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20 Jul 2011

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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Tags: entrepreneurship, grants, growth, Indigo Trust, leadership, media, mentorship, outreach, partners, people, programs, strategy, team

G-Cameroon Recap

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2 Jul 2011

Ask 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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Tags: Akwa, GCmr, Google, ICT4D

Grant Award From Indigo Trust

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3 Jun 2011

Just when we thought our enthusiasm for promoting Cameroon’s tech community couldn’t get any higher, the Indigo Trust has succeeded in taking us to the next level. Recently, Loren Treisman came across our work online and found ActivSpaces to be a good potential fit for the Trust’s commitment to supporting interventions such as tech hubs, [...]

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Tags: FrontlineSMS, grants, Hive Colab, iCow, ICT4D, Indigo Trust, mobile, outreach, Pamoja FM

Energizing Cameroon’s Next Generation of Developers

24 May 2011

We’re big proponents of training young people in science and math using the latest tools in education, including e-learning and interactive learning. This is why we’re excited to announce our next visiting fellow, Richard Anderson. Through a grant provided by the E.E. Ford Foundation, Richard will be leading Cameroonian youth ages 12-16 in “computational thinking” [...]

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Tags: animation, art, education, fun, games, kids, learning, MIT, music, programming, science, Scratch, workshops

Cameroon Rallies for Android Developer Challenge

17 May 2011

May 14th marked the first official Google Android Developer Challenge Sub-Saharan Africa event in Cameroon. The week prior, a Google delegation arrived in Douala to plan next month’s inaugural G-Cameroon event, discuss the latest happenings at ActivSpaces and rub elbows with local entrepreneurs at the first VC4Africa Cameroon meetup in Douala. With a short timeframe [...]