We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits 313. Partnerships in Action: How Mobile Tech is Driving Social Impact - June Sugiyama & Meena Palaniappan
Overview
Meet June & Meena. This dynamic tech-for-good team is on a global mission to empower girls with technology, and the results are quite extraordinary. Their combined expertise and grit is powering community-based technology projects in the developing world for the past two decades - and the effect is staggering. Tune in🎧
💡Learn
- The massive opportunity to put technological innovation to work for good.
- Importance of social media networks to enact positive change rather than spread misinformation
- Case Study: campaign to tackle vaccine hesitancy in Puerto Rico
- Overview of Atma Connect & Vodafone Americas Foundation
Episode Highlights
- Meena’s story and journey to where she is today (4:20)
- June’s story and journey to where she is today + an overview of Vodafone (6:00)
- How Meena met June + an overview of Atma Connect (10:15)
- Using Technology for Good (15:00)
- How women disproportionately experience the affects of disasters (19:00)
- Creating human-centered tech (32:00)
- A powerful moment of philanthropy in June’s life (37:45)
- A powerful moment of philanthropy in Meena’s life (40:10)
- June’s One Good Thing: You have to be really good listeners to create solutions; Meena’s One Good Thing: Being an entrepreneur is not the journey for the the meek of heart (42:15)
For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/313
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About our Sponsor Neon One
Technology alone can’t solve the challenges nonprofits face. That’s why Neon One provides software that empowers
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