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Shayna and Grant Specialist Remy Hellstern chat about language and accessibility on the Internet.

Then, Shayna interviews the Senior Advisor of Communications and Connectivity at the Internet Society, João Aguiar, about the Connected the Unconnected project and Community Networks.

Finally, Shayna and Remy debrief João's interview and discuss the tradeoffs and value of community networks and other resilient infrastructures.

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Shayna and Senior Communications Manager, Mabel Gunda chat about futurism and the future of the Internet. Then, Shayna interviews the Director of Internet Development at Internet Society, Kevin Chege, about Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS). Finally, Shayna and Mabel debrief Kevin’s interview and talk about combatting Internet security threats by building trust. 

Shayna and Executive Director, Sarah Armstrong, chat about the hottest of topics — artificial intelligence. Then, Shayna interviews the Director of Partnerships and Internet Development at Internet Society, Israel Rosas, about the Sustainable Technical Communities program. Finally, Shayna and Sarah debrief Israel’s interview and talk about why the community-driven approach to Internet development is what makes the Internet work for all of us. 

Join Internet Society Foundation’s Program Director, Shayna Robinson, for Season 3 of Bcc. Listen as she and her guest hosts copy you in on stories from the Foundation’s grant programs and trending topics about everyday life on the Internet.

Shayna and Paige interview: Paige’s niece, a few members of Shayna's family, and Christopher Gayle a software engineer at Gizzada Software, a Jamaican start-up, to ask them all the same question, ‘What is the Internet?’

Shayna and Paige chat about technological scams. Paige interviews Machiel Salomons, the Executive Director of United Way Netherlands, about their project, Joining Forces for Emergency Response to COVID-19. Lastly, a few more of our teammates answer the question, “what is your earliest memory of the Internet?”

Our teammate and Grants Specialist Remy Hellstern chats with NetHope and the Ghana Internet Society Chapter about their Resiliency project, Disaster Preparedness Program located in Ghana, Japan, Nicaragua, and Guatemala.

Shayna and Paige chat about blue light glasses. Our teammate Remy interviews our grantee, Télécoms Sans Frontières, about their Resiliency project. Lastly, a few of our teammates answer the question, “What is your earliest memory of the Internet?”

Shayna and Paige meet in person and discuss Beyonce’s song World Wide Woman. Paige talks to Sanjay Fernandes, the founder of SOLE Colombia, and his project with our Building Opportunities/Leveraging Technologies ‘BOLT’ program. Lastly, a few of our teammates: Mabel, Heidi, and Sophie answer the question, what is your earliest memory of the Internet?

Our teammates Sophie and Su chat with our grantees Joanna Kuelsza, Assistant Professor of International Law and Internet Governance at the University of Lodz, Poland, and Berna Akcali Gur, Visiting Researcher at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, about their research project, titled "Global Governance of LEO (low earth orbit) Satellite Broadband".