Hugo, and by extension team Lebone, was recently honoured as a TED2010 Fellow for innovative work in Africa and interdisciplinary work at The Laboratory at Harvard!
It was an amazing opportunity for our team to connect with many TEDsters, amazing artists, and award-winning scientists. We were particularly excited to meet other TED fellows working in Africa.
Erik Hersman from Afrigadet who is also working with Juliana Rotich on Ushahidi, Frederick Balagadde from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, African scholars April Karen Baptiste and Bola Olabisi, Jonathan Gosier from AppAfrica, Peter Haas from AIDG, and Alexander Petroff from Working Villages International in the Congo.
Hugo gave a talk on Lebone, Dirt Power, and our Design with Africa approach. What a privilege.
One of many highlights was Bill Gates and his talk on energy: Innovating to zero!
Bill called for radical energy miracles, not incremental improvements, to save our species. Though MFC’s will not power cities they might one day go a long way towards creating distributed and use-appropriate energy.
For a very informative and funny report on TED 2010 read Scobleizer’s take here.
Special thanks to the Bezos family, the Harnisch Foundation, and Sherpalo Ventures. You not only made a most amazing week possible for the TED Fellows but it was also great to spend quality time with you! Thank you Google for the Nexus One and for all your senior executives and founders roaming free and engaging with all.
A huge shout out to forward-thinking Tom Riely, ever-wise Emeka Okafur, energetic Logan McClure, and cool-under-pressure Simone Alexander from the TED Fellows team.
Tags: Design with Africa, TED
