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Proposed a Sessions/Topics Needing Notes
If you would like to propose a session, please add it to the list below:
- 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.
- 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
- 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?
Sessions proposed at front of Room for building the agenda (some overlap with above):
- What is the best tech to use to create an internet connected lab for kids in slums in Nairobi
- How to fundraise on facebook for free using case from Uganda
- Building biz centers in africa
- how to get google to adopt your language
- broadband, ICT and dev a new mazlo's hierarchy of needs
- ICT4Dev
- Open Source software projects for Africa
- How to increase Human resources thru educational channels
- women's empowerment strategies
- Biz Process Outsourcing as a way of sustainable development
- Community-owned wireless telecom
- where the Bleep Is paypal/google checkout in Africa?
- can we use India growth as a model for Africa and lessons learned
- How to create your own barcamp?
- Open Street Map in Africa
- Online and mobile marketing in Africa
- Building model cities for development (cue from Hong Kong and Singapore)
- How to address issue of sustainably getting water in SSAfrica
- Knowledge sharing for development using wikis, etc
- The potential for the internet in Nigeria
- best practices in for-profit and nonprofit collaboration
- how to best hookup NGOs and microfinance in Uganda (and other countries)
- what is most powerful weapon against terrorism?
- African-focused products - what will work?
- Search versus research - how can we be in partnership with each other?
- how do we use the technologies to enhance secondary ed in Africa
- Music and Dance a fun Cultural session
- Microgrid power generation - sales marketing and distribution ideas
- what kinds of technology brings voice to indigenous peoples
- opportunity for new economic systems
- Is this economic model one that requires continuing expansion into new markets? and should Africa adopt this (possibly) failing model?
- Transformational Global Leadership: aligning my passion with my commitments
- Intellectual property rights - can/should be protected in Africa?
- Empowering Africans to be successful in their own environments
- ways to empower and connect diaspora for change
- mentoring 1-on-1 in African countries: why mentor?
- Fellowship programs for the Dev world: the good, the bad, the ugly
- how can we best use the 2010 World Cup in SA for Cause-marketing projects
- Telling Nokia's experience entering Africa
- how africa is portrayed in media and how to change that
Proposed Agenda
| 8:15 - 9:00 | Coffee + Sign in, Ice Breaker, Media Capture |
| 9:00 - 9:20 | Welcome by the Host, Introduction to the BarCamp Format |
| 9:20 - 10:20 | Panel One: Africa, The Big Picture |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Agenda Building, Coffee + Refreshments |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | 1st Break-Out Session: 6-10 Participant generated discusions |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | 2nd Break-Out Session: 6-10 Participant generated discusions |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | 3rd Break-Out Session: 6-10 Participant generated discusions |
| 12:15 - 01:00 | Lunch + Networking |
| 1:00 - 1:30 | 4rd Break-Out Session: 6-10 Participant generated discusions |
| 1:30 - 2:00 | 5th Break-Out Session: 6-10 Participant generated discusions |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Panel Two: Africa and Emerging Technology |
| | Panel Three: Africa Today, Social and Human Outlooks |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Refreshments |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Optional Lightning round + 6th Break-Out Sessions |
| 4:00 - 4: 30 | 7th Break-Out Session |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Wrap-up, results, next steps |
| 5:00 - 5:30 | Final event activity (Optional) |
| 5:30 - ?? | Arts, Music + Networking |
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