Africa Open Science and Hardware (Africa OSH) Summit is a grassroots effort to bring together researchers, technologists, hacker hobbyists, educators, government officials, and start-up innovators around the world.
Our goal is to create a conversation and set of actions on OSH, among African actors, and between them and the international community, in order to adopt OSH principles and practices appropriate to our context. This alternative path to education, research, scholarly communication and manufacturing is crucial given the barriers imposed by closed knowledge systems and the traditional Intellectual Property (IP) regime.
Ultimately OSH aims to achieve an ecosystem for innovation that is locally adapted, culturally relevant, technologically feasible, economically viable, and environmentally sustainable
The AfricaOSH plan to host about 100 participants from across Africa and the rest of the world for three days in Kumasi, Ghana.
Running from 13th - 15th April, 2018, Africa OSH Summit will include:
Presentations and working group discussions on challenges, opportunities and recommendations to contextualize a Global Open Science and Hardware Roadmap for Africa by 2025; and to make African academic research more visible and accessible
Workshops on making, hacking and DIYBio for a wide range of stakeholders to experience the process of design, co-creation, problem solving and to contribute ideas to OSH development
Unconference sessions by networks, startups, and innovators from Africa and the Global South
By partaking in OSH Africa, you will be at the forefront of promoting sustainable change in Africa, by enabling Africans to solve our own problems. This has tremendous implications for the future outlook of the continent.
Hi Harold,
To put it simply: this Circular Mass Transfer System (STCM) replaces oil or dams to generate raw motive power.
The system delivers a continuous, self-sustained mechanical torque directly at its central pivot (the axle). It is a self-redundant motive power system, made possible by the eccentric and geometrically constrained path of the rotating masses (all precise details and physics can be viewed directly in my public technical handbook).
The entire kinematics are surprisingly simple to understand and to build. Once this axle rotates with such power, you simply convert this raw mechanical force into whatever you need: electricity for a building or factory, propulsion for a ship, or direct drive for heavy machinery.
I must emphasize that I categorically refuse to patent this invention. Given the immense benevolence and righteousness of our beloved elites, combined with the integrity of our corporate industrialists who are not compromised at all, I wish to show them my deepest gratitude by giving this kinematic discovery to the entire world completely for free. I would have loved to be more than a millionaire, but that’s alright. Consider this my personal kick into this wasp's nest.
In short, it will ultimately only serve to provide universal energy self-sufficiency, clean up our cities, and render utterly ridiculous in the future those oh-so-gentle aggressor countries that invade other nations solely for their oil. Since energy will now be widely available, fighting over it or transporting electricity will become an absurd waste of time. Oh, and I almost forgot: it might also trigger a massive drop in cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. Nothing too fancy, really.
Best regards,
Benoit Collin
Hi Jamaica, Following up on my previous request: Andrew (hikinghack) just reached out to me on the Mothbox thread to ask for my STCM technical posts to be moved to a relevant area. I completely agree with him, as my 38-page blueprints are cluttering his biology project. Since my account constraints still prevent me from doing this relocation myself, could you please execute the move of my topics to the official “Projects” category as soon as possible? This will cleanly resolve the issue for Andrew and give the STCM a proper, dedicated space. Thank you so much for your quick help on this! Best regards, Benoit Collin