[Video] Maker Faire Africa: Ghana 2009
August 27, 2009 No comments yet
This excellent Maker Faire Africa video compilation was created by the good folks at AfricaNews.
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Maker Faire Africa in the News
August 19, 2009 No comments yet
All the fun of the technology faire – The Gaurdian BBC Digital Planet podcast interview (starts around minute 13:00) Recap of Maker Faire Africa 2009 – ICT4D.at Maker Faire Africa ’09 thrills – AfricaNews Maker Faire Africa update – MAKE Magazine Maker Faire Africa showcases ingenuity – Crossing the Streams blog Interview with Emer Beamer [...]
Mozilla at Maker Faire Africa
August 19, 2009 No comments yet
(A review, overview and email from Kwamena Appiah-Kubi, the Mozilla team lead for Maker Faire Africa) Maker Faire Africa was interesting and exciting. My weekend couldn’t have been better spent. I met a lot of like minded people and and saw a lot of interesting things made locally I had never heard of. I also [...]
Afrobotics at Maker Faire Africa
August 17, 2009 No comments yet
There’s are some great pictures put up by Miquel of Maneno about Afrobotics, the initiative that was launched at Maker Faire Africa by a number of Ghanian engineers, business people and programmers. Afrobotics goal: “inspire African university students to be science, engineering, and technology leaders, by enabling them in innovative team-based competitions that build science, [...]
Maker Faire Africa Flickr Group
August 14, 2009 No comments yet
If you’re looking for any pictures of Maker Faire Africa, we have a Flickr group that has pictures. Keep updated on the newest images from the event, where a number of us are updating it multiple times throughout the day.
Maker Faire Africa in the News
August 14, 2009 No comments yet
[The Maker Faire Africa team at a press conference] Here are some of the media and blogs that have been writing about Maker Faire Africa: AfricaNews: Maker Faire Africa kicks off BikeJuju: Maker Faire Africa features bicycle-related inventors, projects The Ghanaian Chronicle via AllAfrica: Maker Faire Africa underway in Accra Core77: Maker Faire Africa is [...]
William Kamkwamba is Coming to Maker Faire Africa
July 25, 2009 4 comments
A young Malawian built a windmill from scratch to help power the lights in his rural home, his name is William Kamkwamba. We’re very excited to announce that William Kamkwamba, sponsored by his organization Moving Windmills, will be coming to Maker Faire Africa. I first met William at TED Africa two years ago in Arusha, [...]
Mobile Phone Charging in Ghana
June 29, 2009 4 comments
Matt Berg over at BuildAfrica blog has an interesting story of Mr Acheampong, a local entrepreneur who makes money by charging people’s mobile phones. He uses a homemade C-cell battery setup to do this (see below): “Mr. Acheampong, one of the Abusuapanin Community Leader’s in Bonsaaso village, use’s 4 C dry cell batteries to charge [...]
MFA at Maximizing Progress
October 16, 2008 2 comments
From Joost – thanks Joost! It’s great how a seedling idea can take root! Specifically, I’ve been a big fan and supporter of both the IDDS – the International Development Design Summits, which have been organized by Amy Smith and colleagues at MIT for the past two summers – and the growing set of Maker Faire‘s — orchestrated by the maestros at Make‘zine! [...]
MFA at Timbuktu Chronicles
October 16, 2008 No comments yet
Hash at Afrigadget reports on the plans for a Maker Faire-Africa 2009: The focus here is not on high-tech, but on manufacturing. Specifically, fabrication, the type of small and unorganized businesses that pop up wherever an entrepreneur is found on the African continent. It gets exciting when you think about gathering some of the real innovators from this sector into one place where [...]
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