Wiki Loves Women’s Inspiring Open podcast series launched!
Inspiring Open is hosted by Betty Kankam-Boadu, co-founder of the Ghana Women Experts project that promotes women’s voices for commentary in the media. Says Kankam-Boadu, “Despite all the things in this world designed to see women as afterthoughts, we don’t have to buy into that. There are no limits and there should be none in our quest to change the world. Inspiring Open reinforces the fact we don’t have to do it alone because there’s beauty in bringing many people along in the process of making the change we seek.”Anie Akpe
Episode 1: Anie Akpe, founder of African Women In Tech (AWIT), an Africa-based organisation helping girls and women with education and mentorship within technology, as well as UX Diaspora, a unique community of people of colour in UX who are digitally migrating to educate, connect and inspire one another all over the world. Listen here!
Maryana Iskander
Episode 2: Maryana Iskander is the Chief Executive Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation. With a proven track record for scaling complex organisations she has dedicated much of her work to breaking down systemic barriers of access to opportunity and education.
Listen to the podcast wherever you get yours
Guests who will appear during 2022 include
Lola Shoneyin
A Nigerian poet, author, and founder of Book Buzz Foundation, an NGO devoted to promoting literacy, creating reading spaces, and organising cultural and arts-focused events, Lola Shoneyin’s works include three books of poems. She is also the founder of Ouida Books—an exciting, new publishing house for the eclectic reader.
Islam Elbeiti
Sudanese cultural curator, and bass player Islam Elbeiti, whose work has been featured on NPR, Yamaha, CNN, Public Radio International, The Mosaic Rooms, Voice of America, 500 Words Magazine, and Action Music Women.
Prof. Jane-Frances Agbu
Nigerian Professor Agbu is alaureate of the Institute of Open Leadership; who holds an International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) Chair in OER and is a board member of Open Education Global.
Nana Ama Agyemang Asante
Asante is an experienced journalist and activist covering Ghana’s politics, gender, and business. From 2012 up to the present day she has been working as deputy online editor of Citi FM‘s web portal citifmonline.com. She also co-hosts the “Citi Breakfast Show” at the Accra-based radio station Citi FM, together with Bernard Avle.
Angela Odour Lungati
Lungati is the Executive Director at Ushahidi, a global non-profit technology company that drives crowdsourcing for communities to drive their own solutions to some of the challenges they face.
Elizabeth Oyange
Oyange has a passion forintellectual property and its intersections with traditional knowledge and culture and technology. Oyangemanages the Copyright Office at Aga Khan University Global, East Africa.
Emna Mizouni
Mizouni is a Tunisian online and human rights activist, free-lance journalist, communications expert and business executive. She has received global recognition for her contributions to several international entities focusing on where human rights and knowledge intersects with technology.
Esra’a Al Shafei
Al Shafei is aBahraini human rights activist and founder of Majal, a network of digital platforms that amplify under-reported and marginalized voices in the Middle East and North Africa. This includes Mideast Tunes, a web and mobile application for independent musicians in the MENA, Ahwaa.org, a discussion tool for Arab LGBTQ+ youth that leverages game mechanics to protect and engage its community, and Migrant-Rights.org, the primary resource on the plight of migrant workers in the Gulf region.
Hilda Twongyeirwe
Women’s activist Hilda Twongyeirwe is a Ugandan writer who has published creative and non-fiction works in different anthologies and journals. She is a National Medalist whose work in the literature sector has covered programmes in development, advocacy, evaluation and organisational development.
Maha Bali
Bali is Associate Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. She writes and speaks frequently about social justice, critical pedagogy, and open and online education
Mulenga Mpundu Kapwepwe
Co-founder of the Zambian Women’s History Museum, Kapwepwe aims to increase the number of narratives on Wikipedia of Zambian women.
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
Sekyiamah is a Ghanaian feminist writer and blogger. Nana writes across genres including creative non-fiction, short stories and essays. She is also the co-founder of Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women, an award-winning website, podcast and festival that publishes and creates content that tell stories of African women’s experiences around sex, sexualities and pleasure.
Dr. Nkem Osuigwe
Dr. Nkem Osuigwe works at the African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA) as the Director of Human Capacity Development and Training. In this position, Dr Osuigwe has created powerful connections between the African librarian community and Wikipedia.
Prior to her work at AfLIA, she was the Director of the Nigerian Book Foundation.
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