iamtheCODE Podcast

This week, Lady Mariéme Jamme @mjamme converses with Mr Charles Abani , the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Ghana. He is of British and Nigerian descent and has dedicated 20 years of his life to promoting development, and equality in the world. Charles is very passionate about making a difference in people’s lives and enabling young people faced with poverty to live purposeful and sustainab...

How To Motivate People To Do Good For Others. "We are not free until everyone is free"- is the message from a young girl in Ghana that our host Lady Mariéme met recently. Our Host Lady Mariéme has been busy travelling and meeting incredible young women . She caught up with them and visited their schools and communities . The girls will start their coding classes this September. Some of the girls a...

In episode 2 , Lady Mariéme @mjamme sits down with her DoGood Fellow , Dr Raghu Appasani , an integrative psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and social entrepreneur who focuses on bridging the gap between western and eastern mental health practices. As the Founder & CEO of the Minds Foundation , Dr Raghu is taking an innovative and proactive approach to increasing access to mental healthcare throug...

Welcome to Season 7 of #iamtheCODEPodcast. Lady Mariéme Jamme @mjamme the host is honoured to share the latest news about our work in building and creating opportunities for resilient souls. We recently travelled to Salvador Bahia, Brazil , and Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya , to meet our beneficiaries. And despite coming from some of the most disadvantaged backgrounds, they are incredibly determined...

Happy Monday. Welcome to the final episode of Season 6, Decoding the Sustainable Development Goals. We are grateful to all the listeners for taking in the wisdom shared by our profound guests this season. Our guests for this episode are students from the Rwanda Coding Academy . With the kindness of our host, Lady Mariéme, Phinah & Shallon felt lucky to have been featured live from the Davos Fo...

Welcome to the second to last episode of Season 6. We hope you have enjoyed the DecodingSDGs series. We are honoured to bring guests from diverse communities together to advance the Sustainable Development Goals. ’In this episode, our host, Lady Mariéme, invited the restless entrepreneur and CEO of Junior Achievement (JA) Worldwide, Asheesh Advani . Asheesh Advani Graduated from Wharton School and...

Here is the final special episode straight from Davos 2022 of Season 6 , Decoding Sustainable Development Goals. Our host, Lady Mariéme, went live from the prestigious event to feature girls from the Rwanda Coding Academy . The girls shared a powerful message with the world leaders. In addition to strengthening the voice of two young coders from Rwanda, she invited the Innovation Queen , Fara...

Our Davos 2022 Season 6 specials continue wth Lady Mariéme, our tireless host for another episode of Decoding the UN Sustainable Development Goals . She invited Bob Moritz, Global Chairman of PwC , and they discussed the Future of Work, the Global Skills standards Framework, and the skills taxonomy of the World Economic Forum Reskilling platform , where both seats as council members. The young peo...

In this Davos Special, Lady Mariéme shares her learnings. She was truly honoured to have participated in this post-Covid 19 event and showcased our young girls. The Girls in Kakuma Refugees Camp and Rwanda Coding Academy were featured live from Davos. The girls in Kakuma spoke on Radio Davos, hosted by Robin Pomeroy for the first time in history. On top of featuring the brilliant girls. She invite...

Lady Mariéme, the founder and CEO of iamtheCODE, made an inspiring appearance at this year’s E-learning Africa Conference in Kigali, Rwanda. She showcased our new platform to leaders and local heroes from all over Rwanda who are transforming the world one day at a time. She visited the Rwanda Coding Academy and demonstrated the platform to the pride of Africa , the girls and boys learning how to c...

Happy Friday! - In this week's episode, Lady Mariéme invited her co-hosts, students from Childwall Valley Primary School, Liverpool, to welcome former England Goalkeeper and Team GB2012 for the 2012 London Olympics , Rachel Brown Finnis . She is now a media pundit for BBC/BT Sport . Rachel's journey as a sportswoman started at the age of 8, and she is humbled by how far women's football has come s...

In continuation of our Girls in ICT Day celebrations , we have reached our ‘Special 100th Episode’ . Lady Mariéme, our esteemed host was joined by our humble guest, Jayathma Wickramanayake , the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth. Her extraordinary journey started as a community mobilizer, and when she started a youth-led non-profit called ‘Hashtag Generation’ from Srilanka, her birthplace. She sh...

