Abstract from a paper co-authored by Anna Waldman Brown,Yaw Adu Gyamfi,Sharon Langevin,Abdulai Adam and George Yaw Obeng:
To manufacture anything in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) requires the same creative "maker" sensibility that is valued throughout the fab lab community. This presentation will draw upon research in one of Africa's largest informal industrial communities to explore the past and future of grassroots manufacturing, and examine how fab labs might be integrated into these communities. With over 80,000 technical artisans, auto-mechanics, and purveyors of related supplies, Ghana's Suame industrial cluster is a hotbed of West African manufacturing and creativity. Yet some of the local workshops are wooden shacks without ...
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