ASAA 2019: Full Schedule

1:45pm EAT

Decolonising Science and Scholarly Knowledge

Presenters:

On Producing Psychological Knowledge in and of Uganda in a Time of Metacolonialism: Issues and Prospects (Kikooma Julius Fred)
The globalization of environmental social research in Ivory Coast universities: Case of Korhogo University in the light of the paradigm of the ‘Great sharing’ convened by Claude Abe (Kabran Aristide Djane & Peleforo Gon Coulibaly)
Open Access Publishing and Knowledge Production In Sub-saharan Africa: Opportunities And Challenges (Ezra Ondari Okemwa)
Researching the Humanities in the Shadow of Humanitarianism: Unlearning 'Research' in South Sudan (Anthony Ochan, Loes Lijnders, Rebecca Lorins)

Moderator

Kabran Aristide Djane & Peleforo Gon Coulibaly

Anthony Ochan, Loes Lijnders, Rebecca Lorins

Thursday October 24, 2019 1:45pm - 3:00pm EAT
USIU Auditorium

Science & Technology & Innovation & Entrepreneurship

1:45pm EAT

Reflecting and learning from practices of sciences in East Africa

Presenters:

“Data for Development”: Querying the role of Open Data in Kenya’s National Development (Linet Juma)
Research Relations in Nairobi, Kenya: Care of Sites and Sources (Angela Okune)
Open Access policy development in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda (Anne Salim)
Supporting Women in Science in East African (Rachel Strohm, Rose Mutiso, Elaine Mungai, and Ashley Muthaka)
Rats, Science, and Development in Tanzania (1970 to 2019) (Jia Hui Lee)

Moderator

Elaine Mungai

Mawazo Institute

Thursday October 24, 2019 1:45pm - 3:00pm EAT
USIU School of Science Board Room USIU Road, Nairobi, Kenya

Science & Technology & Innovation & Entrepreneurship

3:15pm EAT

Labor, Technology and Capital

Presenters:

Does Gender influence Entrepreneurship: evidence from Cameroon Firms? (Stephanie Fosso Mambe)
Empowering Women in Natural Resource Based Enterprises or ‘keeping them busy’: A Case of the Sengwe Vamanani Craft Centre (SEVACA), Zimbabwe (Manasa Sibanda)
On solvability: digital creativity and the sociality of techno-capitalism in Kinshasa (Katrien Pype)
Postcolonial (Electoral) Technologies? On the complex nationalities of machines and their representation in the global market (Cecelia Passanti)
Promoting the African Union Convention on Cyberspace security and protection of personal data (The Malabo Convention of the African Union) (Ajuna Dianah Byaruhanga)

Moderator

Ajuna Dianah Byaruhanga

Thursday October 24, 2019 3:15pm - 4:30pm EAT
USIU School of Science Board Room USIU Road, Nairobi, Kenya

Science & Technology & Innovation & Entrepreneurship

11:00am EAT

Social Media, Algorithms, and Data

Presenters:

Technology versus Trust? (Nele Van Doninck)
Hashtag Pan-Afrikanism: Not the Future, but the Now of Pan-Afrikanism (Komey Nii Ayitey)
Harvesting data: Emerging trends in the platformization of small-holder finance in Kenya (Gianluca Iazzolino)
African digitalization: Creating or closing the great divide? (Patrick Mbataru)

Moderator

Gianluca Iazzolino

London School of Economics

Friday October 25, 2019 11:00am - 12:30pm EAT
USIU School of Science Board Room USIU Road, Nairobi, Kenya

Science & Technology & Innovation & Entrepreneurship

3:15pm EAT

Entrepreneurship, Education and Earning

Presenters:

Linking Learning to Earning through Quality Education at TVET (Frank Ojwang)
Innovation in African Higher Education: The Case of African Leadership University (Gaidi Faraj)
Effect of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurial Intentions of Rural University Students (Iwaloye Omoniyi)
Business Literacy and the Making of African Entrepreneurship in Colonial Africa: The Case of Southern Rhodesia, 1944 to 1970 (Chambwe Tawanda Valentine)

Moderator

Dr. Gaidi Faraj is the Dean of the Undergrad Campus of African Leadership University. Dr. Faraj has been a pioneer in developing the Global Challenges program, ALU’s flagship product, ensuring that innovative learning is incorporated and promoted. He holds a PhD in African Diaspora... Read More →

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Friday October 25, 2019 3:15pm - 4:45pm EAT
USIU School of Science Board Room USIU Road, Nairobi, Kenya

Science & Technology & Innovation & Entrepreneurship

ASAA 2019

1:45pm EAT

Kikooma Julius

Ondari Ezra Okemwa

Kabran Aristide Djane & Peleforo Gon Coulibaly

Anthony Ochan, Loes Lijnders, Rebecca Lorins

1:45pm EAT

Leonida Mutuku

Angela Okune

Jia Hui Lee

Linet Juma

Anne Salim

Elaine Mungai

3:15pm EAT

Katrien Pype

Stephanie Fosso Mambe

Manasa Sibanda

Cecelia Passanti

Ajuna Dianah Byaruhanga

11:00am EAT

Nii Ayitey Komey

Patrick Mbataru

Nele Van Doninck

Gianluca Iazzolino

3:15pm EAT

Kanyi Wamuyu

Frank Ojwang

Iwaloye Omoniyi

Chambwe Tawanda Valentine

Gaidi Faraj

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