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Somewhere on Earth: The Global Tech Podcast — 185 episodes
Internet Shutdowns: 10 Years of Fighting to Keep the World Connected
AI Medical Devices: Are We Using Them Before We Know They Work?
Could Your Electric Car Power Your Home? Everything-to-Grid Energy, AI & the Future of Electricity
AI for Domestic Violence Support & Cybersecurity: Why We Need to Pause Before We Act
Flying Boat Could Revolutionise Amazon Transport + AI to Tackle Endometriosis
Could This Affordable Bionic Arm Change Healthcare Forever? AI & Autism, & Green Fuel Innovation
Lighting Up the Amazon with Recycled Bottles | Recorded Live at Web Summit Rio
AI Predicts Tunnel Collapses & WhatsApp Brings a Pediatrician to Your Phone
Robots Inspired by Birds, and the Future of Clean Energy: How Technology Is Transforming Our Planet
Is AI Rewriting Our Opinions? And Can inDrive Build the Next Global Super App?
The Hidden Algorithms of Gig Work: Who Really Profits from Uber and the Platform Economy?
AI Is About to Spend Your Money: Pix Payments and the Tech Behind Amazon's Superberry
AI Is About to Spend Your Money: Pix Payments and the Tech Behind Amazon's Superberry
AI, Trust and the Future of Money: Plus the Brazilian Drones Replanting Forests
AI, Trust and the Future of Money: Plus the Brazilian Drones Replanting Forests
How AI Is catching Marine Wildlife Traffickers and Also Making Tax Easi
How AI Is catching Marine Wildlife Traffickers and Also Making Tax Easi
The Future Is Soft: Tiny Robots, Smart Prosthetics and the Rise of Neurodiversity Tech
From Jet Engines to Hydrogen: Why the Midlands Still Invents the Future
The Cooling Revolution: How Technology Could Cut Refrigeration Emissions by 50%
The Cooling Revolution: How Technology Could Cut Refrigeration Emissions by 50%
The AI Contact Lens That Could Prevent Blindness and The Women Rewriting Silicon Valley
RightsCon 2026 Cancelled Last Minute: Global Tech Summit Shock + The New Gateway to Doing Business in Africa
RightsCon 2026 Cancelled Last Minute: Global Tech Summit Shock + The New Gateway to Doing Business in Africa
AI Voice Clones Are Clearer Than Humans, and Satellites Are Transforming Fishing
AI Voice Clones Are Clearer Than Humans, and Satellites Are Transforming Fishing
Driverless Taxis Are Here 🚕 No Humans, No Steering Wheel. And the Hidden Fibre Network Powering It All
Driverless Taxis Are Here 🚕 No Humans, No Steering Wheel. And the Hidden Fibre Network Powering It All
AI, Music & Accessibility: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Creativity and Communication
AI Beyond Business: Digital Rights, NGOs, and the Fight Against Food Waste
The Dark Side of the Kill Switch: Inside 2025's Record-Breaking Internet Shutdowns
🤖 AI Is Raising Your Kids, Rebuilding Regions and Even Sorting Your Rubbish
AI, Surveillance & Migration: Inside Europe’s Tech-Driven Border Policies + The Rise of Renting Apps
Great Tech Idea. Now What? Inside a Deep-Tech Pitch Night
AI’s Hidden E-Waste Crisis and the Rise of CyberParent: The Growing Cost of Our Digital Lives
🚀 AI Deepfakes From Space & The African Language Tech Revolution | Web Summit Qatar 2026
🚀 AI Is Rewriting Marketing - And Nigerian Women Are Rewriting the Job Market - Live from Web Summit Qatar 2026
From Regional Power to Global Impact: AI Business Strategy & Women Led Health Tech in Africa
Banking the Unbanked & Electrifying Ethiopia: How Tech Is Leapfrogging the Future
Why the US Is Withdrawing From Internet Freedom Groups and What It Means for Your Digital Rights.
