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In this episode of JM International's ‘The Power of Music', we are joined by Cill, a Nigerian singer-songwriter who leverages storytelling for social change. Cill has collaborated with the Music for Democracy Network, won the 2019 Accountability Music Award, and is one of JMI's Fair Play Ambassadors.We explore her transition from a corporate job to a music career and the adventures that come with it. We'll delve into topics such as corruption in Nigeria, artistic censorship, and influencing the young generation's mindset. We'll discuss how music can relax and transform 'playboys' into responsible men.JMI is a global network of NGOs that empowers young people through music across all boundaries. For more info go to https://jmi.net/ or check out all the amazing opportunities for musicians at https://mubazar.com/en.Cill: https://www.instagram.com/cillsoul/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/cillsoulFair Play: https://www.anticorruptionmusic.org/about

Unelected Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has given the plum job of Foreign Secretary to the equally unelected former PM David Cameron, who has been fast tracked into the House Of Lords after giving up his parliamentary seat.Adrian Goldberg gets reaction from Jessie Joe Jacobs, Director of the Democracy Network, a group representing 800+ organisations seeking to renew UK politics and David Wearing, a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex and an expert on UK foreign relations in the Middle East.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times. Made by We Bring Audio for Byline Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    ​​Valerie Dowling is the Director of the Women's Democracy Network at the International Republican Institute. Since taking the role in 2016, Valerie has been passionately spearheading efforts to enhance women's involvement in elected offices worldwide, to foster inclusive and diverse political landscapes. Valerie's past roles include Director of Women's Programs in the Office of the Co-Chairman at the Republican National Committee, Political Director for the National Federation of Republican Women, and Pennsylvania Coalitions Director for the Romney for President Campaign. As a result of her initiatives, she successfully engaged more women within the Republican Party, leading to increased influence and amplified the voices of Republican women across the country. Valerie's experience in various capacities within the Bush Administration provided her with valuable insights into government operations and policy-making processes. Beyond her professional accomplishments, Valerie actively contributes to the Women's Public Leadership Network as the Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors, advocating for the advancement of women in leadership roles.   Today, Valerie and I discuss the importance of increasing women's political participation, leadership, and representation globally. She emphasizes the need for women to take an active role in politics and highlights the power and potential of women in shaping policy and the future. She discusses her work in encouraging women's involvement in the political process and creating platforms for women to connect and collaborate. Valerie addresses the challenges women face, such as the social stigma associated with political affiliations and the importance of women realizing that their participation in democracy goes beyond personal emotions and extends to issues affecting their families and communities. We discuss various avenues for political engagement, including advocacy, running for office at different levels, and supporting candidates through donations and investments of time. We also discuss how the media portrays women's issues and how to get young people involved in politics.   “Women need to be involved at all levels of the political and civic process in our communities if we want to see democracy work. “- Valerie Dowling       This week on Political Contessa:   The importance of increasing women's participation in politics globally The power women have to shape the future How to encourage women to get involved in politics The challenges faced by women in politics How to get involved in politics without running for office How women's diverse backgrounds and life experiences make them well-suited to holding office How to promote democracy in other countries How the media portrays female candidates The role of taxpayer dollars in funding public institutions How to get college students to think about democracy     Resources Mentioned:   The Pocketbook Project   Connect with Valerie Dowling:   Website: Women's Democracy Network Valerie Dowling on LinkedIn   Awaken Your Inner Political Contessa   Thanks for tuning into this week's episode of Political Contessa. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts.   Spotify I Stitcher I Apple Podcasts I iHeart Radio I TuneIn I Google Podcasts   Be sure to share your favorite episodes on social media. And if you've ever considered running for office – or know a woman who should – head over to politicalcontessa.com to grab my quick guide, Secrets from the Campaign Trail. It will show you five signs to tell you you're ready to enter the political arena.    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's show, Kamz is joined by Hedera leadership, Chief of Staff and Head of Global Policy at Hedera, Nilmini Rubin and Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer, Betsabe Botaitis. Nilmini Rubin is the Chief of Staff and Head of Global Policy for Hedera. Previously, she worked on the global policy team at Meta, and before that, Nilmini headed Tetra Tech's global team, implementing energy and internet projects that resulted in millions of people gaining access to electricity for the first time. For 12 years, she served as a senior aide on both the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, where she spearheaded the passage of legislation to provide electricity access in Africa, increase global internet access, reduce corruption through transparency, and reform U.S. foreign assistance. She is an adviser to the Women's Democracy Network and the Energy Growth Hub, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Academy of the Global Teacher Prize, and the International Mindfulness Teachers Association.Betsabe Botaitis is the newly appointed treasurer and chief financial officer at Hedera. She was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. During the Mexican peso crisis in the 1990s. The crisis left many families in financial ruin, and after witnessing her family being negatively impacted, she enrolled in a 6-month course to become a bank teller at 14-years old. Betsabe began her career as a bank teller at Citibank at the age of 15 and rose through the ranks, growing more interested in fintech and financial inclusion as her career progressed. She has since held senior positions at companies like Citigroup, and Lending Club. Botaitis is a member of Hipower, a network of executive women leaders in Silicon Valley, and she was recently awarded Nasdaq's top honor at the annual Latina Disruptors Event. Above all, she is a passionate advocate for economic equality, who has been working in blockchain since 2016. On this incredible panel, we discuss:

