October 09, 2009
Mobile A2K: Access to knowledge. 6-8 October 2009, three days of international meetings and workshops at Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center.
lettera27 for access to knowledge in Africa. The project Mobile A2K Access to Knowledge, conceived and promoted by lettera27 has been held at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center,  from October the 6th to the 8th 2009.

Three days of discussions and workshops, in which experts from Europe, America and Africa have confronted each other on the new opportunities for education offered by mobile telephones, Internet platforms, free licensing and social network.
And how these cognitive and technological developments are a source of profound transformation of social, cultural and urban relations, in specific areas such as Africa. Researchers, managers and experts in the fields of cognitive science, media, IT, architecture and art, together for the development of resources, interfaces, content. 
 
Curated by Iolanda Pensa and Roberto Casati, this first stage of the broader project Mobile A2K, with its three days at Bellagio, is the source of a first contents unit, which will be made accessible through the creation of the format for a traveling, interactive and constantly evolving exhibition on urban transformations. First in Senegal in May 2010, in concomitance with the Biennale of Contemporary African Art in Dakar, to move then to Douala/Cameroon (December 2010), Cape Town/South Africa, Milan/Italy, New York/USA and Paris/France.
 
It is possible to follow the debate untill December 2009 on the website of interdisciplines.org, interdisciplinary platform for discussion and consideration.

Image: Stacy Hardy & Graeme Arendse, An Introspective of Chimurenga Library, Cape Town, South Africa. Detail of the map. Stacy Hardy is an artist, writer, contributing editor of Chimurenga magazine and a participant of Mobile A2K. Graeme Arendse is a designer at Chimurenga. Courtesy of Chimurenga Library.