Pop!Tech 9
Oct. 19-22, 2005

Seeing What’s There
Graham Flint
Bob Hanner

It’s Alive!
Norman Packard
Theo Jansen

Mind and Body
Todd Kuiken
Jesse Sullivan
Ze Frank

Explorer’s Club
Peter Diamandis
Marcia McNutt
Carolyn Porco

People, Place, and Planet
Mark Lynas

East Meets West
Oded Shenkar
Rebecca MacKinnon

Serious Games
Edward Castronova
Ivan Marovic
Steven Berlin Johnson
Davy Rothbart

The Participation Revolution
Nicholas Negroponte
Yochai Benkler
Ingo Gunther

Habitats
Suketu Mehta
Robert Neuwirth

Big Fixes
Cameron Sinclair
Bunker Roy
Neil Gershenfeld

The Future of Ideas
Sam Harris
Susan Blackmore

What Do We Know?
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Robert Trivers

Summary
Bob Metcalfe

The Future of Africa
Panel Discussion

Sun Participation Fellows. Pop!Tech partnered with Sun Microsystems and the United Nations. Together, we have selected ten next-generation thought leaders in social activism and technology from across Africa and financially supported their presence and participation at the conference.

Whether working on initiatives in healthcare, telecommunications, or education, each Fellow represents a world-changing spirit of leadership, innovation and social engagement. The goal with the Fellows program is to make it a permanent part of the Pop!Tech experience, focusing each year on a different continent or theme.

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The Fellows:

• Neema Mgana
  30 years old, Tanzania
  2005 Nobel Prize for Peace nominee, HIV/AIDS activist, youth leadership activist
• Elleni Muluneh Gebremariam
  20 years old, Ethiopia
  Education and communications specialist
• Lydia Muchodo
  Uganda
  Promoter of peace and tolerance through sport
• Khaddiatou Diedhiou Diop
  30 years old, Senegal
  Youngest member of Parliament of Senegal
  Focused on reducing child mortality and improving maternal health
• Rotimi Olawale
  22 years old, Nigeria
  Reformer of private sector, partnerships, media
• Clement M. Bwalya
  27 years old, Zambia
  Advocate of social change through sport, reformer of health sector
• Brian Longwe
  34 years old, Kenya
  Chief technology officer for the Africa Internet Service Provider Association (AfrISPA)
• Eric Osiakwan
  27 years old, Ghana
  Internet communications consultant, journalist, blogger
• Ndesanjo Macha
  35 years old, Tanzania
  A key figure of Swahili-language blogging, lawyer and digital rights activist
• Ory Okollah
  28 years old, Kenya
  A leading blogger, telecommunications reform activist
• David Gyewu
  41 years old, Ghana
  Former deputy minister for communications and technology for Ghana,
  telecommunications reform activist
• Emeka Okafor
  41 years old, New York
  Blogger, consultant and entrepreneur focused on finance and sustainable technology

Read Ethan Zuckerman's detailed account of the panel discussion.