African Media Leaders to Gather for Critical Summit
Over 250 participants from across Africa and the world are expected to attend AMLS 2024, which AllAfrica said will be an "annual convening of Africa's media leaders."
NAIROBI, Kenya— Top African media leaders, owners, operators, global players, government officials and others will convene in Nairobi, Kenya, from May 8-10 for the inaugural AllAfrica Media Leaders' Summit (AMLS), writes Winston Mwale.
The summit, with the theme "Re-engineering African Media in Times of Critical Transformation," aims to address pressing issues facing the media industry amid rapid technological change, the organizer AllAfrica Global Media said.
"To share an understanding of forces shaping Africa's Integration and align on the role of Africa's media in crafting the continent's economic transformation and integration narrative," is one core objective, according to a press release.
Another is "to support media leaders and practitioners through an era of rapid change and constant technological disruption with the world as we knew it, pre-covid, morphing into a new reality in a context marked by AI, digitization, the scourge of disinformation and misinformation as well as economies responding to the post-pandemic recession."
The third core objective is "to share and discuss new ideas to gain enhanced contextual knowledge in order to shape and support Africa's future by strengthening the continent's collective efforts towards African Integration and economic progress in line with the UN SDGs and Agenda 2063 ~ The Africa We Want."
The agenda will revolve around six pillars: African economic transformation, AI and technology, regional integration and peacebuilding, misinformation and disinformation, governance and capacity building, and creating sustainable business models.
Over 250 participants from across Africa and the world are expected to attend AMLS 2024, which AllAfrica said will be an "annual convening of Africa's media leaders."