{"podcast":{"title":"Design Talk (dot IE)","slug":"design-talk-dot-ie-3492246","podcast_index_feed_id":3492246,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/5fda353b5f9eb72404a5200f","website_url":"https://www.designtalk.ie","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/5fda353b5f9eb72404a5200f/1716494071783-5efb7c8afb7496a164b240c4616376f1.jpeg","author":"Allen Higgins","episode_count":198,"summary":"Design Talk. A podcast for learning about the business of technology design and management. Listen to stories, panels, interviews and discussions about technology and design in-the-wild: the good, the beautiful, and the useful. Whether you've got one big idea, you think of yourself as an organisation designer, product designer, creator, or entrepreneur. Each episode offers a take on how people design, strategise, organise, and develop technology. We want to dig into the essence of design, discover the backstory to technologies, and unpack the design attitude. We started this podcast for you, because you are interested in tinkering, in making, and how ideas become 'things', and because we are all, in some way, involved in designing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-01T06:20:42.650489+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-talk-dot-ie-3492246"},"episode":{"title":"0254 - The PMIA Perspective with Fernandos Ongolly","slug":"0254-the-pmia-perspective-with-fernandos-ongolly","published_at":"2025-12-12T13:11:16+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-talk-dot-ie-3492246/0254-the-pmia-perspective-with-fernandos-ongolly","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-talk-dot-ie-3492246","url":"https://www.designtalk.ie","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5fda353b5f9eb72404a5200f/e/693c147541eacf5e811b791f/media.mp3","summary":"Today we’re talking with Fernandos Ongolly, to learn about home-grown innovations and digital startups from The Continent – in this case, Africa.  Our hosts are Selma Anya, Safa A. A. Emam, and Diana Achiro, students on the MSc Digital Innovation programme. Fernandos has a PhD from UCD. He is the current “Proudly Made in Africa” Fellow in Business and Development at UCD College of Business, and the founder of – Non-EU Academics and Researchers Community in Ireland. Our audience is the class of 2025 studying the Outsourcing and Offshoring module taught by Allen Higgins. First, Fernandos, would you like to say a few words about your current role and a little about your journey? ·       African nations might not be the first place that investors and business associate with “technology ambition”, can you set the context? [ notes: technical infrastructure, physical infrastructure, population demographics, connectedness etc. ] ·       Talk about some success stories from Africa and the sectors they occur in? [ notes: in FinTech, Education, AgriTech and eCommerce ] ·       What are the opportunities for outsourcing to Africa? [ notes: BPO, content moderation and specialized services, much of today’s AI is/was trained by centers in Africa ] ·       For the startup environment, like Silicon Valley, where are the incubators, clusters, and centers of excellence? [ notes: the three big regions East, West and South – Kenya; Nigeria; South Afric a] ·       Can you talk about the role culture plays. No doubt there are challenges but opportunities too? [ notes: strong social ties, high-trust cultures, entrep…","meta_description":"Today we’re talking with Fernandos Ongolly, to learn about home-grown innovations and digital startups from The Continent – in this case, Africa. Ou…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3374,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/design-talk-dot-ie-3492246/episodes/0254-the-pmia-perspective-with-fernandos-ongolly/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-talk-dot-ie-3492246/0254-the-pmia-perspective-with-fernandos-ongolly.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}