4M Abidjan Forum: Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa

CFI organise à Abidjan la 5ème étape de son forum itinérant 4M. Pendant deux jours - les 29 et 30 novembre - conférences, débats et ateliers se succéderont autour du thème "Internet en Afrique subsaharienne, enjeux et nouvelles pratiques".

Une centaine de professionnels, venus d'Afrique subsaharienne francophone et anglophone et d'Europe, échangeront sur leurs expériences du web : experts des télécommunications, journalistes, blogueurs, analystes, régulateurs…

Les deux journées seront organisées autour de conférences plénières et d'ateliers

Parmi les sujets attendus par les participants au 4M Abidjan :

Canal France International (CFI) is organising the fifth session of its itinerant conference 4M in Abidjan. Held on 29 and 30 November, the event features conferences, debates and workshops on the theme of "Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa, issues and new practices".

Around a hundred professionals from French- and English-speaking Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe will be sharing their experience of the web, including experts in telecommunications, journalists, bloggers, analysts and regulators.

The two days will be geared around plenary conferences and workshops

Topics to be discussed by participants in 4M Abidjan will include:

• An updated overview of new media in Sub-Saharan Africa;
• The dual, complementary role of traditional media and new players on the web;
• Feedback from bloggers and journalists;
• The place occupied by new media in the public debate.

"The 4M meetings aim to forge actual physical ties between players in the new media who usually only engage in virtual dialogue. With this first-ever meeting in Sub-Saharan Africa, I am sure we will be surprised by the sheer inventivity and drive demonstrated by the new practices in connection with Internet across the continent," explained Etienne Fiatte, Managing Director of CFI.

CFI launched the 4M label in 2011, as a series of events embodying the cooperation operator's ambition to closely observe and support new uses of media arising in southern countries thanks to Internet. Four sessions have already been held with support from local partners: in Montpellier in June 2011 and June 2012, in Tunis in January 2012 and in Belgrade in April 2012.

With 4M, CFI intends to fuel its new media projects with greater ambition and a higher profile.

Téléchargez le communiqué et le programme du 4M Abidjan (pdf - 235,20 ko)

Find out more about this conference: http://www.4m.cfi.fr

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