Where:Nairobi,Kenya

When : 22-23 February 2012

Who:

Speakers expected to attend include

• Emma Kaye, CEO, Bozza
• Paul Kukubo, CEO, Kenya ICT Board
• John Waibochi, CEO, Virtual City
• Mark Kaigwa, Partner, Afrinnovator
• Joseph Sevilla, Director, @iLabAfrica
• Judith Owigar, President, Akirachix
• Paul Stemmet, COO, World of Avatar
• Neil Ahlsten, New Business Development – Africa, Google

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Where: Transcorp Hilton Hotel,Abuja,Nigeria,West Africa

When:October 19th-20th

Who:Executive,Entrepreneurs,Governors,Chairman,Industry Leaders

The speakers include Babatunde Raji Fashola , Executive Governor of Lagos State
Madhu Mantena, Bollywood Film Director
Guy Harington, Head of CEMEA, Public Sector Group, CitiGroup
Aliko Dangote, Executive Chairman and Founder, Dangote Group
Ali Faramawy, Vice President and President, Middle East and Africa, Microsoft International
Oscar Onyeama, Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Stock Exchange
Jubril Adewale Tinubu, Group Chief Executive, Oando Plc.

The Agenda

-The world in 2012
What trends, discoveries, issues and ideas will dominate global discussions over the year ahead? How will developments in business, finance, politics, science and technology change the lives of Nigeria’s citizens?

-The nation finances
Which factors will shape Nigeria’s growth over the next five years? Will the Government be able to put the nation’s finances in order? We discuss what lies in store for the economy, talking through GDP, inflation, currency rates, industrial output and consumer spending, and explaining how global trends will directly impact Nigeria’s performance

-Reforming Nigeri’s business landscape: Investors and Government in dialogue
The operating environment for business in Nigeria remains challenging, with wide disparities across states in terms of the ease of paying taxes, registering property, enforcing contracts, obtaining permits or setting up a business.

-Spotlight on Nigeria Film Industry
In just thirteen years, Nollywood has become the world’s third largest producer of feature films. Now worth US$ 250 million each year, Nigeria’s film industry is the brainchild of entrepreneurship and digital technology.

-Business in Lagos: How to improve the working environment in Nigeria’s biggest city
Join Babatunde Raji Fashola, Executive Governor of Lagos State for an exclusive interview on what steps he is taking to improve the infrastructure of Lagos. How will Lagos transform itself into a modern hub and what examples can the city give to Nigeria and to Africa?

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What:Tech In Governance

Where:Lagos, Nigeria

When:24-26 March 2011

Who:Nigeria Civil Society

In an election year, there’s a need for smart ideas to be injected into governance and technology has a key role to play.

Tech-In Governance is organizing a 48-hour event that would gather ideas, people and digital tools aimed at creating novel web & mobile solutions to transform citizen participation in governance.

Inspired by SICamp, Tech-In Governance would bring together some of the best software developers, designers, marketing communications experts and governance professionals to turn the selected ideas into tools and social start-ups (with a working prototype) in 48hrs.

The organization is currently looking for novel ideas for web/mobile based tools that can help transform citizen participation in Governance in Nigeria.

The key criterion is for all ideas to use web/mobile to improve the participation of Nigerians in how Nigeria is governed.

If you have a great idea for citizen participation in Nigeria that meets this criterion, you can submit here.

Your idea will need to be focused on addressing the specified need (citizen participation in governance), and technology must be central to its purpose and it must be novel (something that’s new and never been done before in Nigeria).

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What: 5th Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum

Where:Vilnius,Lithuania

When: 20-26 November 2010

What:Afrinic 13 Public Policy Meeting

Where:Johnnesburg,South Africa

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The objective of WTDC-10 is to identify priorities for the development of telecommunications and information and communication technologies (ICTs), taking into account contributions made by Member States and Sector Members, and to adopt the Hyderabad Action Plan (HAP) setting the future of activities of the ITU Telecommunication Development Sector (ITU-D) over the next four-year period.
The Regional Preparatory Meetings (RPM) which were held in 2009 and early 2010 have given the opportunity to prepare regional input for WTDC-10.
Participants will include government delegates, Ministers, Ambassadors and representatives from the private sector, as well as regional and international organizations.

