Nathaniel Calhoun on Solving Africa’s Poverty, Education and Developmental Crises

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Nathaniel Calhoun, Vice Chairman of Global Grand Challenges and the Managing Director of the Global Solutions Program at Singularity University talks about Poverty, Education and Developmental Barriers in Africa. He aims to have a positive impact on these problems through the use of exponential technology.
Having personally lived in several African countries for a number of years, Nathanial highlights some of the very basic problems that western people can't conceive of, like unfair banking system that charges extortionate fees, and a weak education system that doesn't even provide separate bathroom facilities for girls in schools. Just like everywhere in the world, teachers are not being compensated properly, keeping them in abject poverty.
Nathaniel advocates a “how to fish” teaching strategy vs. “give them fish to eat”.
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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:08.0	Future Technologies Voice to Transform Our Lives, for better or worse, are the focus of this podcast.
0:13.6	Almost here, means these technologies are now here and
0:16.7	starting to be used.
0:18.2	We're just around the corner.
0:19.7	From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,
0:22.0	3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:26.0	Hi, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast.
0:29.0	Today I have another guest from Singularity University, as I always say the people that work
0:35.4	with and for Singularity University are Renaissance men and women.
0:40.6	They are into all kinds of amazing things and I always have great conversations with them.
0:45.0	So my guest today is Nathaniel Calhoun, the vice chair of Global Grand Challenges
0:51.0	at Singularity University.
0:53.2	Undoubtedly he's into many other projects as well which will ask him about.
0:57.2	So Nathaniel how you doing?
0:59.0	Doing really well.
1:00.0	Thanks for taking the time to speak with me.
1:02.0	Yeah, no problem.
1:03.0	So, you know, would you give listeners a brief overview of your background and, you know, the projects that you're involved in?
1:10.0	I started off as an educator in the classroom teaching high school or secondary students
1:18.0	kind of literature and philosophy and things before they graduated but I was doing that in the Middle East and Africa and doing a bit of
1:25.8	curricular design at the same time.
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