ActivSpaces Cameroon
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Archive for July, 2011
When Richard Anderson (our most recent visiting fellow) introduced the kids at “Silicon Mountain” to Scratch, we knew we had a calling. For a long time we had focused our activities on a more mature age group, but Scratch reminds us that we need to get ICT4D leaders in the proper mindset from a tender [...]
For a long time we’ve needed a dedicated ambassador for ActivSpaces — someone to do outreach, strengthen ties within Cameroon’s tech community and generally help us carry our vision forward. Over the last year, these duties have been shared by the part-time contributions of our co-founders. We’re very focused on tech projects, however, and realized [...]
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Something New Possibly for the first time in the history of Cameroon, we had children between the ages of 12-16 learning how to program mini-games and animations, right here at ActivSpaces under the tutorship of our most recent visiting fellow, Richard Anderson. In a 3-day workshop from June 29th – July 1st, Richard took 23 [...]
G-Cameroon Recap
2 Jul 2011Ask anybody what six-letter word excited Cameroon’s tech community in mid-June this year and they will yell: Google. G|Cameroon, a training workshop that ran from June 15th – 16th at Immeuble MAH, Akwa, Douala, saw an amazing turnout of Cameroon’s ICT vanguard. At ActivSpaces, we dubbed the theme of the workshop “G-Tools 101”. The lucky [...]
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- Al Banda (@TribeOfLions) (@TribeOfLions): Please contact me if you'd like to be a speaker/presenter at #io13extended in Douala May 15h - 17th [...]
- Al Banda (@TribeOfLions) (@TribeOfLions): @AfriLabs Community Day, Berlin, is in full motion! http://t.co/Z2R8p6elRX [...]
- Al Banda (@TribeOfLions) (@TribeOfLions): @dmvanloenen @republica #rp13 is May 6th - 8th http://t.co/Z2R8p6elRX [...]
- ActivSpaces (@ActivSpaces) (@ActivSpaces): 1st Congress for #Africa's Tech Hub Network @AfriLabs http://t.co/eTPsYHt0Dz on eve of #rp13 @republ [...]
- African Entrepreneur (@africatechie) (@africatechie): Google I/O 2013 Extended - ActivSpaces Cameroon http://t.co/Awe3QbCIx4 [...]
- First Congress for African Tech Hub Network
- Google I/O 2013 Extended
- An ActivSpaces Story: Old Technology, Contemporary Art
- ActivSpaces welcomes our new Director of Business Development!
- “We Mapped The Campus”
- The Business Infrastructure Workshop
- subCMR: King Maker
- Picture Story: Updates from ActivSpaces
- We’re Hiring a Director of Business Development
- How Students Can Benefit from a Start-Up Culture