On this week's show, Kamz is joined by Hedera leadership, Chief of Staff and Head of Global Policy at Hedera, Nilmini Rubin and Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer, Betsabe Botaitis. Nilmini Rubin is the Chief of Staff and Head of Global Policy for Hedera. Previously, she worked on the global policy team at Meta, and before that, Nilmini headed Tetra Tech's global team, implementing energy and internet projects that resulted in millions of people gaining access to electricity for the first time. For 12 years, she served as a senior aide on both the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, where she spearheaded the passage of legislation to provide electricity access in Africa, increase global internet access, reduce corruption through transparency, and reform U.S. foreign assistance. She is an adviser to the Women's Democracy Network and the Energy Growth Hub, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Academy of the Global Teacher Prize, and the International Mindfulness Teachers Association.Betsabe Botaitis is the newly appointed treasurer and chief financial officer at Hedera. She was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. During the Mexican peso crisis in the 1990s. The crisis left many families in financial ruin, and after witnessing her family being negatively impacted, she enrolled in a 6-month course to become a bank teller at 14-years old. Betsabe began her career as a bank teller at Citibank at the age of 15 and rose through the ranks, growing more interested in fintech and financial inclusion as her career progressed. She has since held senior positions at companies like Citigroup, and Lending Club. Botaitis is a member of Hipower, a network of executive women leaders in Silicon Valley, and she was recently awarded Nasdaq's top honor at the annual Latina Disruptors Event. Above all, she is a passionate advocate for economic equality, who has been working in blockchain since 2016. On this incredible panel, we discuss:

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Our commemoration of Africa Day, led by a conversation moderated by WYMD Leadership Board member and founder of Success Capital, Dumiso Gatsha, unpacks variant experiences and layers of complex political discourse in light of our history, civic space and youth dividend. We encourage you to expand conversations that can inspire change and hope amidst the many crises we experience today. Speakers: Saida Ali is an intersectional feminist and an international policy analyst. Mwinji Nachinga worked with the Commonwealth Youth Human Rights and Democracy Network and holds an LLB. Crash Maphorisa is an Entrepreneur and serves the Botswana chapter of the African Women's Entrepreneurship Program. Alex Kofi Donkor is the Director of LGBT+ Rights Ghana & Programs Manager of Priorities on Rights and Sexual Health.

Researchers have discovered a number of vulnerabilities in the SwissPost e-vote system which could allow undetectable manipulation of votes.  Dr Vanessa Teague is Associate Professor and Chair, Cybersecurity and Democracy Network at the Melbourne School of Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia. She joins us to explain her team's findings. The original research is here: https://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/vjteague/SwissVote The CyberWire's Research Saturday is presented by Juniper Networks. Thanks to our sponsor Enveil, closing the last gap in data security.  

Researchers have discovered a number of vulnerabilities in the SwissPost e-vote system which could allow undetectable manipulation of votes.  Dr Vanessa Teague is Associate Professor and Chair, Cybersecurity and Democracy Network at the Melbourne School of Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia. She joins us to explain her team's findings. The original research is here: https://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/vjteague/SwissVote

Katharine C. Gorka was the Executive Director of The Westminster Institute. Katharine spent nearly two decades working in Central Europe. She was the regional head of the USAID-funded Democracy Network program, run by the National Forum Foundation, covering the countries of Central Europe and the Balkans. Katharine later co-founded with her husband, Dr. Sebastian Gorka, the Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security (ITDIS), which focused on issues of economic reform and the problems associated with former communists and secret police in post-communist democracies. In her former position as head of the Westminster Institute, Katharine was responsible for helping to define the threat posed by Islamic terrorism and subversion in the United States. She works closely with US government agencies, law enforcement and the intelligence community. Most recently she authored “Sharia Finance and the U.S.Constitution,” and she is co-editor of the volume, Fighting the Ideological War: Winning Strategies from Communism to Islamism.

This week on Democracy That Delivers, host Ken Jaques is joined by three guests with a strong and diverse background in women’s issues and programming. Valerie Dowling, the Director of the International Republican Institute’s (IRI) Women’s Democracy Network, Barbara Langley, CIPE’s Director of the Center for Women’s Economic Empowerment, and Marc Schleifer, former Regional Director of CIPE’s Europe, Eurasia and South Asia department.   Dowling and Langley discuss future plans for joint initiatives in women’s programming between sister institutes IRI and CIPE, stressing that the expertise provided can ensure economic and political empowerment go hand in hand to remove barriers for women around the world. Schleifer discusses his experience working with Selima Ahmad, a long-time CIPE partner who successfully began and now presides over the Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI).

