In our WAIE+ series - AI & Africa, Emsie Erastus interviews African experts working in AI and the emerging technology sector. Join us on the last Tuesday of the month as she engages with voices from the continent and highlights Africans working to innovate and shape the tech landscape.
Join us on Tuesday, September 30, for a discussion on the Cosmology of Internet Infrastructure, which looks at the stories we tell about the beginnings of the internet and how they emerge in our space-time reality. The measure of time-space shifted during the colonial era, enforced with the Atlantic telegraph, commissioned soon after the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade. The telegraph gave birth, geopolitically and culturally, to undersea cables, which have wrought the information age, through the internet. Examining internet infrastructure through the lens of cosmology allows for a holistic perspective on the impact of this technology on how we perceive ourselves as people in an increasingly digital world.
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7017535382139/WN_3kvrnYVYQiSBe9gmMnl_JQ
Host: Emsie Erastus: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emsie-erastus-77b724170
Speaker:
Esther Mwema - Artist & Digital Inequalities Expert
Speaker bio:
Esther Mwema is an award-winning artist and digital inequalities expert from Zambia, focusing on issues related to internet governance, internet infrastructure, and internet freedom. Esther’s practice intersects art and tech-innovation, interrogating hidden systems of power in digital society, ranging from fibre optic cables, digital colonialism, to gender inequality.
Esther has over 10 years of commitment to social impact via her nonprofits Digital Grassroots and Safety First for Girls (SAFIGI) Foundation, including extensive work within the UN system. Esther is an Open Internet leader who centres African feminist and decolonial methodologies in practice. She is a recipient of the Green Screen Coalition Catalyst Fund Award, Mozilla Creative Media Award and Prince Claus Seed Award, among more. Esther holds an MSc in Inequalities from the London School of Economics.
🗓 Happening last Tuesday of the month
⏰ 10AM PT/ 1PM ET/ 7PM Central Africa Time (CAT) /8PM East Africa Time (EAT)
🌐 Register at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7017535382139/WN_3kvrnYVYQiSBe9gmMnl_JQ
Real stories. Real people. Real impact.