DK Osseo-Asare and Yasmine Abbas

Initiated by DK Osseo-Asare and Yasmine Abbas in 2012, AMP has engaged over 1500 youth from West Africa, Europe and the United States in the AMP Makers’ Collective—750+ scrap dealers and makers from Ghana’s informal sector and 750+ young STEAM practitioners—to reimagine electronic landscapes and pan-urban waste streams‚ co-developing manuals for e-waste handling, mobile phone app for grassroots maker ecosystems and deployable makers-space “spacecraft” prototypes in Accra, Ghana, and Dakar, Senegal.