Nerd Nite Liberia: October 8, 2013
On Tuesday, October 8th join us for the 13th edition of Nerd Nite Liberia!
Presentations this week include:
Accountability in Liberia: The winners of the Liberian Film Festival on Accountability– By Divine K. Anderson, Arthur J. Wahwehlee, Jr., and Dorcas Pewee
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Big Data and Privacy–By Nouhoun Diarra
And
The Narrow Line between Coca and Cocaine Production: The Bolivian Example – By Georg Salamon
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Accountability in Liberia: The winners of the Liberian Film Festival on Accountability– By Divine K. Anderson, Arthur J. Wahwehlee, Jr., and Dorcas Pewee
Last month, Accountability Lab hosted a Film Festival and screened short films produced by five talented young Liberians after they completed a five-week training program. The two films to be screened at Nerd Nite address sexual exploitation and water supply and they represent an innovative attempt to change Liberia for the better through film, an idea that is long overdue despite the fact we are living in the multimedia age where film has the potential to have great influence over people. (The films are each five minutes long).
Divine Key Anderson is a film documentary consultant for German International Cooperation (GIZ) GmbH’s project “Promoting the Rule of Law and Justice in West Africa” in Monrovia. Previously, he worked for 2-RICH Productions / Movie Academy Liberia, Lion of Judah Business Center, and Opuada Multimedia Studio in Nigeria. He sees film as a tool for social change that can make people change their heart and mind, help our donors spend wisely, inspire audiences to take action, ignite social change, and most of all fight corruption. He is presenting the work along with Arthur J. Wahwehlee, Jr. and Dorcas Pewee, two young and inspired student filmmakers.
Big Data and Privacy–By Nouhoun Diarra
Nowadays, big data is a buzz word in the IT world and it’s about using the power of internet to collect data from all kind of possible sources and try to make sense of it for many purposes including marketing, national security issues, science, and education, etc. This exercise sometimes crosses the red line on users’ privacy and data protection.
Nouhoun is an Information Technology specialist and a project management professional. He has worked in Liberia for about three years, initially with the United Nations and currently with a leading commercial bank in Liberia. He is a proponent of open source technologies, e-learning, and all types of computer mediated communication systems.
The Narrow Line between Coca and Cocaine Production: The Bolivian Example – By Georg Salamon
Bolivia, the largest coca grower and cocaine producer throughout the 90s, has meanwhile managed to vastly decrease its production. Right now, the country finds itself in 3rd position after Colombia and Peru. Despite of this, its current coca leaf revalorization campaign coupled with the expulsion of the DEA has raised massive demonization by the USA. Where is the country heading with its current policy? What can be learned from the Bolivian approach?
A newcomer in Liberia and Africa as a whole, Georg is still pursuing his International Relations Studies in Germany and spent the last half year in La Paz, Bolivia for an exchange semester.
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