
Featured speakers
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Dr Sizwe Mabizela
Vice Chancellor, Rhodes University

Prof Anthea Garman
Head of school-Journalism & Media Studies, Rhodes University

Francis Mdlongwa
Director, Highway Africa

Marietje Schaake
International Policy Director at Stanford University’s Cyber
Policy Center and International Policy Fellow at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
African writer and Professor of Comparative Literature and Performance Studies, University of California, Irvine.

Jeremy Maggs
ENCA

Mo Abudu
Founder of Pan African TV channel (EbonyLife TV)

Sbu Ngalwa
SANEF Head

Anya Schiffrin
Director of the Technology, Media, and Communications specialization at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs

Dr Roukaya Kasenally
CEO of the African Media Initiative (AMI) and Associate Professor in Media and Political Systems at the University of Mauritius.

Discover the top topics
Learn from more than 20 sessions and training workshops across 11 session tracks.
- A critical look at the impact and future of platformisation in Africa
- Africa’s rising in the platform economy: A focus on creativity and innovation
- First hand testimonies of the impact of platformisation on African media
- Global platformisation’s lessons and solutions: Do they work in Africa?
- Datafication of the media: Opportunities and threats
- Harnessing Big Data by African media to improve journalism innovation
- Social Accountability Data Journalism Reporting Awards
- Big Tech and Data, Disinformation, Truth and Inertia
- Information Security and Journalism
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