Artificial Intelligence is no longer a distant promise or a Silicon Valley experiment. It’s embedded in the now. South Africans are already using generative…
The need for both makerspaces and incubators in Africa

Maker Faire Africa 2012 in Pictures from WhiteAfrican on Vimeo.
I’ve long been a proponent of getting more spaces set up for hardware prototyping and making of things in Africa. I wrote about it first in 2010 (Hardware hacking garages), then again in 2012 (Fab Factories: Hardware Manufacturing in Africa). I’m one of the founding organizers for Maker Faire Africa and the founder of AfriGadget. I’m not just writing about it either, as we have plans to open up a makerspace in Nairobi this year, which will compliment the FabLab that we already have at the University of Nairobi.
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