Center for African Studies

Digital | Africa

February 14 @ 12:45pm

Frederick Madore, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient & Perry Collins, UF.

Publishing the Islam Burkina Faso Collection: Collaboration for Digital Scholarship.

Link to the Zoom Meeting
https://ufl.zoom.us/j/7185043986
Meeting ID: 718 504 3986

The Digital Africa working group aims to facilitate discussions of a critical and informed character on a broad range of issues related to what we call “Digital Africa”. While the reference to the “digital” implies a particular focus on the role that social media and the emergences of new digital technologies and innovations – including Artificial Intelligence – play in the African context, our use of the term “digital” implies a broader thematic and geographical attention. In addition to recognizing and exploring the role that numbers, data and indicators play in the many processes that various actors engage in to create new possible and virtual futures in Africa, we intend to move beyond a digital in Africa perspective. More specifically we will include a focus on the networks and mobilities of people, things, ideas, and viruses (digital as well as biological) that move out of, and to Africa – and which often are fueled and facilitated by digital innovations and social media. We welcome faculty and students (both undergraduate and graduate) who are interested in exploring the role of Africa in a new digital age.