
Dunia Yetu: Building Tanzania's Digital Future Together
Join us for a discussion on building a safe, private, fair, equal, and prosperous digital future for Tanzania. You will hear from Dr. Nkundwe M. Mwasaga, Director General ICT Commission, Kristof De Spiegeleer, CEO of ThreeFold, and Arthur Brock, Founder of Holochain.
We will talk about how we can redefine the digital landscape in East Africa, empower coders, and build a self-reliant digital ecosystem for a better digital future.
Agenda
12:00 Food, Drinks, & Networking
13:30 ICT Commission
13:50 ThreeFold
14:10 Holochain
14:30 Q&A + gathering to exchange ideas and build our future together
Dr. Nkundwe M. Mwasaga: Director General, ICT Commission
Tanzania, under the guidance of the ICT Commission, is committed to building a network of Innovation Centers to empower the youth in shaping our digital future. Dr. Mwasaga, along with Kristof, will outline their plans for collaboration to make Tanzania and Zanzibar exemplary in digital empowerment, with equal opportunities for all.
Kristof De Spiegeleer: Founder, ThreeFold
ThreeFold is a globally-distributed grid of storage, compute, and network capacity, acting as “no middleman” Internet resources between independent capacity providers and users. Founded by Internet 1.0 Pioneers and supported by a global community. In this session Kristof will explain our concrete plans on how together with you build a new Decentralised Digital Backbone for Tanzania and Zanzibar.
Arthur Brock: Founder, Holochain
Holochain is probably the best and most famous peer2peer app development framework. By combining cryptography, distributed databases, and consensus-free validation—new social magic is possible. Arthur will give you insight on how P2P apps of the future can be built faster, more secure and reliable.
Event also supported by Softnet.
