Bantu Tech Tour Camp

Bantu Tech Tour Camp

Bantu Tech Tour Camp is a week long event focusing on bringing Entrepreneurs, Innovators, Developers from Southern African region specifically in (Namibia & Zambia) to address issues affecting the region (Internet penetration, Open Web, Innovation & Open Source Cultures) and how  the solutions brought up could provide, revolutionize the region into a tech hub. 

The event features various presentations/talks  and (hands) on sessions from Mozillians and I-hub coordinators regarding open tools offered by Mozilla, Localization of Mozilla products, Firefox OS  and lastly Web-makers.However this event is  open to  everyone who is passionate about technology, and making the Web an innovative platform and a place to find opportunities. 

Bantu Tech Tour Camp opens up for a long term collaboration with Southern African Innovation-Hubs between the existing Mozilla Communities in the region ( Botswana, Zimbabwe & SA) to help establish active and strong Mozilla Communities in this countries through their respective hubs (Namibia & Zambia). 

Objectives & Event Metrics

• Empower educational learning through Mozilla's web-makers tools and other open source tools. 

• Explore how Open Data can be used to develop the countries in the region, review various platforms and explore how open data can be improved.

• Explore how to put strong , diverse and thriving open source communities in our region through Mozilla resources.

• Establish long term partnership with I-Hub throughout the entire region.

• Educate attendees on the benefits of contributing to open source technologies

• Encourage women to get involved into Open Source movements and engage through technology. 

 

Our Partners

Mozilla Foundation

Bongo Hive

Innovation Village

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