Loredana Sinardo, BBA student at the University of St. Gallen interviews Bineta Diop, Founder and President of Femmes Africa Solidarité, a non-profit organization which promotes women’s rights in Africa. This interview took place at the St. Gallen Symposium, Switzerland. St. Gallen, Switzerland The ancient town of St. Gallen in Switzerland has been a centre […]
Category Archives: Global Issues
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Apr
Apr
Dr. Sam Illingworth reads his poem Deadly Diets. Poem 10. Find the poem on ideaXme’s YouTube Channel. ideaXme Creator Series This collaboration is the first in a series of ideaXme collaborations with scientists, innovators and artists who move the human story forward. Dr Sam Illingworth, Poet and Atmospheric Physicist Dr. Sam Illingworth, PhD. Atmospheric Physics, […]
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Mar
Mar
Professor Catherine Marshall is appointed as ideaXme board advisor. Catherine joins other notable advisors including former NASA astronaut, Nicole Stott, Dr Robert Brown, FAPS, FIEE, FInstP, MAE, who was CEO of The American Institute of Physics and is now Professor UCI Beckman Laser Institute and Clinic and Sir John Hegarty, co-founder of BBH (Bartle Bogle […]
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Dec
Dec
Dr Renard Siew, Climate Change Activist and ideaXme Climate Change Ambassador interviews Virginijus Sinkevičius, EU Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries. Amongst the many subjects discussed, they talk of COP26, climate change activism, key objectives for 2022 and the Commissioner’s new legislation relating to deforestation. Dr Renard Siew: [00:00:03] Hello, everyone, and welcome […]
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Oct
Oct
Historian and author, Sheila Rowbotham talks of her life and work helping women to shape their own futures. Neil Koenig, Radio and TV producer and journalist, interviews Sheila Rowbotham, author and historian of feminism and radical social movements. In this interview, Sheila looks back at the early days of the women’s liberation movement […]
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Aug
Aug
Amanda Christensen, ideaXme guest interviewer and Strategist at Cubaka, speaks with David Grinspoon, PhD., Astrobiologist, Senior Scientist at the Planetary Institute and award-winning author. Amanda Christensen Comments: This June, NASA selected the DAVINCI+ (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble-gases, Chemistry and Imaging +) mission as part of its Discovery program – the first spacecraft to […]
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May
May
Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Dr. Ayesha Khanna CEO and founder ADDO AI. In this interview Dr. Ayesha Khanna talks of: – Smart Cities and smart nations – opportunities and threats – Reasons why Singapore was voted as lead smart city – ADDO AI’s portfolio of work – Ethics and security related to the […]
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Mar
Mar
Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Craig Fugate, former Administrator at FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency), USA, (2009-2017), reporting to President Barack Obama. Craig, now Chief Emergency Officer of One Concern, provides his perspective on the recent crisis in Texas – the power grid outage, the current Mexican border refugee challenge (9,500 unaccompanied […]
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Feb
Feb
There is a pressing need to clean up the world’s oceans. Both the health of our oceans and climate change are linked as oceans play a vital role in absorbing carbon dioxide. Plastic pollution, 8 million tons of plastic every year, threaten all marine life. Ocean species are facing a bigger danger of extinction than species on land. It […]
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Jan
Jan
Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews James Thornton, CEO of ClientEarth to talk of how legal action could save the planet. ClientEarth ClientEarth is a non-profit international environmental law firm which employs over 200 people who work in more than 60 countries. The organisation uses the law to bring about end-to-end systemic change: informing, […]
