Hi everyone!
As part of our ongoing attempts to expand our network and stay active during the coronavirus lockdown here in Estonia, Banned Books (www.bannedbooksmuseum.com) has started a podcast series 'Banned Voices', where I talk with authors, editors, publishers, and others working in the literary world about their experiences with censorship. We have released two episodes so far, and a new one will come out every two weeks.
Its a new venture for us, and I see it as a really great way to spread the word about our project and get direct feedback on how we are affecting people, whether we are challenging their perspectives, waking them up to the threats facing the free exchange of ideas around the world etc., which is in line with our social objectives. You can find the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or PodBean, so give us a listen and let me know what you think conceptually about a social enterprise running a podcast, and how we might use the metrics and feedback to reinforce and justify our objectives. Does this count toward social impact measurement? 😀
Really a very interesting and eye-opening conversation. I was 22 years old when the massacre in Srebrenica happened and I lived in Hungary at that time. The civil war was in our neighbor and it was shocking to see how the peaceful civilization has collapsed around us at that time. Yugoslavia was a very developed, open place before the 1990's. They could freely travel to the West (which was not the case in the neighboring countries), they had strong bonds with Germany (West Germany) and all this has disappeared overnight. The envied Yugoslavia became the unfamous next horror of the XXth Century. The behavior of the Dutch soldiers who left Bosnian people behind has even today a very deep message understood clearly by Eastern Europeans. The message sounds like this: you worth more than us.
@Leendert de Bell