Looking for matches
2010
The new Match a Maker website is up running and being continually expanded with the content made at the fair of each maker who attended Maker Faire Africa 2010 in Kenya. On the right hand side of each makers profile you will see their envisaged next steps, including what they seek and what they offer.
Check it out at www.matchamaker.info
2009
Here are the people looking for Matches, such as internships, advice on certain techniques, design, training, funding, contacts. Let us know if you can help someone to get their invention or creation further, mail Butterfly Works
| Name:
Amy Lynn Herman |
Looking for:
Mechanical Aid: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: Sekaf Ghana | Experienced fabricator to help build oil refining equipment for sheabutter. Briquette make-up designs. Water filtration designs. |
| Name:
Samuel Tettex Fetteh |
Looking for:
Design: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: | Design paper drawing inventions household & farm implements. |
| Name:
Jacqueline Adjoa Kessie |
Looking for:
Design: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company:
DG Embroidery |
People who are in animation and graphic design. |
| Name:
Amowi Phillips |
Looking for:
Design: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company:
Mmofra Foundation |
Book desing and web publishing skills to create small affordable books for children aged 4 – 11. |
| Name:
Samuel Tettex Fetteh |
Looking for:
Training/Consultancy: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: | Autocad, copyright information, marketing publicity, fabrication. |
| Name:
Umini Sulemani |
Looking for:
Training/Consultancy: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: | Help to bring solar lamp to market, mechanical engineer, engine repair, soldering. |
| Name:
dr. Niwagabu Tohn |
Looking for:
Training/Consultancy: |
Country:
Uganda |
| Company: | Theme based medical care using bycicles, looking for mentor. |
| Name:
Esi Yankah |
Looking for:
Training/Consultancy: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: | Integrated marketing communications. |
| Name: | Looking for:
Training/Consultancy: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: Nana Kwatia Kumapim | Patency of producer, finance for mass production of product, marketing avenues and publicity. |
| Name:
Surpio Das |
Looking for:
Training/Consultancy: |
Country:
India |
| Company: | Organisation or individual to market automatic chlorine doser that can be attached to a bonewell handpump. |
| Name:
Abubakar Abdulai |
Looking for:
Training/Consultancy: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: moringacommunity.org | Make to share their invention with moringafoundation.org helping street children to learn something. |
| Name:
Kobina Hayford |
Looking for:
Training/Consultancy: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: Smartcooker | Help to bring energy efficient stove to market. |
| Name:
Haruna Mohammed |
Looking for:
Funding/Sponsorship: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: | Help to fund “self powered electrical car”. |
| Name: | Looking for:
Funding/Sponsorship: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: Nana Kwata Kumapin | Patentor or producer, finance for mass production, markting and publicity. |
| Name:
H and Papi Flo’o |
Looking for:
Funding/Sponsorship: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: Eche:Male Models & Flo’oH Records | Sponsors for a building and equipments. We are looking for digital camera (photography and film) and equipments for studio (photography and music). |
| Name:
Alfred J. Sinleaf |
Looking for:
Funding/Sponsorship: |
Country:
Liberia |
| Company: | Sponsor to help inform those who cannot afford internet newspaper television etc in African societies. |
| Name:
Gabriel Cyrus Grante |
Looking for:
Funding/Sponsorship: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: | Someone to fund and mass produce new agricultural mechanization machines. |
| Name:
Jon Abban |
Looking for:
Funding/Sponsorship: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: Talents & skills Dev’t Foundation | Sponsor for exchange program for innovation. |
| Name:
Dapo Bakare |
Looking for:
Product: |
Country:
U.S. |
| Company: | Aquafort – easy, simple and modular water transport ation device to carry 90 liters of water for rural villages. |
| Name:
David Kwaku Celestin |
Looking for:
Product: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: | FM broadcast transmitter, fm etc. receiver, solar power inventor, equalizer, mixer. |
| Name:
Sam Kessie |
Looking for:
Product: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: Sankofa Pictures | Filmmakers, film projects, commercials. |
| Name:
Enock Kwesi Addey |
Looking for:
Partnership: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: Dot Code Community | Partner to build online community in Ghana about programming/coding for people that can’t afford expensive programming school. |
| Name:
Bayor Andrew A |
Looking for:
Partnership: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: literacy bridge | Partners to implement/roll out idea for talking book device. |
| Name:
James Brown |
Looking for:
Partnership: |
Country:
U.K. |
| Company: Red Button Design | Contacts interested in setting up local/cooperative manufacture and distribution centres and workshops to produce appropriate life saving products. |
| Name:
dr. F. S. Rodriguez Sanchez |
Looking for:
Partnership: |
Country:
Mali |
| Company: Mali Biocarbarant | Partners, NGO’s or farmer groups for development of Biofuel in West Africa. |
| Name:
Kwaku Adu-Amankwa |
Looking for:
Partnership: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: | Manufacturers/fabricators, people that have done/ are doing research on charcoal or cookstoves. |
| Name:
Annang Joseph |
Looking for:
Partnership: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: Get Comfortable Ent. | Partnership to market foldables beds. |
| Name:
Solomon Bediako |
Looking for:
Job/Internship: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: | CCDA administrator/technician looking for job. |
| Name:
Ernest Aduening |
Looking for:
Job/Internship: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: | Internship as a network/system administrator. |
| Name:
Alormeney Elorm Precious |
Looking for:
Job/Internship: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: | Internship as a network/system administrator. |
| Name:
Emmanual O. Amoako-Apenteng |
Looking for:
Job/Internship: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: | Internship as a network/system administrator. |
| Name:
Tojoo Imbaeh |
Looking for:
Job/Internship: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: Kasakorow | African language translator for localization of software. |
| Name:
Tojoo Imbaeh |
Looking for:
Job/Internship: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: fie.nipa | System administrator/engineer to manage fie.nipa backend. |
| Name:
Jonathan Terkper |
Looking for:
Other: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: | Local network messenger on the same IP-address. |
| Name:
Michael Bediako |
Looking for:
Other: |
Country:
Ghana |
| Company: | Pilot project to implement solar lighting for rural Africa. |
