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African Futures Conference

"Navigating Africa's future: forecasting development trends and opportunities" - this was the title of the inaugural African Futures Conference just held by our partner project African Futures and Innovation in the Institute for Security Studies Pretoria.

4 people: Speakers during the opening panel at the conference - Dr Fonteh Akum, Nardos Bekele-Thomas, Reshma Francy and Dr Jakkie Cilliers

Speakers during the opening panel at the conference - Dr Fonteh Akum, Nardos Bekele-Thomas, Reshma Francy and Dr Jakkie Cilliers

African Futures / HSF

Well over 100 participants from over 20 countries joined the international online conference. It started with a Plenary session with great speakers:

- Dr Fonteh Akum, Executive Director, Institute for Security Studies

- Nardos Bekele-Thomas, Chief Executive Officer for the Africa Union Development Agency- New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AUDA- NEPAD)

- Dr Jakkie Cilliers, Chairperson of the Board, Institute for Security Studies

- Reshma Francy, Associate Director, Policy Pathfinding & Trilemma, World Energy Council, London

- Bronwyn Williams, Partner, Flux Trends, South Africa

 

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“We want to be able to take these discussions to policy tables around the continent and say these are credible pathways to actually driving and realising Africa’s potential"

(Dr Fonteh Akkum, Opening remarks)

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Website image: The home page of the African Futures platform

The home page of the African Futures platform

African Futures, ISS

The conference saw a day of informative, interactive sessions with over 20 carefully selected speakers on diverse topics: 

*  Work, social and geo-political forecasting

*  Political and energy transitions

* Education and environmental futures

It concluded with an introduction to the International Futures Modeling Platform, facilitated by representatives from the Pardee Institute for International Futures at the University of Denver, where the model was developed and is constantly updated. The open access integrated software model is used by the African Futures and Innovation team for their forecasting work.

 

You can watch a recording of the informative opening panel here:

Opening Plenary - African Futures Conference 

 

Explore the African Futures Platform, a comprehensive data and knowledge hub with detailed reports on all African countries, economic communities, and about 15 key topic areas here:

African Futures

 

 

 

 

 

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