Silumesii Maboshe  
  
Room: stage 3  
  
Zambia is not the first country that comes to mind in a conversation about innovation in learning. The obstacles to basic learning in Zambia are not few. However, some have chosen to meet these challenges head-on and have found the environment to be an ideal test bed to create learning solutions. Could this be the beginning of an eLearning revolution?
 
 In the session we will meet the eGranary project and the ZEDuPad. Both initiatives have undergone extensive pilot phases in Zambia in the last three years. We'll look at the education niche that each is trying to serve and possibly try to predict the future for them. Useful to observe will be Zambia's layout in terms of language, culture and attitudes towards technology. How do these affect learning?
 
 "There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo. Could this be Zambia's time?


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Flüssige Demokratie durch die Hintertür? Wie «IBM Watson» Politik und Gesellschaft aufmischen könnte

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During its nearly eight year history, re:publica has developed into Europe’s largest social media conference, with 5 000 participants in the last year, and has had the privilege of welcoming many of the digital society’s most important leading minds to its stages. Since its inception, the digital society has faced continuous changes – but never have these changes been so palpable as since whistle-blower Edward Snowden’s revelations during the summer of 2013.

re:publica 2014’s motto INTO THE WILD highlights various points of departure for solutions in the internet of the near future. When algorithms turn us transparent and controllable through predictability, perhaps we have to become more unpredictable; dissolving old structures, veering from the well-trodden path in favour of chaos and irrationality, heading INTO THE WILD. Yet this begs the questions: how will we navigate and find one another? How can one whisper into the global net and, in particular, with whom? Will those calling for a free and unrestricted internet not have to face being ever more vigilant and controlling of those who may partake and those who must stay out?

While the omni-surveilled net may have become draughty it will continue to protect its vital interests, learn to sidestep and manoeuvre and continue to develop. During the build-up to re:publica 2014, we will extend INTO THE WILD in search of unexpected technical solutions, surprising impulses stemming from business and politics and look forward to new, unbridled internet culture.

We are happy to announce the most exciting re:publica to date, happening from 6 – 8 May at STATION BERLIN.  

 Not despite, but distinctly because nothing is as it once seemed.


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