Explore Challenges
- The Energy Water Food Stress Nexus
- Unsustainable Fishing
- Keeping pace with a digital revolution
- Global health in the 21st Century
- Adapting to an urban future
- Educating for tomorrow
- Digital technology in Africa
- Persistent poverty in Britain
- Can the UK ever be sustainable?
- Plastic pollution in the oceans
- Natural disasters: how to improve?
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- Britain’s ageing population
- Engineering our climate
- The future shape of Capitalism
- Migration: skills and the job market
- Razing the Rainforest
- London under water
- Concreting the countryside
- Future of low carbon energy
- Africa in the 21st Century
Nicholas Negroponte, Housing Expansion, one laptop per child, informal economy, OLPC, AIDS, cuts, Nuclear energy, Eco Towns, laptops, mobiles, Big Issue, schools, shopping, HIV, markets, benefits, India, web, David Keith, Thames Estuary
Digital technology in Africa
Press coverage
Erik Hersman: Crowdsourcing put to good use in Africa (19 May 2011, The Guardian)
Herman Chinery-Hesse discusses digital technology in Africa (19 May 2011, BBC World Service)
- TALKS
- FOCUS
- INTERVIEWS
Nicholas Negroponte - One Laptop per Child
The story of OLPC and the important role of IT for…
Erik Hersman - Ushahidi, Afrigadget & iHub
Looking at the innovation currently taking place in the African…
Herman Chinery-Hesse - theSOFTtribe
The ways technology is offering economic and social opportunities for…
Introduction by Rory Cellan-Jones
Introduction to the issue of digital technology in Africa by…
Audience questions 1-5
creative future for Africa, govn. contracts and the Arab Spring
ForgetMeNot Africa - Jeremy George
Software that allows even the most basic mobile phones to email, message and interact.
Nicholas Negroponte - One Laptop per Child
The story of OLPC and the important role of IT for education in African…
Erik Hersman - Ushahidi, Afrigadget & iHub
Looking at the innovation currently taking place in the African technology scene.
Herman Chinery-Hesse - theSOFTtribe
The ways technology is offering economic and social opportunities for many Africans
Introduction by Rory Cellan-Jones
Introduction to the issue of digital technology in Africa by our chair
UNESCO Chair in ICT4D, Professor Tim Unwin
Professor of Geography and UNESCO Chair in ICT4D discusses how technology can help…
Ken Banks talks mobile phones in Africa
Technologist and anthropologist discusses the potential of mobile phones in African countries.
Panel biographies
Our panel - Nicholas Negroponte, Erik Hersman, Herman Chinery-Hesse and Rory Cellan-Jones
Trevor Baylis OBE inventor of the wind up radio
"After the wind up radio, we now have wind-up chargers…
Lord Paul Boateng Former High Commissioner to South Africa
"Through necessity, Africans are adapting and developing new technology in inventive and intuitive…
ForgetMeNot Africa - Jeremy George
Software that allows even the most basic mobile phones to email, message…
UNESCO Chair in ICT4D, Professor Tim Unwin
Professor of Geography and UNESCO Chair in ICT4D discusses how…
Ken Banks talks mobile phones in Africa
Technologist and anthropologist discusses the potential of mobile phones in…
Lord Paul Boateng Former High Commissioner to South Africa
"Through necessity, Africans are adapting and developing new technology in…