WEF launches ‘Africa Conversation’ video sharing site

In the build-up to the World Economic Forum (WEF) taking place in Cape Town in June, a new initiative aims to get Africans interacting with the world’s leaders about the future of their continent.

Using technology as a tool, the WEF’s ‘Africa Conversation’ hopes to engage with the continent’s population. ‘It’s about opening up what the World Economic Forum is doing; it’s not just about participants having their say,’ said Oliver Cusworth, WEF spokesperson. According to a Mail & Guardian Online report, interested parties and persons can engage the WEF by submitting their thoughts via its Web site and on the video-sharing site YouTube. In response to the introductory video, members of the public can post their own recorded questions and queries as videos that are less than two minutes long and marked with the tag ‘africaconversation’ – to make them more easily retrievable.