This week’s podcast is a recording of an event CIPE recently co-hosted with the National Endowment for Democracy titled "Defending Liberal Democracy in Emerging Markets: The Role of Free Markets and Rule of Law." Specifically, the event explored whether liberal economic reforms and accountability in economic policy can help bolster the consolidation of democracy and, if so, under what conditions. What are the common challenges facing liberal democracy and market economies? What are the economic arguments in support of liberal democracy? How can a free-market system respond to demands for economic and political inclusion? What types of reforms would promote a level playing field and accountability in government? Opening remarks were provided by: Greg Lebedev, Chair, Center for International Private Enterprise Carl Gershman, President, National Endowment for Democracy Three members of CIPE’s Free Enterprise and Democracy Network engaged in a panel discussion on the topic: Aurelio Concheso, President of the Advisory Board, Centro de Divulgación del Conocimiento (CEDICE), Venezuela Güray Karacar, Former Secretary General, Corporate Governance Association of Turkey (TKYD) Selima Ahmad, Founder and President, Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI) The discussion was moderated by: Karen Kerrigan, President and CEO, Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council

Sui Lang Panoke, MPA is the Founder/ Director of Women Politics Media (WPM) – a global leadership and communications training organization designed to prepare today’s leaders to be highly effective leaders and communicators in their families, careers and communities. WPM trainings encompass a 3-tier core curriculum centered on personal empowerment, leadership development and professional communications training. She has secured multiple clients and partnerships with a myriad of local, national, and international women, minority, and young professional organizations throughout the U.S. and Africa. She is an op-ed author, ghost writer, and political/media strategist whose work has been published in the Washington Post, the New York Times and a number of local, national and global publications around the world. WPM is on track to launch its newest project, the RE-Think Tank for Women, on June 10, 2016 in Washington, DC. Sui Lang is also committed to getting more women and people of color elected to public office. She has served at Emily’s List, the Congressional Black Caucus’ PAC, the DC office of the Honorable James E. Clyburn, and the Young Democrats of America’s Women’s and Minority Caucus working on local, state-wide and national campaigns. 
 
WPM is committed to empowering women and minority leaders around the world to engage in the political process and pursue positions of power in the public and private sector.  In 2010, WPM partnered with the International Republican Institute’s Women’s Democracy Network and IRI Nigeria to train women aspirants, media experts, Political Party leaders, and members of the National Assembly on political communications and messaging in Lagos, Nigeria. Most notably in 2013, Sui Lang served as an Expert Trainer for IRI South Sudan training women and men serving as Political Party leaders and members of Parliament on strategic communications, political speech writing, public speaking, and debating skills in Juba, South Sudan. WPM has also facilitated media and political communications workshops at the bi-annual World Learning conference in Washington, DC bringing together over 240 International Fellows from over 40 different countries to gain practical skills and experience from American experts working in a diverse range of public and private sector fields.

Sui Lang currently serves on the Advisory Board of Vote It Loud – a national minority voter initiative aimed to increase civic engagement within minority communities in America. Vote It Loud successfully launched its Inaugural Multi-Cultural Media Correspondents Dinner on May 26, 2016 at the National Press Club bringing together over 450 multi-cultural leaders in the media and public policy arena. She has also served as Chair of the Young Women Leaders Board 2009-14 overseeing the WeLEAD program – a nonpartisan political leadership training program targeting young women pursuing careers in politics. She also served as Vice Chair of the National Governing Board of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum from 2011-14 and has served on the Executive Board of Directors for the Patsy Mink Project 2010-12. Sui Lang holds an MPA from American University with a Certificate in Women, Policy, and Political Leadership and received the “Outstanding Women & Politics Graduate Student” award from the Women & Politics Institute.  She earned her BS in Political Science from the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics. Sui Lang is the proud mother of an intellectually curious twelve-year-old daughter named Kaleila Dae Relle Ka'iulani Alaka'i Wren. Together, they reside on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Links: Women Politics Media, LLC Website: www.womennpoliticsmedia.org Email: suilang@womenpoliticsmedia.org RE-Think Tank for Women, a project of WPM Website: www.re-thinktank.com Email: suilang@re-thinktank.com Facebook: RE-ThinkTank Twitter: RE_Thinktank Instagram:  re_thinktank

Clark Miller is associate director of CNS-ASU, with primary responsibility for the Center’s educational programs. His research focuses on science and technology policy, including particular emphases on the governance of new and emerging technologies and the global politics of expertise. Before joining ASU, he taught at Wisconsin and Iowa State and held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Science, Technology and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He also is a recipient of a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award and over a dozen other major grants, including a Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education award. He serves on the advisory board of the Nanotechnology Informal Science Education Network and the Bovay Center for Engineering, Ethics, and Society at the National Academy of Engineering. He is a founding co-organizer and member of the governing council of the Science and Democracy Network, a global professional community for research on the politics of science and technology.