African digital diaries Lusaka

Digital Africa awakes. An inspirational multimedia session

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Meetings with Africa's digital citizens

Stories from Africa's new digital frontline - in the Lusaka conference, and live in person

Using video, narrative and witness testimony in the conference, this session screens a selection of inspiring and upbeat tales of African people making digital waves in unexpected ways.

We collect these stories by asking an invited carefully selected cross section of African voices to record digital diaries in advance of the conference

The stories will be screened in a structured session of open analysis and discussion. Subject to funding, some participants will appear in Lusaka to join these talks.

After Lusaka, the stories will be posted online, and other UGC content sollicited and moderated by the session leaders. This will give a rich and permanent online legacy to the conference and its delegates

The material can be revisited throughout the year and perhaps at future editions of E-learning Africa.

The session hosts have ranged far and wide to identify unlikely heroes of a new online Africa.

Who are Africa's online heroes ?

They are not the holders of educational budgets, nor the business entrepreneurs of the mobile boom.

They are ordinary and often modest Africans driven by their own desire to learn. Their main resource is their own creativity with modest means.

They have made unconventional use of online and mobile technology, on the margins of normal affordance.

They have reinvented the technology of the online world to remarkable effect.

The informal e-learning revolution

Informal and incidental e-learning, we believe, may be the unfolding success story in African education. So that's where we point our spotlight.

It's unexpected news, (perhaps even heresy) in a setting dedicated to formal e-learning, course modules, LMS and infrastructure.

But we think it should be told.

With hardly a course or a college in sight, many enterprising people in the continent are using internet and social networks to advance themselves with essential skills and knowledge

Where and When
STOP PRESS - SESSION DATE

The session is now confirmed by the organisers and will take place on Thursday 27 May at 11.00 am. We are promoted from the pre-conference sessions to the main conference and our session is scheduled for 90 minutes duration.

See you all there !