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TechTalks: Innovation Driving Transitions
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From Wednesday January 1 2025 to Wednesday December 31 2025
What is a TechTalk?
Offered by AFD's Emerging Tech Lab, the #TechTalk webinars offer a space to explore the major digital changes that are transforming development.
Are you wondering how digital transformation is shaping the future of countries? What opportunities it offers, what limitations it imposes, and what strategies enable solid and sustainable technological deployment?
For one hour, experts, practitioners, and researchers share their perspectives and provide food for thought. Together, they re-examine development challenges in light of technological innovations and their concrete impacts.
Whether you work in the sector or are simply curious about the technologies that are disrupting the world, #TechTalks give you the keys to understanding how digital technology is influencing economic, social, and environmental transitions around the world.
The upcoming webinars
TechTalks are organized roughly once per quarter. Check out the upcoming sessions below, along with the Livestorm registration links for each webinar.
TechTalks: “Unseen and Unheard: How Technology Facilitates Gender-Based Violence and What We Can Do About It”
When ? November, 27, 2025 from 2pm to 3:30pm
Moderation
- Co-moderated by Sabrine Tebessi, Project Manager in the Digital Department, AFD
- Co-moderated by Claire Zanuso, Head of the Emerging Tech Lab, AFD
Speakers
- Delphine O, Ambassador and Secretary General of the Generation Equality Forum
- Chinasa T. Okolo, Artificial Intelligence Researcher, Founder & Scientific Director, Technēculturǎ
- Taibat Hussain, Researcher and Director of the Gender-Based Violence Program, Brain Builders Youth Development Initiativee
Watch the TechTaks replays
Unseen and Unheard: How Technology Facilitates Gender-Based Violence and What We Can Do About It
Published on November 27 2025
Ethical Data Re-Use in Developing Countries
Published on March 26 2024
Revolutionizing Public Engagement: The CivicTech and GovTech Revolution
Published on November 30 2023
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