Global Development Experiment will resume broadcasting once a cure has been found for COVID19.

In response to the pandemic, many governments across the globe are increasing the use of surveillance, silencing critics, denying their citizens accurate information on the virus, and failing to provide basic health services to their marginalized communities. Join me as Fred Abrahams, Associate Director for Program, Human Rights Watch, talks about holding governments accountable in their response to the COVID19 pandemic.

As the online fight between open and closed societies intensifies, the need for effective cybersecurity strategies for individuals to states has become ever more vital. Kiersten Todt and Roger Cressey, two leading global authorities on cybersecurity, take us behind the matrix to expose the attackers, and provide strategies for NGOs, businesses and governments on how to counter the cyber threats.

ow will COVID19 impact future international development efforts? Does the united international response to COVID19 provide a test run on how we can possibly come together to address such long term global issues as climate change? Join Jason Swantek, Senior Contributing Editor to GDE, and me for the discussion.

Billion dollar bribery and money laundering schemes, and the lack of political will to combat corruption have become the norm in Latin America. Backed by the public, Brazilian professionals across the spectrum decided to fight back. Join me as I talk to Michael Freitas Mohallem, a young Brazilian lawyer, on how he led a country-wide civic movement that resulted in the drafting of more than 70 anti-corruption laws.

Join me as I talk to Drew Sullivan, co-founder of OCCRP, on why journalism needs to be reinvented not only to fight global corruption, but also to better serve the public.

Levan Kakhishvili, young Oxford educated Georgian political scientist, discusses Georgia’s political turmoil and just how Western are the political parties vying for control of the State.

Fatos Lubjona, Albania’s leading intellectual, discusses how Albania’s post-democratic challenges are a microcosm of the political and social trends sweeping through Europe.

Andrej Nosov, a young artist and political activist based in Belgrade, defies the Balkan historical taboos to lead a series of social and cultural movements that unites former Yugoslav war torn youth against national, ethnical, and sexual orientation stereotypes.

“Grow big or go home!” Did the Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa (IDASA), leading global think tank that was instrumental in bringing down the apartheid system, become a victim of its own success?

"Is it fake if you don't know its fake?" Social media disinformation. How it works and how to counter it.

Back to the future? Are we trying to solve today’s global problems with yesterday’s solutions?