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If you don’t get excited about the iSummit after watching this, then I want to know. And if you’re excited enough to want an iSummit in South Africa next year, join the African Commons Project mailing list here.
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As I develop a draft concept document on a new iSummit in South Africa next year, I’m looking around at cool events to draw inspiration from, and perhaps form partnerships with. The International Development Design Summit is one such event which will be hosted next year in Ghana (as part of the Maker Faire Africa
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I’ve been thinking for a while now how great it would be to have a Maker-Faire-type event in South Africa when Jess Hemerly from the Institute for the Study of the Future sent me a link to an AfriGadget post by Erik Hersman on the idea (original post by Emeka Okafor is here). I always
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To kick off my research into what’s happening in the Internet space in SA, I went to see one of my favorite people yesterday and came back super-inspired. Mike Stopforth runs a company called Cerebra who specialise in creating social media and mobile campaigns for companies like Samsung Mobile SA and the really interesting IS-Labs
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I just blogged about the Global Voices Summit and the importance of community for bloggers on Techleader. What an awesome event. Pic: by nehavish on Flickr, CC BY-NC
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Oh, so this is why I had a sore neck when I woke up on Saturday morning. Picture: Julie Melton on Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
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One of my favorite board members, Jimmy Wales, will be in Johannesburg in exactly 11 sleeps. Jimmy is in the country to launch the African Wikipedia Academies – a series of Wikipedia sprints, workshops and boot camps to encourage the local celebration of Wikipedia as an amazing tool for education, culture and enterprise in Africa.
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This Monday, 24 September, is Heritage Day in South Africa. In celebration of Heritage Day, iCommons will be running a parallel real and virtual campaign where we invite South Africans to upload a photograph or two to Wikimedia Commons under a free licence so that others can build on and share our memories. So, if
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Fumi and I are in Sapporo at the moment – working with the awesome team at the City of Sapporo to plan next year’s iSummit. Inoue-san took us to the Rising Sun Rock Festival yesterday. It was a truly awesome experience. 37,000 people, 6 stages, loads of artwork (by kids, professionals and amateurs), tree stump
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I was actually about to take a nap before the final session of Wikimania when Jimmy Wales grabbed me and asked if I’d help him with his speech to close the incredible Wikimania 2007 in Taipei. He’d been inspired by my talk about parties in the earlier session, and suggested that we start a ’50
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