Program

17th October, 2024

09:00 – 09:30 Registration 

09.30 – 10:30 Official Welcome (Streamed)

  • Señor. Rector de la Universidad de Granada, Don Pedro Mercado Pacheco
  • Embajador en misión especial para el Plan África, D. Alberto Virella Gomes
  • Directora General Mujeres por África, Dña.Teresa Langle de Paz. 
  • Director de Casa África, D. José Segura Clavell.  
  • Directora del Congreso DIGITALDIVERSE, Dña. Roser Manzanera Ruiz

10:30 – 11:15 Opening Lecture

  • Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Cape Town

11:15 – 11:45 Coffee Break

11:45 – 13:45 Plenary Session: What Digital Future in Africa? (Streamed)

  • Ana Djú, Accelerator Labs, UNDP (to be confirmed).
  • Katrien Pype, University of Leuven
  • Dr Jaqueline Mgumia, University of Dar es Salaam
  • Moderated by Dra. Rosemarie Mwaipopo, University of Dar es Salaam

14:30 – 16:30 Lunch break

16.30-18.30 Plenary Session: Knowledge Generation and Dissemination in Africa in the Digital Age

  • Samuel Mhadija, University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)
  • Rebecca Enonchong, technology specialist. One of the 10 Most Relevant Tech Women on the African continent (Cameroon)
    Titus Mpemba of the Department of Swahili at UDSM (Tanzania)

18:30 – 19:30 Workshop DIGITALFEM project

19:30 – 20:30 Turistic visit to Albaicín and Sacromonte

18th October, 2024

10:00 – 12:00 Plenary Session: Entrepreneurship, mobile money and gender in Sub-saharan Africa (Streamed) Chair: Ignacio Tamayo (University of Granada)

  • Emmanuel Ismael Maphie. Department of Sociology. University of Dar es Salaam
  • Ausenda Cardoso, Associação de Bancos do Guinea Bissau. 
  • Divine Fuh. Director of the Institute for Humanities Africa. Universidad de Cape Town

12:00 – 12:30 Coffee Break

12:30 – 14:30 Presentation results and Digital Tool, Digitalfem Team (Streamed)

14:30 – 16:30 Lunch Break

17:00 – 18:00 Plenary Session: Meeting the importants. Technologies in daily lives (Streamed)

  • Anna Stephano
  • Alice Nyimila Boaz
  • Moderated by Soledad Vieitez Cerdeño, University of Granada

18:00 – 19:00 Closing Conference (Streamed)

  • Mirjam de Bruijn. Professor of Contemporary History and Anthropology of Africa at Leiden University

19:00 – 19:30 Closing of the Congress (Streamed)

20:00 – 21:30 Cocktail