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Success stories from Kenya's first makerspace

Kamau Gachigi · TED

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Africa needs engineers, but its engineering students often end up working at auditing firms and banks. Why? Kamau Gachigi suspects it's because they don't have the spaces and materials needed to test their ideas and start businesses. To solve this problem, Gachigi started Gearbox, a makerspace and hardware accelerator that provides a rapid prototyping environment for both professionals and people with no formal engineering background. In this forward-thinking talk, he shares some of the extraordinary projects and innovations coming out of his Kenyan fab lab.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDGlobal 2017
Speaker
Kamau Gachigi
Year
2017
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Business and management, Art, architecture and design
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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