Kenya
TEDxKakumaCamp – livestream from Kakuma Camp, Kenya
Kakuma Camp, KenyaTEDxKakumaCamp will be the first TEDx event hosted in a refugee camp, with refugees, and also for refugees. It is curated by Melissa Fleming and Dana Hughes with support from UNHCR and volunteer teams. TEDxKakumaCamp offers a different lens into the reality of life as a refugee, away from the images of devastation and suffering, […]
Kenya Media Week 2018: New Voices, expanding spaces, financing models (Nairobi, Kenya)
Kenya Cultural Centre Harry Thuku Road, Nairobi, Central 00100, KenyaMedia Focus on Africa will launch the first edition of the Annual Kenya Media Week in the September 2018. It will be a 3-day event entailing open lectures, panels and discussions involving media stakeholders and interested parties. The main goal is to promote the critical role of the media in advancing and sustaining democratic governance […]
mySociety seminar: Parliaments, People and Digital Development (House of Lords, London, UK)
House of Lords London, United KingdomOn 21st November mySociety will host a seminar at the House of Lords exploring how digital tools are being used in Sub-Saharan Africa to bring parliaments and citizens closer together. During the seminar, they will launch their Parliaments and the People: Digital Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa report, which presents the findings from an extensive and in-depth […]
Living Cultures: Maasai Stories – Redress and Resilience (London, UK)
The Building Centre 26 Store Street, London“We’ve had journalists come and go. We’ve had film crews, we’ve had photographers come and go, and we’ve seen how other people tell our story, and now it’s time for us to tell our own story”. Samwel Nangiria, Maasai leader and participatory video hub leader. InsightShare, Oakland Institute and Pitt Rivers Museum invite you to […]
1st Africa Social Behavior Change Conference (Nairobi, Kenya)
Safari Park Hotel Nairobi, KenyaThe Africa Social Behavior Change conference, the first of its kind, seeks to establish a platform that brings together practitioners and stakeholders to showcase theory, effective mechanisms, methodologies, learnings witin the African context. One outcome of the ASBC conference will be a road map of solutions and a shared value proposition to promote a thriving […]