The Mombasa Tech Community Hosts BarCamp 2014

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top-global-innovations-2011The Mombasa Tech Community will this year host the Barcamp 2014 scheduled to take place  Saturday, 29 March 2014 at the Pride Inn Hotel.

Set to take place from 8am – 4pm, BarCamp is an intense event packed with intellectual discussions on technology and other fun, random interesting topics.  BarCamp Mombasa has been sponsored by Intel , iHub  and new cloud firm Angani.

The informal event is open to all and has no agenda. The attendees decide how the event is run, and vote on which topics and speakers get to present and is open to techies, bloggers, entrepreneurs, tech firm representatives, industry stakeholders among others.

Last year’s BarCamp Nairobi 2013 was jointly at the iHub, NaiLab and mLab on Nairobi’s Bishop Magua Centre off Ngong Road and discussed what would happen in the next 50 years  in line with the country’s 50th anniversary independence celebrations.

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BarCamps are open, participatory workshop-events, the content of which is provided by participants. The first BarCamps focused on early-stage web applications, and were related to open source technologies, social software, and open data formats. An unconference is a participant-driven meeting that tries to avoid one or more aspects of a conventional conference, such as high fees, sponsored presentations, and top-down organization.
The Mombasa Tech Community is set to grow and become as vibrant as the Nairobi, and by hosting such events, will see great minds from Nairobi head down to share their experiences with their counterparts at the coast.
Register here to attend.
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Sam Wakoba
Sam Wakoba
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Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Sam is a pan-African technology journalist, author, entrepreneur, technology business mentor, judge, educationalist, and a sought-after speaker and panelist across Africa’s innovation ecosystem. He is the convenor of the popular monthly #TechNight evening event and the #StartupEast Awards and Conference, platforms that bring together startup founders, developers, entrepreneurs, investors, content creators, and tech professionals from across the continent. For more than 16 years, Sam has reported on and analysed Africa’s technology landscape, covering some of the continent’s most impactful, and at times controversial policies, programs, investors, co-founders, startups, and corporations. His work is known for its independence, depth, and fairness, with a singular goal of helping build and strengthen Africa’s nascent technology ecosystem. Beyond journalism, Sam is a business analyst and consultant, working with brands, universities, corporates, SMEs, and startups across East Africa, as well as international companies entering the East African market or scaling across Africa. In his free time, he volunteers as a consulting editor and fintech analyst at Business Tech Kenya, a business, technology, and data firm that publishes reports, reviews, and insights on business and technology trends in Kenya. Follow him on X: @SamWakoba
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