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Open Gov Stories
by Open Gov Stories
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.orgMusic from https://filmmusic.io:"Promises to Keep" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)Lic
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International Women's Day Podcast @ OGH
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...
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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...
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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...
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Women Empowerment: Opening up in the Age of OpenGov/Data(Sarah Orton-Vipond and Mor Rubinstein)
In this Open Gov Story, Sarah Orton-Vipond(Development Gateway) and Mor Rubinstein(360Giving)explore the question: What is the biggest challenge for women working in the field of OpenGov? The short answer: time. They talk about the gender inequality at home with chores and at work, including the...
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There is Hope: Voices Against Injustice in Pakistan and Kenya (Mavra Zehra and Edith Mecha)
In this episode of Open Gov Stories, Mavra Zehra and Edith Mecha discuss the challenges of working in non-permissive environments back home -- in Pakistan and Kenya, respectively -- and how their experiences of the past have led them to work on social issues relevant to their country’s context....
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Nigerian Youth Leadership and Social Change(Olalaken Oshunkoya & Didi Littlejohn)
In this episode of Open Gov Stories, Ola talks with his friend Didi about how exposure to different places at an early age helped motivate his commitment to social change in Nigeria, and how his work as a lawyer in the UK and as a researcher in the US all connect back to open government, youth...
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Frontiers in Open Data and Consumer Protection(Joel Gurin & Nada Zohdy)
In this episode of Open Gov Stories, Joel discusses working on consumer rights in the telecom industry and how fighting one woman's $300,000 phone bill helped pass game-changing protections for consumers in the US. He then discusses his role becoming a leader in the movement to promote open data...
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Tackling Corruption and Integrity in Pakistan(Fayyaz Yaseen & Blair Glencorse)
In this episode of Open Gov Stories, local development and open government activist from Pakistan Fayyaz explains the inspiration that led him to setting up Accountability Lab's Pakistan chapter and then the Open Gov Hub/Space in Islamabad. Fayyaz, in conversation with Blair - his mentor, friend...
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Leading the Way for Social Entrepreneurship in Tunisia (Adnen Ben Haj Yahia & Asma Rouabhia)
In this podcast, Adnen and Asma, co-founder and intern at El Space (Tunisia's first social innovation hub), talk about their motivations as social entrepreneurs and the social impacts of doing business differently, witnesses injustices in society, living through the Tunisian revolution of…
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The Power of One (Suneeta Kaimal & Doug Rutzen)
In this episode of Open Gov Stories, colleagues Suneeta and Doug talk about their first meeting and influential career moments, like sharing the stage with President Obama. Suneeta discusses believing in the power of one, prudent optimism, and advice for the next generation. Suneeta Kaimal is the...
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Personal Impacts of Access to Information(Tom Susman & Kevin Goldberg)
In this episode of Open Gov Stories, Tom discusses personal experiences with filing freedom of information requests. Tom and Kevin also discuss how the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and similar open government tools can help ensure that the people's taxpayer dollars are well spent. Tom...
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On Being a Founder/Social Entrepreneur (Dennis Whittle & Donna Callejon)
In this episode of Open Gov Stories, long-time colleagues and social entrepreneurs Dennis and Donna discuss their struggle after struggle that led to their success co-founding a global nonprofit social enterprise (Global Giving). Donna discusses the long-term journey of seeing the fruits of your...
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In Pursuit of Corporate Accountability(Gary Kalman & Alexandria Robbins)
In this episode of Open Gov Stories, colleagues Gary and Allie share about their inspirations for their work on pushing government and corporate accountability in the US, stemming from effects of poverty on the Great Depression generation to the personal effects of the bankruptcy of Enron. Gary...
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When Corruption Affects You Personally(Tinatin Ninua & Leslie Baesens)
In this episode of Open Gov Stories, Tinatin discusses growing up the war and economic collapse that followed Georgia's independence from the Soviet Union. She won a scholarship to study in the US and was personally impacted by corruption in the process. She also talks about the culture shock she...
