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What If Instead? Podcast

What If Instead? Podcast

Alejandro Juárez Crawford, Miriam Plavin-Masterman, ITSPmagazine, Srijan Banik

A podcast co-hosted by Alejandro Juárez Crawford and Miriam Plavin-Masterman. A show about everyday people reimagining the way things work—and tackling the obstacles they face. We explore adventures in democratizing innovation—how the chance to try one’s hand at something new affects people and even organizations, what “powers” they discover and what challenges they face along the way. We dig into access: what determines who gets the chance to try and disrupt the way things work? We examine obstacles in specific industries and communities, and go deep with people working to break through them. We look closely at the role of tech—how it can equip or disempower people to build experiments of their own—and society: what leads us to accept a role as consumers of the way things work, and what it means to discover our powers to ask in practice, “What if instead?” Producer of the What If Instead? Podcast: Srijan Banik

Categories: Technology

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“Building a new kind of muscle around curiosity in networking … has real business … and social impact.” – David Garrison, Founder & CEO of Connect Networks In an era in which algorithms make so much interaction transactional, what if instead we could reopen windows for surprising one another, for "opening up storylines, instead of closing them down?" In this episode of What If Instead?, hosts Alejandro Juárez Crawford and Mim Plavin-Masterman sit down with Connect Networks CEO David Garrison to explore how to create a system for unexpected connections—and “unleash meaningful one-on-one conversations” at scale. When you unlock those connections, you find extraordinary power for creative problem solving—where it’s not comfortable, but you think in new ways. Can we do this systematically? Can organizations and communities weave together "the corners of the network that would normally never connect," to spark innovation and build ecosystems for change? Listen to the episode to learn what David's research and experiments have revealed—and how he's making this available where it hasn't been before.