AU Media Fellowship Roundtable: “Fostering Equitable Revenue Sharing by Tech Giants: Cultivating Sustainability and Viability for African Media and Content Creators”

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October 18, 2023

INVITATION TO REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MEDIA

WHAT: AU Media Fellowship Roundtable: “Fostering Equitable Revenue Sharing by Tech Giants: Cultivating Sustainability and Viability for African Media and Content Creators”

The Roundtable is scheduled will be held at the margins of JamFest 2023 event, an annual event hosted by the Wits school of Journalism. This engaging conversation will delve into the significance of forging equitable collaborations between technology industry leaders and African journalists and storytellers. The aim is to guarantee the enduring viability, uphold ethical principles, and promote diversity within the African media landscape.

WHEN: Date: 18th October 2023

TIME: 09h00 – 11:00

WHERE: Capital on Park Conference Centre, Sandton

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WHO:

Moderator: Ferial Haffajee, Associate Editor at the Daily Maverick

Speakers:

Dr Gideon Nimako, Senior Programme Officer and Data Scientist at AUDA-NEPAD
Michael Markovitz, Head of Media Leadership Think Tank, Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)
Violet Maila, Project Manager at the Music In Africa Foundation
Lwazi Nongauza, Founder of Dream Afrika Group PTY LTD
Jack Devnarain, Chair South Africa Guild of Actors

Background: The AU Media Fellowship is designed to provide a unique platform for African journalists and content producers to enhance their capacity to reframe the African narrative and ensure that stories about the continent are balanced and reflect the experiences of Africans in compelling and creative ways.

Guided by trainers and mentors, the fellows are scheduled to explore further ways to shape new and balanced discourse about Africa as the continent strives to define its narrative under the AU Agenda 2063.

Over the next two weeks, the fellows are expected to undergo a series of training on mobile journalism production, followed by engagements with the African Union organs in South Africa, all of which are designed to upskill the journalists further and build their capacities to be at the forefront of reframing narratives about the continent and contribute its development.

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Note to Editor

The AU Media Fellowship programme is implemented by the African Union (AU) Information and Communication directorate, supported by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

For further information, please contact:

Ms Faith Adhiambo | Information and Communication Directorate | African Union Commission | E-mail: ochiengj@african-union.org AUMediaFellowship@Africa-union.org | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia