iamtheCODE Podcast

Welcome to the second to last episode of Season 6. We hope you have enjoyed the DecodingSDGs series. We are honoured to bring guests from diverse communities together to advance the Sustainable Development Goals. ’In this episode, our host, Lady Mariéme, invited the restless entrepreneur and CEO of Junior Achievement (JA) Worldwide, Asheesh Advani.

Asheesh Advani Graduated from Wharton School and Oxford University. He is a Technology entrepreneur. Currently, President and Chief Executive Officer, Junior Achievement (JA) Worldwide, one of the largest youth services organizations in the world. With operations in over 100 countries, JA serves more than 10 million young people annually with programs designed to create pathways to employability and entrepreneurship. JA has over 120 million living alumni worldwide, including many successful business leaders, speakers and social entrepreneurs.

They discussed his journey, his work at JA worldwide, and how we can include more youth on a global platform like JA.

He is on a journey to transform the future by providing substantial programs in Entrepreneurship, Financial literacy & Work Readiness to young people worldwide. He strongly believes in the credibility of UN SDGs to bridge the global digital skills gap by providing a common language that helps build inclusion with a collective objective. This man of impact will inspire you with his resolve to re-skill the youth force and build confidence to scale opportunities.

Here is the final special episode straight from Davos 2022 of Season 6, Decoding Sustainable Development Goals. Our host, Lady Mariéme, went live from the prestigious event to feature girls from the Rwanda Coding Academy. The girls shared a powerful message with the world leaders. In addition to strengthening the voice of two young coders from Rwanda, she invited the Innovation Queen, Faraja Kotta Nyalandu. She is a Young Global Leader assigned by the World Economic Forum as well as the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Shule Direct. In this episode, they discussed the silver lining of COVID-19. The pandemic showed the potential of technology and how access to digital means has improved the quality of life. Faraja also emphasized the need to work with policymakers for curriculum reforms while integrating future skills to thrive in the 21st century. Without SDG4, Quality Education, our world will not be able to reach its fullest potential. 

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Our Davos 2022 Season 6 specials continue wth Lady Mariéme, our tireless host for another episode of Decoding the UN Sustainable Development Goals. She invited Bob Moritz, Global Chairman of PwC, and they discussed the Future of Work, the Global Skills standards Framework, and the skills taxonomy of the World Economic Forum Reskilling platform, where both seats as council members. The young people listening to this Podcast could learn a lot from Bob's leadership journey and his advice on how they should approach their future. The Pandemic has put the value of human talent into the spotlight, making it a core strategic priority for companies. Bob profoundly cares about helping people grow to reach their full potential. He mentioned that he is a lifelong learner. The man is committed to fostering an environment where everyone feels like they belong. For 1 billion people to be reskilled by 2030, we must have at least a common and universal language for skills.

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In this Davos Special, Lady Mariéme shares her learnings. She was truly honoured to have participated in this post-Covid 19 event and showcased our young girls. The Girls in Kakuma Refugees Camp and Rwanda Coding Academy were featured live from Davos. The girls in Kakuma spoke on Radio Davos, hosted by Robin Pomeroy for the first time in history. On top of featuring the brilliant girls. She invited Indian, New Delhi based entrepreneur Rhea Mazumdar Singhal. She is doing fantastic work on climate change issues, sustainability, and gender equality. Rhea is the founder and CEO of Ecoware. Ecoware is a one-stop shop for eco-friendly products that are 100% natural, compostable, biodegradable, and easily affordable.

