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Digital Futures is a mission led technology training and services company. Our mission is to create opportunities for people from all backgrounds to start their careers in technology. On this podcast, we're going to be speaking to industry leaders about their own journeys to success, delving into the key issues that sit at the heart of the Digital Futures mission - diversity, equity, inclusion and the digital skills gap.
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David Crouch is your host in an examination of Digital Work Futures. He chats with a range of people who have made a meaningful career / vocation away from large cities to living and working on the Gulf Islands in British Columbia. These people began working remotely from home, and living a different dream for their life, years and decades before any pandemic generated interest in Remote Work, Live Where You Want, and WFH (Work From Home). Valuable insights on how to successfully create a di ...
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In this episode we are joined by Dr. Robert Friedman, the Executive Director of the Permanent Legacy Foundation. Together, we discuss what makes the Permanent Legacy Foundation a unique tech non-profit for social good and how we plan for the future, especially in such uncertain times. Guest Name: Dr. Robert Friedman Email: robert@permanent.org Pron…
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On the latest episode of the Digital Futures Podcast, Ed Vaizey is joined by Paula Bobbett, Chief Digital Officer at Boots. In her role, Paula is responsible for continuing to deliver at scale and pace digital transformation across Boots commercial operations. In a wide ranging conversation, Ed and Paula discuss: Paula's career beginnings and her p…
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Join host Amanda Meeks in conversation with Rachael Woody, the founder and director of Relicura™ LLC, to learn about the importance of adding metadata to your files. Metadata provides critical context to the items in your collections, context that Rachael works to create when providing services to archives, museums, and cultural heritage organizati…
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In this episode we are joined by Dr. Christine Sleeter, who shares her expertise on critical family history, which is a framework she developed to help people reckon with the messier and complex parts of history, particularly within their own family lineages. October is Family History Month, which is the perfect time to explore questions you have r…
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On the latest episode of The Digital Futures Podcast, Ed sits down with Richard Corbridge, Chief Digital and Information Officer at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). In his role, Richard is responsible for the strategy, maintenance, integrity, value for money and continuous improvement of DWP IT services and systems. In this episode, Ed a…
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Join host Amanda Meeks in conversation with Cathi Nelson, of the Photo Managers, to learn about the ABCs of photo organizing, when it’s okay to break the rules of photo organizing, and what one can do to prepare their photos for natural disasters. Don’t forget that September is Save Your Photos Month, an international effort to provide free educati…
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In this episode we are joined by the Flickr Foundation Executive Director, George Oates, and interdisciplinary scholar and curator, Temi Odumosu, who share about their research and thinking behind the 100 year plan, an effort to design for long term sustainability. We explore this idea from the perspective of cultural heritage organizations concern…
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Join host Amanda Meeks and Courtney Plaster in a conversation about inheritance. Courtney shares practical tips on how to start downsizing, organizing, and preserving digital or print collections, without the overwhelm, for yourself or others. She also walks us through the more sentimental aspects of both leaving behind and inheriting special memor…
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On the latest episode of the Digital Futures Podcast, Ed speaks to Harmeen Mehta, Chief Digital and Innovation Officer at BT Group. In her role, Harmeen leads the digital unit for BT Group, accountable for digital product and platform management, design, engineering, digital innovation, data strategy and solutions, IT delivery and Group-wide transf…
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Join host Amanda Meeks and Stewart Traiman as they explore what it means to dive into family history as a member of the LGBTQ community, as well as the importance of uncovering and preserving your own LGBTQ ancestors’ life stories that would otherwise be erased or forgotten. Guest: Stewart Traiman Email: stewart@sixgen.org Pronouns: He/Him Bio: Ste…
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On this latest episode of the Digital Futures Podcast, Ed sits down with Rob Walker, President of Global Growth Markets at Cognizant. In this role, Rob plays an integral part in helping to further globalize Cognizant’s business across several dimensions, across all of Cognizant's markets outside of the Americas. Rob joined Cognizant in January 2021…
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In this first episode, Ed sits down with Founder and CEO of Digital Futures, Scott Vincent. Scott began his career in investment banking before founding Parker Fitzgerald, a multi-award winning strategic advisory firm which he founded in 2009 and sold to Accenture in 2019, before founding Digital Futures in 2020. In this conversation, Ed and Scott …
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Join host Amanda Meeks in conversation with Heather Shelton, the Peale’s digital curator, registrar, and communications specialist, on all things that make a “community museum” and how the Peale supports Baltimore’s storytellers. Guest Name: Heather Shelton Email: online@thepealecenter.org Pronouns: she/her Bio: Heather Shelton is the Peale’s digit…
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Join host Amanda Meeks in a conversation with Heather Meeker, founder of the Free Open Source Stories Digital Archive (FOSSDA), and learn about how and why the project was started. Plus, get a sneak peek into some of the amazing interviews Heather has conducted so far, where she captures the personal stories from the open source movement’s pioneers…
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Join host Amanda Meeks in conversation with Miriam Pytell, an interaction and communication designer, in discussing open access platforms and content creators’ digital legacies. They also get into some of the challenges of thanatosensitive design in the digital realm, working at a funeral home as a student, and advice for creatives who are just sta…
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Join host Amanda Meeks in conversation with Katie Gach, a death doula and researcher at Meta, in exploring concepts such as continuing bonds theory and digital legacy planning. They also share thoughts on the interconnectedness of our online data as well as the implications when that data is deleted or inaccessible to those we love after death. Gue…
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Join host Amanda Meeks in conversation with Robert LaRose and Biljana Milenkovic, librarians at the DC Public Library's Memory Lab, to learn how they make digitization and digital archiving accessible to the general public. They also share insight and tips on getting started with your own digital archives or digitization projects. Bonus: Explore th…
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David tells us how he accidentally got into the translation business while studying for his PhD and that job has allowed him to work from home and to live where he has wanted for almost 30 years. He clearly loves the freedom of working from home and has some insights in how to best manage it. He also discusses the translation business, and how it i…
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The Gulf Islands of British Columbia are home to many digital workers who have chosen to live here yet still continue to do similar knowledge based work that they were doing before. They even run whole expert-based businesses remotely, not only surviving by thriving. In these interviews we find out exactly how they made the change and what their wo…
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Holly tells us how her and her husband decided to leave Vancouver in 2007 and to live a simpler, cheaper rural life style. After considering a lot of different factors they chose Salt Spring. Her husband maintained his existing employment allowing Holly the opportunity to simultaneously move and start her own business: providing e-learning and trai…
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