The Kenya Community Development Foundation (KCDF) is a philanthropic foundation supporting sustainable community driven development. It introduces an innovative approach to grant-making by focusing on local fundraising and participatory grant making to ensure the communities’ voices are integrated into the grant.

The LAM Sisterhood, established in 2019 in Kenya, is a content studio founded by three creative feminist women. They aim to fill the world with stories for African women to feel seen, heard, and beloved. This podcast is part of our Innovation Report 2024, The Power of (Making) Futures.

In our twelfth dialogue, moderated by malebo sephodi, our panellists discussed how working remotely doesn’t just offer women the possibility to find a balance between their work life and their family duties, but it also comes at a cost. For example, women are still less likely to be promoted, are underrepresented in leadership positions, get paid less and experience disadvantages after having children. Plus, our speakers faced challenging conversations around stereotypes, cultural norms and gender bias communication.

Guest Speakers

- malebo sephodi, South African interdisciplinary artist and scholar

- Dr Tendani Mulanga Chimboza, Lecturer at the University of Cape Town (UCT). She also serves as the Scientific Engagement Lead for the Cybersecurity Capacity Centre for Southern Africa (C3SA)

- Dr Prince Charles Dickson, Team Lead for the Nigerian-based Tattaaunawa Roundtable Initiative (TRICentre)

- Download the transcript:https://bit.ly/3OpUOpc

This time our panellists dived into the implications of Transcontinental Gig Work. Gig workers, both in the Global North and South, work as online contractors for the benefit of large companies mainly based in the Global North. Given its transnational nature, what kind of self-organisation or regulation does this new labour relationship require? Should it, yet again, privilege workers from the Global North over those from the Global South? Could opportunities for online work stem from illegal south-north migration?

Guest Speakers

-Barbara Iverson, Digital Education Consultant, Moderator

-Sai Amulya Komarraju, Researcher at FemLab https://femlab.co/

-Jane Muigai Kamphuis, Founder-Director of The Toolkit iSkills (TTI) Ltd https://www.toolkitiskills.com/

-Nuno Boavida, Researcher at NOVA University of Lisbon and Deputy Director of its Observatory of Technology Assessment https://www.cics.nova.fcsh.unl.pt/peo...

-Download the transcript: https://bit.ly/3Imgleo

This time our panellists dived into the implications of ChatGPT for ICSO's in the digital space. This exciting discussion addressed questions like 'How do we integrate AI chatbots without losing people-centred approaches to CSO work?' and 'What are these AI chatbots likely to do for us in the future?'

Guest Speakers

-Nkosinathi Mcetywa, Communications and Community Organiser at Civic Tech Innovation Network (CTIN), Moderator

-Adeboro Odunlami, Programme Director at Resilience Technologies

-Varoon Bashyakarla, Data Scientist and Statistician.

-Edzai Zvobwo, Tech Advisor. He co-founded The Education Support Forum (TEDSF) and founded MathsGee, an online AI supplementary learning platform that supports remote learners

-Download the transcript: https://bit.ly/3oBzqSQ

The internet and social media have become the main stage for manipulation, misinformation and disinformation. Listen to our panel of new media and civil society experts discuss the effects on societies across the globe.

Guest Speakers

-Barbara Iverson, Digital Education Consultant, Moderator

-Valerie Khan, Digital Equity Association

-Simone Toussi, Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA)

-Melyn McKay, Coala Pay

-Download the transcript: https://bit.ly/3KbtA1K

-Check out our Resources for Civil Society page on Countering misinformation and disinformation: https://bit.ly/2NEeVCN

In our eighth dialogue, we discussed the political, legal, and technological lines of legitimate self defense against digital surveillance.

Guest Speakers

-Francesca Bosco - Senior Advisor at the CyberPeace Institute

-Matt Mahmoudi - Researcher/Adviser - Amnesty Tech

Big Data, Artificial Intelligence & Human Rights at Amnesty International

-Download the transcript: https://bit.ly/3hC55QY

-Find out more about the Decode Surveillance NYC project: bit.ly/3zcwo9U

-Read the Cybersecurity guidance developed by the Centre and CyberPeace Institute: https://bit.ly/3Ovyw27

In our seventh dialogue, we discussed ways to move from consultation and customisation to co-creation with (user) communities and partners. This was the second dialogue featuring case studies from our latest Innovation Report on Civil Society innovation and digital power shift, moderated by Nyambura Mbugua, lead author of the report.

Guest Speakers

-Fadia Elgharib - Operations and Community Lead at the Global Innovation Gathering

-Ibraheem Saleem - Director of Fellowships at Code for Pakistan

-Rafael Diniz - HERMES Lead Developer and Project Manager.

-Explore the Centre's 'Civil Society Innovation and Digital Power Shift' report bit.ly/3rBkNgM

- Find out more about the Code for Pakistan – Fellowship Program bit.ly/3SIINdx

- Find out more about the HERMES system bit.ly/3TF1KOd

For the Centre’s 2022 Report on ‘Civil Society Innovation and Digital Power Shift’, we’re speaking with inspirational innovators from civil society organisations around the world to hear the stories of their inclusive innovation approaches to advance people-centred digitalisation, to either address system power imbalances or capitalise on emerging people power and technological capabilities.

In this episode, Michuki Mwangi, Verengai Mabika, and Joseph Bishi, talk about how a community network in Zimbabwe grows from a cyber café to a local hub of knowledge, healthcare, and development, realising the Internet as a place of possibility.

- Find out more about the Internet Society http://bit.ly/3Eno2iJ

- Explore the Centre’s ‘Civil Society Innovation and Digital Power Shift’ report bit.ly/3rBkNgM

We would like to thank the Centre’s innovation partner TechSoup for kindly supporting this report and we would also like to thank the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation and the Ford Foundation for their support in making this project happen.

For the Centre’s 2022 Report on ‘Civil Society Innovation and Digital Power Shift’, we’re speaking with inspirational innovators from civil society organisations around the world to hear the stories of their inclusive innovation approaches to advance people-centred digitalisation, to either address system power imbalances or capitalise on emerging people power and technological capabilities.

In this episode, Rafael Diniz, Lead Developer and Project Manager at Rhizomatica, talks about how they use new information and communication technologies to support communities in building and maintaining self-governed and self-owned communication infrastructure

- Find out more about the HERMES system https://bit.ly/3TF1KOd

- Explore the Centre’s ‘Civil Society Innovation and Digital Power Shift’ report bit.ly/3rBkNgM

We would like to thank the Centre’s innovation partner TechSoup for kindly supporting this report and we would also like to thank the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation and the Ford Foundation for their support in making this project happen.