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From YouTube: e-NABLEcon 2019 - Janet Bih Fofang - e-NABLE in Africa
Description
In this video, Janet Bih Fofang, Electrical Engineer and International STEM Educator and Recipient of the Grace Hopper Award in Education, talks about her e-NABLE work helping underserved communities in Africa.
A
So
Jennifer
find
in
an
electrical
engineer,
she
established
a
program
in
the
box
in
Africa,
which
was
a
seminal
box.
It
was
being
shared
by
classrooms
in
five
countries
in
Africa
she's,
a
member
of
the
limited
Technology
Committee
in
Africa
and
she's,
been
working
with
us
for
the
past
two
years.
She's
one
of
the
founding
members
of
the
board
of
being
able
Alliance.
A
We
worked
with
heard
about
the
first
3d
printers
in
to
Cameroon,
which
is
her
home
country
and
they
with
the
makerspace
she
established
and
associated
with
a
high
school,
a
medical
school
and
a
hospital.
Well,
the
first
things
that
the
kids
wanted
to
do
in
creating
hands
was
to
find
the
classmates
that
they
were
no
longer
with,
because
when
they
get
older,
they're
not
allowed
to
go
to
school
if
they
have
upper
limb
differences.
A
She
one
of
the
recipients
of
the
de
France
Hopper
award
for
education,
and
she
is
currently
a
PhD
candidate
here.
While
she
and
her
son
were
part
of
the
very
first
conference
we
had
to
working
with
2017
and
something
she
could
become
part
of
the
PhD
education
and
leadership
right
here
in
College
Park.
So
a
few
words
about
your
background.
B
C
A
A
21
21
of
the
countries
I've
ever
sat
represented
a
very
explorable
in
my
country
of
the
countries.
There
were
because
she
was
pulling
teams
together,
coin
sponsors
together
and
then
orchestrating
the
effort
of
bringing
them
here
in
Washington
DC
the
during
this
was
being
able
to
be
in
a
pinch
and
helping
to
consult
with
your
bias
teams,
and
that
was
happy.
D
B
Something
to
you
all
here
and
I
have
oh
I,
have
so
much
to
say:
I,
don't
know
if
I
could
say
everything
in
a
few
minutes,
but
in
endo
to
me
has
been
one
of
those
really
meaningful
ways
of
taking
technologies
back
to
Africa,
I
I
grew
up
in
Africa,
I
went
to
school
in
Africa
and
I
am
currently
a
student
here.
The
University
of
Maryland,
doing
technology
learning
all
around
the
learning,
Sciences
and
technology
impacts
rooms
and
specifically
working
with
kids,
who
learn
with
robots.
B
I
have
been
an
electronic
teacher,
High
School
teacher
for
about
20
years
and
then
with
my
electronics
background
and
my
exposure
to
children.
I
had
this
whole
different
way
of
teaching
and
bringing
meaningful
things
into
classrooms
and
wanting
kids
to
engage
with
technologies
and
doing
things
that
were
completely
part
of
what
the
school
system
really
wants.
So
I
really
stood
out
as
an
example
of
those
very
bad
teachers
who
were
not
following
the
rules
and
we're
always
trying
to
do
things
that
are
not.
B
B
This
is
where
I
should
be,
and
on
top
of
that,
we
also
have
programs
with
women
professional
women
who
we
just
finished
last
week,
the
program
where
we
had
a
cohort
of
about
a
thousand
twelve
disabled
women
who
were
working
on
digital
tools,
design
names
basis.
So
here
in
this
images
maker
space
that
we
have
in
the
capitol
city
of
copper,
baronial
name.
So
here's
how
we
model
like
on
this
image.
You
would
see
these
that
just
cardboard
boxes
that
kids
actually
kind
of
modeled
in
the
beginning,
why?
This
is
totally
analog?
B
How
to
understand
how
it
works.
We
do
a
lot
of
analog
things
for
them
to
like
understand
before
we
can
for
y'all
got
kids.
This
is
typically
how
we
would
let
them
work
and
then
sometimes
use
motors
and
then
really
like
wire
the
whole
arm
in
an
electronic
format
and
then
power
it
with
batteries,
and
then
they
would
understand
between
the
technology
and
the
biology
of
it
and
then
before
we
can
move
on
to
the
modeling
phase
engine
using
a
3d,
printer
or
and
a
computer
and
then
working
within
a
software.
B
B
A
D
B
D
B
That
behind
every
disability,
this
is
how
the
society
sees
me.
