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Social Innovation Asia is dedicated to creating dialogue and supporting the social innovation ecosystem across Asia. Through the podcast, we provide a voice to organisations and individuals who are creating impact in small and large ways, and people who can provide fresh insight into the forces of change across the region. The podcast is produced with the support of the School of Global Studies at Thammasat University.
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Sovan Srun & Meas Sak Pheng of Edemy: The Startupper of the Year and Top Female Entrepreneur
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Sovan Srun and Meas Sak Pheng join the series on social innovation in Cambodia to discuss Edemy, their award-winning social enterprise. The Tesdopi learning app developed by Edemy recently won the Cambodia Total Startupper of the Year award and Sovan Srun won the Top Female Entrepreneur Award. After returning from the USA where they were Fullbright…
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Channé Suy Lan of InSTEDD: Designing Tech Solutions to Detect Diseases and Support Development in Cambodia
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As part of our series on social innovation in Cambodia, we talk to Channé Suy Lan the Managing Director of InSTEDD's Southeast Asia iLab in Phnom Penh. InSTEDD stands for Innovative Support to Emergency Diseases and Disasters. It was founded by Larry Brilliant, who while working with a team to eliminate smallpox in India envisioned how technology c…
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Thavry Thon: Challenging Norms and Inspiring Change through Books in Cambodia
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In this episode, we are joined by Thavry Thon for an inspiring talk about education, literature and social change in Cambodia. Thavry is the author of several children books and a Proper Woman. She is also the co-Founder of Seavphovjivet, a publishing house dedicated to supporting Cambodian authors and inspiring young people through literature. Tha…
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Tara Dermott of IOM X: Changing Attitudes & Impacting Lives for Migrants
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Michael Waitze talks to Tara Dermott about how IOM X is using media to support safe migration experiences and stop trafficking and the exploitation of the vulnerable. Originally from the USA, Tara Dermott moved to Thailand as a Peace Corp volunteer 14 years ago. Stationed in the Northeast of Thailand near the Cambodian border, Tara learned about is…
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Pinnapa Satitpatanapan: The State of Impact Investing in the US & Thailand
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Just before Pinnapa Satitpatanapan headed to Manila for a position at the Asia Development Bank, Michael Waitze caught up with her to discuss her experience studying at Yale, her passion for impact investing and how it can grow in Thailand. Pinnapa did a Bachelor of Business Administration at Thammasat Univesity before gaining experience in the inv…
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Aung Thura: Myanmar's Rapidly Changing New Media Landscape
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To kick off the Social Innovation Asia series on new media in Asia, Michael Waitze and Daniel McFarlane talk to Aung Thura about Myanmar’s rapidly changing mobile media landscape. Aung is the Chief Strategist at Ignite Marketing Communications. With a team of researchers around the country, he is in an ideal position to provide insight into the rap…
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Josh Woodard of FHI 360: Tech for Resilience & Resilient Tech
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Michael Waitze and Daniel McFarlane visit FHI 360’s regional Bangkok office to talk with Josh Woodard, who is the organisation’s Regional ICT & Digital Finance Advisor. In an insightful discussion covering many issues, Josh highlights the role of technology in creating resilient communities and the value of thoughtful planning. Josh’s first experie…
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Allison Sanders of Baan Dek Foundation: Supporting the Vulnerable & Creating Systematic Change
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In this episode of Social Innovation Asia, Michael Waitze talks with Allison Sanders, the Director of Strategy and Partnerships at Baan Dek Foundation about the Foundation’s work supporting the lives of vulnerable migrant children growing up in construction worker campsites in Thailand. The Baan Dek Foundation was established in 2002 in Chiang Mai …
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Dr Neil Gains of Tapestry Works: Understanding Identify and Implicit Emotional Drivers
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What can a picture of eggs reveal about Indonesian beauty? What can an image of megaphone diplomacy tell you about family relationships? In this episode of the Social Innovation Asia podcast, Michael Waitze and Daniel McFarlane talk with Neil Gains, who is the owner of TapestryWorks and helps clients decode people and culture to help them better co…
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Rithy Thul: Creating Tech and Opening Minds in Cambodia
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'Inspirational' is a good way to describe Rithy Thul but it also captures what he wants Koompi to be for young Cambodians. Koompi is Cambodia's first locally designed laptop and Rithy Thul's latest venture. He discusses it, his company Smallworld Cambodia and his dream for education in Cambodia with Michael Waitze on Social Innovation Asia's first …
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In the 3rd Social Innovation Asia podcast, Michael Waitze and Daniel McFarlane are fortunate to converse with Stéphane Rousseau, who is the Director of International Field Immersion Courses at the School of Global Studies at Thammasat University. He brings an enormous wealth of experience to the conversation after decades of humanitarian, human rig…
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Courtney Savie Lawrence: Embracing the Chaotic and Crazy
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The second episode of the Social Innovation Asia podcast is an energizing lunchtime conversation between Courtney Savie Lawrence and Michael Waitze. Courtney, originally from Nashville, Tennessee, arrived in Asia seven years ago with the perspective "the world is so much bigger than our own bubble.” After co-founding a social enterprise in the US, …
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Dipendra KC - Thammasat U: Creating Springboards for Youth in Nepal and Thailand
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In the first episode of the Social Innovation Asia podcast series, Dipendra KC talks with Michael Waitze about his experience founding and running a youth organisation in Nepal, and his role in a new masters degree program of Social Innovation and Sustainability at Thammasat University. When Dipendra and his friends were seeking work experience as …
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