This one is very exciting... The guys involved in TEDAfrica and Ushahidi are organizing and event for people from Africa to get together and display their inventions and exchange ideas.
http://makerfaireafrica.com/
If you are in Nairobi this August 27 or 28, you might want to head over to the university and see what's going on. I want to see pictures and stories when it's over...
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Being Unreasonable
I love this site, and would love to help take some of these ideas to reality.
http://www.unreasonableinstitute.org/
The purpose of the institute is to act as an incubator of new ideas (and businesses) that could change the world for good.
The episode that got me here was #4 about Ben Lyon and FrontlineSMS:Credit. His idea is to develop the software to link mobile phone money transfer and bank loan systems.
Props to Ken Banks for pointing this one out: (kiwanja.net)
http://www.kiwanja.net/blog/2010/07/celebrating-the-enabling-environment/
The purpose of the institute is to act as an incubator of new ideas (and businesses) that could change the world for good.
The episode that got me here was #4 about Ben Lyon and FrontlineSMS:Credit. His idea is to develop the software to link mobile phone money transfer and bank loan systems.
Props to Ken Banks for pointing this one out: (kiwanja.net)
http://www.kiwanja.net/blog/2010/07/celebrating-the-enabling-environment/
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