MozFestea - About MEA

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First paragraph: MozFest East Africa (MEA) is an annual event that brings together educators, innovators, learners and makers from East Africa and beyond to share experiences and build the web together.

Come with a great concept you want to make real, and we'll connect you with a community of fiercely unconventional technologists and creators eager to share their skills and knowledge to spotlight your work and to nurture your ideas. We'll all learn together through hands-on sessions and interactive workshops and we'll have dedicated time to hack the ideas that emerge when hundreds of bright minds gather together in one space.

The theme for this years event is “Building solutions for Africa's challenges, together on the web”

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Tracks paragraph:

TRACKS

How the mozilla festival east africa program works

MozFest East Africa is built on core "tracks", which are clusters of topics and sessions that we believe have the greatest potential for innovation and empowerment with the web.

Each track is curated by "Space Wranglers", who are thought-leaders and community organizers in that particular area. The tracks are spread across the entire venue and are the central programmatic focus of the festival.

1. Social Innovation

This refers to the social processes of innovation, such as open source methods and techniques and also the innovations which have a social purpose. The Social Innovation track will focus on the following areas:

Health Water Agriculture Transport Renewable energy

1. EDUCATION

Teaching and learning is a fundamental part of our day to day personal growth and development. This track aims to highlight education innovations, tools and strategies in the following areas:

Open education Open Educational Resources Digital Literacy Mozilla Clubs Open Badges

1. WEB & MOBILE TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES

Increasingly, many people are using web and mobile tools and technologies to accomplish various tasks. This track takes a look at some of the these technologies, how they work and how we can build on them to help people accomplish more goals.

Build and teach the web Webmaker Firefox OS Mobile money and mobile payments Open Source Software

1. DIGITAL CULTURE AND THE MAKER MOVEMENT

The web is a testament to the creativity and expression of its users. This track explores this creativity and culture in the following areas:

Digital art and design Digital Television Open hardware and 3D Printing Robotics Online journalism

1. POLICY AND ADVOCACY

What is the web you want? How do we protect and advance a free and open web for everyone? This track seeks to explore and formulate policies that do just that. The focus areas will be on:

Net Neutrality Open Policy

1. OPEN DATA & DEVELOPMENT

Increasingly the value of data as a guide to making and implementing decisions has grown exponentially. How do we grow and share this value with more people to empower them to make better decisions? This track will explore Open Data and Development in the following areas:

Open data research Open data apps Data liberation Data journalism Data visualization

1. COMMUNITY TRACK

Community is at the heart of Mozilla and is a powerful resource and driver of innovation. How can we enable the community in East Africa to make an impact with the knowledge and skills shared at this event?

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How to get involved paragraph: How to get involved: The festival will take place over three days from the 17th -19th of July in Victoria University [insert link :http://www.vu.ac.ug/ and is open to all ages and abilities. The program will have something for all, from learning labs to club curriculum and developer sessions.

Sign up on eventbrite [http://www.eventbrite.com/e/mozilla-festival-east-africa-2015-tickets-15784398561] and join us for a weekend of hacking, designing, peer learning and social innovation. Tickets are free and give you access to the event all weekend.

You can submit a session[http://mozfestea.org/2015/propose-a-session/] to take place over the MEA festival weekend. You can facilitate more than one session or sessions from different tracks in which you have demonstrated expertise. To submit a session, visit our facilitators sign up page. All sessions submitted will be evaluated by the MEA team and a final list of accepted proposals will be listed on our site.

We have a lot of volunteer positions available and need help in a variety of roles from Session leaders, to logistics and registration desk. If you want to get involved sign up on our volunteers page and let us know how you can help.

Are you a tech hub or incubator looking to help us shape the future of digital education and social innovation in East Africa. or a company who can help support the festival structure through sponsorship? We would love to hear from you contact us at info@mozfestea.org

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