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SHAPING THE DIGITAL FUTURE. The Social Innovation Summit #SIS19 is a two day international event on the 20th – 21st of September 2019 that addresses relevant topics in the context of social innovation and entrepreneurship. This is not a usual conference about startups, corporates or the newest trends in tech. It is about using technologies, concepts, institutions […]
Africa’s Home for Ideas, Innovation and New Solutions for Education, Training and Skills Development…
African Crossroads is a community of future-oriented African thinkers and doers which meets annually to exchange and critically reflect on the most cutting-edge entrepreneurial, scientific, artistic, and technological developments anchored in African intellectual and technological traditions. Through design exhibitions, invigorating workshops, art installations, and more, this three-day event will spark deep discussions about the latest […]
How do we ensure people and democracies are informed and empowered through data driven systems such as AI rather than exploited and undermined? What infrastructures and data protection policies do we need?
Save the Date! - The next GIG Summit will take place in Kenya December 5-7 2019 will see the first DOTS - A Global Impact Summit in Nakuru, Kenya. DOTS will be a all co-created and co-organized three-day event, focused on output and impact. GIG will organize it together with partners like r0g, ICEBauhaus, konnektiv... and hopefully many more partners […]
Celebrating a decade of Open Source Hardware & Community The Open Hardware Summit is the annual conference of the 501c3 Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA). We aim to foster technological knowledge and encourage research that is accessible, collaborative and respects user freedom. OSHWA is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity and donations and […]
The FOSSASIA Summit 2020 is an exciting Open Technology event for developers, students, and start ups using open source to build up their businesses. It is a unique opportunity to share the latest innovations in open source technologies and meet contributors and potential partners. It will take place once again in Singapore from Thursday March […]
re:publica GmbH’s re:publica Berlin is Europe’s largest internet and digital society conference. re:publica 19 counted more than 25.000 visits during the three conference days. The participants came together to discuss current issues of digital society at the three-day festival. re:publica participants represent a cross-section of (digital) society, which include professionals from economics, politics, business, hacker […]
Focusing on DIYBio & Sustainability in 2020 Africa OSH Summit 2020 will be held in Yaounde, Cameroon, from 14 to 16 May 2020, under the theme ‘Growing the Do-It-Yourself & Do-It-Together (DIY/DIT) Culture for Community Transformation’. It will be hosted by Mboa Lab. The summit will host workshops, discussions and conferences on making, hacking and DIYBio for […]
Sustainable Development and Collaborative Internet of Production; Europe’s Open Source Event in Berlin; The summit will tackle a wide range of topics; from Artificial Intelligence to Cyber Security and Open Source database solutions. You can participate by giving a talk, attend a workshop or simply be to wide range of activities and talks , Kids […]
