ICTworks

I’ve very excited about Maker Farie Africa, a celebration of African ingenuity, innovation and invention. Taking place this weekend at the AITI KACE in Accra, Ghana, the event promises to be a watershed moment for African inventiveness.

I’ll be there looking for new and exciting business and technical opportunities to share, as well as manning the Inveneo stand. We’ll be displaying our own hacks – an SMS-based conference feedback system and on-demand radio station.

SMS Conference Feedback

The real-time SMS-based conference feedback system allows attendees to make comments about featured projects, respond to speakers, and discuss their favorite inventions using text messages sent from their mobile phones. All appropriate messages will be displayed on a monitor at the Inveneo booth for the public to view, and via Twitter, the social networking website. You can follow the conference on the Inveneo Twitter feed.

SMS On-Demand Radio Station

Inveneo will also be taking SMS song requests for a low-powered FM-channel radio broadcast to conference attendees. This demonstration shows how Inveneo technology could be used to make local radio possible in rural and remote areas across Africa. Together the demonstrations show how ICTs can enable and expand communications across under-served communities around the world.

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