<div dir="ltr"><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Dear listers, <br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">This may be of interest. Please register on the links provided. <br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">-----------</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"></span></div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">G<font face="arial, sans-serif">ood afternoon,</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">As part of the <a href="https://developingdata.org" target="_blank">Developing Data</a> project, CIPESA in partnership with the University of Edinburgh, Centre of African Studies and the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT) are organising a workshop on <b><a href="https://developingdata.org/data-politics/data-covid/" target="_blank">The Data Politics of Pandemics</a>, </b>which will explore the extent to which politics interferes with the collection and reporting of data on pandemics on the African continent.</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">The speaker line up includes <b><i>Richard Ngamita, Human Rights Data Scientist, Facebook | Avani Singh, Director/Co-Founder, AltAdvisory Africa | Jean-Benoit Falisse, Lecturer, University of Edinburgh | </i><i>Bernard Sabiti, Senior Strategic Partnership and Engagement Manager, Development Initiatives</i></b></font></div><div><i><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></i></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">The Data Politics of Pandemics workshop is scheduled to take place on Wednesday November 25, 2020 13.00-14.30 East African Time. To attend, register <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-data-politics-of-pandemics-tickets-129712490551" target="_blank">here</a>. </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">A second workshop on <a href="https://developingdata.org/data-politics/data-elections/" target="_blank">Data and Elections</a> will explore how data exploitation and micro targeting influence African elections.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">The speaker line up includes <span><b><i>Seema Shah | Boye Adegoke, Paradigm Initiative | Laura Lazara Cabrera, Privacy International.</i></b></span></font></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span><br></span></font></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span>The data and elections workshop is scheduled to take place on Wednesday November 25, 2020 15:30-17:00 East African Time. To attend, register</span></font><span style="color:rgb(84,89,95)"> <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-elections-workshop-tickets-128139194781" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Regards,</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Ashnah</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:11pt">Ashnah Kalemera<br></span></b><span style="font-size:11pt">Programme Manager<br>Mobile: +256 (0) 773 325 435|Office: +256 (0) 414 289 502 </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(32,33,36)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(255,153,0)">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><b>Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA)</b></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>Plot 6 Semawata Place (Off Semawata Road), Ntinda | Kampala, Uganda<br><a href="http://www.cipesa.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">www.cipesa.org</span></a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/cipesaug" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">@cipesaug</span></a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/cipesaug" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">www.facebook.com/cipesaug</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(32,33,36)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p></div><div><font color="#888888"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Grace Mutung'u <br>Skype: gracebomu<br>@Bomu<br><span style="font-size:12.8px">PGP ID : 0x33A3450F</span><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>