Why do you care about changing the world? Open Gov Stories is a Global Podcast Series, which goes behind the scenes to explore why social change makers really do the work they do.
In each episode, listen to candid interviews between friends and colleagues who have devoted their lives to changing the world. Using the StoryCorps model and app, they share personal origin stories, lessons on how to open up governments, empower citizens and change the world, and their visions for the future. Listen to their stories and add your own.
This podcast is a partnership of Open Gov Hub and the Transparency and Accountability Initiative, in collaboration with StoryCorps. Interviews provided courtesy of StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to preserve and share humanity's stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world. www.storycorps.org
Music from https://filmmusic.io:
"Promises to Keep" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
In celebration of International Women's Day, March 8th 2023, the Open Gov Hub hosted a podcast on the this year's theme: #EmbraceEquity.
Podcast guests:
Jean Scrimgeour (Accountability Lab)
Jahanara Saeed (Open Data Watch)
Blair McQueen (Open Government Partnership)
Podcast host:
Izabela Chmielewska (Global Integrity)
22 May 2020
Passion & Power | Confronting Corruption with Activism (Abigail Bellows & Jessica Lowing)
Abigail Bellows (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) and Jessica Lowing (Open Society Foundations)talk about the nexus of passion and power in the context of community organizing and political activism against corruption. They reflect on why uniting people's voices and building institutional change are critical ingredients in overcoming corrupt systems.
No matter where we're from or what language we speak, we want the same basic things, like food and security. By joining together, citizens can advocate for -- and help enact -- the social contract. And freely "exercise what it means to be human" with collective confidence.
NOTE: This session was originally in May 2019, which was long before COVID-19 has disrupted and tested our world. Yet, a lot of what is said here about working together and anti-corruption certainly resonates today.
Listen in to learn more about this and other #opengov stories on our SoundCloud.
24 Mar 2020
Roots & Identity: Venezuelan and Egyptian Perceptions in America (Nada Zohdy & Andres Marquez-Lara)
Changing perceptions about revolutionary countries, such as Egypt and Venezuela, can be difficult in America because they are often portrayed in negative light. Nevertheless, people who are rooted in these countries' complex cultures see things very differently.
How deep does solidarity go? What about self-care in the context of difficult political situations and wanting to make social change?
Listen to Nada Zohdy(Director of Open Gov Hub)and Andres Marquez-Lara (Founder & CEO of UFacilitate) as they share stories of their cultural identities and how they arrived at who they are today.
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