- Name: TOKO KOUTOGUI Abdoul kafid, .
- Name of event: Africa Community forum for Open Science Hardware growth
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Email address : toko@openhardware.science
4. What open science hardware tool(s) will be the focus of your event?
This event will focus on the general development process of open Science hardware tools in Africa.
5. Describe your course or workshop, whom and what it is for, where and when it will be held, how many attendees (IRL or virtual) you expect.
In order to strengthen actions related to the development of the African Open Science Hardware community, we want to organize this community forum to collectively reflect and identify the causes that explain how the movement has evolved in Africa and to identify the possible courses of action for improvement. To do so,we have identified people working specifically on Open Science Hardware in Africa . We were able to identify 16 potential participants for this workshop.
We will therefore use the Ishikawa diagram to deconstruct the problem and then proceed to a second activity to clearly articulate the requirements of the solution(s) we are seeking to advance Open Science Hardware in Africa.
6. Do you have plans for ongoing activities after this event OR is it intended that the participants will continue activities after this event? If so, describe the intentions and plans here.
Following this activity, we want to be able to identify the right strategy to propose to the GOSH management to develop new actions such as:
- Open innovation events bring an opportunity to do science hackathons in Africa ? - to connect makers with science
- Connect makers in Africa with manufacturing in EU and China
- Partnerships with teachers is essential to have more open science hardware tools in classrooms
7. What event outputs (e.g. teaching materials, curricula, software, etc.) will you make available? Will these outputs carry an open licence?
The event will first provide data on the collective thinking related to the deconstruction of the problem through the collaborative work files we created (the Ishiwaka diagram). We will also produce a theory of change available to any person or organization wishing to develop a future Open Science Hardware development program in Africa.
8. What you will use the grant for, roughly.
The grant will help us pay for:
- 3 Facilitators/note taker for the workshop
- 1 Expert to draft the Theory of change
- 1 Graphic designer to create communications material for the workshop and it output
9. Provide links (references) to documentation or reviews of similar
events or works you have executed. School coursework or projects
can be listed, even social media posts. Anything to give a sense
of what you’re about and your ability to successfully conduct this
course or workshop. To keep this short, just the links and their descriptions will do.
- 500 Min Collective Intelligence for Agriculture in Africa : A two-day activity during which we gathered students from several African countries to reflect on the problems of agriculture and to come out with entrepreneurial project teams to solve a problem in agriculture.