The Purpose Studio
The Purpose Studio
Podcast Description
The Purpose Studio is a podcast for founders, creatives, and purpose-led leaders building with heart and vision. We explore the journey from inner work to bold action through conversations with entrepreneurs, innovators, and community builders driving transformation at the intersection of spirituality, strategy, and creativity.
Tune in for stories that spark purpose-driven leadership and collective impact.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes of leadership, creativity, and spirituality, with episodes exploring topics like bold action in community building and the role of imagination in transformative leadership. An example episode includes a discussion with Lucian Tarnowski about planetary citizenship and integrating ancestral wisdom into modern strategies.
The Purpose Studio is a podcast for founders, creatives, and purpose-led leaders building with heart and vision. We explore the journey from inner work to bold action through conversations with entrepreneurs, innovators, and community builders driving transformation at the intersection of spirituality, strategy, and creativity.
Tune in for stories that spark purpose-driven leadership and collective impact.
Data is being extracted the same way land used to be.
Who gets to decide how technology is built, and who gets left out?
In this episode, Marine Collins Ragnet and Vijayta Rao Narang explore data colonisation, decolonial AI, and what it takes to build technology that actually serves communities. They unpack how technology can reproduce existing power structures, why communities in the Global South are often treated as testing grounds, and what peacebuilding principles can teach us about building more ethical and participatory systems.
We also explore why so many startups fail to build for the people they claim to serve, what digital sovereignty looks like in practice, and how participatory funding models can shift who gets to shape the future of technology.
In this episode, we explore:
What data colonisation looks like today
How AI and technology can reproduce existing power structures
Why the Global South is often treated as a testing ground
Peacebuilding principles for ethical technology development
Digital sovereignty and community-centered data
Participatory funding and decolonial approaches to innovation
Examples from Kenya, Malawi, the Philippines, and Syria
Meet our guests:
Marine Collins Ragnet is the Head of Innovation Research at NYU's Peace Research and Education Program (PREP), where she leads research on AI governance, digital sovereignty, and community-centered technology initiatives across the Global South. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Portulans Institute and Managing Editor of the Cambridge Journal of Artificial Intelligence.
Vijayta Rao Narang is an Independent Researcher with PREP @ NYU and a programme and movement builder with experience across climate justice, participatory grant-making, and community-centered innovation. Based in Bengaluru, India, she works across projects connecting climate justice, decolonial innovation, and participatory arts-based advocacy.
What happens when we stop asking how to make technology more efficient, and start asking who it is actually built for?
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