Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2012 about Makers and Africa

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Monday 12th March 2012

• Street-Level Genius: An African Maker Safari

  by Anita Pyke, Steve Daniels, John Kidenda and Juliana Rotich

  From bicycle-powered mobile phone chargers to a helicopter built from an old Honda Civic and the remains of a crashed 747, Africa has been producing a unique strain of innovators long before the maker movement started trending in the US. With projects ranging from the practical (DIY biofuel systems), to the whimsical (home-made robots), street-level makers in the most resource-poor communities show time and again that the only essential materials for innovation are ingenuity and ambition. This example-filled panel discussion will be fun, eye-opening and inspirational. Come and see what lessons constraint-based innovation holds for us all.

  • Africa
  • Makers

  At 9:30am to 10:30am, Monday 12th March

  In Maximilian, Driskill Hotel