Blogger Advocates for African Panel on 2008 SXSW Festival

2008 SouthWest (SXSW) Music and Media Conference and Festival (March 7-11): Hat-tip to Kofi Annan, blogger at Annansi Chronicles, for advocating for a discussion panel on Africa. He writes:

The proposed panel, Africa 2.0: Affecting Change Using Technology, will discuss how blogs, social networks, digital media and mobile technology are being used by businesses and citizens — both African and foreign — to affect change in Africa. The group of panelists will discuss adoption of mobile technology, community activism online and offline, and digital media’s effect on African entertainment industry growth. The process of developing the final schedule for the festival relies on a public vote to decide which panels actually get added. Please take a moment to VOTE to add the Africa 2.0 panel to SXSW Interactive schedule. My panel seems to be the ONLY Africa-related panel idea for the interactive festival.

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