Adapting Artificial Intelligence to overcome the social challenges of our era
We speak with Alice Piterova, managing director at AI for Good. AI for Good is a social enterprise that creates AI-powered technologies to help the... Read More
Blockchain supporting local innovation for local solutions worldwide
Empodera.org chats with Cecilia Chapiro and Ariana Fowler, members of UNICEF’s Office of Innovation team. A team within UNICEF that explores emerging technologies and their... Read More
GrainMate: local technological empowerment to improve global food security
We chat with Isaac Sesi, CEO and Head of Product Development at Sesi Technologies, a Ghanaian company that develops affordable technologies to solve problems in... Read More
Artificial Intelligence Systems to prevent epidemics
With the purpose to overcome the gap in between the public health system and the technological innovation, Rainier Mallol has managed to create an Artificial... Read More
Banning biopsies through the use of ultrasound technology
Carolina’s passion for creating technological tools to solve clinical problems has turned her into one of the 35 innovative and pioneering MITs under 35 in... Read More
Fostering Social Inclusion and Multilingualism through Science with Native Scientist
Joana Moscoso, in addition to being a biologist, researcher and scientist, is the co-founder of the Native Scientific project, responsible for bringing science education to... Read More
Young African Feminism leveraging social media for SRHR advocacy
We spoke with Catherine Nyambura, responsible for advocacy at FEMNET, a pan-African organization that was born with the aim of facilitating and coordinating the exchange... Read More
WeRobotics: Robotics and Technology for Social-Good
We interviewed Sonja Betschart, Co-founder and CEO of WeRobotics, an entrepreneurial initiative that develops technological projects with drones in countries of the Global South to... Read More
Free opensource videogames with social impact
Francesco Cavallari, founder of Video Games Without Borders show us how gamification is able to change the lives of hundreds of people. Specifically, the Foundation... Read More
Creative technology for the healthcare sector
Sabine Wildevuur, director of Creative Care Lab of Waag, tells the story behind this ecosystem responsible for bringing together users, designers, developers and health professionals... Read More