So
I
told
Maria
that
this
is
something
huge.
Neighbor
could
actually
have
a
trial
in
committee
in
Africa,
because
disability
in
Africa
goes
with.
A
lot
of
stigma
goes
with
a
lot
whole
life
once
you're
disabled.
Every
time
like
it's,
my
culture,
it's
not
it's.
Where
I
come
from,
that's
a
weakness,
it's
all
about
culture,
it's
all
about
how
we
view
things
different
in
different
places.
Once
you
have
a
fever
or
something
that
it's
not
prison.
Well,
there
is
a
story
behind
that
meeting.
B
It's
not
your
fault.
Well,
because
the
science
is
not
that
developed.
We
fall
back
on
culture,
we
fall
back
on
beliefs,
so
the
quest
the
hunger
for
knowledge
once
that
gap
for
information
about
why
something
is
missing.
On
someone
that
should
be
whole
once
it's
not,
then
we
figure
out
a
way
in
our
culture's
to
fill
that
gap,
sometimes
maybe
they're
a
witch
doctor
that
would
look
at
them.
It
may
be
a
grandmother
that
would
come
up
with
your
story
line
and
say:
oh
I
know
someone
in
that
family
who
was
like
that.
B
It
may
be
anybody
which
viewing
those
dance
and
it's
funny,
because
there's
no
science
to
explain
that.
So
we
we
it
looks
like
when
Maria
stays.
These
things
sometimes
I
feel
like
well
you're,
overdoing
it
you
think
too
much
I'm,
not
sure
I'm,
not
such
such
an
awesome
person.
You
know
because
these
are
things
that,
if
you
find
yourself
in
these
communities,
when
you
are
educated
and
you
have
information,
it's
like
people
far.
B
Some
extent
this
is
how
much
science
they
know,
and
this
is
how
much
they
can
explain
about
things
that
happen
every
day,
so
education
in
some
areas
would
be
more
than
what
some
other
areas
will
be.
So
this
the
whole
science
of
how
some
human
can
form
and
other
parts
are
not
developed.
I.
Don't
think
that
is
that
kind.
B
Has
reached
that
extent,
so
we
some
of
us
who
have
taken
upon
ourselves
to
actually
educate
ourselves,
go
to
school
understand
these
things.
We
have
a
lot
of
responsibility
on
that
backs,
to
be
able
to
bring
back
that
knowledge
to
these
communities,
to
be
able
to
to
be
able
to
to
connect
the
missing
pieces
to
be
able
to
take
back
stories.
That
Accenture
is
all
anyone
who
lives
with
a
disability
leaves
a
Double
Trouble
like
please
global
persecution.
B
All
not
only
are
you
struggling
with
the
disability
is
struggling
with
a
judgement
of
the
society,
so
I
I
immediately
connected
to
enable,
because
to
me
this
was
one
way
to
a
solution,
but
then
how
do
we
go
about?
It?
I
mean
talking
with
my
end,
women.
Thinking
like
how
do
we
get
the
resources?
How
do
we
get
people
who
can
go
train
again?
If
this
was
happening
somewhere,
everything
is
removed
before
people
they
would
not
someone
they
would
so.
B
The
image
we
were
trying
to
upload
is
the
image
of
a
young
boy,
there's
a
story
of
a
young
boy
to
whom
I
outside
one
of
the
arms-
and
he
history
is
a
very
simple
one.
He
had
a
bag
vaccine
that
affected
him.
He
was,
he
was
administered,
a
vaccine
that
did
not
go
well
and
then
his
fingers
follow.
So
all
the
parts.
A
A
B
B
So
he's
he's
s
fell
off
at
age
two
and
then
with
the
fingers
that
have
fallen
off
at
age.
Two
everything
really
started
going
for
you,
bad
he's,
no
longer
he's
cool
and
he
has
to
work
in
the
bucket.
We
would
not
be
coming
after
super
packets.
We
will
have
open
markets,
so
his
role
in
the
market
is
he
would
he
would
push
the
wheelbarrow
for
Shabbos
to
carry
their
goods
to
carry
together
shopping.
A
B
But
then
the
question
I
keep
asking
is
how
in
these
societies,
they
disabled
by
the
ones
that
are
actually
doing
the
most
job
of
able
people
like
if
you
look
at
the
most
physically
demanding
jobs
most
times
in
these
places
that
these
people
are
the
ones
doing
it.
