Paying more attention to hardware and the Internet of Things
Listers, This may sound a bit like self promotion. But the idea is that we sat down as players of different innovation areas and we thought that it is about time we come up with ways to boost innovation in Hardware and Internet of Things. Although the concept does exist in our local innovation scene, its not being tackled head on. So we figured it would be wise to raise an initiative around it. So we are trying to form an initiative dubbed the IoT Developers Africa initiative and have outlined why it is key and strategic to the innovation sector in Sub Saharan Africa. More is explained here: https://letafricainnovate.wordpress.com/2016/01/13/announcing-the-iot-develo... -- *Ahmed Maawy* Executive Director - SwahiliBox / M-Power (CBO) Ambassador - Open Knowledge Director - Startup Grind Mombasa Software Developer - AJ+ / EveryLayer (KE) +254 714 960 627 Skype: ultimateprogramer swahilibox.co.ke www.okfn.org <http://okfn.org/> startupgrind.com ajplus.net www.everylayer.com
Great initiative Ahmed. Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113 / 0770906375 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim Blog: www.alyhussein.com "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi Sent from my iPad
On 13 Jan 2016, at 4:31 PM, Ahmed Mohamed Maawy via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Listers,
This may sound a bit like self promotion. But the idea is that we sat down as players of different innovation areas and we thought that it is about time we come up with ways to boost innovation in Hardware and Internet of Things. Although the concept does exist in our local innovation scene, its not being tackled head on. So we figured it would be wise to raise an initiative around it. So we are trying to form an initiative dubbed the IoT Developers Africa initiative and have outlined why it is key and strategic to the innovation sector in Sub Saharan Africa.
More is explained here: https://letafricainnovate.wordpress.com/2016/01/13/announcing-the-iot-develo...
-- Ahmed Maawy Executive Director - SwahiliBox / M-Power (CBO) Ambassador - Open Knowledge Director - Startup Grind Mombasa Software Developer - AJ+ / EveryLayer (KE) +254 714 960 627 Skype: ultimateprogramer
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