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Cesar Harada (28) is an French-Japanese inventor and entrepreneur.
Cesar invented a ground-breaking sailing technology, a boat that changes shape, “Protei”. Originally developed to clean up the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Protei is an Open Hardware project now developed by an international community of scientists, engineers and designers for many other applications such as nuclear radiation sensing off Japan, plastic sensing in the Pacific garbage patch, red tide studies in Mexico and much more.
Cesar is also the general coordinator of the future International Ocean Station. Former Project leader at MIT, Cesar teaches Masters in Design & Environment at Goldsmiths University in London. Cesar graduated in 2009 from the Design Interactions course at the Royal College of Arts in London, his collaborative project Open_Sailing received the Ars Electronica Golden Nica award for the [NEXT IDEA].

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Nailab : Nairobi Incubation Laboratory

 

Just made a video today for my friend Tonee Ndungu and his great project the Nailab (Nairobi Incubation Laboratory) an incubator straight across the corridor of the *IHub_ for which I officially work. So the video says it all, but it will be much more a "start-up farm" more than an "innovation laboratory" to my sense. One of the greatest challenges of the Nailab is going to define its strategy to complement - and not overlap - with what the *IHub_ (that was built before specifically for innovation) in order to establish a symbiotic relation. Best luck to both sister projects !!!

 

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M-PESA


People queuing at the supermarket to transfert money via mobile phone using M-PESA (Safaricom) :

http://www.safaricom.co.ke/index.php?id=745
M-PESA is a Safaricom service allowing you to transfer money using a mobile phone. Kenya is the first country in the world to use this service, which is offered in partnership between Safaricom and Vodafone. M-PESA is available to all Safaricom subscribers (Prepay and Postpay), even if you do not have a bank account. Registration is FREE and available at any M-PESA Agent countrywide. The M-PESA application is installed on your SIM card and works on all makes of handsets.

Amazing. Told you, the future is here in Nairobi. 

Filed under  //  Africa   Banking   Ihub   Kenya   M-PESA   Mobile   Mobile Banking   Nairobi   Phone   Safaricom  
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*IHub_[under_construction]

The *IHub_ is now at full speed under construction, it is quite impressive to be in the middle of so many computers, metal and wood works, dust, ideas, sweat, sketches, phewww! Energy! I'm proud to be responsible of this construction site, fingers crossed it goes well until the end.

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World Environment Action (WEA) website pre-release


http://w-e-a.org

The World Environment Action (WEA) has now a website. Soon there will be an Ushahidi app hosted here and an alpha release of the WEA for mobile device should follow. 
Yesterday I presented the WEA at the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) in Nairobi and had very interesting feedbacks. Download the presentation (.pdf 6mb).

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Camping, making the World Environment Action prototype

Camping at the *IHub future HQ, now under construction. Sleeping under a drawing board + mosquito net.
Patiently building the WEA (World Environment Action) http://w-e-a.org (just got the domain wouhouuu!). Thanks to Joshua Musau for the pictures!

Filed under  //  *IHub   Africa   Camping   Carboard   Indoors   Inside   Mosquito   Nairobi   Net   Outdoors   Sleeping   Tent  
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Proposing designs for the *IHub

Ok, so now I must give precise designs for everything... 

The *IHub empty :

The mezzanine : 

The bar : 

Having to be precise for fabrication :

When the whole thing is done I will upload on my google 3d Warehouse user page, stay tuned if you want to use the 3D model for organizing events at the *IHub. Real construction of these 3D models happening right now. 

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I *IHub construction manager

I had to take over as construction manager since the *IHub construction contractor sadly lacked consistency in making the work happen. So now, I'm supervising the contractor and I am on-site to answer all workers questions. I guarantee, work is going to get done. BANG BANG !

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