The 2023 AllAfrica Media Leaders’ Summit brings together over 300 African media owners and operators , government officials, corporate leaders, academics, civil society champions, and development partners to discuss the business of media and the critical role it must play in shaping Africa’s future. Economic and human development, social progress, peace, security, and responsible, effective governance cannot flourish without fair, accurate and reliable information dissemination in the digital era. The theme for the 2023 Summit is Re-engineering African Media in Times of Critical Transformation.
Africa, like the rest of the world, is now experiencing new and powerful technology such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics and automation on uncensored digital platforms as well as runaway global strategic misinformation and disinformation campaigns that influence what happens in all spheres of life, including economic, social and cultural progress. At this time AllAfrica believes that it is imperative and urgent to ensure African media gets ahead of the game in terms of sustainability, relevance and impact that will enable the media to express, protect and embed African narratives.
This important initiative aims to support media practitioners through an era of rapid change and constant technological disruption, with the world as we knew it pre-covid, morphing into a new reality in a context marked by the scourge of disinformation and misinformation. African media leaders need to discuss and share new skills and business models as well as gain enhanced contextual knowledge and structures to support and shape Africa’s future – all whilst strengthening the continent’s collective efforts towards African Integration and economic progress in line with the UN SDGs and agenda 2030: the Africa we want.
Digitization advances as well as constant developments and innovations in technology have resulted in a landscape of boundless access to information and the democratization of the media space. However, an unfortunate result has been an increase in the scourge of misinformation and disinformation in the media and an erosion of the traditional media business models.
With these drastic changes in the way media operates, along with the attendant effects on public trust and the development of new audiences, it is critical to bring together all the key media stakeholders to network, dialogue and learn from the media business forerunners, as the media space will never be the same again. Life as we knew it will never be the same….and nor should it be. How prepared are the key players? Does African media have the will, the tools and the funding to counter disinformation and build new business models to maintain a resilient, dynamic, and engaged media on the continent?
The AllAfrica Media Leaders’ Summit will be held in October 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya showcasing its diverse and vibrant media landscape. The event format will feature a mix of keynotes, panels, open-floor discussions and workshops along with powerful networking platforms and events. The Summit agenda revolves around 5 key pillars:
– Technology and Digitization
– Misinformation and Disinformation
– New Business Models
– African Integration
– Standards and Capacity Building
One of the key moments of the Summit will be the Heads of States’ roundtable, an invaluable and unique engagement. The Summit will be preceded by a youth challenge in the form of a competition designed to develop innovations for the newsrooms of the future.
About AllAfrica
AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa – aggregating, producing, and distributing news and information from over 130 African news organizations and our own reporters to an African and global public.
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