random feed wrote an interesting post today on heres a quick excerpt the grassroots reporting project is one of the initiatives that weve been talking about for a little while here at afrigadget. its where we put smarter mobile phones into the hands of young africans and get them to report afrigadget stories. were at a point now where weve identified the right people what we ...... [Show More]
from afrigadget Post Source: sustainabledesignupdate.com Posted: Nov 23 2008 18:36:26
house made from surplus usaid bags via afrigadget
this ingenious house is made from traditional materials plus a layer of waterproof bags. athe bags help keep water out not a big problem id say by the looks of the climate and i would imagine the bags also help keep out the night time wind so the home can retain some heat through the night.aa
the home is built by the ...... [Show More]
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the first days have passed by at the the virtual forum mobile telephony in rural areas and it has triggered some interesting discussions. one thread is around innovations and mobile phones. being it software or ideas to extend the usage of the all purpose tools cutting edge innovations are not coming from high income countries where the high promises of further usage of mobile ph...... [Show More]
this is the fourth interview from the video podcasts that we shot at mobileactive08 in johannesburg last month organized by mobileactive and sangonet .
in this interview erik hersman talks about ushahidi an online platform that was developed as a response to postelection violence in kenya. see also this and this blog post. he further says that there is no lack o...... [Show More]
my housemates connie and johannes of greenstep are getting involved in some very cool project work these days. after spending most days behind a computer i find myself a bit envious of their trips to the remote village of mmuock just getting there is an offroad adventure in itself and of the time johannes spends in our garage fabricating new gadgets to try out with their renewabl...... [Show More]
yasmine yu andrea jones deborah vacs renwick steven daniels sharon langevin from brown university rhode island
the brainchild of a 20 year old sophomore at brown university the most impressive aspect of the recently concluded a better world by design conference was the organizing committee led by steven daniels. these young men and women from a variety of engineering disciplines pull...... [Show More]
afrigadget watergadget Post Source: waterfortheages.wordpress.com Posted: Nov 12 2008 07:34:34
have you ever heard of an elephant pump well today i found out that an elephant pump is a lowcost well pump based on a type used in china over 2000 years ago. it can be made with local materials and is powered through a contraption that looks much like a bicycle.
how did i figure this out well a friend sent me a link to the awesome website afrigadget . this site is dedicated to showc...... [Show More]
... eric reilly hayden van vleet liam yi boram.
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betterplace.com on cell phone business model for worldwide conversion to electric cars. amazing
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some things really are so simple that they should be tried. the picture above is a bottle opener in the african nation of togo. apart from the beaded handle it is just a stick and a screw and makes me feel kinda stupid for all of the dumbass alternatives that i have tried when there have been no bottle openers in the house. afrigadget via make
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sometimes its just that simple a bottle opener from togo made with a piece of stick and a screw with a lovely beaded handle.
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i gave a talk a few weeks ago in barcelona that was pretty wellreceived and widely blogged . specifically several bloggers have picked up and amplified the seven key points i offered in the talk a list of principles that i believe characterize much of the best innovation coming out of africa. i was deeply flattered that the blogger behind design in africa put these principles into dialog w...... [Show More]
in the west we make a big deal about recycling but what we really mean by rec ycling82 21 is melting down old crap to build yet more new crap. this is not the same everywhere. in some places to recycle means to reuse foregoing the energywasting reprocessing for a simple repurposing of an old object. and if you thought i used the prefix re too many times in that last se...... [Show More]
these ten blogs focus on pretty much nothing else but african tech. subscribe to all of these great blogs at once by downloading the opml . to use the file just upload it to your favorite feedreader bloglines netnewswire googlereader etc.
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ethan zuckerman is a well known american social entrepreneur and advocate of tech in africa. he started the successful geekc...... [Show More]
random feed wrote an interesting post today on heres a quick excerpt sometimes when youre walking around africa you come upon something that at first appears mundane. then upon second glance you realize it is actualy is mundane but its still interesting. such was the case when i passed a shoeshiner who didnt want to be in the picture. on his stall there was an old ...... [Show More]
ingenioso gadget Post Source: www.aulapublica.com Posted: Nov 09 2008 11:00:26
aqua dande lo vais este curioso cacharro unian de tradician el palo y la mordenidad el tornillo es un artaculo que los habitantes de togo africa utilizan masivamente pero aqua es
en efecto mucho lo habais adivinado se trata de un abridor de botellas casero. en lugares donde la cerveza llega e iranicamente no hay abridores hay que ingen...... [Show More]
made in africa Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Nov 03 2008 15:53:12
here is afrigadget founder erik hersman s talk from last weekends poptech conference. there is a frenzy of african technology and technology forafric ans activity going on right now and afrigadget has been my information hub.
my blogrolldujour includes
afrigadget
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timbuktu chronicles
appfrica
barcamp africa
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running notes from poptech 08 .a for more posts see the poptech blog .
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dr. gary slutkin ceasefire
dr. gary slutkin asks can put violence in the past like we once did smallpox by thinking about it differentlya
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bookmark this site trashies.a its a blog highlighting creative african grown soultions. the afrigadget tagline is solving everyday problems with african ingenuity 8221.aa case in point this post on iron workers in kenya who fashion chisels from old vehicle gearshifts and automate bellows with old bike parts.a photo ripped from afrigadget click through for a video of...... [Show More]
if the rest of poptech is anything like the morning of the first day then im not sure my head can handle it. you can follow along live at poptech.orglive and track images on flickr at poptech08 . finally follow the poptech blog as they liveblog the whole event. here are my highlights and images from this event so far.
before i get started on today though i need to giv...... [Show More]
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