[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 [...]
Businesses, pundits, non-profit organizations and thought-leaders come together in support of MFA
August 12, 2009 1 comment
More Than 900 Expect To Participate In The 3-Day Event August 14 – 16. In Accra, Ghana Sponsors and supports continue to join as the excitement builds around Maker Faire Africa (MFA) later this week. Held August 14 – 16 in Accra, Ghana, MFA will bring together ingenuity and invention from across the continent. Focused [...]
International Development Design Summit 2009 & Maker Faire Africa
July 7, 2009 2 comments
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 [...]
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 [...]
Personal Sponsorships of Maker Faire Africa
April 1, 2009 3 comments
We’ve been asked by a number of people if they could sponsor Maker Faire Africa as individuals. Amounts that range from $25 to $100. This is a good idea, and in line with the type of event that this is. Committee member Mark Grimes, founder of Ned.com, is in charge of all the funds, and [...]
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