Episode 92: Pathways to Digital Citizenship with Ronda Železný-Green - a podcast by Florence Adu

from 2021-09-21T05:00

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Greetings Glocal Citizens!
My guest this week has travelled to more than 60 countries and worked on five continents. Currently based in southern Spain, Dr. Ronda Železný-Green is a digital changemaker creating social learning systems to empower Black people, women, people with disabilities, and other marginalized populations in the technology and education sectors. Serving as a mobile technologist, trainer, and researcher, Ronda’s 16+ years of professional experience spans five continents and the public, private, and civil society sectors. A Black and Native American cis woman excelling with ADHD, Ronda also has extensive experience delivering action-oriented training that integrates the themes of racial equity and justice and gender with global perspectives. Hallmarks of her career include learning/educating with tech; championing, coaching, and mentoring women in tech; and empowering people to use technology as transformative tools to live their best lives. She is currently the Global Head of Training and eLearning at the Internet Society (https://www.internetsociety.org/) where she is leading the end-to-end rebuild and relaunch of our training programs, including the digital transformation of existing training activities due to COVID-19. She also serves in advisory and director roles at the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) (https://digitalimpactalliance.org/) at the United Nations Foundation, InnovateHer (https://innovateher.co.uk/) - where she is the board chair, and Noise Solution (https://www.noisesolution.org/s/). At the same time she's a tech-prenuer as co-founder and director of Panoply Digital Ltd is a socially conscious organization using their expertise in ICT, education, and gender to create solutions to development challenges. Ronda is a whirlwind of digital dynamism!Where to find Ronda?
www.rondazg.comOn Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rondazeleznygreen/)On Twitter (https://twitter.com/rondaz_g)
On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/rondaz_g/?hl=en)What's Ronda watching?
Flight 93 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481522/)Love is Blind (https://www.netflix.com/title/80996601)
La Granja de Zenón (https://www.youtube.com/user/cancionesdelagranja)Other topics of interest:
What happened in 2009 in Madagascar? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Malagasy_political_crisis)About the Peace Corps (https://www.peacecorps.gov/)
About Bell Hooks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks)About Paulo Freire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire)
Seyi Akiwowo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/seyiakiwowo/?originalSubdomain=uk) and Glitch (https://glitchcharity.co.uk/)On Intersectionality (https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/20/18542843/intersectionality-conservatism-law-race-gender-discrimination)
Special Guest: Ronda Zelezny-Green.

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