Register to attend 4th New Media, Citizens, and Governance Conference

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BudgIT, Enough is Enough Nigeria (EiE Nigeria) and Paradigm Initiative (PIN) will hold the fourth edition of the bi-annual pan-African New Media, Citizens and Governance Conference (NMCG) virtually on Thursday, November 26, 2020. Africa’s civic space is evolving with the application of new technologies and methods to strengthen advocacy and foster active citizenship. With the COVID-19 pandemic, leveraging technology has become the norm and these three organizations have effectively used new media to drive social impact across different contexts. The theme of the conference is New Media & Voice:  People, Action & Hashtags.The conference will have 3 panel sessions:1) Media Censorship and Freedom of Speech;2) New Media and Social Change; and 3) Seeding Disinformation & Messing with our Minds.Some of the speakers of the conference include Adaora Ikenze, Bertha Tobias (Namibia), Chioma Agwuegbo, Debo Adebayo (Mr Macaroni), ‘Gbenga Sesan, Jonathan Rozen (Canada), Noah Ajare, Rigobert Kenmogne (Cameroon) and Zeal Akaraiwe among others.