Comments on: Finding Africa’s Innovators

By: #Apps4Africa #Madagascar : Deux jours pour discuter innovation et solutions technologiques sur le thÃ¨me du changement climatique « Madainitiatives

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:52:43 +0000

[…] Le concours Apps4Africa en est Ã sa troisiÃ¨me Ã©dition et fera sa premiÃ¨re escale Ã Madagascar. Il s’agit d’un concours au niveau continental destinÃ© Ã encourager et rÃ©compenser les innovations technologiques en Afrique au service de la communautÃ©, et Dieu sait Ã´ combien les Africains sont passÃ©s maÃ®tres de la dÃ©brouillardise. […]

By: » m:lab East Africa launch » mLab

» m:lab East Africa launch » mLab — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:23:33 +0000

[…] Africa region a global hub for mobile innovation. As Erik Hersman, co-founder of the *iHub_ has said, “Until we own this narrative about our continent, we will forever be slaves to those that […]

By: Local Innovation and Entrepreneurs — WhiteAfrican

Local Innovation and Entrepreneurs — WhiteAfrican — Tue, 31 May 2011 11:41:48 +0000

[…] already stated that I think innovation is spread equally across the world. No one region has a monopoly on it. The […]

By: Building community with Tech Entrepreneurs in Nairobi | Interactivist

Building community with Tech Entrepreneurs in Nairobi | Interactivist — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:09:41 +0000

[…] relational skills on multiple levels. At a social level, socially constructing new narratives about African tech innovation , and at an interprersonal level, taking the time to explore with me what might align with my goals […]

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:12:47 +0000

Stories of this kind strengthens the belief I have in Africa’s emerging knowledge base. Innovation has to take the forefront if Africa is to recreate itself.

By: #TEDxTana : CrÃ©ativitÃ© et innovation « Madainitiatives

#TEDxTana : CrÃ©ativitÃ© et innovation « Madainitiatives — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:53:47 +0000

[…] ici et lÃ pour amÃ©liorer leur quotidien et qui mÃ©ritent d’Ãªtre signalÃ©es (« Finding Africa’s innovators« ). Quand on sait que le Kenya fait figure de proue des innovations technologiques […]

By: 1975jmr ä¾¯å£®é©¬

1975jmr ä¾¯å£®é©¬ — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:37:02 +0000

A good example from the Malagasy creativity. In madagascar exist so many good ideas in other areas

By: henry kagokago

henry kagokago — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 14:39:37 +0000

really innovative work and pleasure to see what you have been upto Eric 🙂
Talk soon after get back from wintery North carolina .

By: Tiffany von Emmel

Tiffany von Emmel — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 10:00:55 +0000

Thank you, Erik, for the inspiration. Two thoughts, one personal, one meta… As a leader, reading your post has me questioning the use of the word “poverty” in Dreamfish’s organizational narrative, how that shapes and binds and pulls to a larger societal story that keeps people in poverty. I am going to take a deeper look at this. Secondly, to go meta, I appreciate your advocating for social construction paradigm as a way to transform. “There is nothing as practical as a good theory” (Kurt Lewin) Applying the idea that we social construct the self and organizations through what we say and write, we can story ourselves anew. Taking this idea further, that we socially construct ourselves through our conscious actions, we can “practice” ourselves anew….We cultivate innovation by walking one step at a time, backwards into the unknown, listening and responding to our relations around us.

By: Raj Panjabi

Raj Panjabi — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:43:23 +0000

‘own the narrative’ — an idea all of us have the means to embrace. Thank you E. I’m going to share this in Liberia. Keep on keeping on.