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CoinDesk Podcast NetworkGEN C: The Interspecies Economy: How Animals Could Join the Crypto RevolutionJonathan Ledgard of Tehanu explains his revolutionary concept of "interspecies money" where animals and natural resources can hold digital identities with crypto wallets to receive payments for the services they provide to humans.Jonathan Ledgard is the CEO of Tehanu and the pioneering mind behind "interspecies money" - a concept that extends digital identity and cryptocurrency payments to animals, plants and natural resources. With a background at The Economist and extensive experience in robotics and AI, Ledgard has developed a system where species can "stake" their existence and receive payments for the essential services they provide to...2025-07-1422 min
Gen CThe Interspecies Economy: How Animals Could Join the Crypto RevolutionJonathan Ledgard of Tehanu explains his revolutionary concept of "interspecies money" where animals and natural resources can hold digital identities with crypto wallets to receive payments for the services they provide to humans.Jonathan Ledgard is the CEO of Tehanu and the pioneering mind behind "interspecies money" - a concept that extends digital identity and cryptocurrency payments to animals, plants and natural resources. With a background at The Economist and extensive experience in robotics and AI, Ledgard has developed a system where species can "stake" their existence and receive payments for the essential services they provide to...2025-07-1422 min
The Long Form PodcastRwandan Mountain Gorillas can now send mobile money w/ Jonathan Ledgard, CEO, Tehanu I THE LONG FORMOur guest this week on The Long Form podcast is Jonathan Ledgard. An acclaimed technologist, Jonathan is not only a professor in AI, he is the CEO and Founder of Tehanu, the first ever Interspecies Money service.We shall discuss his experience the impact of technology on how we relate to each other and the world and answer the question; can a mountain gorilla send mobile money? Listen to the Long Form with Sanny Ntayombya podcast on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/rw/podcast/the-long-form-with-sanny-ntayombya/id1669879621Listen to the Long Form with Sa...2024-12-021h 43
SHIFTOral History: Get Ready for Interspecies Money?There’s a world in which a group of mountain gorillas in Rwanda might one day be able to pay for their own protection. It involves a new financial model with an AI-powered digital wallet and data that’s provided by the gorillas themselves, as well as the people who live and work around them.All of this might sound far-fetched, but the man behind this project has brought other unlikely ideas to life. Jonathan Ledgard is a futurist thinker on risk, nature, and advanced technology in Africa and emerging markets, as well as a pioneer of dron...2024-09-2515 min
Czech Centre LondonSpecies survival: How AI can help conservation | Jonathan Ledgard | Royal Institution TalkTo protect nonhuman life on Earth, we need to give diverse life forms a digital focus. There is no digital platform for wild animals, trees, insects, and no way for them to make themselves known to us online. Join Jonathan Ledgard as he explores new AI solutions that can help represent nonhumans, aid their survival and demonstrate more completely to us their way of moving through the world. In this talk discover these interspecies services and how we can use fast evolving AI to help prevent existential risk to nonhuman life on Earth.
JONATHAN LEDGARD is a...2023-02-021h 21
Planetary Regeneration Podcast046: #BOR - Jonathan Ledgard | Interspecies MoneyOn this episode of Built on Regen, a community voices series of the Planetary Regeneration podcast, host Gregory Landua chats with Jonathan Ledgard. Jonathan has been a war correspondent, a novelist, a fellow at ETH Zurich, and is now an AI specialist working on a project called Dugong Dao. Tune in to learn more about Jonathan's fascinating life, and the potential to bring economic agency to endangered species like the East African dugong.
Check out Jonathan's novels 'Giraffe' and 'Submergence,' and read his articles on Interspecies Money written for Wired and the Brookings Institution.
Find the transcript for this...2022-07-261h 24
BitcoinMeister- Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, AltcoinsThe Beyond Bitcoin Show- Episode 77- Bernie Sanders Billionaire envy, pets are pricey, dream big!Time for another LIVE show! Time to go way beyond Bitcoin and talk about the expensive luxuries that 80%ers are addicted to. $9 for a magazine! I finished a 73.5 hour fast on Friday so time to talk some health. Political noise, Baltimore, delivery drones in Africa, and much more! Just noticed that the New Yorker article that I talk about is FREE at this link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/23/jonathan-ledgard-believes-imagination-could-save-the-world Recorded in Baltimore, MD!
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RSA EventsDrones: The Next Game-Changer for Development Aid?Could drones, and other robotics, provide an answer to some of the most persistent humanitarian and development challenges? Drones are just one example of a range of new frontier technologies that “tech for good” advocates claim as potentially paradigm-shifting for developing countries. However, even as sources of investment and knowledge-sharing increase, there remain obstacles and concerns – including issues around regulation, privacy and data protection, health and safety, and public understanding – and critics seek more evidence of cost-effectiveness and more positive engagement with the communities served.
In this special event in partnership with Crown Agents Foundation, RSA Chief Executiv...2017-01-301h 00
The OlympicsPeter Keen, David Millar and Danny BakerIn this edition, Director of Performance at UK Sport Peter Keen discusses Mission 2012, the traffic light system by which all Olympic sports are judged on their progress. 5 Live’s Jonathan Ledgard gives an update on the British Mens and Women’s Rowing squads for the World Cup which were announced this week and are traditionally a strong indicator of who will be in which boats come London 2012. Scottish cyclist David Millar, who has a lifetime Olympic ban after admitting doping, speaks candidly about the prospect of competing at this summer’s Olympics in advance of the forthcoming ruling on lifeti...2012-04-0626 min
WAC: Global I.Q. with The EconomistThe World Cup and AfricaCouncil President Jim Falk and Jonathan Ledgard, East Africa Correspondent and U.S. Technology Correspondent for The Economist, discuss World Cup and the future of Sub-Saharan and South Africa.2010-06-2854 min