Maker Faire Africa is a celebration of African ingenuity, innovation and creation. Here you will find the Makers who showed their work at the 2010 event in Nairobi Kenya. Work ranges from time saving devices for agriculture to alternative energy sources from design with recycled objects to social media applications for mobile phones. Per maker you will find a short synopsis of their work, their contacts details plus a possibliity to collaborate with them. Match your skills with one of the Makers.

Name: John Karanja

PROJECT NAME:
WHIVE - SOCIAL MEDIA FOR AFRICA

CONTACT DETAILS

MOBILE: +254 (0) 725 274 191
E-MAIL: john@whive.com
WEBSITE: www.whive.org

PRODUCT / SERVICE

Whive.com is a social media platform that works on the mobile phone. it serves as a facilitator between different languages in Kenya,
Currently they are working with Nokia, to bring up a Swahili/sheng translation in mobile phone.

MATCH

He's planning to work with Butterfly works on their mobile game Gethogame
Looking to partner with organizations so as to come up with mobile phones that can translate all the local languages in Kenya. (There are 43)

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