African Meetups, Barcamps and Conferences

by HASH on October 2, 2008

Things are definitely heating up in the African tech sphere according to my calendar of African tech events (Events RSS feed) for the remainder of the year. From Madagascar to Mauritius there are unconferences, conferences and adhoc meetups happening at a rate I haven’t seen before. The African tech scene is definitely getting bigger and noisier.

In the next two weeks we have 8 events covering 6 countries:

Barcamp Madagascar
** Skunkworks@Innovation – Nairobi, Kenya
Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation – Nigeria
* Barcamp Africa – Googleplex, USA
** Barcamp Johannesburg – South Africa
** MobileActive ’08 – Johannesburg, South Africa
Capacity – Capetown, South Africa
Facebook Developers Garage – Kampala, Uganda

** I’ll be attending these
* I will stream in live to Barcamp Africa with the South Africans, but it’s also open in Kenya and Ghana.

On top of these scheduled conferences and unconferences, there are many meetups happening all over the place – from the monthly 27Dinner in cities around South Africa to the bi-monthly Skunkworks meetings in Kenya.

Africa’s a happening place – just watch!

[As always, if you know of an upcoming African tech event, let me know and I'll add it to the calendar]

{ 7 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Todd Huffman 10.02.08 at 11:50 pm: I’m looking forward to your coverage of these events. I’m happy to see the right kinds of tech culture propagating!
2 Kenyan Pundit » Quick Hits Oct 4 10.03.08 at 7:05 pm: [...] Tech scene buzzing in Africa (and yes not just in South Africa). Particularly happy to see the Skunkworks event [...]
3 Moses K. 10.04.08 at 1:25 pm: Look forward to livestreaming barcamp Africa. It is certainly hotting up in Africa on the tech scene.
4 kari 10.06.08 at 1:44 pm: fascinating blog. tech is definitely an up and coming industry here in Dakar.
5 BarCampAfrica, and the Spirit of UnConference « BarCamp Africa 10.06.08 at 5:49 pm: [...] African Meetups, Barcamps and Conferences [...]
6 Charl van Niekerk 10.11.08 at 8:28 am: Great stuff! Also don’t forget about the Geek Dinner events in Cape Town and the Geek Breakfasts (no link yet) we have in the Garden Route. Will ping you next time we have a Geek Breakfast here.
7 Heading to BarCamp Africa - My exectations 01.09.09 at 12:18 pm: [...] African Meetups, Barcamps and Conferences [...]