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! So when my colleague Lars Torres, who runs the MIT
IDEAS Competition, told me of emergent plans for a
Maker Faire Africa -- proposed by Emeka Okafor of
Timbuktu Chronicles -- I immediately suggested coinciding the timing of the event with the finale of
IDDS 2009 which will be in
Kumasi, Ghana at the
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Well, it's bubbling up, and will most probably happen! (It's not yet a done-deal, but surely the folks at Make will love it!) Check out
AfriGadget's supportive post --
Maker Faire: Africa 2009!
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