Wanderlust in the time of Covid
2020 was a year without travel for fieldwork or leisure. Went through photos from prior travels. Here are some from 2018 and 2019.
Hack, Make, Sell*
Maker-entrepreneurs in Ghana & Nigeria see making as a way to build solutions to everyday problems that they believe can be adapted at s
Tech + Africa Web Publication
Last week, a few colleagues and I started a medium.com publication called Tech + Africa. We did this to have a dedicated channel focused...
Hugh Masekela
The incomparable Hugh Masekela passed away last week. When I saw the message from my former roommate who know how much I Ioved his music,...
On the discourse of innovation in Ghana
tl;dr: The public discourse on innovation in Ghana is currently somewhat lopsided, favoring a rigid interpretation of intellectual...
Critical making workshop with DoIIIT lab*
*Repost from tech.culture.matters site. Originally posted October 27, 2016 The Designers of Interactive, Intelligent, Internet of Things...
On tech production/innovation in the global south and ICTD research*^
*Repost from the tech.culture.matters page. First posted March 1, 2016 ^This is an edited version of a short talk (less than 10 minutes...
From the Field: Observations on tech production & innovation in Ghana – Part 1*
*Originally posted on Dec 22, 2016. Repost from the tech.culture.matters site. I’m back in Ghana to continue fieldwork I started in 2012...
The Unintended Consequences of Technology OR The problem with Trickle down techonomics"
Last year I joined an MCubed* project titled 'The unintended consequences of technology' led by Joyojeet Pal, Omolade Adunbi, and Bilal...
Buzzfeed: Surprisingly astute
I've always assumed buzzfeed was for funny gifs and pithy statements on pop culture. Yet, a few weeks ago, I found myself on this here...
