This Presentation was made Babasile Daniel during the AfricaOSH2018

1. Green Approach to Make Makers in
Emerging Economies: Impact of Digital
Fabrication in Africa
Babasile Daniel Oladele-Emmanuel
Presented at the
Africa Open Science Hardware.
Kumasi Hive, Ghana.

2. Quotes
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach
him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”.
Chinese proverb
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve
me and I learn.”
Benjamin Franklin

3. Continental presence analysis of FabLab

4. About the GreenLab Microfactory

5. Ajumose

6. Event poster

7. About Ajumose
• The major agenda of Ajumose was to promote collaboration,
openness, communal learning environment, and development.
• Exemplify the need and Significance of collaboration
• Provision of solutions to social problems by localizing the resources
used for production
• Introduce the community to 3D printing technologies and techniques

8. Day 1

9. Day 2

10. Day 3

11. Lessons learnt
• As a community it is possible to achieve a lot if given an enabling
environment. Despite all the setbacks experienced, the successful
execution of a DIWO workshop is majorly reliant of the
complementarities, accumulation, and utilization of diverse
knowledge and experiences.
• Bottom-up development approach is a ‘One size fits all’ approach i.e.
it is beyond small-scale manufacturing process.

12. Benefits
• Introduction and provision of new knowledge, information, and technology
• Social and community togetherness where Ajumose noticeably brought joy and
opportunity to a community of individuals that otherwise may not have had such an
opportunity
• Empowered participants and the community to think about and be drivers for change
in their innovation space therefore enabling the solving of social issues, especially in
the region of electricity generation, through the development of a solar panel system.
• Introduced opportunities for participants to develop both technical and intellectual
skills in the form of soldering, equipment construction and critical thinking
• Recycling and reusability of resources otherwise rendered useless in the form of the
salvaged wood used for the frame of the solar panel
• Tinkering: This became obvious when the 3D development team noticed some
differences in the rods of the y-axis and z-axis of the RepRap 3D printer being
assembled. They collaboratively solved the problem with the y-axis, but the z-axis was
unable to be fixed.

13. Limitations
• Inadequate access to Internet services
• Epileptic power supply
• Inconsistent Group Leadership
• Unparalleled assignment of roles and responsibilities
• Cumbersome workload of the workshop on the organizer
• Inadequate tools and equipment
• Insufficient funds
• Non-functioning 3D printer machine

16. Agenda of GreenLab microfactory
• Formal establishment of the GreenLab Microfactory
• Acquisition of more digital fabrication equipment
• Conduction of more workshops
• Agriculture
• Grassroots research and development projects
• Development of more Open Source Appropriate technologies

17. Website: www.greenlab-microfactory.org
Email: info@greenlab-microfactory.org or
Babasile.Daniel@greenlab-microfactory.org
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