By: Pontšo Sekhesa, Kananelo Moshabesha From October 2-5, 2024, five members of The Hub team were invited by Chimère communities to attend the Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival. This vibrant African digital festival, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, provided the team with an exciting opportunity to explore the intersection of technology, art, and culture. ThroughContinue reading “Fak’ugesi with Chimère”
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Building Resilient Information Ecosystems in Southern Africa
From September 30 – October 3, 2024, Meri Hyöky represented The Hub at the ‘Building Resilient Information Ecosystems in Southern Africa’ conference on the future of journalism, education, free expression advocacy and media and information literacy in Windhoek, Namibia. The Hub was invited by DW Akademie, co-hosts of the conference together with the Namibia MediaContinue reading “Building Resilient Information Ecosystems in Southern Africa”
350+ Youth Trained During Africa Code Week
From October 16-20, 2018 The Hub partook in Africa Code Week 2018, in partnership with GEM Institute. We hosted groups of learners from local schools who got to learn the basics of coding with Scratch, a game developed by MIT. During the week, The Hub trained 353 youth with 279 of them being girls! Africa Code WeekContinue reading “350+ Youth Trained During Africa Code Week”
Women in Technology & Social Entrepreneurship
On Wednesday Ocotber 17, 2018 we hosted GEM Institute and Africa Code Week for a ‘Women in Technology & Social Entrepreneurship’ workshop this morning. 26 girls and women partook and learned about gender issues, entrepreneurship and digital marketing from GEM Institute, Mohloli oa Tsebo, The Nala Project: Community Market & Vodacom Lesotho Foundation.
Weekend Workshop: Animation
From July 21-22 2018, The Hub hosted Patrick Rorke and Linotšing Animation Studio for a weekend workshop on Animation, using claymation. In the morning of Day 1, participants did brainstorming on stories around the theme of youth unemployment, and voted on a winning storyboard. They then continued with character development and started creating the figures andContinue reading “Weekend Workshop: Animation”
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