Podcasts 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.org
Music from https://filmmusic.io:
"Promises to Keep" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Policy Reform and Civic Tech in Nigeria(Iyanuoluwa Bolarinwa & Ilerioluwa Bolarinwa) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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 ...
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Passion & Power | Confronting Corruption with Activism (Abigail Bellows & Jessica Lowing) from 2020-05-22T19:49:10
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 politi...
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Roots & Identity: Venezuelan and Egyptian Perceptions in America (Nada Zohdy & Andres Marquez-Lara) from 2020-03-24T21:08:13
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 ...
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Women Empowerment: Opening up in the Age of OpenGov/Data(Sarah Orton-Vipond and Mor Rubinstein) from 2019-10-04T22:55:58
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...
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There is Hope: Voices Against Injustice in Pakistan and Kenya (Mavra Zehra and Edith Mecha) from 2019-09-27T22:05:48
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 e...
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Nigerian Youth Leadership and Social Change(Olalaken Oshunkoya & Didi Littlejohn) from 2019-05-30T16:46:44
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 wo...
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Frontiers in Open Data and Consumer Protection(Joel Gurin & Nada Zohdy) from 2019-05-30T16:43:15
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 con...
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Tackling Corruption and Integrity in Pakistan(Fayyaz Yaseen & Blair Glencorse) from 2019-05-30T16:40:37
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 an...
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Leading the Way for Social Entrepreneurship in Tunisia (Adnen Ben Haj Yahia & Asma Rouabhia) from 2019-05-30T16:36:26
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 busi...
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The Power of One (Suneeta Kaimal & Doug Rutzen) from 2019-05-30T16:31:57
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 believ...
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Personal Impacts of Access to Information(Tom Susman & Kevin Goldberg) from 2019-05-30T16:28:43
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 simi...
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On Being a Founder/Social Entrepreneur (Dennis Whittle & Donna Callejon) from 2019-05-29T13:55:56
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 so...
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In Pursuit of Corporate Accountability(Gary Kalman & Alexandria Robbins) from 2019-05-29T13:53:19
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 p...
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When Corruption Affects You Personally(Tinatin Ninua & Leslie Baesens) from 2019-05-29T13:48:54
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 ...
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Leading as a Minority Woman Public Servant (Traci Hughes & Nada Zohdy) from 2019-05-29T13:44:56
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 coll...
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Building Consensus and Open Parliaments (Maria Baron & Lotte Geunis) from 2019-05-29T13:37:30
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 jou...
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Building a New Movement in Liberia(Luther Jeke & Lawrence Yealue) from 2019-05-24T16:25:37
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 an...
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Working for a Better Albania (Edison Frangu & Nerisa Shehu) from 2019-05-24T16:10:57
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 m...
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Helping as an Outsider (Meg VanDeusen & Amy Van Zanen) from 2019-05-24T15:57:42
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 share...
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America As It Should Be(Zoe Reiter & Danielle Brian) from 2019-05-24T15:52:44
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 mo...
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Seeking Social Justice (Rebecca Shaeffer & Kristi Arbogast) from 2019-05-24T15:49:04
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...
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Data Empowers the Voiceless(Dalia Mogahed & Kat Coplen) from 2019-05-24T15:44:04
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 ori...
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Student Activism: 1960s and Today (Jean-Louis Sarbib & Nada Zohdy) from 2019-05-24T15:37:19
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 ...
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Global/Local Community Organizing(Jennifer Lentfer & Katie Petit) from 2019-05-24T15:32:49
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 exper...
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Global Feminist Activism (Emira Woods & Lisa VeneKlasen) from 2019-05-24T15:29:58
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 ...
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