Geekspedition is a project of geeky expedition around African continent.
The goal of that project is to show Africa from the inside. Not edited-and-cut movie, but real-time adventures without any censorship. For the most part of Western world Africa still remains unexplored. I mean, what do you know about Sahrawi and their problems? Can you tell without looking at the map, where Gabon is? What do you know about 25 elections that were held in Africa in 2011? What do you know about life of students in Tanzania? We don’t read african blogs and only see disastrous headlines about poverty and problems, because it sells.
But I believe that there are many happy people in Africa too.
The method is to make bootstrapped expedition, without film crew (because of Flip) or editors sitting in BBC’s offices (because of bloggers); donation scheme, which would allow us to get rid of big sponsors and eliminate annoying ads. Crowdsourced as much as possible: editing, cutting, promoting.
There are many expeditions going to Africa every year, but there’s no such thing as user-friendly expedition website, where you could find decent information about the travel, equipment, and other importants stuff. Even the famous Long Way Down, starring Ewan McGregor, just recently was updated from obsolete Flash version to the new and shiny XHTML 1.0 Transitional.