[Video] Maker Faire Africa: Ghana 2009
This excellent Maker Faire Africa video compilation was created by the good folks at AfricaNews.
This excellent Maker Faire Africa video compilation was created by the good folks at AfricaNews.
Pat Delany inventor of the MultiMachine who we were so lucky to have at MFA09 talks about “the really big things that happened” at the event. As if that was not enough he shrugged off the abortive takeoff his departing Delta flight experienced: Should be home by now but plane had engine trouble on takeoff.Better [...]
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 [...]
(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 [...]
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, [...]
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.
[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 [...]
[Snipped from Afrigadget] Dominic Wanjihia is from Kenya, and he’s here at Maker Faire Africa in Ghana because of the innovative designs and solutions that he comes up with for problems that ordinary Africans face. We had profiled one of his earlier inventions, an evapocooler for camel milk in Somalia, last year. He’s been in Accra [...]
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 [...]
Thanks to the generosity of an MFA supporter, Kenyan inventor Dominic Wanjihia will be attending Maker Faire Africa. Dominic, who first came to the anonymous donor’s attention through an article published on AfriGadget in 2008, describes himself as, “an inventor of appropriate technology, environmentally friendly gadgets applicable to … the empowerment of rural people.” [...]