Episode 3 - Louise Macdonald, CEO, and Kirsten Urquhart, Digital Services Director at Young Scot

This week Zoe and Paul speak to Louise Macdonald, CEO, and Kirsten Urquhart, Digital Services Director at Young Scot.

Relationships between CEOs and digital leaders can be a marriage made in heaven - but they can also go wrong. Louise and Kirsten have achieved huge amounts together at Young Scot and we wanted to find out what makes their relationship tick. They told us how they put young people front and centre of what they do, getting digital skills onto boards, why staff need to be empowered to innovate and why digital offers reason for hope in dark times.

In their roundup of tech news, Zoe and Paul talk about video call overload and the Facebook boycott campaign.

 

Notes and links –

Young Scot  https://young.scot/

Arundhathi Roy article ‘The pandemic is a portal’

https://www.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca

Video call overload

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/05/zoom-fatigue-video-conferencing-coronavirus/

Facebook boycott campaign

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53225139

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Editing by Paul Thomas and production from Alexey Sibikin

Music by Joseph McDade https://josephmcdade.com/music