S2 E2: Student Ventilators: Innovation during a global pandemic
This week’s episode tackles the question of Intellectual Property Rights for Ventilators developed by a group of students in Kenya, answering the question of how their rights, if any, can be secured. Links from the show MIT’s E-Vent program: https://e-vent.mit.edu/ Editing done on Audacity Music credits: Prelude in C (BWV 846) by Kevin MacLeod […]
S2 E1: The Friendly Troll in 2020
Today’s episode tackled the question of student innovations in the time of the corona virus and the implications on Intellectual Property Rights. We answer the questions- what rights, if any, do students have to their works? And how can we protect their innovations even in times of uncertainty such as the current pandemic You can […]
S1 E3: Big Tech in the Global South
This week’s episode was a foray into the emerging superpowers in tech, the US and China, and the effect that they have on developing countries. The US remains the dominant technological force on the global stage due to multiple factors of political, economic and military influence and a pervasive identity in the digital space. With […]
S1 E1: Mobile Money Reversal – What can the West Learn
Our inaugural podcast highlights one of Kenya’s leading contributions to tech, mobile money, and in particular, the solutions we have put forward to address the issue of mobile money reversal. This is something with which the west is newly struggling, yet we have experimented with different approaches for over a decade. This episode is inspired […]