Eyram Tawia of Leti Games talks about African games.

Eyram is a potential PHD student looking at reinventing the computer science curriculum to be completely ubiquitous and mobile in outlook. In Africa mobile computing is the dominant interaction idiom - something the west is still moving towards. He wants to rewrite the pedagogy computer science which is something we are going to have to do.  The OU has already started on the line with TU100 and a  ubiquitous computing first approach but his ambition is to take it much further.

You have to love Eyram's vision and enthusiasm. I do like the way he wants to make global games from an African perspective. All too often we want to use a western model of development which many times fail to catch on. I think this assumes that other counties and regions are like the west and fails to catch on.  This is because I my opinion they assume technologies are things not part of wider ecologies of technologies, materials, resources and cultural perspectives. From this perspective the best way to get Africa to develop is to economically is to respond to local entrepreneurs exploiting local situations. 

HashBang.TV @ Droidcon London 2012 with Eyram Tawia of Leti Games - YouTube: