The symposium “Youth, Digital Access and Urban Participation in the Global South” is part of the DigiSen project, a cross-disciplinary collaborative project between the École Supérieure Polytechnique de l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and the Gaston Berger University (UGB). The project studies digital participation among young people in two medium-sized cities in Senegal, Saint-Louis and Ziguinchor.
The symposium aims to combine engineering and social science approaches to analyze digital access infrastructure and young people’s appropriation practices in urban areas, particularly in secondary cities in the Global South. The symposium is organized in partnership with the African Cities Journal.
Submission deadline: 31 january 2026
For proposal guidelines, thematic areas, and further information, visit the African Cities Journal Website.