There is an interesting flow of events taking place in West Africa. Following TEDxAccra in Ghana, Abidjan will  host its first edition of G Cote d`Ivoire.

G Cote d`Ivoire Official website ( In French )

Zimbile allows you to build in less than five minutes a mobile ready website.The team behind it wants businesses accross the continent to take advantadge of the high rate of penetration of mobile hardware (that can be perceived as small moving billboards ) and  the penetrating 3G technology that will give access to the internet to millions.

See video below

Official website : www.zimbile.com

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What :The Crans Montana Forum is an International Organization established in 1986.The objective of the organisation is to foster the best practices and ensure a global dialogue among top public administrators and business leaders.

What makes this forum different from similar high level networking events :
-The participation is on personal invitation.
-In order to assure the confidentiality of discussions and guarantee the free speech that our high level Participants deserve, the Crans Montana Forum does not deliver Press Accreditations. The only exception will be considered when journalists partake in a high-level national delegation as legitimate members.
-The number of participants is drastically limited and the Forum attentively and professionally oversees the coherence of each group. No “club of the happy few” as in other Organisations. Once the Participant is admitted, he is a true Participant!
-The intimate and friendly atmosphere of the Crans Montana Forum, free from the restraints of official protocol, provides the Participants with the best opportunity to make high-level and direct contacts with the interlocutors of their choice.
-The encounters between government personalities and their interlocutors are not limited to any specific set agenda, allowing freedom of expression and spontaneity.
-The events scheduled throughout the Crans Montana Forum aim at creating directly and concretely immediate opportunities for international co-operation.
-The business world is represented by key decision makers from both large and small-to-medium sized enterprises.
-The Crans Montana Forum has proved to be valuable for networking opportunities and for gaining strategic advantages.

When: March 7-10 2012

Who: African administrations/companies in attendance include Cepici,Petroci,Dangote,Mwana Africa and high level public administrators and CEOs.

The Agenda |Get the full meeting overview here |

Official website : Crans Montana Forum

What : Shaping Africa’s transformation at the World Economic Forum On Africa 2012.

Analysts agree that Africa 2012 6% GDP growth will rest on a growing consumer base,political stability and  results producing macroeconomic reforms.

Where: Addis-Abeba,Ethiopia ,Horn of Africa

When:9-11 May 2012

The Agenda |Get the full meeting overview here |

What can the world learn from Africa’s new generation of leaders in Business,governement and civil society ?

What is the next frontier for fast growing  Africa’s telecommunication and information sector ?

How can a new social contract in the extractive industries be created and enforced ?

How is new media shaping Africa’s social transformation ?

Official website: World Economic Forum on Africa 2012

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Top destinations for 2011 ( year of data ) were : Egypt ( 11, 914,000 ) ,South Africa,Morocco,Tunisia,Mozambique,Algeria( 1,912,000 ) ,Botswana,Kenya,Uganda,Ghana,Tanzania,Rwanda and Angola ( 366,000 )

Editor’s note : What could be the repecursions of political turmoils, observed in Egypt and Tunisia, on the choices of 2012 tourists ? Will we see the emergence of Francophone countries such as Ivory Coast on the preferred destinations list of international tourists ?

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A Face2Face Africa produced networking event with the aim to help African professionals connect and take charge of the 1.3 trillion USD economic renaissance taking place on the continent. The even happens in NYC every 3 months. Will we soon see it in Accra,Abidjan,Kigali or Addis Abeba ? The professionals from the diaspora and those on the continent need to connect as well to have a convergent vision of tomorrow’s Africa.