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In 2020 Ashoka’s Globalizer launched a new podcast series on systems change with the first 6-episode season. That season was produced in partnership between Fergal Byrne, the host of the well-known Inspiring Social Entrepreneurs podcast, and Odin Muehlenbein, partner at Ashoka Germany and co-lead of the Systems Unit at Ashoka Globalizer. The first season explores how experienced social entrepreneurs - Jordan Kassalow, Jeroo Billimoria, Michael Sani, Kendis Peris - and Silvia Bastante, as a supporter to social entrepreneurs at Co-Impact, use systems change approaches in their work.
Complement listening to the first season with reading the “Systemic and Empowering” report featuring five case studies of social entrepreneurs working to improve systems - https://lac.ashoka.org/story/systemic-and-empowering.
In early 2021, we continue to explore the topic of systems change and are launching the second mini-season with 4 episodes. This time we will explore how social entrepreneurs can effectively work with governments to improve systems together. This season is co-hosted by Sascha Haselmayer, a seasoned social entrepreneur and an Ashoka Fellow who has worked with 135 municipal governments across the world to improve the provision of public services, and Olga Shirobokova, co-lead of the Systems Unit at Ashoka Globalizer. The 2nd podcast season complements the free online course for social entrepreneurs on Working With Government that Ashoka launched in fall 2020: www.ashoka.org/working-with-government .
Please listen to the podcast on the platform of your choice and leave an honest review. Share it with fellow changemakers and funders and continue the conversation using #systemschange and @ashoka. We can all have more impact together if we work systemically.

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In 2020 Ashoka’s Globalizer launched a new podcast series on systems change with the first 6-episode season. That season was produced in partnership between Fergal Byrne, the host of the well-known Inspiring Social Entrepreneurs podcast, and Odin Muehlenbein, partner at Ashoka Germany and co-lead of the Systems Unit at Ashoka Globalizer. The first season explores how experienced social entrepreneurs - Jordan Kassalow, Jeroo Billimoria, Michael Sani, Kendis Peris - and Silvia Bastante, as a supporter to social entrepreneurs at Co-Impact, use systems change approaches in their work.
Complement listening to the first season with reading the “Systemic and Empowering” report featuring five case studies of social entrepreneurs working to improve systems - https://lac.ashoka.org/story/systemic-and-empowering.
In early 2021, we continue to explore the topic of systems change and are launching the second mini-season with 4 episodes. This time we will explore how social entrepreneurs can effectively work with governments to improve systems together. This season is co-hosted by Sascha Haselmayer, a seasoned social entrepreneur and an Ashoka Fellow who has worked with 135 municipal governments across the world to improve the provision of public services, and Olga Shirobokova, co-lead of the Systems Unit at Ashoka Globalizer. The 2nd podcast season complements the free online course for social entrepreneurs on Working With Government that Ashoka launched in fall 2020: www.ashoka.org/working-with-government .
Please listen to the podcast on the platform of your choice and leave an honest review. Share it with fellow changemakers and funders and continue the conversation using #systemschange and @ashoka. We can all have more impact together if we work systemically.

    Season 3, Episode 3 Building a New Concept and Mindset on Digital Intelligence

    Season 3, Episode 3 Building a New Concept and Mindset on Digital Intelligence

    Interview with Dr. Yuhyun Park, Founder of DQ - Global Standards for Digital Literacy, Skills, and Readiness, on building a new field, Digital Intelligence, and shifting mindsets around it.
    Dr. Yuhyun Park is a world-leading expert in digital skills and child online safety. She created the Digital Intelligence (DQ) concept and framework, which is the world’s first global standards and a common framework for digital literacy, skills, and readiness endorsed by the IEEE Standards Association, OECD, and World Economic Forum. Dr. Park developed the Child Online Safety Index, the world's first real-time metric tracker to help nations understand their children’s online safety status, and leads the #DQEveryChild initiative, a global digital citizenship movement for children.
    In this episode, Dr. Park shares her journey of bringing awareness of the importance of developing digital intelligence, the willingness to address the issue and creating the tools to build up digital intelligence capacity.   She shares her main strategies for success in creating such a powerful shift, building a movement of actors: networks of funders, program providers and educators who are pushing for the world to empower 1 billion citizens with digital intelligence by 2030.  As a bonus, she shares insights on what it takes for social entrepreneurs to make it when facing so much adversity. Preview: it includes embracing both family AND your naysayers!
    Organization site: https://www.dqinstitute.org/
    Book: IQ EQ DQ: New Intelligence in the AI Age
    Check out the free online course at https://www.ashoka.org/en-gb/mindset-shift-course (English version) and https://academy.vc4a.com/courses/como-influenciar-impacto/  (Spanish version)  

