Diaspora Talks

Diaspora Talks

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Diaspora Talks episodes

  • The Prosperity Paradox: How can innovation lift Tunisia towards economic and social prosperity? Part 1

    How was it possible for South Korea to go from a development aid receiver to donor within a few decades? What can we learn from the first African telecom company Celltell? Is a great constitution a must to develop Tunisia?

    We visit these questions and more in this podcast, to extract lessons relevant to Tunisians and Maghrebis who want to contribute to development in our countries. The Prosperity Paradox is a brilliant book with a key idea: to effectively fight poverty, don't fight poverty, but rather generate prosperity through market-creating innovations and entire nations will be lifted out of poverty. Diaspora in Action members and show hosts Hajer ben Charrada and Amin Zayani together with our dear guest and active member from Morocco Mehdi Fekari will take you through the ideas in this book in three parts:

    Part 1: Market creating innovations with examples from Korea, Japan, Africa and Mexico. What can we learn from Toyota's driving schools, Henry Ford's model T and Singer's sewing machines?

    Part 2: Corruption, good laws and infrastructure. Is a shiny new constitution a requirement for development? Does investing in infrastructure create prosperity?

    Part 3: Addressing feedback, questions and comments from you, our dear listeners.

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    41 min
  • The journey of female entrepreneurs, the headwinds and tailwinds and how to develop resilience
    The second episode of Diaspora Talks hosts Emna Ghariani, a successful Tunisian female entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley. Emna is co-founder & CEO of Veamly, a developer unified workspace for software engineers. As a digital wellbeing activist and productivity guru, she is on mission to fix our relationship with work and to advocate for a brave new world where wellbeing and work/life balance are celebrated to live a full-filling life. She also brings a hybrid model of remote work that puts people and their own wellbeing at the center.  Emna's work has been featured on Gitlab, ThriveGlobal, Hackernoon ,etc…
    In this podcast talk,  Emna will tell us more about her story, venture, and how her passion for entrepreneurship started. We will also discover, together with her, the challenges that female entrepreneurs face in this exciting journey and the lessons learnt to achieve resilience and claim power as a female leader and founder.
    1 hr 6 min

About Diaspora Talks

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Diaspora Talks aim at gathering inspiring individuals from the Tunisian diaspora community and give them the stage to share perspectives, life journeys, insights and ideas. Diaspora Talks are inclusive and multi-disciplinary. Our guiding vision is: A prosperous Tunisia.