Shake Up The World

Shreyas Prakash
Shake Up The World

Why do most of the sci-fi flicks look dystopian in nature? Every imaginable future scenario looks like a Black Mirror episode. This podcast is an attempt to speculate the future in a positive way through design dialogues. This podcast will engage with futurists, designers, field specialists and experiential experts. For the second season, we are focusing on founders creating utopian science fiction (white-mirror) technologies creating a dent in the society with their views, vision and actions.

Episodes

  1. 06/13/2020

    Future of Rural Innovation | Thabiso Blak Mashaba

    SHOW LESS Thabiso is double major degree holder in Economics and Accounting from the University of Botswana. He is a completing global master’s degree in development practice programme (MDP) student under the prestigious Socio-Economic Development, Botswana Insurance Holdings Limited Trust Professor Thomas Tlou scholarship, with the same institution.      Thabiso is also a strategist, cultural economist, arts trainer and policymaker. He sits on the Botswana Confederation of Commerce, Industry and Manpower Youth in Business Sector High Level Consultative Council. He is the Interim Chairperson of the Arterial Network Botswana Chapter, Brand Ambassador of the Botswana Creative Industries Focus Group and he also sits on the National Human Resource Development Council’s Cultural and Creative Industry Sector Committee as a member representing Private Sector. Thabiso is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the fast growing IDIN Micro Grant Funded These Hands Global, Social and Sustainable Enterprise (THESE HANDS NETWORK).      He is an IDDS Zambia 2013 Alumnus and Facilitator of the UNDP and Botswana Innovation Hub‘s Annual Social Good Summit since 2013. Thabiso is also an Ashoka Change Makers Social Intrapreneurship for Innovation in Health Wellness Course Graduate, Lead Partinizer for Africa region, and IDDS Dkar 2015 and IDDS Botswana 2016 Lead Organizer.   These Hands was started in 2015 by Thabiso to help diversify Botswana’s economy and to promote continued gains in human development. These Hands recognizes that the people of Botswana demonstrate extraordinary artistic, creative, and entrepreneurial tendencies and that this creates many opportunities for economic transformation. As a result, they aim to mobilize this talent to transform Botswana into a knowledge economy.    http://these-hands.org/ (Website) https://www.facebook.com/thesehandsgsse (Facebook) Shake Up The World Podcast E03 |

    1h 19m

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Why do most of the sci-fi flicks look dystopian in nature? Every imaginable future scenario looks like a Black Mirror episode. This podcast is an attempt to speculate the future in a positive way through design dialogues. This podcast will engage with futurists, designers, field specialists and experiential experts. For the second season, we are focusing on founders creating utopian science fiction (white-mirror) technologies creating a dent in the society with their views, vision and actions.

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