Dibussi Tande: Scribbles from the Den

Beyond Boko Haram: The Rise of Fundamentalist Islam in Nigeria [Conference Presentation]

Find below a downloadable version of the presentation that served as the basis of my talk at the conference on threats to Nigeria's security which took place today at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC.

Beyond Boko Haram: The Rise of Fundamentalist Islam in Nigeria

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  Panelists at the conference included Jacob Zenn, Analyst for West African Affairs at The Jamestown Foundation;  Dr. Andrew McGregor, Editor in Chief, Global Terrorism Analysis; Mark McNamee, Analyst at The Jamestown Foundation; Lauren Ploch Blanchard from the Congressional Research Service; Carl LeVan, Assistant Professor of African Politics at American University; Colonel Gene McConville, Senior Military Advisor at the Africa Center For Strategic Studies; Ambassador Eunice Reddick, former US ambassador to  Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipe, and currently Director of the Office of West African Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

 

[Conference] Threats to Nigeria's Security: Boko Haram and Beyond

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washingon, D.C.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
9 A.M. - 12 P.M. EST
Organized by The Jamestown Foundation

I will be presenting a paper at the conference titled Beyond Boko Haram: The Rise of Fundamentalist Islam in Nigeria.

Watch the Live Webcast of the conference below.

Streaming by Ustream 

Internet at Liberty 2012 Conference - Plenary I

Internet at Liberty is an international conference of Internet academics, activists, and public and private sector officials, featuring debates on the future of Internet governance.

Plenary I - Should laws and regulations that affect the Internet favor individuals over the nation?

Internet at Liberty 2012: Promoting Progress and Freedom

Internet at Liberty 2012: Promoting Progress and Freedom

Following the highly successful Internet at Liberty 2010, activists and experts from around the world will converge at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. on May 23-24 to explore the most pressing dilemmas and exciting opportunities around free expression in the digital age.

The Internet as a global, free, and open resource, is constantly developing. Over the past year we have seen how the Internet can shift power, broaden scope, and accelerate political and economic change. Simultaneously, governments and multinational companies shape what is possible online. Today, more than any time in history, technological and political forces are colliding to draw lines about how the Internet functions.

Kellogg School of Management Lecture: The State of ICTs in South Africa

Yesterday, February 16, 2011, I was at Northwestern University's Kellog School of Management in Evanston, IL, where I had been invited to give a lecture on the state of Information and Communications Technology in South Africa to the 2012 Global Initiatives in Management (GIM) South Africa program.

You can view the presentation which served as the basis of my lecture below. It is also available for viewing and downloading on Slideshare.

Information and communications technology in south africa slideshare version

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Role of Bloggers Comes Under Spotlight at African Media Summit

Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership (SPI), Rhodes University, South Africa

Are bloggers journalists? Are they operating ethically by upholding the rights and limitations of media freedom? If not, should bloggers be regulated by statutory boards? These and similar questions framed some of the key debates of the just-ended Africa Media Leadership Summit.

Panel Discussion/Debate on the Blogosphere & the State at the AMLC

Is The Blogosphere The New Public Sphere, And What Should The Role Of The State Be, If Any?

MODERATOR: Dr. Andrew Kanyegirire, Communications Manager, Nepad, South Africa

Panelists:

• Francis Wangusi, Director of Special Projects and Broadcasting, Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK)
• Innocent Mungy, Manager of Corporate Communications, Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority(TCRA)
• Mabel Masasi, Senior Broadcasting Officer (TCRA)
• Daudi Were – Blogger, Mentalacrobatics, Kenya
• Ndesanjo Macha - Blogger, Global Voices, Sub-Saharan Africa editor, Tanzania
• Omar El Hyani, blogger, Morrocco
• Dibussi Tande, blogger, Scribbles from the Den, Cameroon

Follow it live (and ask questions) on Twitter using the #amlc10 hashtag

Is The Blogosphere The New Public Sphere? Should the State Control It?

A presentation by Dibussi Tande at the 2010 Africa Media Leadership Conference (AMLC) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Tuesday, September 28, 2010

The Blogosphere The New Public Sphere? What Role for the State If Any?

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The State of Social Justice and Digital Media in Africa

Summary of a Keynote address delivered by Dibussi Tande at the Highway Africa Conference's "Digital Citizen Indaba", Rhodes University, Grahamstown, Republic of South Africa - September 5, 2009 (Orginally published on the Highway Africa Blog)

We just heard the opening keynote talk by Cameroonian blogger Dibussi Tande (he blogs at Scribbles from the den), who talked about “The state of social justice and digital media in Africa”. Below is a summary of his talk from the Digital Citizen Indaba website: