In this session, the founder of Nairobi Dev School will talk about the circumstances that led her to found the school, the challenges and impact so far. She will explain the problem the school is solving and the role different people and organizations can play in transforming the lives of youth in Kenya by opening up technology to them.
GIZ Management Board Member Cornelia Richter welcomes all innovation hubs, partners and other enthusiasts of innovation management to the Global Innovation Gathering at the GIZ/BMZ Lounge.
This is a short talk on the effects tech entrepreneurs are having in Rwanda, and how the country is aspiring to become a tech innovation hub, 20 years after the genocide.
How can DIY technologies help address local environmental challenges around the world? We’ll briefly share some stories on how others are doing this, and then together we'll play with sensors, DIY technologies as well as our own eyes and ears to explore our place on earth.
#DefyHateNow is a mobilization and urgent awareness raising campaign aiming support the actions of emergent, primarily youth based civil society organisations in South Sudan. The project aims to better network the message of these groups battling the hate-rhetoric and incitement to violence exacerbating the political clashes that broke out in the country's capital Juba, in December 2013.
Open cultures advocate and educator, Irene Agrivina, one of the co-founders of HONF, the Yogyakarta, Indonesia based 'House of Natural Fiber' media art and technologies lab will introduce the YOGYA2015 Summit of Critical Making.
FounderBus Africa is a catalyst for entrepreneurship and innovation in the emerging world. Within the session we will present the 2013 tours and explain and discuss the 2014 strategy: We are planning four busses in and the creation of a Pan-African incubator network. Join us and help us improve the world by innovation.
Welcome Global Innovation Gathering, Entwicklungspolitik trifft Netzpolitik:
Eine kurze Vorstellung des „Global Innovation Gathering“ (GIG) und Begrüßung der Teilnehmer durch den Bundesministrer Gerd Müller, Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ)
Diving into your own impact: case study from Impact Hub Network on measuring and understanding impact, mapping collaboration and discovering one's unique value proposition
Startup entrepreneurs have everything in their mind: the business model, the business plan etc.. But they tend to forget that it's also about building an image. Make yourself and your team known, talk about your aims, your skills, your dreams. It's called self promotion. Beate Wedekind, founder of TheNewAfrica//Journal of Change, shows how to do it right.
Our world is built on the paradigm of continuous economic growth. Growth is seen as the most effective means to lift millions of people out of poverty and to ensure prosperity and opportunity for all. In many places and for many people, it has been extraordinarily successful in achieving this goal.
But as we approach a global population of eight billion in 2030, our world is facing significant social and environmental challenges.
The African tech hub movement is alive and well. Set foot in any innovation space in a top tier hub and you will be struck by the buzz and excitement that have taken over in local communities within just a few years.
This session is focused on the communities and the people *making* change in African cities: Panelists will share their experience in supporting local development through maker movements in Kigali, Rwanda, Aswan, Egypt, and Lome, Togo.
Screen printing is a great technique which can be used to apply designs to lots of different things whether its a t-shirt, cushion or a bag. This workshop will teach you the basics of screen printing as well as how to apply words and type in your designs.
Laser cutting is a great technology for making things. Lets see what will happen if we combine it with portability and easy of use. Yes, you will build your very own laser cutter, even if you know nothing about them.
Left your charger at home? Need to make a call? We can help you!
In this workshop we are going to learn to make a simple charger that can be hooked into different voltage sources to produce suitable voltage to charge your cell phone.
Makerspaces are not only about building machines, creating prototypes, and digital fabrication. They are mainly about building communities that are sensitive to the local problems and could contribute efficiently to the industrial revolution. Let's dream of a makerspace that has a multi-sided business model that is open, profitable, community-driven and sustainable.
This session is going to be a clash of cultures: makers will meet with industrial designers and discuss the similarities and difference between approaches to innovation - How can makers and industrial innovation designers collaborate? And where are these two worlds to far apart to collide?
Compared to Germany, many government officials in developing countriesare embracing social media as a means to listen and engage in conversation with their citizens. In particular in countries with weak institutions, new forms of digital media for governance are promising alternatives.
What if Facebook is the only place homosexuals feel safe to meet, even though it is known that the government surveils the Internet? What if Twitter is the only place you can mock your government? In this session, cultural, political and technical limitations to free speech will be debated along with the question what contribution can good governance and media programmes supported by the German development cooperation have, when when Internet Freedom is at stake?
This session is going to be a trip around the world, from Silicon Alley to Silicon Savannah in 30 hubs. Panelists will present start-up scenes and discuss the role of hubs in Europa, Asia, Africa and Latin America
In this session, the initiators of the AfricaHackTrip, GeeksGoneGlobal and the FounderBus will compare their experiences related to the synergies of travel and innovation, and discuss the role that travel-based learning initiatives have in the cross-polenization of the global innovation ecosystem.
When Martha was 19 she received a Hacker School scholarship, but was denied the visa to enter the US. Instead, she opened the Nairobi DevSchool. Clarisse runs the most successful mobile technology start-up in Ruanda. The two of them stand out, as there is still a stark underrepresentation of women of women in technology in Africa and around the world.
Terrorism, cancer rate research, prosthetics, and election monitoring are topics often put out of the Maker movement's reach. But in many countries in the Middle East, these are central issues not addressed by the government or industry. Here, hackers setting up communities and project to deal with socially relevant problems themselves.
In this session AfriMaker team members are going to show case some of the solutions created and discuss why using local know-how and hands-on prototyping for solving local challenges is more effective in creating access to clean water, energy, and information than large top-down projects.
My thesis is that Africa's innovation ecosystem is currently underperforming and not evenly spread This trend might continue to drag along until certain conscious steps are taken to address the lingering impediments. A Government-Private Partnership is the way out of these setbacks.
Zambia is not the first country that comes to mind in a conversation about innovation in learning. The obstacles to basic learning in Zambia are not few. However, some have chosen to meet these challenges head-on and have found the environment to be an ideal test bed to create learning solutions. Could this be the beginning of an eLearning revolution?
African HubCity initiative is a model of an alternative and inclusive urbanization; the ground of experiment of which is a district of Lomé (capital of Togo/ West Africa). One of the Founders of the WoeLab will introduce the concept of working with LowHighTech, local expertise, in order to create projects, technooy and change adapted to specific African configurations and owned by the local communities.
Social particle acceleration as development: Innovations in science, culture and business can be accelerated by increasing the rate of collisions between makers, artists and entrepreneurs.
Africa is the fastest growing continent in the world; it has the world’s largest population of under-20 humans and has a population that will exceed that of the USA in 10 years and 2 billion by 2050. The obvious opportunities include feeding, clothing, transporting, powering, financing and serving this massive emerging market. More importantly, a rising generation of entrepreneurs are determined to position the continent as a hot-bed for innovation and a source of world changing solutions.
AfriLabs is building a web application that will help investors and other interested stakeholders "see" where high-potential start-ups and sectors will emerge.
In only a span of a few years, the Fab Lab concept has gained an enormous momentum in Egypt with already 2 officially part of the international network. The demand for decentralized production and prototyping has boomed since the 2011 revolution with a sense of independence by the youth. Laser cutters, CNC machines, and 3D printers are not only spreading, start-ups and entrepreneurs are taking them to a global level.
Abandoned furniture in the street is a very common thing in Spain. Spaniards are used to abandoning their furniture anywhere near public disposal containers, even in the city center. Furthermore, consumerism of the early 2000’s caused a large amount of furniture to be thrown away while they were still in very good condition. This is very bad for the environment, but fortunately Spanish people love to collect and refurbish abandoned furniture.
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