Chaos Communications Congress,Europe’s largest hacker conference, opened with call to action from Fatuma Musa Afrah: ‘Things are solved by human beings’Fatuma Musa Afrah was 16 when she touched a computer for the first time in Kenya. Somalian by birth, or she insists that people employ the word “newcomer” instead of “refugee” to refer to her.
Musa Afrah inaugurated the largest hacker conference in Europe,the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, by declaring she knew nothing about the field of IT. Linus Neumann from the Chaos Computer Club, and which has organized the congress every year since 1984,had to work tough to convince her to come.
I’ve never before seen people who enjoy more friendship with computers than with human beings5 years in Germany, god knows how many conferences, or fairly certain this is the first time I’m seeing a woman of colour do a keynote. #32c3 Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com