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Entrepreneurship is a Learning Process Not an App Contest
Every couple of months, a new mobile app contest pops up, promising young people the resources, mentorship, and network to create a software product that will transform their communities and the world. Of course this is possible, but not everyone is an entrepreneur, founder, creator…and that’s OKAY. I know I’m not the first to point…
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Learning is a Two-Way Street
When Global Minimum launched it’s first Innovation Lab in March 2014 as part of the Innovate Salone program in Freetown, Sierra Leone, the Ebola virus had just broken out. It was worrisome, but Ebola was not a new phenomenon and our team believed it would be short-lived. It’s now November 2014 and the Ebola virus…
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Hack it, Learn it and Engineer a Better Future: The Youth of Sierra Leone
Whoa it’s been a while. Re-posting a recent blogpost I wrote with my lovely colleagues David Moinina Sengeh and Heather Cole-Lewis for Engineering4Change. Today, at Prince of Wales secondary school in Freetown, Sierra Leone, dozens of students are running around in a 12 by 25ft (3.5 to 7.5m) space scribbling on erasable dry paint. They…
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Mozilla’s BadgeKit…yes
I’ve been working on youth-based badging systems for the last couple of years and while it’s been a lot of fun, the implementation process has been confusing and difficult at times. Some of the tools I’ve used include Badgestack, Credly, BadgeOS, and a custom-made platform (compliments of Parsons). They’ve all met certain needs, but one…
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