Lady Mariéme, the founder and CEO of iamtheCODE, made an inspiring appearance at this year’s E-learning Africa Conference in Kigali, Rwanda. She showcased our new platform to leaders and local heroes from all over Rwanda who are transforming the world one day at a time. She visited the Rwanda Coding Academy and demonstrated the platform to the pride of Africa, the girls and boys learning how to code. She was honoured to have witnessed their vigour in becoming the most significant asset for our continent. With the facilitation from our partners, Kilimajaro Blind Trust, Lady Mariéme also visited some young visually impaired students, which brought tears to her eyes. We are doing all we can to make the entire content in Braille so that those who need it most will have access. The students and teachers of HVP Gatagara School for the visually impaired also listened to one of our Decoding SDGs episodes. They expressed their love and understood the challenges of gender equality in the 4th Industrial Revolution. As she said, technology does not discriminate; people do. Please check it out if you have not seen the iamtheCODE Digital platform. In this episode, Lady Mariéme shares more knowledge about the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, which provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. Stay tuned as we have more guests lined up for this season.

Our previous episode features The Childwall Valley primary school girls who are fantastic.

Happy Friday! - In this week's episode, Lady Mariéme invited her co-hosts, students from Childwall Valley Primary School, Liverpool, to welcome former England Goalkeeper and Team GB2012 for the 2012 London Olympics, Rachel Brown Finnis. She is now a media pundit for BBC/BT Sport. Rachel's journey as a sportswoman started at the age of 8, and she is humbled by how far women's football has come since then - even if there are still many barriers ahead. In this episode, Rachel and our young leaders discuss the critical role of sports in advancing sustainability and mental health globally. She has been an inspiration to everyone, and her invaluable expertise in being a sportswoman is something we can all learn from. Congratulations to all the girls.

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In continuation of our Girls in ICT Day celebrations, we have reached our ‘Special 100th Episode’. Lady Mariéme, our esteemed host was joined by our humble guest, Jayathma Wickramanayake, the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth.

Her extraordinary journey started as a community mobilizer, and when she started a youth-led non-profit called ‘Hashtag Generation’ from Srilanka, her birthplace. She shared her journey of being the UN Youth Envoy while focusing on the biggest challenges faced by youth. Jayathma and Lady Mariéme share a passion for providing access to knowledge and technology to youth while closing the digital gender divide. They Both seat as Board members of the ITU Generation Connect Visionaries. 

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We have launched our new Digital Platform. We want to encourage young people, particularly young women and girls from marginalized communities, to learn how to code using our intuitive online and offline interface. Find out more via our website and social media.

Hello From Kakuma, we welcome you to this special iamtheCODE Podcast episode. 

We celebrated Girls ICT Day in Kakuma Refugee Camp, where Lady Mariéme hosted the Podcast after two years of not meeting the girls.

As mentioned, we are also celebrating the launch of our new Digital Platform. We want to encourage young people, particularly young women and girls from marginalized communities, to learn how to code using our intuitive online and offline interface. Find out more via our website and social media.

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Lady Mariéme welcomed Madga Wood, Chief Learning Officer of the Microbit Foundation, to celebrate our upcoming 100th episode. We have had six seasons, from how can coding collides with mental health to discovering your purpose. Truly grateful to have you all listening. We had extraordinary guests who shared so much with us. 

The Microbit Foundation has made a donation to iamtheCODE and we are grateful that the girls can continue coding.

Currently, Lady Mariéme is in Kakuma to meet the girls after nearly 2 years. She will be showing our new digital platform to the girls.

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Easter special: In this episode, our host Lady Mariéme Jamme explores the relationship between what you eat and how you feel, including tips on incorporating healthy eating into your life. She shared her struggle with food and dieting. She said that eating one meal a day caused her many problems when she was young. Not having any nutritional education was challenging. This week’s guest is Dutch-born Robert Boer, Investor and Program Director at Blue Horizon Corporation. He built and ran UBS’s Global Visionaries program identifying and supporting impact-driven entrepreneurs at the forefront of tackling some of the world’s most challenging social and environmental problems. He was also leading the plant-based movement moderating Future of Food panels at UHNW and GFO events, integrating the topic in CIO research and facilitating access to plant-based investment opportunities. Robert and Lady Mariéme share a passion for food, and he was supportive of the creation of iamtheFOOD. Listen now on all major platforms. We count on your generosity.

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