AI’s Hidden Environmental Cost and the Rise of the Smart Pill That Knows When You Take It
The Communications Blackout in Iran: Network Data Show Near-Total Comms Shutdown
Will AI Sway Your Vote? And How to Make Sure Your Digital Legacy Goes to the Right People
Who Controls the Future of Technology? The Hidden Power War Over AI, Chips, and Global Standards
Drones vs. Mosquitoes, Swabs vs. TB, and a Cyber App India Doesn’t Want
🌍 Taking Back Control of the Internet & Turning Textile Waste Into Profit
🌍 How to Make Your Data and Nature Profitable: The New Green Gold Rush
The AI That Runs on Green Energy — And Doesn’t Steal Your Data
Poland’s Tech Boom: AI Greenhouses, Mobile IDs & Virtual Fertility Clinics
Poland: Central Europe's Tech Powerhouse
Stop the AI Fearmongering: How to Build a Resilient, Borderless Workforce
🎧Building Borderless, Agent-Ready Teams
Belarus 2.0: Rebuilding a Nation with Tech – Exclusive with President in Exile Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Inside Web Summit 2025: The Hidden Tech Stories Changing the World
🚀 Viral Truths & Virtual Walls: What 10 Million Posts Reveal About Us
The Misinformation Machine: Why We Click on Lies
🎧 We’re Letting the Machines Take Over: AI, Gig Work, AgriTech, and the Future of Learning
We’re Letting the Machines Take Over (Seriously, This One’s Made by AI)
Cyberattacks Are Everywhere – How Businesses, Countries and Individuals Are Protecting Themselves Online
Cyberattacks Are Everywhere – Here’s How to Protect Yourself Online
AI, Curiosity, and the Future of Humanity: Digitally Curious & Somewhere on Earth Unite for a Groundbreaking Tech Podcast Crossover
Your Guide to the Future: "Somewhere on Earth" x "Digitally Curious" Podcast Episode
AI on the Battlefield: How Machine Learning Is Saving Lives in Ukraine’s War Zone
How AI Saves Lives in Ukraine & the Tech Behind Fighting Environmental Crime
16m X users in EU unmonitored and How Sudan’s WhatsApp Ban Is Cutting Off Survival
Why Connectivity and Moderation Matter More Than Ever
Digital Ceasefires & DeepSeek’s Breakthrough: How Peace and Science Are Redefining Our Digital Future
Digital Ceasefire & How DeepSeek Did It!
AI in the Workplace, Africa’s Digital Future & the Global Supremacy Race
🚨 AI isn’t coming – it’s already here.
Does AI speak your Language? African voices and Explosive Braille technology
Does AI Speak Your Language? African Voices & Explosive Braille Tech
When the Internet turns against you – Online abuse and AI privacy risks
Your digital life is under threat. And the dangers are not always who you think.
Brazil’s Bold Crackdown on Mobile Phone Theft: Lessons for the UK
GigU app boosts driver earnings as Danilo Luiz champions positive media in Brazil
From selfie health checks in Mexico to a tech platform empowering black mothers in Brazil
Blockchain Water Revolution in Ghana & AI Rainforest Guardians in the Amazon
Digital Blackouts & Climate Data: The fight for connectivity and transparency
Weddings Reimagined: VR vows, smart rings & the rise of intimacy tech | Bridechilla x Somewhere on Earth
AI Weddings & Digital ‘I Do’s’: How tech is transforming your big day | Bridechilla x Somewhere on Earth
Meta’s Record-Breaking Undersea Cable, AI That Saves Diabetic Feet & Tinder’s Double Dating
The rising energy cost of AI & how tech impacts sustainability
Aviation Safety & Agri-Tech: Smarter Black Boxes and Frost Protection
WhatsApp English lessons, EdTech in Cabo Verde & the Cartier Women's intitative - supporting women in #tech #science business
Chat with Da Vinci & Ada Lovelace in 3D and Digital Twins in Fashion & Football
How one university went from outdated to world-class in just 18 months
Solar Power & CO₂ Removal: Brazil’s Bold Bet on Clean Energy Innovation
35,000 AI Deepfake Models Found Online – The Shocking Rise of Non-Consensual Porn
From Smart Lipstick to Healthy Groceries: The Brazilian Tech Revolution
#ownyourdata with Brittany Kaiser and RoostEdge our new sponsor
From Algorithm to Action: How AI & Automation are Redefining Business
Love, Lies & Digital Crime: The Global Web of Romance Scams
Lifestyle and mental health - Nigerian startups empowering choice through tech
Can tech reduce Kenya’s blood desert?
