[isoc-ny] WEBCAST MON/TUE: African Regional Internet and Development Dialogue (RIDD 2017)

[ISOC-NY announcements]

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We are halfway through this
​two
 day event. Day 1 focused on
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ducation, and was keynoted by the presentation of a new ISOC report Internet
for Education in Africa: Helping Policy Makers to Meet the Global Education
Agenda Sustainable Development Goal 4 <http://bit.ly/2qSKec3>
​ ​ As well as Livestream the sessions are archived on YouTube at
http://bit.ly/riddvid where individual speakers are indexed in the
descriptions. Tomorrow's topic is the economy.


joly posted: " On Monday/Tuesday May 8-9 2017 the Internet Society's Africa
Bureau will host the African Regional Internet and Development Dialogue
(RIDD 2017) in Kigali, Rwanda. The conference has the theme - Enhancing
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Education in Afr"

[image: Livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/riddafrica2017/>
On *Monday/Tuesday May 8-9 2017* the *Internet Society's Africa Bureau
<https://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/where-we-work/africa-middle-east/team>*
will host the *African Regional Internet and Development Dialogue (RIDD
2017) <http://www.internetsociety.org/ridd/africa/2017/> *in Kigali,
Rwanda. The conference has the theme - *Enhancing Entrepreneurship,
Innovation and Education in Africa through the Internet* - and is part of
the global series of Internet Development conferences organized by the
Internet Society with the aim of supporting the implementation of the
United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The conference will
offer open high-level discussions addressing the following dimensions:
*Internet
and SDGs*; *Connecting the Next Billion*; *African Internet Economy*;
*Opportunities
for Africa’s education*. The plenary sessions will be webcast live via
the *Internet
Society Livestream Channel
<https://livestream.com/internetsociety/riddafrica2017/>*. Kigali is UTC+2
- 6 hours ahead of NYC.






*What: African Regional Internet and Development Dialogue (RIDD 2017)
<http://www.internetsociety.org/ridd/africa/2017/> Where: Kigali, Rwanda
When: Monday/Tuesday May 8-9 2017 Agenda: http://bit.ly/riddafrica2017
<http://bit.ly/riddafrica2017> Webcast:
https://livestream.com/internetsociety/riddafrica2017/
<https://livestream.com/internetsociety/riddafrica2017/> Twitter: #RIDD -
http://bit.ly/riddtweets <http://bit.ly/riddtweets>*

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