AFRICAN WOMEN RISING
Technology
has impacted everything, including media. Its rapid adoption has
created new opportunities for media professionals to deliver content to
their audiences, disrupting existing institutions and business models.
As a result, Africa's new media landscape is thriving, and women, no
longer just passive consumers of media, but avid content creators, media
producers, and tech innovators, are at the heart of it.
In
Nigeria, women not only run the most widely-read blogs (Linda Ikeji's
Blog and Bella Naija), but are at the forefront of game-changing
ventures such as the refreshing pan-African television station, Ebony
Life TV, and new media tech startups, such as Ndani TV, the
fastest-growing online video platform in Nigeria.
However,
the sudden increase in visibility of women across digital media and
technology doesn't capture the entire story. In traditional TV, radio,
and print across Nigeria (and indeed, the continent), African women's
voices are still under- and misrepresented.
FACT: According to a global report on the status of women in the media, 83% of all news subjects in the world (including Nigeria) were male, while less than 17% were female.
There is a lot at stake.
The
negative impact of the gender imbalance in media representation affects
more than just women; adolescent girls who need positive female role
models to inspire, guide, and fuel their aspirations, are stifled by the
dearth of narratives about women.
Incidentally,
the plethora of African women with powerful stories and expertise worth
sharing often lack the media savvy to promote and amplify their work,
thus, remaining invisible as success models to each other, and role
models to the next generation of media producers: girls.
There is a lot at stake for women, but there’s even more at stake for girls.
Ensuring
that African women and girls continue to participate in media and
technology is critical for Africa's success in the global tech and
innovation arena. This is why we need everyone – including men – to
invest in African women and adolescent girls as both producers and
creators of media and tech. This is why we need you.
Now
more than ever, we need fresh and creative perspectives to see this
vision through; you might see yourself as an unlikely proponent of this
agenda, but, on Wed February 19th, we invite you to see yourself
differently.
CODE RED,
an invite-only event for African women in media and tech (and those who
love them), will convene trailblazers in media and tech for the purpose
of galvanising an ecosystem that is both women and girl-friendly.
CODE
RED is a call to action, an alert, both for the challenge and the
opportunity ahead of us. It is a movement of culture shapers,
amplifiers, and innovators coming together to unleash our collective
power in the most important currency of this digital age -- connections.
Because where there are connections, there are solutions.
Are
you a TV producer searching for positive girls' story? A techpreneur in
need of some good PR advice? A blog editor seeking new contributors? A
digital media maven with klout to share? Most importantly, do you
support girls and women in media and technology? If yes to any of the
above, CODE RED is for you.
EVENT PROGRAM
Connect with African Women in Media and Tech
Meet
and learn about African women in media, including TV, Film, Print, Web,
and Mobile. Learn about African women trailblazers in technology, from
brand new startup CEOs to popular mobile app developers.
Learn about Girl Hub Nigeria and Tech Cabal
Connect
with the folks behind the girl effect in Nigeria, our work connecting
and convening leaders for girls in Northern Nigeria, and our phenomenal
event partners, Tech Cabal, a web blog at the forefront of the narrative
about technology in Nigeria.
Join the CODE RED Movement
We’ve
distributed invitations to over 100 media producers, content creators,
tech innovators, and, change agents for the purpose of connecting, and
intentionally amplifying each other's work. We are expecting a room full
of some of the brightest, powerful, influential, and inspiring leaders,
and we hope you will be one of them.
EVENT DETAILS
CODE
RED will take place at 'A Whitespace' in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Wednesday
February 19th. Dress code is semi-formal or traditional in your
interpretation of CODE RED. Be there or...be there.
++CODE RED: African Women in Media and Tech++
Hosted by Girl Hub Nigeria in partnership with Tech Cabal
Wed February 19th, 5 pm - 8 pm
@ A Whitespace | 58 Raymond Njoku, Ikoyi, Lagos
Official RSVP (Required): http://coderedatsocialmediaweeklagos.eventbrite.com
Hosted by Girl Hub Nigeria in partnership with Tech Cabal
Wed February 19th, 5 pm - 8 pm
@ A Whitespace | 58 Raymond Njoku, Ikoyi, Lagos
Official RSVP (Required): http://coderedatsocialmediaweeklagos.eventbrite.com
Note: This is an invite-only event. To request an invitation (or nominate others to attend), please complete this form.
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