Register now for July 11 East Africa Webinar

June 30, 2011

The first of what we think/hope/pray/determine will be a series of regional webinars.

Topic: East Africa
Date/Time: July 11, 12-2pm EST
Price: Free for day-sponsors (those who have sponsored a day of ministry), $20 for others.

Topics to be covered

1. Short term trends: Somalia spillovers, Religious conflict, Millions of hungry & hot people, and the legacies of war

2. Medium term trends to 2025:

  • The changing makeup of the population of East Africa
  • The rapid urbanization of East Africa, and slumification of the area
  • Economic changes: continued poverty, involvement of the BRICs
  • Continued pastoralism and the interethnic debates and conflicts
  • Impact of continued but declining disease and increasing health
  • Relative peace, with glaring exceptions
  • The New Technological Invasion
  • The significant Christian presence
  • The significant unreached regions, and the likelihood that they will be entered

3. Long term trends beyond 2050

  • Massive regional population center of East Africa
  • Implications of massive urbanization
  • Trends in conflict, corruption, drugs, and structures of sin
  • Implications of the distribution of connectivity via new technologies

4. 2100: a portrait

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