The African Economic Forum has grown to be the largest Africa-focused event at Columbia University. Each year, AEF strives to highlight opportunities and challenges through stimulating discussion, insights and strategies for a prosperous Africa.

Our generation has witnessed remarkable changes that revolutionized our thinking with respect to African growth and development. Today, we seek to highlight the rebirth of the beautiful African minds that have emerged as a result of these changes. Together we can engage, discuss, and propose new ways to build Africa’s new frontier and inspire the way we view economic sustainability on the continent.

http://africaeconomicforum.com/aef2010/

No one knows African problems like an African. We think that the lives of many ordinary Africans can be improved using the benefits of technology, using African solutions to African problems – sometimes with a helping hand from others. We aim to bring those with problems and those with the ability to solve them together.

Nairobi conference subjects include: Lean and Agile in Africa, Social Networking, Quality, Cloud Computing and Mobiles, Serious Gaming, Energy Security, Crowd Sourcing Mapping, SMS Banking, Journalism and International Law

http://africagathering.com/

CFP: http://icmi2009.acm.org/CFP.html

Due Date for submissions: May 22, 2009

The objective of this conference is to further scientific research within the broad field of multimodal interaction, methods and systems. This joint conference will focus on major trends and challenges in this area, and work to identify a roadmap for future research and commercial success.