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Demand from Africa :
Demand from Africa Ghana - 1 existing and 2 more requests
Kenya - 4 requests
Rwanda - 3 request
Cape Verde - 1
Uganda - 2
Nigeria - 1
South Africa - 3 existing and 5 more
Organic grassroots growth process leading to an institutional structure
Why this Demand?:
Why this Demand? Africans want to produce technology - need the TOOLS to fish not the FISH;
developing specific solutions to African problems like energy, etc
participation in the global technology space
develop industrial research capacity
create businesses from R andamp; D
engineer solutions that’s global in nature but local in context
reduce the gap between industry and academia
build required info and infra structure for competitiveness in the knowledge economy
The Fab Ecosystem:
The Fab Ecosystem International Research Institutions like MIT, CSIR etc
Fab Foundation - Global, Regional and National
Fab Fund
Governments
NGOs