The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada Podcast

By Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada

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August 09, 2022 Ranjit Singh on Leveraging Big Data and AI-based Interventions for the Majority World
Ranjit Singh, researcher at the AI on the Ground Initiative, Data & Society Research Institute, invites us to reframe our thinking about how technology impacts the globe’s largest populations in the Global South.
They, in fact, form the “majority world” rather than a collective remainder in the conceptualization, use, and application of technology. Observing how tech actually affects communities on the ground and the nature of their relationship with technology can help tailor and improve the experience of data-driven solutions, in practical terms.
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34min
June 23, 2022 Sanjana Hattotuwa on the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Side of Social Media
In this episode, Sanjana Hattotuwa, special advisor at ICT4Peace Foundation and research fellow in Dunedin, Aotearoa NZ, prompts us to ask better questions about online content: how does it inform our world view? What values does it advance? And how do we wrest control of it?
Drawing the analogy of DJs and clubs, Sanjana breaks down the role of content creators and the platforms that host them, as well as what it all means for the millions of users in the Global South who have long “begged” for greater attention to these issues before the West woke up to them.
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43min
June 09, 2022 Rasheed Griffith on the Geopolitics of Tech in the Caribbean
Rasheed Griffith sits down with Elina Noor to outline the technology landscape, competing priorities, and structural constraints in the Caribbean. Cautioning observers to see the Caribbean for what it actually is rather than what we want to see in it, he debunks assumptions about China’s presence and influence in the region through initiatives like the Digital Silk Road.
Rasheed is non-resident senior fellow with the Asia and Latin America Program at the Inter-American Dialogue and Head of Operations at Merkle Hedge, a Canadian financial tech firm focused on high-frequency trading strategies in cryptocurrency markets.
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34min
June 02, 2022 Sara Cole Stratton on Bridging the Digital Divide Through a Māori Lens
In this sobering reflection on the continued impact of systemic injustice in the digital age, Sara Cole Stratton argues powerfully for the inclusion of different worldviews and knowledge systems. Her unique perspective of viewing digital tech through a Māori lens is borne of first-hand encounters with racism and the effects of colonial imposition on everyday life and decision-making, from institutionalized laws to algorithmic bias in technology. Sara is the founder of Māori Lab in NZ and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council for AI Fairness.
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36min
May 12, 2022 Virgilio Almeida on Creating Spaces to Build Digital Governance Futures
References:
Urs Gasser and Virgilio Almeida, “Futures of Digital Governance,” Communications of the ACM, March 2022, Vol. 65 No. 3, Pages 30-32, https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022/3/258905-futures-of-digital-governance/fulltext.
Beyond the North-South Fork on the Road to AI Governance: An Action Plan for Democratic & Distributive Integrity, https://digitalrights.ai/report/
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34min
May 10, 2022 Asia Pacific Conversations: APEC Executive Director Dr. Rebecca Sta Maria
Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada President & CEO Jeff Nankivell discusses emergent issues and ideas with thought-leaders from across the Asia Pacific in this ongoing podcast series. Asia Pacific Conversations is where conversation meets innovation at the intersection of Canada-Asia relations.
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23min
April 13, 2022 Imen Ghedhioui on Prioritizing the Localization of Technology
In this episode, Imen Ghedhioui, former advisor to Tunisia’s Ministry of Communication Technologies and Digital Transformation, explains why the intersection between the behavioral sciences and technology is crucial for digital access, inclusion, and integration. She talks about the localization of technology to further those aims, and underscores the importance of agency in interacting with tech — of personal agency vis-a-vis data and of national agency in digital infrastructure development.
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26min
March 30, 2022 Siriwat Chhem on What Makes For an Inclusive Digital Economy
As one of Southeast Asia’s smaller countries, Cambodia is often overlooked and underrated. Yet, the country’s youth dividend, technological leapfrogging, and economic growth rate over the past decade warrant a closer look at its potential. In outlining Cambodia’s priorities and challenges in the digital space, Siriwat Chhem, Director of the Centre for Inclusive Digital Economy at the Asian Vision Institute, explains why context, functionality, and unintended consequences all matter in making tech meaningful.
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35min
March 11, 2022 Merih Angin on Why Stakeholders Need to Think About Tech Holistically
In this episode, Merih Angin, Assistant Professor at Koç University in Turkey, underscores the criticality of viewing tech holistically. She unpacks why a cross-disciplinary and multi-perspective approach is important, and dives deep into the diversity of tech priorities among various stakeholders in one country - Turkey - alone.
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31min
March 01, 2022 Moliehi Makumane on Looking at Technology in a Development Setting
In this episode of Between the Binary, host Elina Noor speaks with Moliehi Makumane, a researcher with the Security and Technology Programme at UNIDIR and a former cyber diplomat. Here, Moliehi prompts us to apply a broader lens to thinking about technology in a development setting: we talk of South Africa’s digital priorities, positioning amid powerful state and industry partners, indigenous innovations for the world (“create local, think global”), as well as the challenges of South-South technological cooperation.
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28min

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