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Beyond bootstrapping: the liberian ilab as a maturing community of practice
While Information and Communication Technology (ICT) access in Liberia is still low, use of PCs, mobile phones and the Internet is rising. A relatively recent option for learning ICT skills is Liberia's iLab technology hub founded in 2011 to encourage and support a local technology community. We have partnered with the iLab since its founding to offer summer courses taught by a student instructor. In this paper, we describe how the iLab's community-based learning approach has advanced from the coalescing stage, identified in earlier research, towards the maturing stage, despite obstacles. We use Lave and Wenger's Community of Practice (CoP) framework as the analytic structure to present results from our data consisting primarily of interviews with course participants. We contribute to research on technology hubs in Africa and highlight the role of community-based learning for technical skill acquisition even in resource challenged settings.