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"A good mobility system is really like the lifeblood of a city. It makes the city move, it comes alive." Premesh Chandran is the co-founder and CEO of Malaysiakini.com, Malaysia’s top independent news website, reaching over 8 million readers in English, Malay, Chinese and Tamil. He is TED Senior Fellow, a recipient of Asia Foundation’s Chang-Lin Tan Fellowship and the Media Personality of the Year 2012. In 2018, he started his second company - Asia Mobiliti, a next-generation mobility platform, enabling mobility as a service. We discuss his vision for mobility in Southeast Asia, social housing and how he has taken the entrepreneurial approach to address some of the most difficult problems confronting us. Music byCaffeine Creek Band [https://pixabay.com/users/caffeine_creek_band-11181297/] Email your feedback, questions, suggestions at wippod.wecan@gmail.com Full show notes can be found here [//www.wecanacademy.org/podcast/premesh-chandran-wants-to-solve-intractable-problems-with-entrepreneurship]

Faraan Muzaffar is a student at the Dignity for Children Foundation and he walks us through how he made his first ever podcast. Subscribe to Faraan's podcast here [https://anchor.fm/faraan-muzaffar/]. Learn more about the school that Faraan attends, Dignity for Children Foundation [https://dignityforchildren.org/] Support our work at wecanacademy.org/podcast Music by Caffeine Creek Band [https://pixabay.com/users/caffeine_creek_band-11181297/] Ad music by Jahzzar [https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar] Email your feedback, questions, suggestions at wippod.wecan@gmail.com

"We found out that a user's personality can be used to detect cyber bullying in textual communication" Dr. Vimala Balakrishnan (Website [https://umexpert.um.edu.my/vimala-balakrishnan]) is an Associate Professor at University of Malaya mainly researching on machine learning (data analytics) and sentiment analysis, particularly related to social media. Her research domains include healthcare, education and social issues such as cyberbullying and misinformation dissemination. She is also a Fulbright Research Scholar (2018) and a recipient of the Leadership in Innovation Fellowship (by the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK) award. We discussed her work researching cyberbullying and the intriguing relationship with personality traits Music by Caffeine Creek Band [https://pixabay.com/users/caffeine_creek_band-11181297/] Ad music by Jahzzar [https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar] Email your feedback, questions, suggestions at wippod.wecan@gmail.com Full show notes can be found here [https://www.wecanacademy.org/podcast/modelling-cyberbullying-on-personality-traits]

"They're also very aware of the fact that they maybe they are a disappointment to their family or the people around them and that is just never a good foundation for learning." Eileen Soon (LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/eileen-soon-674468a4?originalSubdomain=my]) is the founder of LemmeLearn, an inclusive Vocational Training program for young adults with Autism and other special needs. She did her Masters under longtime Special Ed inclusion researcher, Dr. Pam Hunt, and Integrated Play Group (IPG) creator Dr. Pamela Wolfberg. We discussed why special education must happen in the mainstream as Eileen explains the process of how skills crucial to independent living must happen within contexts of everyday life. Music byCaffeine Creek Band [https://pixabay.com/users/caffeine_creek_band-11181297/] Ad music byJahzzar [https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar] Email your feedback, questions, suggestions at wippod.wecan@gmail.com Full show notes can be found here [https://www.wecanacademy.org/podcast/why-special-education-should-occur-in-the-mainstream]

"The people who will be affected by this are the most vulnerable people groups. It won't be the people who are making billions out of this," Dr Lee Jo Kien (LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jokienlee/], IG [https://www.instagram.com/jokienlee], FB [https://www.facebook.com/kienz6/]) is the Lead Analyst of Tropical Rainforest Conservation and Research Centre (TRCRC) [https://www.trcrc.org/]and People for Peat (PFP) [https://www.trcrc.org/pfp], a component of the Sustainable Use of Peatland and Haze Mitigation in ASEAN (SUPA) programme.  Dr Lee graduated from Monash University Malaysia with a Doctor of Philosophy in Science, BSc. Biotechnology (Hons), and BSc. Biotechnology. His doctoral thesis focused on the Sources of Carbon Dioxide on the Forest Floor of Mt. Kinabalu. We discussed the outsized importance of peatlands as a carbon sink and the difficulty in saving them. We talked about the nature of his work as an ecologist and the nature of funding in his field. To learn more about the work TRCRC is doing with People for Peat, follow their socials: LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/peopleforpeat/], FB [https://www.facebook.com/peopleforpeat/], IG [https://www.instagram.com/peopleforpeat/] For further reading, research materials, topics referenced here as well as book recommendations are listed on the show notes on our website [https://www.wecanacademy.org/podcast/saving-peatlands]. We Can Academy is supported byCo-labs Coworking [https://co-labs.asia/]. Redeem your free day pass at any of their five locations in Klang Valleyhere [https://share.hsforms.com/1Y0q4lqZJRKqUeeoO--QWxw4dse5]. Music byCaffeine Creek Band [https://pixabay.com/users/caffeine_creek_band-11181297/] Ad music byJahzzar [https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar] Email your feedback, questions, suggestions at wippod.wecan@gmail.com