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Gamification
Gov innovation & hackathon

Biography

Kofi S. Latzoo is a Togolese creative director and designer specializing in graphic design, video games and fashion. He has an e-estonia residency e-nationality. For the past 10 years, he has been technical and artistic director of pioneering communication projects in the banking, fashion, mining and NGO sectors in Senegal, West Africa. His skills in the design, pedagogy and management of technological communities led to him being selected by NASA to lead its innovation and civic incubation program focused on the use of open data - called Nasa Spaceapps Challenge - in Senegal since 2014. In 5 years, his leadership has helped develop the world's most creative government innovation brand with several awards such as the OpenGov Award 2014 and the MadewithUnity Award 2017 and to expand its ecosystem to countries such as Togo, Algeria and Gabon. The Nasa SpaceApps Challenge is the world's largest citizen science hackathon with the participation of 200 cities over 2 days, an initiative inspired by the technological leadership of President Barack Obama's 100 Actions policy. Kofi is a bilingual international speaker and event organizer in the creative industries and video games sectors. A pioneer in the field of video games and esport in Senegal, Togo and Guinea Conakry since 2012, he currently advises companies, NGOs and governments on the African video game industry. Kofi is one of a select handful of certified gamification consultants accredited by the German International Development Cooperation (GIZ) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation (BMZ). Kofi is also the founder of GameCampCities the first 360 communications agency dedicated to Africa's gaming industry (they have produced more than 100 physical & virtual events across a network of 10 countries ). He has collaborated with brands such as Coca Cola, the Alibaba Group (WESG & Alibaba Cloud), the Global Game Jam (World Guinness Record edition Gamer 2017), UBA Bank, and the University of Dallas, Texas. In 2018, Kofi began teaching Design + Esport as a part-time professor at the Grande Ecole de Commerce Kedge in France. The KEDGE course has been named by Forbes as one of the best entrepreneurship courses in the world. The 11m Euro Bordeaux Campus, where Kofi is leading an innovative training on Esports with co-facilitators from ESL, the Alibaba group, the television channel Arte and Sony Music France.

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