The Impact Room

We'd love your feedback. Let us know what you thought about this episode. Hear from Ryan Sturgill, the former director of Gaza Sky Geeks, on the realities of running a tech hub in an occupied territory and the power of learning not to take 'no' for an answer. Palestine is a country too often associated with conflict. Home to the world’s longest-running occupation, headlines from the...

We'd love your feedback. Let us know what you thought about this episode. Unemployment is a global crisis. From Saudi Arabia to South America, joblessness has been described as a ticking time bomb and, in many regions, has been a trigger for civil unrest.  In this episode of The Impact Room, we are joined by two women who are at the vanguard of finding new solutions to this complex problem. Mo...

We'd love your feedback. Let us know what you thought about this episode. Ellen Agler is CEO of the END Fund, a philanthropy-backed initiative working to bring an end to the five most common neglected tropical diseases. She joins the Impact Room to talk progress, pooled giving, and the decolonisation of global health.  Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect more than 1.7 billion of the worl...

We'd love your feedback. Let us know what you thought about this episode. The Impact Room is a new space to connect people and ideas that make a real difference to our world. Step inside to hear stories of success and failure from a host of global guests, all working to solve some of the world’s most intractable development challenges.  From youth unemployment and internet freedom, to modern s...