Re: [projectvrm] Brck

[Markus Sabadello < >]

Yes, when people think of cool IT projects in Africa, usually only Ushahidi comes to mind, but there's actually much more.

That's why a group of (mostly European I think) hackers recently went on the Africa Hack Trip, to expore the local hacking and startup hubs in 4 East African capitals. A documentary about this is in the making.

And right now a few of us are in Kenya at Hacker Beach, A very colorful and productive get-together of African, European and American hackers.

Frankly speaking, looking at the current web landscape and the mindset it was built with, it might not be a bad thing if the next-generation architectures, protocols and applications came from a non-"Western" corner of the world.

Markus

On 01/22/2014 06:14 AM, Doc Searls wrote:

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It has been suggested to me that some of the most VRooMy work is developing in the less developed world. Given as an example:

<http://www.brck.com/>

No time for more now (at a UCSB meeting). Just passing that along. 

Doc