in Action: How Mobile Tech is Driving Social Impact - June Sugiyama & Meena Palaniappan


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Overview
Meet June & Meena. This dynamic tech-for-good team is on a global mission to empower girls with technology, and the results are quite extraordinary. Their combined expertise and grit is powering community-based technology projects in the developing world for the past two decades - and the effect is staggering. Tune in🎧

💡Learn

  • The massive opportunity to put technological innovation to work for good.
  • Importance of social media networks to enact positive change rather than spread misinformation
  • Case Study: campaign to tackle vaccine hesitancy in Puerto Rico
  • Overview of Atma Connect & Vodafone Americas Foundation

Episode Highlights

  • Meena’s story and journey to where she is today (4:20)
  • June’s story and journey to where she is today + an overview of Vodafone (6:00)
  • How Meena met June + an overview of Atma Connect (10:15)
  • Using Technology for Good (15:00)
  • How women disproportionately experience the affects of disasters (19:00)
  • Creating human-centered tech (32:00)
  • A powerful moment of philanthropy in June’s life (37:45)
  • A powerful moment of philanthropy in Meena’s life (40:10)
  • June’s One Good Thing: You have to be really good listeners to create solutions; Meena’s One Good Thing: Being an entrepreneur is not the journey for the the meek of heart (42:15)

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