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Propose a Session / Topic

If you would like to propose a session, please add it to the list below:

• Knowledge Sharing in Nigeria
• Tracy Pell - How do we create workable long-term solutions that can be implemented in spite lack of infrastructure like consistent power, connectivity, roads etc. AND can be sustained and grown and modified by the local community that it is intended to benefit?
• Chris Nicholas - Building out an environmental portal for a variety of applications
• Erik Hersman - What kind of web/mobile development is really going on in Africa?
• Chris Blow - User-centered application design: International web/mobile U.I. testing and user experience research.
• Perrin Clark - Building partnerships for change in Africa.
• Investment in Africa - how, where, and with whom to invest?
• How to subvert common media images of Africa
• Nnamdi Abraham-Igwe - Adding value with content delivery networks
• Jon Gosier (via Skype From Uganda) - What does Africa stand to gain and not lose from engaging Western business.
• Chriswaterguy:
  • sustainability with justice for Africa, and where openness fits: focusing on open content, touching other issues including open source and open, participatory management.
  • offline content for Africa - creating and disseminating.
• Sara Waller& Sharon Webb (via Skype From Uganda)- Facebook Fundraising - How a Ugandan non profit has grown their memberbase and taken real money donations in Facebook.
• Mark Grimes - Micro Venture Finance: Innovation and technology seed investment in Africa.
• Pragnya Alekal and Emeka Okafor - An X PRIZE[http://nextprize.xprize.org/2008/09/global-development-big-welcome.html] that addresses the most pressing needs of the poor in sub Saharan Africa.

• Person to Person: The Evolution of Philanthropy: Understanding best practices when creating profit/non profit partnerships leveraging Philanthropic Travel in Africa & worldwide creating meaningful long term 1:1 personal donor traveler/host beneficiary NGO fund raising relationships. Learn More: The Butterfly Tree Project: Victoria Falls, Zambia, Friends of Ngong Road: Nairobi, Black Rock Solar: Nevada, USA, Q Fund : Chellie Kew, Black Rock Solar: Nevada, USA, 100Friends.org Asia, Appalachian Media Institute: Kentucky, USA Village Enterprise Fund: Tanzania -David Chamberlain & Paula Meyer & Chellie Kew

• Bill Clinton: Focusing Americans on Success in Africa

• How knowledge and education about Africa in the US affects the ways Americans engage with the African continent.
• The growing field of Sport and Development (see http://www.sportanddev.org/) and the impact of the 2010 World Cup.
• Empowering Local Changemakers (e.g., I'd love to see a panel discussion of case studies by/about grassroots local changemakers & examples of funding/partnership models that have worked - or could work - effectively to expand or improve their efforts)
• Emerging Theories of Change (a panel discussion about new models of philanthropy that participants are employing)
• When "Charity" Hurts: Avoiding Unintended Consequences of Doing "Good" (e.g., perpetuation of stereotypical images of Africa, dependency creation & undermining local leadership/initiative, bureaucratic enrichment, cultural destruction)
• Reframing Cause Marketing & Corporate Social Responsibility: Should it be called "charity" if it's profitable? (evolving perceptions from "charity" to "partnerships of parity")
• Idea Roundup: Current Challenges & Solution Connection (Participants/Panelists share current key challenges - e.g., board development, funding, volunteer openings, product development, technology, etc. - and participants brainstorm ideas/solutions; we could also do this on strategically placed flip charts throughout the event)
• Developing Collaborative Cross-Cultural Communities Online (how can we use social media, social networking and online tools to create collaborations and partnerships between communities that have traditionally been separated by the labels "donor" and "recipient"?)
• Case Studies in Successful Online Fundraising
• Case studies in successful tech outsourcing from U.S., etc. to African countries
• Web businesses in Africa to invest in
• Innovative arts, music, literature & culture in African countries
• Ways to defeat malaria
• Overview on China in Africa
• Overview of entrepreneurial/tech scene in Ghana
• The best of the African blogosphere
• Overview of African diasporas in U.S.
• Reports from various African countries with growing economies on the positive things that are happening
• Knowledge that will help educate those who view "Africa" as a monolith, instead of a continent with 53 countries that differ culturally, geographically, etc.
• How do Africans and members of the African diaspora want to partner with or be part of Silicon Valley?

Proposed Agenda