Sponsors 2010
We would like to thank the following sponsors for coming on board and supporting Maker Faire Africa this year 2010.
Title Sponsor
GE
GE is committed to turning imaginative ideas into leading projects and services that solve some of the world’s most difficult problems. It also supports programs that increase skill building to ensure sustainable infrastructure development.
Gold Sponsors
Freedom to Create
Freedom to Create is a movement of creative people who are changing the world. Freedom to Create practitioners are artists and development workers from around the globe, working and speaking out for social change, and using creativity to build the foundations of open societies.
Google uses it’s strengths in information and technology to build products and advocate for policies that address global challenges.
Twaweza
Twaweza means “we can make it happen” in Swahili. It is a new citizen-centered initiative, focusing on large-scale change in East Africa. Twaweza believes that lasting change requires bottom-up action.
Silver Sponsors
Engineering for Change
Engineering for Change is an online environment bringing together engineers and other problem solvers with NGOs and local communities to address basic quality of life issues such as access to clean water, electricity and proper sanitation.
We’re incredibly happy to have them on board, and to have them coming to Kenya for the event.
Mozilla
When we decided to run a “high tech” section at MFA, Mozilla jumped at the chance to help out. Their team will be doing some hands-on workshops and are a great example of how the open source community in Africa connects to the rest of the world.
Supporting Sponsors
Bloc UK
bloc has commissioned product designer Peter Hathaway to instigate a participatory design project with the students of the Kwale Homeopathic College and Health Center . Peter will be collaborating with the students at the Kwale Center whilst developing an innovative project during a three week period prior to attending Maker Faire Africa.
Zuku
African Digital Art
You can find our 2009 Sponsors on this page.
