The document describes AfricaHackTrip, a 5-week trip by 9 European hackers to tech hubs in 4 East African cities - Nairobi, Kampala, Kigali, and Dar es Salaam - to explore local tech scenes, exchange ideas with local developers, and collaborate. It provides details on the goals of connecting communities and sharing experiences, activities like hackathons and meetups held in each city, and reactions and impressions from participants and local hackers.

1. AfricAHackTrip
Nairobi / Kenya
AfricaHackTrip
Kampala / Uganda
Kigali / Rwanda
@africahacktrip #aht13
Dar es Salaam / Tanzania
africahacktrip.org

3. Who has heard of AfricaHackTrip? How?
Who knows developers from other countries, other continents?
Are you collaborating? Benefitting?
From Africa? Why not?

4. bbc.co.uk/news (07/2012)
…
in the past two years there has been an interesting phenomenon in
Africa - the proliferation of tech hubs and incubators.
…
There are now more than 50 tech hubs, labs, incubators and
accelerators in Africa, covering more than 20 countries. In Nairobi, we
have six.
…
four years ago we had an idea and built a space that now has more
than 8,000 members and holds approximately 120 events per year.
…
The tech hubs in Africa provide a home for those with new and
innovative ideas, create an atmosphere where they are encouraged
to try new things, and most importantly are able to meet like-minded
individuals they can grow with.
…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18878585

5. 9 Hackers from Europe
!
5 weeks: Sep – Oct 2013
!
Capitals of Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania
!
explore the local tech scenes, to exchange and collaborate with
designers and developers
!
#community #opensource #webapps #ux #mobile…

6. Agenda
1. Facts
2. JavaScript?
3. Conclusions
4. Outlook
5. Discussion

7. First, some impressions
http://vimeo.com/76040355
1:01 - 3:38

8. Who?

9. Alex
Berlin
Runs a web dev company
Runs co.up (coworking
space, host of countless
community activities)
Active in the Ruby
community

10. Martin
Berlin
JavaScript apps
freelancer
BerlinJS community
Organizer and coach at
OpenTechSchool

11. Vicy
Berlin
Knows shit about
Africa and people
Blogs for eufrica.org
Is not a hacker

12. Jan
Munich
Open-source designer
Data privacy activist
Creator of JavaScript user
groups

13. Basti
nomad
Co-founder of 5apps (HTML5 app deployment)
Open-source,
web platform,
bitcoin enthusiast
Ruby community

14. Gregor
Zurich
Not a designer, not a
developer, JavaScript and
web enthusiast
Creates… #hoodie,
#aht13, #nobackend…

15. Tobi
Berlin
Software developer
Backend, mobile,
languages…
iOS/Mac dev community

16. Emi
Krakow
UX and graphic designer
Co-founder of web dev
company
#WomenInTech
@WebMuses

17. Bumi
Cologne
Runs web dev company
Runs coworking space
Ruby and coworking
community

18. KLab, Kigali, Rwanda

20. 2009: submarine fibre-optic internet connection
for East Africa
!
From no net to mobile net in four years
!
50 tech hubs, labs, incubators and accelerators
in 20 countries
!
Median age under 20 years

22. Nairobi / KeNya
24 SEPTEMBER – 1 OCTOBER
KAMPALA / UGANDA
2 OCTOBER – 8 OCTOBER
KIGALI / RWANDA
9 OCTOBER – 15 OCTOBER
DAR ES SALAAM / TANZANIA
16 OCTOBER – 23 OCTOBER

23. Centered around Nairobi
•
iHub
•
DEMO Africa
!
Nairobi / KeNya
24 SEPTEMBER – 1 OCTOBER
KAMPALA / UGANDA
2 OCTOBER – 8 OCTOBER
East African Community
•
Visa and stuff
!
Traveling by plane
(and by bus for fun)
KIGALI / RWANDA
9 OCTOBER – 15 OCTOBER
DAR ES SALAAM / TANZANIA
16 OCTOBER – 23 OCTOBER

24. just go there!

25. Goals
to exchange, to get to know each other,
to learn from each other
!
to connect communities
!
to share our experiences with the world
!
to travel, to learn, to have fun

26. Fears
there are no like-minded hackers
!
to be misunderstood
(as random visitors)
(as people that want to "help")
(as people with business interest)

27. What did we do?

29. Hacker stuff!
Hack-a-thons!
Barcamps!
Visit tech spaces
!
Interview people
!
Party machen!

30. 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
!
!
#webapps #ux #mobile #html5 #opensource
#design #communities #firefoxos
#openhardware

32. How did we do that, we are just a bunch of hackers?

33. Self-organized
Self-funded
•
Finding sponsors is a lot of work
•
GitHub paid for event catering
!
That's it…

35. ?

36. !
Community
!
Where I come from
!
Share experience

37. !
HTML5 as app platform
!
Firefox OS
!
Android -> HTML5

38. http://vimeo.com/76040355
3:39 - 4:25

39. !
Grow and strengthen global community
!
Connect local communities

41. http://youtu.be/3HseW4CoHiU

42. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roxjaDKFmzQ

53. Questions?

54. What's next?
How was it?
What did people expect from you?
How are the African hackers?
How was DEMO Africa?
Money transfer
You briefly visited? How do you know?
Tell us more about the
Mozilla community there.
Did you meet your goals?
What are the results?
Infrastructure?
EuroHackTrip
How do African freelancers make money?

55. Infrastructure

56. Five weeks!? And you didn't kill each other?

57. africahacktrip.org
@africahacktrip #aht13
AfricaHackTrip
groups/africahacktrip
africahacktrip.tumblr.com