The Need for Both Makerspaces and Incubators in Africa

From WhiteAfrican Fri Feb 22 2013, 11:23:52

Maker Faire Africa 2012 in Pictures from WhiteAfrican on Vimeo. I've long been a proponent of getting more spaces set up for hardware prototyping and making of things in Africa. I wrote about it first in 2010 (Hardware hacking garages), then again in 2012 (Fab Factories: Hardware Manufacturing in Africa). I'm one of the founding [...]

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