Key issues:
Internet Connectivity
Broadband roll-out
Cyber-security
Digital TV

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Abbey Road Live is the name for the latest division at EMI. It is a new live music audio and video recording and instant production service, that will allow fans to purchase high quality live recordings of shows they’ve just attended. The recordings will be available for sale in a range of formats including CD, DVD and USB or via secure digital delivery to home computers or mobile as streams or downloads

The management team consists of :
-Simon Miller, EMI Music’s Senior Vice President of New Product Development and Live, who brings a background in both the creative and business sides of established and entrepreneurial digital media enterprises to lead Abbey Road Live. Prior to joining EMI in May 2009, Miller was involved in the launch of several start ups, including European online music company Peoplesound.com and swopex.com, the UK’s largest legal media swapping community. He also worked at Universal Music Group in business development.

-Will Shapland, an experienced recording engineer and producer, will consult for Abbey Road Live in London. Shapland has been involved in live, multi-track concert recordings for artists including David Bowie, Coldplay, Depeche Mode, Robbie Williams, U2, Oasis, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Stevie Wonder, The Three Tenors, Sex Pistols and Live Aid, among others. He was chief engineer for Manor Mobiles, a unit of Virgin and EMI, before selling the business and launching Will Shapland Mobiles, based in Oxfordshire, England.

-David “Noggin” Rowntree, head of operations for Abbey Road Live in the UK and Rest of World. He was part of the original Live Here Now team that produced live recordings throughout Europe, the Middle East and the UK and for artists such as Blur, The Pixies, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Moby, Graham Coxon, The Brand New Heavies, Throbbing Gristle and Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.

Marcus “MJ” Salisbury is head of production for Abbey Road Live, based in London. He was part of the Live Here Now launch team and has been with Mute Records for 15 years, working in a variety of A&R and recording production roles. Salisbury has worked closely on records from Mute artists such as Depeche Mode, Goldfrapp, Moby, Erasure and Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds among others, and has worked with some of the industry’s most talented producers including Flood, Ben Hillier, Gareth Jones and Steve Albini.

-Veteran live music producer and DiscLive founder Zach Bair will consult full time for Abbey Road Live’s operations in North America and Latin America. He is a musician and producer who has launched and run several music-related software, live recording and on-site duplication companies, including PowerUp, Immediatek, DiscLive and RockHouse Live Media Productions. He has worked on live productions with such artists as The Pixies, Melissa Ethridge, JC Chasez, Billy Idol, Kenny Loggins and Sum 41, and has produced live recordings in partnership with several Billboard conferences, including the Billboard Latin Awards in 2009.

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Liberia, which was rated as recording the fastest gains, is emerging from the legacy of a 14-year civil war that ended in 2003. President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who became Africa’s first female elected head of state in 2005, has won the support of donors for her plans to boost economic growth and fight corruption.[Financial times]

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Date:November 15-17 2009

Location:Cairo,Egypt

Topical issues will include:
After the Global Financial Crisis – Opportunities for PE and the Economies across Africa
Comparisons with other Emerging Markets – Does Africa have the Edge?
Investing and Accessing Capital in the MENA Region
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Will Microfinance change the Banking Landscape?
Is Africa ready for Specialized Funds?
Finding the Exit: Delivering Returns in Emerging Markets- (case studies from across the continent).

Read full program here

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Date:Friday October 30th 2009
Location:The Speke Resort and Conference Center in Kampala, Uganda

What is where camp ?
WhereCamp is a free ‘unconference’ for geogeographers, mobile location experts and social cartographers and all kinds of folks interested in place.

The unconference will offer you the opportunity to present on ideas, questions, projects, politics, technical issues related to the fields of geography,cartography ,etc..

What would the topics be ?
They would most likely be the following:
• Mobile location

• Remote Sensing

• Geoinformatics

• Mapping and Agriculture

• Food Security and Location

• Community Mapping

• Local Search

• social cartography

• Crisis Mapping

Wherecamp Africa 2009 on Twitter

Register here

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Location:312 West 36th Street – 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10018

Btwn 8th & 9th Ave
Synopis

DJ Lwanda’s voice rings out daily on local radio, leading and inspiring the Nairobi community of Kwa Maji. But Anna Mali, an avaricious real estate diva, craves the land beneath their slum. She seduces the fiery young DJ away with a job at a top nationwide station, and organizes a violent campaign to terrorize the people of Kwa Maji. When the government and media turn a blind eye to the decapitated bodies in the streets, DJ Lwanda must return home to expose the truth. But at what cost?

Performed in English with Swahili.

Appearing through the kind support of Safaricom, Kenya’s Leading Telecommunications Compan

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