CHI 2016 Keynote: Dayo Olopade

Dayo Olopade, Journalist/Author “Bright Continent”

Dayo Olopade speaks, writes, and works on issues relating to Africa, technology, media and development. Dayo Olopade is a Nigerian-American journalist. She began her career at The New Republic, where she covered the 2008 presidential primaries and general election. She covered the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency as Washington correspondent for The Root, and the second year as a reporter for The Daily Beast. She has been a Fellow at the New America Foundation, a United Nations Foundation Journalism Fellow, and a visiting scholar with the Rockefeller Foundation. Her work has also appeared in print and online at The American Prospect, The Atlantic, Democracy, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, The Nation, The New York Times and The Washington Post.

In 2010, Dayo moved to Nairobi and over the next two years, traveled through 17 African countries in search of a new narrative for Africa. The end result was a book that asks the world to reimagine the region’s challenges as opportunities to innovate: The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa. Dayo has also helped to build a new mobile app for the New York Times: NYT Now. And co-founded Kanju Media, a company that empowers short form video creators across the African Diaspora. It supports individuals through strategic partnerships, skills development, and connects commercial companies to Africa’s mobile digital youth culture.

Dayo holds two degrees from Yale University: a BA in African Studies and a JD/MBA as a Knight Law and Media Scholar where she focused on technology policy and the information economy.

ACM DL:: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2858036
WEB:: https://chi2016.acm.org

Recorded on May 9th, 2016 at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, San Jose, CA, USA