What role does hacking and making play in current West African context? Can the re-writing of technological modes, machines and materials, or the convergence of open source technologies with indigenous ways of knowing inspire decolonial post-capitalist visions of a digital society?

With input talks from Sename Koffi (Woelab Lomè, Togo), Carina Lange (GIZ Lomé, Togo) and Dr. Romy Hilbig (Weizenbaum Institute / Forikolo e.V.), we will explore emerging movements of DIY (Do-it-Yourself) and DIT (Do-it-Together) Development, novel modes of ‘Glocal Making’ – building inventions that resolve local issues utilising the means of a global open-source community, as well as the strive to formulate an alternative vision of this critical practice that moves beyond pre-scripted Western ideas and values.