Cutting edge digital media and technology conversations with a Global South focus.
Global Digital Futures launched as a podcast on SOAS Radio in November 2018. It was launched to promote the SOAS Coding Club and to increase the dialogue around technology, politics and culture within the SOAS community. Thus we have interviewed leading academics, activists, experts and practitioners working in or around the Global South.
Our mission is to foster critical conversations on the influence of technology in the Global South. Discussions about technology developments in the Global South are limited or oftentimes biased. Free training for increasing literacy and technical skills in digital media and technology for social development are lacking. We are therefore taking the opportunity to expand this niche through our media platform, coding clubs and programmes.
Team
Chipo Mapondera
Host & Producer
When Chipo is not talking about tech, she is building it as a software engineer and UX/ UI designer in the Fashion and Creative industries. With a couple of MA degrees under her belt, Chipo also lectures MA and UG students in Digital Futures at Polimoda in Florence.
Eliza Bacon
Junior Producer/ Editor
Eliza is studying the Global Media & Communications MA at SOAS, and holds a BA in English Literature from Cambridge. Eliza worked as a Communications Intern at UNICEF's South Asia office in Kathmandu, and hopes to become a writer on tech and global internet cultures.
Deirbhile Ní Bhranáin
Junior Producer/ Editor
Deirbhile Ní Bhranáin is an Irish author and journalist based in London. She is currently completing an MA in International Journalisms at SOAS. She is interested in the impact of the future on the present and on the utopian possibilities of narrative.
Fungai Nengare
Sound Engineer
Fungai is a Zimbabwean singer, songwriter, music producer, children’s music creator and teacher who studied Music in World Cultures. He has taken part in various musical productions in Zimabwe and around the world, namely in Germany, Ukraine and South Africa.
On the Journal:
“We increasingly exist as part of platforms that are global in some ways. Information can be shared especially with the diaspora. Covid conspiracies in france might influence in other Francophone speaking countries so there’s a real global dimension to the communities we are part of. And also it’s very local.”
Photo by the blowup on Unsplash
Mentors & Friends
Dr. Ronan Lee
Visiting Scholar at Queen Mary University of London’s International State Crime Initiative
Dr. Dina Matar
Chair of the Centre for Global Media and Communication at SOAS, Reader in Political Communications
