This year the AfriLabs Annual Gathering will be taking place at The French University, Sherouk City, Cairo Eygpt, from the 18th - 20th of October 2017 and it is themed 'Smart Cities'. The gathering will be made up of panel sessions, networking opportunities, masterclasses, field trips and a tour of the sights of Egypt a day after the gathering.

Prototyping Intervention! ‘Prototyping Intervention!’ is a two-day workshop aimed to explore intervention as a form of research. The workshop seeks to bring together scientists, artists, engineers, and designers (just to name a few popular candidates) to probe and discuss different takes on intervention, and interrogate the relations between intervention and investigation. Organizers: Judith Igelsböck, Post/Doc Lab Engineering Responsibility, Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS), Technical University of Munich (TUM) Location: Technical University of Munich/Vorhoelzer Forum Dates: 24-25 October 2017 Confirmed…

Today, the concept of Internet health reaches far beyond the realm of open source code: it’s linked to civil liberties and public policy, free expression and inclusion. Discussions about the state of the web include engineers, but now also teachers, lawmakers, community organizers and artists. This is a positive and heartening development. It’s also a necessary one. The Internet is layered into our lives like we never could have imagined. Access is no longer a luxury — it’s a fundamental…

OpenCon 2017’s three-day program will begin with two days of keynotes, panels, and interactive workshops. OpenCon places an emphasis on highlighting diverse, early career voices, while complementing them with leading experts, such as Jimmy Wales (Co-founder of Wikipedia), Amy Rosenbaum (Director of Legislative Affairs to US President Barack Obama), and Julia Reda (Member of the European Parliament). The third day will feature an all-day “do-a-thon,” where participants will have the opportunity to craft new campaigns, lay the foundations for new…

SIGOPEN 2017 Developmental Workshop for Research on Open Phenomena, collocated with ICIS 2017 (http://icis2017.aisnet.org/) in Seoul, Korea, on December 9th, 2017. SIGOPEN 2017 Developmental Workshop for Research on Open Phenomena covers the following broad areas: The Peer Production of Knowledge Goods, e.g.: * Open source software, hardware, content, and design, * The Sharing Economy, * Collaborative Consumption, * Openness as a driver of innovation, creator of economic activity, and an agent for social well-being.   Collective Intelligence, Action and Resources, e.g.:…

8th International Conference on Internet Technologies & Society 2017 11 – 13 December 2017, Sydney, Australia (http://www.its-conf.org/)   * Conference Scope The ITS Conference aims to address the main issues of concern within WWW/Internet as well as to assess the influence of Internet in the Information Society. The conference is structured along with nine main tracks, covering different aspects from Internet Technologies, Information Management, e-Society and Digital Divide, e-Business / e-Commerce, e-Learning, New Media and e-Society, Digital Services in e-Society, e-Government…

2nd African International Telecommunications Society (ITS) conference Lusaka, Zambia March 15-16, 2018 Conference website: http://www.itsafrica.org.zm/index.php Communications and Applications for All - The ICT Thrust Transforming Business, Competition, Policy, and Regulation Mobile communication connections in Africa have outpaced the expectations just in a period of 15 years. This development clearly documents the great importance of communications for all. The 2nd African Conference of the International Telecommunication Society (ITS) in Lusaka will focus on the interplay between technology developments and market and policy…