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AfricaHackTrip. Tales from the Road. 9 hackers, 5 weeks, 4 countries - a true roadtrip story of how to hack across Africa. After reading an article about the African tech-hub boom, a group of European designers and developers decided it’s about time to connect our communities beyond the continents and start a continuous exchange as we know it with most of the other parts of the world. We ended up to spend 5 weeks in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania, meeting hundreds of local creatives, 8 hubs, doing 8 events, making a lot of friends and kicking off a handful of projects that we know keep working on. In this session, we want to share our impressions, future plans and also introduce one of the projects came to live after our visit: eurohacktrip.org.
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We are a group ofdevelopers & designers from Europe, curious about the emergingAfrican tech hubs.
…so we decided to
just f*** go there!
WeeksCountriesHackers
5
9
4
Alex
Runs a web dev company
Runs co.up (coworking space, host of countless community activities)
Active in the Ruby community
Berlin
Martin
JavaScript apps freelancer
BerlinJS community
Organizer and coach at OpenTechSchool
Berlin
Vicy
Knows a serious lot about Africa and people
Organisational designer
Blogs for eufrika.org
Is not a hacker
Berlin
Jan
Open-source designer
Data privacy activist
Creator of JavaScript user groups
Munich
Basti
Co-founder of 5apps (HTML5 app deployment)
Open-source,web platform,bitcoin enthusiast
Ruby community
nomad
Tobi
Software developer
Backend, mobile, languages…
iOS/Mac dev community
Berlin
Emi
UX and graphic designer
Co-founder of web dev company
#WomenInTech @WebMuses
Krakow
Bumi
Runs web dev company
Runs coworking space
Ruby and coworking community
Cologne
Gregor
Not a designer, not a developer, JavaScript and web enthusiast
Creates… #hoodie, #aht13, #nobackend…
Zurich
not a business trip not a support action
not a holiday
All to meet, connect and share withtech community, bring together hacking culture,
and kick off continuous exchange.
exchange, get to know each other, to learn from each otherconnect communities
share our experiences with the the world
…to travel, to learn, to have fun…
GOALS
there are no like-minded hackersto be misunderstood
(as people that want to help)(as tourists)
(as people with business interest) (Malaria)
Fears
What did we do?
Ok, and what did we _really_ do?
> Two full-day events in each city• Barcamp to get to know each other• Hack-a-thon to hack with each other• About 50 participants each event
> Visit hubs, labs, spaces
> Interview people
> Party Machen!
#webapps #ux #mobile #html5 #opensource #design #communities #firefoxos #openhardware
How did we do that, we are just a bunch of hackers?
“YOU CAN” JFDIConnection needs physical meeting
Do not rush!
Come with an open mind – and when you leave,
FOLLOW UP!
Learnings
..and then what?!
SPREAD THE
WORD!!!
Hack-X-Change
Code Schools
#AHT15?
africahacktrip.org
@africahacktrip #aht13
AfricaHackTrip
groups/africahacktrip
africahacktrip.tumblr.com
