2023

December

• Socio-technical practices of fintech. African Studies Association (ASA). 

• Author Meets Critics Roundtable: China in Twentieth and Twenty first Century African Literature (ASA).

November 

• Maintaining EVs, Maintaining Futures. Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S).

October

• African entrepreneurs in Shenzen’s ecosystem. MIT Innovation Lab.

• Global challenges for a green revolution for the internet. Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR).

• Mapping materialities and geopolitics with the Nokia 3310. Turning Points.

• What is history ‘for’ in CSCW research? Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW).

August

• Hardware and data in the platform era. European Association for Chinese Studies Summer School.

July

• Building alternate technofutures: Infrastructural labors between China and Africa. Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC).

• Data practices and protections in Nigeria and Kenya. Internews.

May

• Frontier logics in Africa’s fintech sector. Tech | Money. 

March

• Locating the datafication of the everyday in Africa. Southern Digitalities (NUQ).

 

2022

July

• Tech Futures: Ghana’s Media and Technoscape at Crossroads. Ghana Studies Association (GSA).

June

• Chinese smartphones in Africa: Hardware and data in the platform era. Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production. 

May

• Paradoxes from 25 years of commercial radio in Ghana’s 4th Republic”. International Communication Association (ICA).

April

• Triangulating Race, Capital, and Technology. Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI).

January

• Chinese smartphones in Africa: Hardware, data, and transnational business infrastructures in the platform era. Concordia University.

 

2021

October

• The global shaping of racialized AI. Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S). 

• Inclusive AI? Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S).

July

• Reconciling the bright and dark sides of entrepreneurship [panel]. European Group for Organizational Studies. 

June

• The seminar on racial equity in technology entrepreneurship [panel]. NYU Center for Critical Race & Digital Studies.

May

• Gender and the geopolitics of tech entrepreneurship in the Global South. Data & Society (The Hustle Economy: Race, Gender, and Entrepreneurship workshop).

March ​

• 'Race and the geopolitics of technology: Africa, China, and the US. Stanford University, Program in STS.

February​

• '"I Was Still Black When He Gave Me 200k": Transnational Frictions, Class, and the Tech Entrepreneurial Life.' Stanford University, Center for African Studies.

January

• 'The politics and economics of global AI: Chinese facial recognition in Zimbabwe'. Data & Society, (Against Platform Determinism'Workshop).

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2020

December 

• Panel: 'Covid-19 & Africa: Youth and closing the innovation gap', Harvard University (Center for African Studies).

November

• Working out the ‘dual sublime: Gender in Sino-African tech entrepreneurial spaces. African Studies Association (ASA),

• 'Mapping contemporary (re)imaginations of a global black diaspora'. Michigan State University (African Studies Center).

October

• 'China, Africa, and the shifting worlds of tech labor'. University of Pennsylvania (CARGC). [Virtual]

February

• 'The hype and hope of African tech entrepreneurship', The World Bank, Washington, DC

 

2019

December 

• 'Survival Innovation and the labors of tech entrepreneurship', Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.

November 

• 'Fostering historical research in CSCW', Workshop, CSCW, Austin, Texas 

October

• 'Designing the south: Emerging accounts of technology, entrepreneurship, and collaboration between Africa and China, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. 

May

• 'IoT as imaginative crossroads: Ghanaian makers and the politics of technology progress, ICA, Washington DC. 

• 'Equals on an uneven playing field: Unpacking small scale Sino-African tech entrepreneurial collaborations'. Lingnan University, Hong Kong

April 

• 'Reorienting Tech Transfer: Learning, Exchange, and Collaboration between African and Chinese Tech Entrepreneurs', CARI-SAIS, Washington DC. 

February

• 'Contestations of entrepreneurial labor between Ghana and China', GIDEST (The New School), NYC. 

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2018

December 

• 'Anything is possible': Technology in the China-Africa relationship, ASA, Atlanta. 

 

November

• 'Tinkering with Governance: Technopolitics and the economization of citizenship' (with Silvia Lindtner), CSCW, Jersey City.

 

July

• 'Survivability & (re)defining innovation through transnational technology production', National University of Singapore, Singapore. 

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May

• Making tech-entrepreneurial connections: Ghana-China Workshop, Impact Hub Accra, Ghana

• A public conversation on design critique with Anders Fagejord (U of Oslo) and Silvia Lindtner (U of Michigan) at ICA pre-conference 'Design as object, design as method', ICA, Prague, Czech Republic

• 'Identity, Labor, and the Work of Producing Digital Technologies ‘From the Periphery’. ICA, Prague, Czech Republic

• 'Futurity and designing digital technologies ‘The African Way’', ICA, Prague, Czech Republic

 

April

• China-Africa Relations: Making in Shenzhen and trading in Guangzhou, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

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2017

October

• ''Innovating to survive': African tech entrepreneurs and the global discourse of technology production'. University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School, Philadelphia, USA.

 

September

• 'The intersecting logics of mobile phones and radio distribution in Ghana, Neoliberal Fever Workshop, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

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August

• 'Experiencing innovation'. 4S. Boston, USA. 

 

May

• 'Challenges to FOI: The view from Africa'. ICA. San Diego, USA. 

• 'FM radio via mobile phones: Rethinking the logics of radio distribution in Ghana'. ICA. San Diego, USA. 

• 'How methods make designers'. CHI. Denver, USA. 

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2016

December

• Digital technologies in and from the global south. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.

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September

• 'Made in Africa: Making, doing, and the labor of future‐making’. 4S /EASST. Barcelona, Spain. 

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August

• 'Effective online research for journalists'. Journashop 4, iJourno Africa. Accra, Ghana.

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July

• 'Technology discourse in contemporary Africa'. Technology Studies in Africa Workshop, Durban, South Africa. 

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May

• 'Design(ing) "here" and "there": Tech Entrepreneurs, Global Markets, and Reflexivity in Design Processes.' CHI. San Jose, USA.

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March

• 'Tech entrepreneurship in Africa: Views from Accra & Nairobi'. xHub barcamp: Building the Addis tech vision, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 

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2015

October

• 'Tech production culture and industry logics in Ghana'. Michigan State & University of Michigan ICTD mini-symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

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July

• ‘Whose freedom? Which information?: Discourses on Freedom on Information’ IAMCR. Montreal, Canada. 

 

May 

• ‘Networked radio: The role of social media interactivity in radio broadcasts in Ghana.’ ICA. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 

 

February

• Media, Technology, and the global technoclass: Case studies from Ghana. UMBC, Maryland, USA.

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