Codes dictate behaviour, outcomes, and innovations within digital and analogue systems. In this project, the programmer is the leader, the designer, and the dreamer of new worlds.

This year's theme explores the dynamics in which technology is reshaping leadership, belonging, and organization in African technological societies.  The theme aims to support the development and prototyping of ideas around ownership and agency as it manifests in Africa. The project seeks to create utopic expressions with Africa at the center.

Conceptual Questions

• What utopian ideals of leadership, belonging, and organization do Africans dream of and desire?
• How are we engaging with these ideals in the advent of new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, quantum technologies, and robotics?
• How are we receiving and engaging with these technologies, and what is the consequence on our ideas of morality and community?

• How are Africans pushing deep tech and its use cases on the continent?
• What new ways can coding (in its different styles), Artificial Intelligence, and its backbone be explored ethically on the continent?

The program is structured across four Pan-African nodes. Each node is focused on its sub-theme but is free to be influenced by ideas from others. All work contributes to the overarching theme of Codes of Conduct.