Hello From Kakuma, we welcome you to this special iamtheCODE Podcast episode.  We celebrated Girls ICT Day in Kakuma Refugee Camp, where Lady Mariéme hosted the Podcast after two years of not meeting the girls. She also launched the iamtheCODE Digital Platform. She was joined by Doreen Bogdan-Martin is Director of the Telecommunication Development Bureau of the International Telecommunication...

Lady Mariéme welcomed Madga Wood, Chief Learning Officer of the Microbit Foundation , to celebrate our upcoming 100th episode. We have had six seasons, from how can coding collides with mental health to discovering your purpose. Truly grateful to have you all listening. We had extraordinary guests who shared so much with us.  The Microbit Foundation has made a donation to iamtheCODE and we ar...

Easter special: In this episode, our host Lady Mariéme Jamme explores the relationship between what you eat and how you feel , including tips on incorporating healthy eating into your life. She shared her struggle with food and dieting. She said that eating one meal a day caused her many problems when she was young. Not having any nutritional education was challenging. This week’s guest is Dutch-b...

In this episode with the girls of Liverpool from the Childwall Valley Primary School , Lady Mariéme spoke about the Power Of Building Sustainable Cities with Alison Adams , the new chief executive of ChristchurchNZ. Originally from the UK, Adams started her business career as a brand manager for Unilever after graduating from Cambridge with a first-class honours degree in natural science. She spok...

Lady Mariéme sits down with Kenyan Born Anthony Muiyoro , the current curator of the Nairobi Global Shapers Community , the World Economic Forum initiative , and an Associate Director on Cybersecurity and privacy leader at KPMG. Previously he led EY’s Cybersecurity, privacy and trusted technology practice for East Africa, where he helped organizations build trust, and more secure and resilient tec...

How to Leave Your Mark On The World This Podcast is a tribute to Simon Smiles , a former impact investment pioneer at UBS. He is a young global leader, a father, and a husband who the community of Young Global leaders got to know through his presence, kindness, influence and advancement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.  Lady Mariéme invited Elaine Smith-Genser to share a tribute about...

Our Season Six continues “Decoding the UN Sustainable Development Goals”. We welcomed our phenomenal guest, Dr Ibilola Amao , a Nigerian Engineer principal consultant of Lonadek Services . When her late father – a trained civil engineer – discovered she loved science and math, he encouraged her to pursue studies in this area. She feels we need to increase the quality of the new graduates in Africa...

Happy Friday, and thank you so much for your support, love, commitment and kindness. In this week's episode, Lady Mariéme welcomes young women from  Tormead School ,  a private all-girls in Guildford, as her co-hosts. We launched the iamtheCODE Tormead Podcast, where girls will decode the UN Sustainable Development Goals and share their experiences with other girls in the world including...

Join us on this very special and historical occasion to celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) ! We are joined by the Mayor of Liverpool Joanne Anderson alongside girls from Childwall Valley Primary School for an incredible, eye-opening and inspiring podcast.  Lady Mariéme Jamme is working with young students worldwide to help them be part of the iamtheCODE Learning Programme and Podcast....

Join us on March 8th to celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD), iamtheCODE is hosting a virtual event on March 8th, 2022, at the Tormead School in Guildford. Lady Mariéme Jamme is working with young students worldwide to help them be part of the iamtheCODE Learning Programme and Podcast. We are coming together under the theme “ Gender Equality today for a sustainable tomorrow ” and call for cli...

Welcome to the new season of the iamtheCODE podcast! This week’s episode welcomes Professor Tim Unwin , UNESCO Chair in ICT4D, and Emeritus Professor of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Tim is a long friend of Africa who has written many books about Digital interventions for the marginalised communities, especially the disabled. His book “Reclaiming information & communicatio...

As part of the "Decoding Sustainable Development Goals - Season 6", Tech Investor, Former Google Country Director, General Partner at  Partech  Tidjane Dème, sits down with our host, Lady Mariéme. A Pioneer and Father of two beautiful girls open up about fatherhood and how the pandemic changed his life and taught him lessons. He also shared his thoughts on the African tech Ecosystem refl...

Welcome to the iamtheCODE Season 6 podcast.  We are super excited and honoured to announce the launch of our new Season six podcast series, an intentionally themed global weekly podcast that explores the  United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,  adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for pea...