So
when
any
make
Maria
actually
becoming
very
curious,
like
every
time,
I
saw
someone
with
an
arm
or
something
that
was
missing,
I
immediately
connected
I'm,
like
I
know,
we
can
do
about
it
and
that's
how
in
the
back
end,
I
was
a
packet
and
I
was
like.
B
How
do
you
do
it
and
then
he
he
had.
He
had
like
all
these
fingers
heat.
So
he
told
me
he
actually
put
this
just
this
part
and
then
pushes
and
then
I
that's
how
I
affect
all
of
the
the
arms
that
he
could
wear
and
then
it
helped
him
actually
power
his
wheelbarrow,
and
then
we
were
talking
about
what,
if
we
kind
of
like
added
so
maybe
power
or
motor,
or
something
we're
thinking
about
different
things
at
the
same
time.
B
But
then
his
story
is
that
this
is
completely
transformed
who
he
eats
like
the
other
kids
around.
This
would
be
like
a
fifteen
or
sixteen
year
old.
The
other
kids
around
saw
him
differently.
They
called
him
Robocop
there
wasn't
nobody
givin
him,
because
he
he
left
from
someone.
That
was
not
good
enough
to
someone
that
is
super
powerful
because
he
had
this
activist
altar.
So
these
are
things
that
can
actually
like
transform.
B
Imagine
young
children
who
go
to
school
and
are
being
shunned
away
because
they
have
a
disability
and
from
living
like
you
need
from
someone
that
it's
Sean
to
someone
that
becomes
like
extraordinary,
because
you
have
an
arm
not
an
arm
to
fight
other
people,
but
this
actually
looks
like
what
we
see
in
and
in
tattoos.
It
looks
like
those
things
that
we
see
you
have
this
superpower
in
you,
so
it's
something
that
can
actually
open
it.
Culturally.
Also
still
I
mean
take
some
questions.
B
C
B
B
A
A
Where
so,
what
we've
been
developing
our
series
of
partnerships
with
the
curriculum
so
that
the
as
they're
developing
the
skills
and
creating
the
arms
and
hands
were
also
able
to
collect
the
evidence
that
will
match
them
to
work
in
their
area,
so
that
the
people
will
be
sustaining
themselves
will
be
sustaining
their
affiliate?
Who
was
brave
enough
to
partner
with
them
and
develop
a
space
that
was
safe
and
welcoming
to
them.
A
C
A
A
A
D
A
D
A
So
the
very
documenting
the
cases
the
director
there
is
being
trained
right,
knowledge
of
poor
clinic
on
the
support
foot,
it's
going
to
be
working
with
Christian,
silver
and
silver
on
the
lower
leg,
it's
going
through
the
enable
living
classroom
at
SUNY,
Polytechnic,
Institute
and
so
they're,
also
coordinating
with
another
hospital
that
is
closer
to
the
region.
There's.
A
We're
they're
using
enterprise
level,
software
that
is
managing
inventory
of
managing
cases.
It's
part
of
the
curriculum
and
that
they've
been
working
on
with
the
enable
community
for
almost
five
years,
and
so
they
don't
see
it
as
something
outside
of
the
enable
community.
They
see
this
as
something
that
they've
been
working
on
with
the
community.
D
I
would
just
submit
that
if
there
are
literally
rooms
filled
with
people
needing
devices
a
lot
of
them
children
who
are
getting
older
by
the
day
as
we
all
are.
We
have
a
global
resource
of
skilled
volunteers
that
can
begin
and
we
have
a
mechanism
that
is
proven
to
rename
a
web
central
to
match
recipients
with
volunteers.
I
just
raised
the
question.
A
That
absolutely
and
that's
that's
how
it's
worked
in
the
past:
it's
not
excluding
members
of
the
community,
it's
creating
that
vetted.
Is
it
reading
of
that
Accord
that
we've
worked
with
for
the
past
four
years
and
they
continue
to
work
with,
so
it's
not
isolating
it.
This
is
a
discussion
that
we
can
contribute
worldline.
A
D
A
A
It's
also
not
just
new
cases,
it's
it
for
every
one
of
these
cases.
It's
multiple
devices
over
it,
of
course,
that
we
hear
so
we're
we.
This
is
something
that
we
have
to
table
at
the
moment,
but
we're
about
to
begin
lunch,
and
we
will
begin
on
the
other
tracks
at
1:00.
But
is
there
anything
else
you
want
to
share
with
us
Janice?
Well,
no
I
think.