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Imagining Lagos 2035: The Future of Tech and Daily Life
CcHUB 294 Herbert Macaulay Way, Lagos, NigeriaImagining Lagos 2035: The Future of Tech and Daily Life.
Date: Saturday, May 24, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 3:00 PM
Location: CcHUB, 294 Herbert Macaulay Way, Lagos
Join us for a free, interactive workshop to explore how Lagos’ tech ecosystem could evolve by 2035. Through scenario building, creative storytelling, and networking, we’ll co-create visions for the future of technology in Lagos.
Register now: https://bit.ly/4j1PkMS

EPIC 2025 – Ethnofutures for Innovation: Practicing Foresight with Diverse Intelligences
OnlineJoin us on May 28, 9:00 AM PDT, for an EPIC tutorial with SJSU's Jan English-Lueck, Rod Falcon from the Institute for the Future, and LAGOSTECH’s Davide Casciano. Explore how ethnography and foresight can create authentic future scenarios, highlighting voices often overlooked. https://www.epicpeople.org/project/52825-ethnofutures-innovation-practicing-foresight/
Reimagining AI as a Human Endeavor: A Call for Papers on the Human Aspects of AI and LLMs in Africa
This panel critically examines Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) not as autonomous, objective technologies, but as deeply human products shaped by labour, social conditions, and cultural contexts. The perception of AI as autonomous often obscures embedded human choices, values, and biases, deflecting accountability from creators and socio-economic structures. Meanwhile, discourses on "algorithms" can stem from terminological anxiety about the roles these systems occupy in society. The speakers moves beyond the "algorithmic drama" of AI as an obscure, inhuman power, instead illuminating its complex socio-technical underpinnings.