IWE-CCAR LAUNCH EVENT
UNIVERSITY OF ST.GALLEN
INSTITUTE FOR BUSINESS ETHICS - COMPETENCE CENTER FOR AFRICAN RESEARCH
LAUNCH EVENT
PROGRAM
January 13th
Arrival of participants and Welcome Dinner in St. Gallen (6:30pm)
January 14th
9:30 Welcome note (Florian Wettstein & Thierry Ngosso)
10:00 – 11:00 Session I
Chair: Michael Heumann, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Keynote 1: Numeric capital, numeric transition and politic transition in sub-Saharan African countries
Thierry Amougou, University of Louvain, Belgium
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 Panel
Denis Ghislain Mbessa, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon
Artificial intelligence and its ethical implications in Africa
Ndidi Nwaneri, Lagos State University, Nigeria
Technology, Ethics & Economic Development in Africa
12:30 Lunch
13:45 Official opening by Ulrich Schmid, Vice-President,
External Relations, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
14:00 – 15:00 Session II
Chair: Rose Kimotho, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
Keynote 2: Why Africans should hold onto their “ploughs” in the digital tech age
Nomalanga Mkhize, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa
Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30 Panel
Eugenio Njoloma, Mzuzu University, Malawi
The Challenges of Information and Communication Technology in Malawi
Flora Ismail, Southern Africa Innovation Support Programme, Tanzania
Enhancing regional collaboration by strengthening innovation ecosystems in SADC
16:30 – 16:45 Family Picture with all participants
Coffee Break
17:00 – 18:30 Documentary & Roundtable
Lisa Garbe, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
Julie Owono, Internet Without borders, France & Harvard University, USA
Eleanor Marchant, Oxford University, UK
Arthur Gwagwa, Strathmore University, Kenya
19:00 Dinner
January 15th
9:00 – 10:00 Session III
Chair: Yorbana Seign-Goura, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
Keynote 3: Internet and Democracy in Africa
Tina Freyburg, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:30 Panel
Kebene Wodajo, Ambo University and Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
The role of tech-companies in addressing human rights risks in Africa
Toussaint Nothias, Stanford University, USA
Access Granted: Facebook’s Free Basics in Africa
11:30 Lunch
12:10 – 13:10 Guided Tour in the Stiftungsbibliothek
13:30 – 14:30 Session IV
Chair: Jelena Aparac, United Nations Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland
Keynote 4: Confounded in the Throes of Globalism: Personhood and Emergence of Digital Capitalism
Uchenna Okeja, Rhodes University, South Africa
Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:00 Panel
Fredrick Ogola, Strathmore University, Kenya
The Impact of Information and Communications Technology in African Creativity and Career
Sabelo Mhlambi, Harvard University, USA
Ethics, Technology, and Human Rights -- reimagining algorithmic technology through the Sub-Saharan African ethics
Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00 Institutional Panel and Closing remarks
Chairs: Florian Wettstein & Thierry Ngosso
18:30 Closing Dinner
January 16th
9:00 – 12:00 Sightseeing Tour/Mount Santis & End the Launch Event
BROCHER WORKSHOP
FONDATION BROCHER
WORKSHOP - AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES ON THE (HUMAN) RIGHT TO HEALTH (CARE)
GENEVA, JANUARY 29TH - 31ST, 2020
PROGRAM
January 28th
Arrival of participants and Welcome Dinner at Brocher (6:30pm)
January 29th (Chair: Thierry Ngosso)
9:00 Welcome note & Instructions (Valerie & Thierry)
9:30 – 10:45 Caring: an African Perspective on the right to health and health care, Caesar Atuire
Discussants: Ingrid Mijeteig & Obijiofor Aginam
11:15 – 12:30 Human Right to Health Duties, Jonathan Wolff
Discussants: Zahara Nampewo & Jennifer Mike
12:30 Lunch
14:00 – 15:15 Ebola and the Human Right to Health: Implications for Physicians’ responsibility, Mosoka Fallah (and Lucy K. Tantum, & Laura A. Skrip) Discussants: Supriya Subramani & James Tataw
Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:15 The protection of the right to health in Africa: an analysis of the regional human rights framework, Stephanie Dagron. Discussants: Sridhar Venkatapuram & Zahara Nampewo
Coffee Break
17:30 – 18:45 Do Not Harm, Samia Hurst
Discussants: Dan Kaseje and Ingrid Mijeteig
19:00 Dinner
January 30th (Chair: Samia Hurst)
9:00 – 10:15 Inequitable Access to African Healthcare: How Suitable is Daniels’ Ethical Framework for the Sub-Saharan African Context? Samuel Ujewe, Discussants: Adina Preda & Kebadu Mekonnen
Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:00 Ethics and equity in performance-based financing policies towards universal health coverage in Africa: case study of Cameroon, Zakariaou Njoumemi. Discussants: Ingrid Mijeteig & Gloria Ashuntantang
12:30 Lunch
14:00 – 15:15 Challenges to the right to health in sub-Saharan Africa, Valerie Luyckx, Gloria Ashuntantang, & James Tataw
Discussants: Dan Kaseje & Supriya Subramani
Coffee Break
15:45 – 17:00 Stigma and access to health care: case of people living with HIV/AIDS in Cameroon, Estelle Kouokam
Discussants: Zahara Nampewo & Sonja Hartnack
18:00 Dinner
January 31st (Chair: Valerie Luyckx & Thierry Ngosso)
9:00 – 10:15 What, if anything, do African societies themselves owe to their own citizens in terms of health(care)? Thierry Ngosso. Discussants: Adina Preda & Dan Kaseje
Coffee Break
10:15 – 11:30 Global justice, the right to health and the responsibility to protect: on the case of Ebola in Africa, Ernest Marie Mbonda. Discussants: Sridhar Venkatapuram and Obijiofor Aginam
Coffee Break
11:45 – 13:00 Animal health is often ignored, but indispensable to the Human Right to Health, Sonja Hartnach
Discussants: Valerie Luyckx and Supriya Subramani
13:00 Closing Lunch, Evaluation, Next steps & Concluding Remarks (Thierry)
End of the Workshop
PARTICIPANTS
1. Adina Preda, University of Dublin, Ireland
2. Caesar Atuire, University of Ghana, Ghana
3. Dan Kaseje, Great Lakes University of Kisimu, Kenya
4. Ernest-Marie Mbonda, University of Moncton, Canada
5. Estelle Kouokam Magne, UCAC, Cameroon
6. George Abongomera, University of Zurich, Switzerland
7. Gloria Ashuntantang, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon
8. Ingrid Miljeteig, University of Bergen, Norway
9. James Tataw, University of Geneva, Switzerland
10. Jennifer Mike, American University of Nigeria, Nigeria
11. Jonathan Wolff, Wolfson College, UK
12. Kebadu Mekonen Gebremariam, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
13. Mosoka P. Fallah, National Public Health Institute of Liberia, Liberia
14. Obijiofor Aginam, Carleton University, Canada
15. Samia Hurst, University of Geneva, Switzerland
16. Samuel Ujewe, Canadian Institute for Genomics and Society, Canada
17. Sonja Hartnack, University of Zurich, Switzerland
18. Sridhar Venkatapuram, King’s College London, UK
19. Stephanie Dagron, University of Geneva, Switzerland
20. Thierry Ngosso, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland & UCAC, Cameroon
21. Valerie A. Luyckx, University of Zurich, Switzerland
22. Zahara Nampewo, University of Makerere, Ouganda
23. Zakariaou Njoumemi, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon