1. Fab Labs in Africa Eric M.K Osiakwan ICT Consultant and Journalist Secretary of the Ghana ISP Association Executive Secretary of the African ISP Association Sun POPTECH 2005 Fellow eric@afrispa.org

3. 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

4. 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 & 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

5. The Fab Ecosystem International Research Institutions like MIT, CSIR etc Fab Foundation - Global, Regional and National Fab Fund Governments NGOs