Somewhere on Earth: The Global Tech Podcast

Telling Untold Tech Stories from Around the World

We look at technology and how it impacts our daily lives. We tell the untold and unloved tech stories from around the world and discuss how the ever evolving digital world is changing our culture and our societies.

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About Somewhere on Earth: The Global Tech Podcast

Somewhere on Earth: The Global Tech Podcast (SOEP)is a new weekly podcast that looks at technology and how it impacts our daily lives. We tell the untold tech stories and are trying to create a tech for good ecosystem where new ideas and new technologies can find support and evolve. We don’t do new toys and gadgets, but we look at new trends, new tech and new ways we use that tech in our everyday lives. We discuss how the ever evolving digital world is changing our culture and our societies, but we don’t shy away from the news of the day, looking at the tech behind the top stories affecting our world.

The SOEP Team are primarily the former BBC World Service Digital Planet Team. This ran for 21+ years and had yearly downloads of 1.5m.

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The Team

Ghislaine Boddington

Studio Expert
Ghislaine is a pioneer amongst digital creatives since the early 1990’s and a leading expert in the future human, virtual presence and immersion experiences as well as a Professor in Digital Immersion at the University of Greenwich, in the UK.

Wairimu Gitahi

Studio Expert
Wairimu Gitahi is a multimedia journalist who’s worked for the BBC and the UN, she’s based in Nairobi, Kenya and has a strong interest in the role of technology addressing climate change.

Peter Guest

Studio Expert
Peter Guest is an award-winning UK-based freelance journalist; he was business editor at WIRED in London, enterprise editor at Rest of World in Singapore and features editor at Nikkei Asia in Tokyo, as well as writing for Bloomberg Businessweek, The Atlantic, GQ, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and MIT Technology Review.

Angelica Mari

Studio Expert
Angelica Mari is an award-winning journalist and commentator covering the technology and innovation space in Portuguese and English, her work can be found at Wired, Forbes, Financial Times, BBC, Quartz, The Guardian and Bloomberg Linea.

Ania Lichtarowicz

Editor and Producer
Former BBC broadcast journalist and editor, Ania’s been the Science Producer on the network’s leading news programme Today, Radio 5 Live Science Correspondent and World Service Health Reporter – she also produced “Digital Planet” their flagship tech radio show.