How to follow our Africa 2015 meeting

May 28, 2015

Henry Taylor

Previously, Lead, Product and Innovation, Digital media, World Economic Forum Geneva

In 2015, the World Economic Forum on Africa will mark 25 years of change in Africa. Over the past decade and a half, Africa has demonstrated a remarkable economic turnaround, growing two to three percentage points faster than global GDP. Regional growth is projected to remain stable at 4.5% in 2015, buoyed by rising foreign direct investment flows, particularly into the natural resources sector; increased public investment in infrastructure; and higher agricultural production.

Below you will find instructions on how to follow #af15 via our social media channels, and how to include its content on your own website or blog.

Please note: Media accreditations are now closed.

Our interactive session video player – This embed hosts all of our webcast sessions in one convenient location, live and rendered
Our full programme – Containing information about all our sessions
Individual session embeds – If you only want to embed specific sessions
Feed of photographs – A selection of the best photographs taken at the meeting
Social media – Follow participants on Twitter and tweet using our special hashtags
Forum Agenda – Re-publish from a selection of original Africa-focused content

Embedding our interactive session video player

The code below allows you to embed our interactive and mobile responsive video player with full details of the sessions. The sessions will play automatically when they are live and then be available on-demand soon after with the same code.

Just copy and paste the following on your website:

<iframe src=”https://webcasts.weforum.org/widget/1/africa2015?p=1&pi=1&ms=1″
width=”100%” height=”696px” frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no”></iframe>

This code will add a section to your website that will look like this:

Embedding the full programme

To embed the full programme with all sessions and details, just copy and paste the following code to your website:

<iframe id=”webcast” src=”http://webcasts.weforum.org/widget/1/africa2015?fs=1&fsi=9&th=1″ width=”100%” height=”1582″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no”></iframe>

It will give you list of the programme with the livestreamed sessions, which looks like this:

Embedding an individual session

To embed individual session videos, please refer to the relevant Africa 2015 Embed Code (PDF).

All sessions that are livestreamed will also have a live curated conversation thread where anyone from the public audience can join the sessions with their comments and questions.

Photographs

A selection of the best pictures taken at the Africa meeting will be made available free of charge under the creative commons licence (cc-by-sa) on Flickr (http://wef.ch/af15pix).

Twitter

The official meeting hashtag is #af15

We have other hashtags that will be used to follow contributions around the main topics and themes of the meeting:

Infrastructure, Longterm Investing, and Development #futureinvest
International Trade and Investment #globaltrade
Africa Finance #africafinance
Employment, Skills & Human Capital #newjobs
Economic Growth & Social Inclusion #equalgrowth
Ebola #ebola
Gender Parity #gendergap
Agriculture and Food Security #foodsecurity
Migration #migration
Future of the Global Financial System #futurefinance
Sustainable Development Goals #SDGs
Defusing the Drivers of Terrorism #silencingtheguns
The Future of Technology #futuretech

Follow highlights from the meeting on Twitter @wef http://wef.ch/twitter
Livetweeting from selected sessions @davos http://wef.ch/livetweet

Official Twitterlist:
Participants active on twitter: https://twitter.com/wef/lists/af15

Facebook

The World Economic Forum curates content relevant to global issues, posting links and articles to its Facebook page daily. ‘Like’ us on our Facebook page http://wef.ch/facebook.

Google+

Follow the meeting on Google+ http://wef.ch/gplus

Follow the meeting on LinkedIn http://wef.ch/linkedin

Forum Agenda

https://agenda.weforum.org/

During the Africa 2015 meeting, we will be publishing articles by participants, from CEOs and industry leaders to Young Global Leaders and Global Shapers.

You are welcome to republish the articles, providing you credit the World Economic Forum and link back to the original.

Image: A Bozo fisherman casts his net from a pirogue in front of Saaya village in the Niger river inland delta. REUTERS/Florin Iorganda (MALI)

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