I ♥ ✱iHub
14 February 12
The energy, enthusiasm and talent at the iHub in Nairobi is both disarming and infectious.
In a colorful, modern light filled space with a balcony and awesome coffee never more than 20 steps away, the most inventive technological minds in Africa huddle over laptops and intense conversations. Nairobi has been called the Silicon Valley of Africa, and iHub is its pulse.
Last Saturday I participated in an event there sponsored by ADA – African Digital Arts. Fifty five or so designers and social innovators gathered to hear presentations by Kuweni Serious, a small team dedicated to social awareness by empowering youth to action instead of apathy: Nathan Collett of Hot Sun Films: a film maker working & training youth in the slums about filmmaking: and Yvonne Owour, a writer / Film Fest Director / Liberal Arts Educator take part in a workshop based on our new MFA program at SVA, Design for Social Innovation.
Thank you iHub, thank you ADA, thank you to all the wonderful participants who taught me so much about the passion and commitment of African designers. I hope this is the beginning of many conversations to come.