Zoomer Meets Boomer Folge #026 Learnings From The Global South with Payal Arora

With Payal Arora, we have a renowned digital anthropologist, author
and professor as our guest. And for our first live podcast, and our
first in English, we couldn't have asked for a better one. She is
co-founder of FemLab, a feminist researcher activist cooperative on
the future of work, and advocates for inclusive technology and
policy design. Her research focuses on the impact of digital in the
Global South, especially global digital cultures, inequality and
data governance. She is the author of several award-winning books,
including "The Next Billion Users", which Forbes hailed as
groundbreaking. Her latest book is called "From Pessimism to
Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech.
Payal gives us a real firework display of insights into her work.
Time and again, she holds up a mirror to our views and urges us to
embrace the creativity and energy of the Global South as a model.
For example - did you know that 90 percent of the world's young
people live in the Global South? Or that the big tech companies see
the Global South primarily as a source of data? If you also want to
hear how Payal got into a Twitter war with Rutger Bregman (spoiler:
that's Michael's favorite author) and what that has to do with
colonialism, then this episode is for you! As always, there are 5
learnings at the end that Payal gives us: 1. The Global North
should not talk to the Global South, but with the Global South. 2.
Pessimism is a privilege for those who can afford to live in
despair. The rest of us must be rational optimists, because the
only way to change the future is to move forward. 3. Good ideas
don't come from a place of depression, they come from a place of
hope. 4. We have moved beyond the binaries of us versus them, male
versus female, or global North versus global South, because good
ideas come from everywhere. 5. We need every good idea to tackle
some of the biggest problems we face together as humanity: climate
crisis, global inequality and other kinds of reform, because we all
want one thing: a better future. … in a nutshell We firmly believe
that we have more in common than sets us apart. That wasn't always
the case. As father and son, we can look back on 28 intense years
during which we repeatedly butted heads, not always constructively.
Today, we know that during that time, we learned a lot about each
other and about ourselves. For several years now, we have been
intensively practicing reverse mentoring, which means that we share
our experiences with each other and thus come up with better ideas
and solutions. For 26 episodes of Zoomer Meets Boomer, we have been
sharing our conversations with our listeners. In episode 26 for the
first time in English. Thank you, dear Payal Amora, for being our
first guest in a foreign language. It was a great honor and an
equally great pleasure. If you would like to see and hear us live,
here is your chance: AI Impact Days: October 15, 2024, Berlin
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