Fablab Kenya

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Computers & IT

Nairobi, Kenya

Fab Lab (fabrication laboratory) is a small scale workshop with the tools to make almost anything. This includes technology-enabled products generally perceived as limited to mass production. Fab Lab will empower individuals to create smart devices for themselves. These devices can be tailored to local or personal needs in ways that are practical and economical.

It works in co-operation with Arc-Kenya – a determined organization aiming at empowering the local poor people in Kenya through capacity building, projects support, resource mobilization and creation of objective linkages from local to international perspectives.

ARC-Kenya is an idealistic, independent humanitarian organization which works in close cooperation with partners involved in poverty eradication, local development and reconciliation processes across all borders of life. ARC-Kenya wish to enhance and strengthen value based understanding, learning and cooperation.

ARC-Kenya aims to become an innovative stakeholder in transforming the lives of the less fortunate in order to fight poverty in any form it occurs. We believe in changes, development and improvement through mutual exchange of ideas, inspiration, human resources and experience. Poverty is often a “State of Mind”. Co-operations in changing poverty promoting cultures, traditions and habits are basic values.

ARC-Kenya believes that all human beings share the same intrinsic values and that we all have great possibilities in terms of developing our resources, societies and ourselves. In order to fulfil our potential for creativity and action we need to cooperate, enhance and strengthen understanding and learning between people in the North and the South. ARC-Kenya focuses on social justice, empowerment and economic independence.

ARC-Kenya promotes sharing experiences from our national, political and so cio-cultural contexts, in order to create institutional collaboration and learning processes between our partners, within our organizations, and in our network.

The Fab Lab program is part of the MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) which broadly explores how the content of information relates to its physical representation. ARO Fablab Kenya West will was launched in September 2008. Three students: Vigdis, Apondi and Tom, all from ARC Kenya are now studying at the Fablab Norway to learn the basics and the tools in the lab that will easen their work when ARO Fablab Kenya West is finally lauched.

ARO Fablab Kenya West is mainly an educational center and anybody who feels like using the lab will do that without restrictions unless otherwise.

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