Nanoparticles that keep our food fresh and our looks lovely
Restoring US Government websites since Trump came to power
Agritech in Uzbekistan: helping small scale farmers recover from communist farming methods
Myanmar tops the charts for the most internet shutdowns in 2024
The first African-born Arab woman to go into Space
Are teachers keeping up with their pupils when it comes to AI in the classroom?
AI can now sell your intentions – marketing your decisions before you make them
Is Arabic another language that goes unchecked online?
Is AI going to replace your job?
How to have more of Somewhere on Earth - The PodExtra Edition
Robobees – could they help solve world hunger?
Can Kiswahili online content be moderated?
Capturing shooting stars with your doorbell cam
How to keep your data safe when protesting
Your favourite SOEP shows from 2024
Biometrics – do we have a choice in who has this data and how they use it?
How technology led to the rise of HTS and the fall of Assad in Syria
Protecting submarine cables, how the big players are now involved
A new feeding robot could return people’s independence at mealtimes
Kyiv – a smart city adapting to war
Tech and the rise of autocracies around the world - a Web Summit Special
How reliable are French language AI Chatbots?
Internet shutdowns in Mozambique following election
Why aren’t women embracing AI?
What happens when GPS is jammed?
What’s next for agritech? How lawyers are getting food from farm to table
Could making Wikidata 'human' readable lead to better AI?
Could AI chatbots counter conspiracy theories?
The first ever DNA computer engine and storage device
Electric Vehicles going offline as companies go bust
Is Kamala Harris the AI Tsar?
Tiny batteries for tiny robots that could deliver drugs inside our bodies
Is the internet in Pakistan behind a firewall?
AI submissions are avoiding detection at a well-respected university in the UK
Internet blackout in Equatorial Guinea and social media bans in Venezuela
Can a booming tech economy help Ukraine in the war against Russia?
Would you like more SOEP and also help keep the show going?
Getting online in Russia – which tech companies are standing up to Putin?
Duchenne UK pushes tech to its limits to help those with the condition
Do we need new laws to control AI? Also the Prix Ars Electronica 2024 winner speaks to SOEP
Using AI to identify threats to human rights and political activists
Gen Z, Millennials, technology and the Nairobi protests
Detecting cancer at the DNA level with AI
Podextra - how you can get a bit more of Somewhere on Earth...
Who is behind the big hack attacks?
Rare earth element boom poisoning Myanmar
Millions of gallons of water needed for new data centres in Chile during 30 year drought
Technology is not the problem (we are)…
Indian Elections; deep fakes, false memes, and misinformation galore
How AI is saving lives and languages in Ghana
Can ‘small’ AI have a huge impact in sub Saharan Africa?
AI for peace – using artificial intelligence to manage conflict and maintain peace
World Cybercrime Index – Where are the cybercriminals hiding?
Shout out for our PodExtra Edition
Is crypto currency supporting terrorism?
Tech stories that matter – what should we be reporting on?
YouTube approves disinformation ads in India in run up to election
SOEP meets Dame Steve Shirley – a coding female pioneer
West Africa Internet – when will it be fixed?
AI for Africa – one young female scientist’s drive to develop solutions
Anti-poaching tech – does it work?
Making America e-smart - Digitising public life in the US
Jimmy Wales - The Wiki Guy - answers your questions
A gentle ask for your (financial) support
Tech in Ukraine after two years of war
Diagnosing TB using AI and a mobile phone
A special guest on Somewhere on Earth, your help needed
The British Post Office Technology Scandal
The Global AI Arms Race
A Bitcoin transaction ‘uses a swimming pool of water’
Internet shutdowns cost more than $9 billion in 2023
3D printed skin – huge advances could revolutionise wound healing
Tech trends to watch in 2024 – the good and the bad
The most hacked place in the world…and many more tech stories of 2023
The risk of ransomware attacks - are governments taking them seriously?
Tackling huge youth unemployment in Africa through Jobtech opportunities
Saving lives at sea with an autonomous lifeboat
AI could consume as much energy as a small country
Tech increases access to contraceptives in Cameroon
Connecting every school in the world to the Internet
Internet shutdowns - where are we now?
Deepfakes undermine trust in real news
3D print your new home in a week from recycled plastic bottles
Invisible e-waste - 7.3 billion e-toys add to e-waste mountain
A robot that can detect breast cancer?
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