[Video] Maker Faire Africa: Ghana 2009

This excellent Maker Faire Africa video compilation was created by the good folks at AfricaNews.

Maker Faire Africa in the News

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 and Emeka Okafor of Maker Faire [...]

Mozilla at Maker Faire Africa

(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 got [...]

Afrobotics at Maker Faire Africa

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, [...]

International Development Design Summit 2009 & Maker Faire Africa

KUMASI GHANA MAY 25 2009: Over 70 participants representing 21 countries meet in Ghana July 8th,
2009 to kick off the third annual International Development Design Summit (IDDS).
IDDS aims to produce innovative, affordable, scalable technologies to meet the very real needs of the 2.6
billion people earning less than $2-a-day. Participants receive a crash course in developing [...]

Maker Faire at Afrigadget

A couple weeks ago one of our inspirations for AfriGadget – Emeka Okafor of Timbuktu Chronicles - put forward an idea on the Ned forums about a “Maker Faire Africa“.
The aim of a Maker Faire-like event is to create a space on the continent where Afrigadget-type innovations, inventions and initiatives can be sought, identified, brought to life, [...]