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Kamau Gachigi: Success stories from Kenya's first makerspace
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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.
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Tedtalks;TED;Talks;Africa;business;collaboration;creativity;entrepreneur;innovation;invention;product design;technology;TED2017;2017
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