SXSW is back again, taking place March 9- March 18 in Austin, Tex. The interactive portion is a great opportunity to learn about new innovative ideas, companies, and people. The schedule is out and there are several interesting panels that continue the discussion on black tech and innovation.
Here are 5 that black tech entrepreneurs should check out:
1. The Bombastic Brilliance of “Black Twitter”
About: Will demonstrate the phenomenon “Black Twitter’s” intelligence, humor, unique language production, emotions, hashtags, corrective narratives, cultural critique, organizing and entrepreneurial success, enhanced by fictive kin relationships that stun, amaze and inspire the world.
2. CNN’s Black in America/Silicon Valley: Aftermath
About: This panel will discuss the issues raised and footage not seen in the Black in America documentary, and the aftermath since airing.
3. Popping Your Bubble: Stories of the Digital Divide
About: Discussion will be around obstacles to and solutions for getting broadband access, as well as how people creating sites and online tools that want to reach these audiences can engage with them.
4. Mining Diversity: Developing a Community of Color
About: The session will discuss best practices and examples from companies & brands who have successfully developed communities.
5. Social Media Sharecropping: Black Tech Adoption
About: This panel is about the many ways in which modern internet adoption and use mirrors the development of agrarian sharecropping in the South following the Civil War- whereby African Americans provided massive amounts of labor to make other people rich, but could never move beyond basic subsistence living.
To see the full schedule go to SXSW.com
What panels and workshops are you looking forward to seeing this year?
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