Live
NewSee which rooms are on air and follow any session as captions: the floor, an interpretation channel, or a labelled machine translation. Ask the Companion about the session you are watching.
NewLive captions in your language, and a Companion that follows the room
IPSS · Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa
The Tana Forum, in your pocket.
Follow every session live, with captions in your language. Ask the Companion what is being said and what past editions concluded, and put your questions to the panel. Nothing to install.
- Live captions
- 7 languages
- Cited AI answers
- Runs in your browser
Between forums
No forum is on right now.
Past editions stay open. Read their programmes and ask the Companion what was said.
The forum in numbers
- forum editions
- 0
- languages, in and out
- 7
The forum app
Everything for the forum, one tap apart.
Open the app on your phone during the forum. The round button at the bottom switches between tools.
Companion
Ask about the programme, the speakers, what is being said right now, or what was said at past editions. Every answer shows its sources, so you can check them.
Programme
See what's on now and next, filter by day or track, and read about each session and its speakers. Times are always the forum's local time.
Questions
Send a question to a session's panel in your own language. If someone already asked it, add a Me too so it rises up the list.
Surveys
NewAnswer the organisers' short surveys when they open, now or later. Mandatory ones come first; your answers are kept until you send them.
Knowledge archive
Search papers, recordings and transcripts from every Tana Forum edition. Results are passages, not just files, and a recording opens at the moment that matches.
Networking
Opt in with a short profile and the topics you work on. The app suggests participants who share your interests, and you can message them to meet during the forum.
Oracle
An AI voice on the panel. Drawing on the live discussion and every past forum, it raises the questions no one has asked and recalls what earlier editions recommended. A forum operator approves each contribution before it is heard.
Under the hood
From the room to the record.
What happens between a speaker's microphone and the answer on your phone, and how you meet the people worth meeting.
Live Audio Feed
Every room, live on your phone.
Each session's sound is captured at the room's desk, or from a browser tab for remote speakers, and streamed as it happens. Follow the floor in the speaker's own language, or switch to an interpretation channel. Where no interpreter works in your language, captions are machine translated and marked as such.
- Floor plus interpretation channels
- Remote speakers captured from a browser tab
- Captions follow the language you chose
Transcription
Speech becomes searchable text, as it is spoken.
Speech is transcribed in real time. Each passage carries its time, its speaker, named from the programme, and the language it was spoken in. Recordings from earlier editions are transcribed the same way.
- Speakers named from the programme
- Language detected passage by passage
- Every line links back to its moment in the recording
Knowledge Management
Every edition, one archive.
Papers, recordings and transcripts from every Tana Forum go into one archive. Each one is split into passages and indexed by meaning, so a question in Amharic can find an answer given in French. Curators decide who can see each document.
- Documents, audio and video in one place
- Search by meaning across languages
- Visibility set per document: public, participants or staff
Companion
Answers you can check.
Ask in your language. Companion searches the programme, the archive and, while a session is on, the live transcript. It writes an answer and cites what it used. Tap a citation to read the exact passage, open a session or speaker, or jump to that moment in the recording.
- Answers only from the forum's own sources
- Knows what was just said in the room
- Understands follow-up questions
On your phone
A conversation, not a search box.
Open the forum app, tap the round button and choose Companion. Here is what a participant sees.
- 1Ask in your own wordsType in any of the seven languages, the way you would ask a colleague.
- 2Watch the answer arriveIt appears as it is written, with numbered sources at the end.
- 3Tap a source to check itThe original passage opens, with a button to play that moment of the recording.
Your conversations are kept, so you can come back to them during the forum. To put a question to a panel instead, switch to Questions with the same round button.
And between sessions
Networking
Meet the people worth meeting.
Opt in with a short profile and the topics you work on. ForumIntelligence suggests participants who share your interests, and you can message them in the app to set up a conversation during the forum.
- Only people who opt in are shown
- Suggestions based on shared topics
- Messages stay inside the app
Built for trust
Serious about sources, access and language.
A high-level forum on security needs more than a chat window. These are rules the platform enforces, not promises.
Every answer cites its source
The Companion answers only from the forum's programme, archive and live transcripts, and links each claim to the passage or moment it came from.
Closed-door stays closed
Staff-only sessions are never listed or captioned for the public, and their transcripts never reach the Companion.
Machine translation, labelled
Interpretation comes first. Where no interpreter covers your language, captions are machine translated and marked as such.
Visibility per document
Curators decide who can read each archive document: everyone, participants, or staff only.
Seven languages, every script
Amharic, Arabic, English, French, Hausa, Somali and Kiswahili, with right-to-left and Ethiopic script done properly.
Nothing to install
The app runs in the browser on any phone or laptop. Scan the code, choose your language once, and you are in.
How it works
- Step 1
Register for the forum
Use the invitation you received by email to create your account inside the forum app, or register on the forum's page. Some forums are open to everyone without signing in.
- Step 2
Open the app on your phone
It runs in your browser, so there is nothing to install. Choose your language once and the app remembers it.
- Step 3
Follow, ask and look back
Keep up with sessions while they happen. Afterwards, the forum's archive stays searchable through the Companion.
Use it in your language
- English
- Français
- العربية
- አማርኛ
- Kiswahili
- Soomaali
- Hausa