The Digital Lever: Recent Episodes
Mezzanine
Each month The Digital Lever hosts some of the best minds across the African continent to talk about technology and digital innovation.
In The Digital Lever's fourth podcast episode, we speak with Geraldine de Bastion from the GIG (Global Innovation Gathering) and Aga Skorupinska from Vodafone to discuss the exciting African digital innovation projects taking place across the continent.
Geraldine and Aga share their experiences of how local grassroots innovation is enabling various niche technology applications to leapfrog their Western competitors, and why this is a crucial opportunity for Africa as a global player.
Recorded July 2021
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Geraldine de Bastion
Aga Skorupinska
Alex Searle
The Digital Lever is a monthly podcast featuring a wide range of guests and topics about the role new emerging technologies play in African agriculture, healthcare, financial services and other key industries.
Learn more about us at www.mezzanineware.com
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In The Digital Lever's third podcast episode, we speak with distinguished guest Martin Bwalya, Acting Director Knowledge Management & Programme Evaluation at the African Union Development Agency at NEPAD.
Martin's breadth of experience and articulate views on African development range across a number of important topics. From rethinking public and private alliances to the crucial role that technology partners like Vodacom play on the continent to ensure NEPAD's bold objectives of prosperity, equality and economic growth are realised in the coming years.
Recorded May 2021
The Digital Lever is a monthly podcast featuring a wide range of guests and topics about the role new emerging technologies play in African agriculture, healthcare, financial services and other key industries.
Learn more about us at www.mezzanineware.com
Follow us on LinkedIn
In The Digital Lever's second podcast episode, we speak with Peter Breitenbach, head of product and strategy at Mezzanine to discuss how interoperable, scalable digital toolkits are making immunisation programmes across the continent easier and more efficient than ever before.
Peter discusses the inner workings and successes of mVacciNation, powered by Mezzanine, which is an open architecture platform. Being ISO approved and GDPR compliant, it provides governments and key stakeholders with real-time visibility of vaccines and commodities across each vaccine service point, as well as citizen demand, and immunisations delivered.
Recorded March 2021
The Digital Lever is a monthly podcast featuring a wide range of guests and topics about the role new emerging technologies play in African agriculture, healthcare, financial services and other key industries.
Learn more about us at www.mezzanineware.com
Follow us on LinkedIn
In The Digital Lever's very first podcast episode, we speak with Leon de Fleuriot (CCO) and Stephen Kinuthia (East Africa & Agriculture Managing Executive) from Mezzanine to take a look back at 2020 and how the pandemic has accelerated the digital landscape across the African continent.
Stephen and Leon go into detail about the impact of 'digital humanitarianism', from how local governments and network operators bringing mobile to every corner of Africa, to how the Coronavirus has brought new opportunities to the developing world.
Watch the full YouTube version of this podcast here.
Recorded December 2020
The Digital Lever is a monthly podcast featuring a wide range of guests and topics about the role new emerging technologies play in African agriculture, healthcare, financial services and other key industries.
Learn more about us at www.mezzanineware.com
Follow us on LinkedIn