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Leading as a Minority Woman Public Servant (Traci Hughes & Nada Zohdy)
In this episode of Open Gov Stories,Traci discusses growing up in an African American family with a strong emphasis on public service, her efforts to make government work better and to be more collaborative with the public as Washington DC's first head of the Office of Open Government, the legacy...
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Building Consensus and Open Parliaments (Maria Baron & Lotte Geunis)
In this episode of Open Gov Stories, Lotte talks about loving travel from an early age, which led her to an international career and working on improving parliaments. Maria talks about studying journalism in Argentina, and they both discuss the importance of building consensus for effective...
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Building a New Movement in Liberia(Luther Jeke & Lawrence Yealue)
In this episode of Open Gov Stories, Lawrence Yealue & Luther Jeke discussed the inception of the Accountability Lab movement in Liberia and the founding of iCampus - Liberia’s first innovation and coworking community space. They share personal and intimate stories about their work around social...
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Policy Reform and Civic Tech in Nigeria(Iyanuoluwa Bolarinwa & Ilerioluwa Bolarinwa)
In this episode of Open Gov Stories, Iyanu, the manager of Civic Hive in Lagos, Nigeria talks with his sister Ilerioluwa about his upbringing, becoming leader for civic tech in Nigeria, personally experiencing injustice that motivated him to support police reform, and his hopes for civic tech...
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Working for a Better Albania (Edison Frangu & Nerisa Shehu)
In this episode of Open Gov Stories, Edison Frangu, an open gov leader in Albania, shares with his childhood friend Nerisa many experiences that made him the changemaker he is today. She asks him many questions to get to know why he does his work. He discusses challenges growing up poor during…
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Helping as an Outsider (Meg VanDeusen & Amy Van Zanen)
In this episode of Open Gov Stories, Meg discusses her time teaching English and organizing a girls empowerment program in rural Malaysia. Amy talks about the intergenerational commitment she shares with her family to work for social change - discussing experiences working in Michigan on a farm...
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America As It Should Be(Zoe Reiter & Danielle Brian)
In this episode of Open Gov Stories, Zoe and Danielle who are close friends share with each other what led them to working on transparency and accountability in the US and the biggest challenges moving forward. Zoe discusses feeling a strong patriotism from fighting for the values of transparency...
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Seeking Social Justice (Rebecca Shaeffer & Kristi Arbogast)
In this episode of Open Gov Stories, Kristi talks about growing up post-9/11 and pushing back against black and white political narratives in rural conservative Ohio. Rebecca talks about growing up with a strong public service, activist/social justice Catholics. Kristi and Rebecca explore how to...
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Data Empowers the Voiceless(Dalia Mogahed & Kat Coplen)
In this episode of Open Gov Stories, Dalia Mogahed tells her colleague and mentee, Katherine “Kat’ Coplen, about being attacked for her political opinions, her Muslim-American identity, and the origin of the Arab Spring in Egypt. She emphasizes how the data at the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies...
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Student Activism: 1960s and Today (Jean-Louis Sarbib & Nada Zohdy)
In this episode of #OpenGovStories, Jean-Louis Sarbib tells his colleague and mentee, Nada Zohdy, about growing up in a Jewish family in Algeria during the French occupation and war, moving to the U.S. and being part of the student anti-war protest movement in the mid 1960s, and what he considers...
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Global/Local Community Organizing(Jennifer Lentfer & Katie Petit)
In this episode of Open Gov Stories, Katie Petit and her friend, Jennifer Lentfer, discuss their careers as grassroots organizers. Katie talks about growing up biracial and her transformative experience at Standing Rock and the power of prayer and healing. Jennifer talks about the importance of...
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Global Feminist Activism (Emira Woods & Lisa VeneKlasen)
In this episode of Open Gov Stories, fellow global activists Lisa VeneKlasen and Emira Woods talk about becoming aware of unjustice at an early age and what led them to their careers growing up in the United State and Liberia. Lisa talks about working directly with the Sandinista government in…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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.orgMusic from https://filmmusic.io:"Promises to Keep" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)Lic
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