More on TED African Conference
December 19th, 2006 | Published in Advocacy, Africa, TED Africa, Tanzania | 8 Comments
“‘This Is Africa’s Turn’ – Technology Conference Convenes Creative Thinkers and Doers” goes the AllAfrica.com headline on the forthcoming TED conference in Arusha, Tanzania.
If you are an African blogger, or passionate about African affairs and don’t know what “TED” is then you need to play catch-up and see if you can be part of the 100 lucky fellowship winner, that is if its not already too late.
Nigerian blogger Emeka Okafor (in picture, blogs: Timbuktu Chronicles/Africa Unchained) is the Program Director of the conference that will see some 1000 paying participants who are “thought-leaders, in business, science and the arts, as well as in the three areas from which TED got its name – technology, entertainment and design”. In addition there will be about 100 sponsored invitees who “will be people actively involved in creating Africa’s future and who could not afford to attend on their own.”
The availability of fellowship is a sweet departure from the mentality commonly displayed by organizers of events of this magnitude. It is commendable that the organizers don’t want a “closed elitist circle” and have realized the need to “open up” the event to the general African/Afrophilic audience. The onus of this - the desire to ensure that “what happens inside the sessions is available to people who can’t be there” - will rest mainly on the Tanzanian media and other Africa-affiliated media outlets - including blogs.
Visit TED.com to access the blog and other media content. I have come to love the video clips of past TED presenters. Awesome!
December 21st, 2006 at 6:47 am (#)
Any idea if the fellowships have been announced yet? We’ve appllied for one but have not received any feedback as yet. I so want to be at TEDGlobal next year.
We downloaded so many TEDTalks (over 2 gigs) already. With the cost of bandwidth here in South AFrica it will be much cheaper to go to Tanzania and attend TEDGlobal than to download the talks when they become available.
My favourite TEDTalk is Malcolm Gladwell what is yours?
December 21st, 2006 at 11:30 am (#)
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December 21st, 2006 at 12:14 pm (#)
Rafiq: Malcolm has one of the most interesting presentation on Ted. Yes! he really ranks high, just got one of his books: Tipping Point. I also found Hans Roslings’ data very compelling.
Just like you, I’m also waiting to hear about the fellowship, but If I didn’t get a response by the end of December, then I would assume no fellowship is coming my way. And that will just be too bad.
Why would you download 2G of video, Rafiq?
Be well!
December 22nd, 2006 at 9:44 am (#)
Why download 2G of TEDtalks? It is worth it. I could mail you copy the old way if you would like. It should be more cost effective than having you download it.
December 29th, 2006 at 8:08 am (#)
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December 29th, 2006 at 10:18 am (#)
Sure I have my passport. In fact, I have to renew it before August. Good luck Rafiq.
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