    • 1 hr 2 min
    Season 3, Episode 2: Princess Olufemi-Kayode shares how she began to shift mindsets around talking about sexual abuse of children

    Season 3, Episode 2: Princess Olufemi-Kayode shares how she began to shift mindsets around talking about sexual abuse of children

    In this episode, we speak with Princess, former journalist turned social entrepreneur, on her groundbreaking work in Nigeria and Africa to prevent and reduce vulnerability and exposure to sexual violence, especially among women and children.  Princess shares with us how she strategically set out to raise awareness around this issue, which, until recently, had been frequently swept under the rug.  She explains the critical role of journalists and the tactics she used to engage them consistently and effectively to set off a major shift in thinking about how to manage cases of sexual violence. She also highlights the role of children themselves as compelling ambassadors whose voice helped educate other children as well as pressure policymakers.   
    Read more about Media Concern here: https://mediaconcern.net/
    We encourage you to have a look at our free online course on this topic at https://academy.vc4a.com/courses/como-influenciar-impacto/  (Spanish version) and https://www.ashoka.org/en-gb/mindset-shift-course  (English version).

    • 45 min
    Season 3, Episode 1: Introduction to How To Influence The Way People Think, To Change The Way Society Works

    Season 3, Episode 1: Introduction to How To Influence The Way People Think, To Change The Way Society Works

    The third season of the Ashoka Systems Change podcast explores how to influence the way people think, to change the way society works.
    In Episode 1 Olga Shirobokova, co-lead of the Systems Unit at Ashoka Globalizer and lead developer of the on-line course on this topic, speaks with Nadine Freeman, co-director of Ashoka Globalizer, to introduce listeners to the course, why it was important to develop and key issues around the topic of influencing mindsets to achieve important changes in social systems.
    If you are interested in learning more about how changemakers can analyze their narrative environment and begin to build a strategy around shifting mental models to create the conditions necessary for systemic change, we encourage you to have a look at our free online course on this topic at https://academy.vc4a.com/courses/como-influenciar-impacto/  (Spanish version) and https://www.ashoka.org/en-gb/mindset-shift-course  (English version). The online course and the third season of the Ashoka Systems Change podcast were developed thanks to the support and in partnership with PES Latam.

    • 41 min
    Cracking the Collaboration Jackpot

    Cracking the Collaboration Jackpot

    This episode invites you to a conversation among the representatives of three fields – a social entrepreneur, a former government official and a funder interested in supporting cooperation between social entrepreneurs and governments.

    Listen to the experiences and recommendations of Denisa Livingston, an Ashoka Fellow empowering Navajo communities to take control of food policy through Diné Community Advocacy Alliance (US), Maria Vassilaku, former deputy mayor of Vienna (Austria) and Jim Anderson, Director of Government Innovation at Bloomberg Philanthropies (US).

    If you are interested to learn more about how social entrepreneurs can effectively work with government and what are the examples, we encourage you to have a look at our new free online course on this topic at https://academy.vc4a.com/courses/trabajo-con-el-gobierno/ (Spanish version) and www.ashoka.org/working-with-government (English version).

    The online course and the second season of the Ashoka Systems Change podcast were developed thanks to the support and in partnership with PES Latam.

    • 1 hr 4 min
    Finding a collective voice

    Finding a collective voice

    The third episode of season two examines how cooperation among social entrepreneurs can help governments design effective support measures for the whole field of social entrepreneurship.
    We spoke to Markus Sauerhammer, Chair of the German Association of Social Entrepreneurs, and learned what helped them get to the point when every political party in Germany references social entrepreneurship in their program.
    If you are interested to learn more about how social entrepreneurs can effectively work with government and what are the examples, we encourage you to have a look at our new free online course on this topic at https://academy.vc4a.com/courses/trabajo-con-el-gobierno/ (Spanish version) and www.ashoka.org/working-with-government (English version).

    The online course and the second season of the Ashoka Systems Change podcast were developed thanks to the support and in partnership with PES Latam.

    • 37 min
    The magic key to government

    The magic key to government

    In the second episode of Season 2, Sascha Haselmayer and Olga Shirobokova explore the role communities play in keeping governments accountable. You will hear examples of how social entrepreneurs from Peru, the UK, Romania, India and the US empower people affected by a social problem to take charge and effectively engage with governments in order to improve public services.
    If you are interested to learn more about how social entrepreneurs can effectively work with government and what are the examples, we encourage you to have a look at our new free online course on this topic at https://academy.vc4a.com/courses/trabajo-con-el-gobierno/ (Spanish version) and www.ashoka.org/working-with-government (English version).

    The online course and the second season of the Ashoka Systems Change podcast were developed thanks to the support and in partnership with PES Latam.

    • 38 min

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