Kamau Gachigi: Success stories from Kenya's first makerspace
Kamau Gachigi: Sikertörténetek Kenya első digitális alkotóműhelyéből
At Gearbox, Kamau Gachigi empowers Kenya's next generation of creators to prototype and fabricate their visions. Full bio
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of Africa will have doubled.
meg fog duplázódni.
will be African at that point,
a Földön afrikai lesz,
and daunting all at once.
for the first time in the modern era,
to bully everybody else.
hogy mindenki mást terrorizáljanak.
to have to have economies
olyan gazdaságokra,
a nagyrészt fiatalokból álló,
are going to be very young.
have a plan for this economic growth --
van terve erre a gazdasági növekedésre -
Vision2030-nak hívjuk -
on industrialization.
a IV. Ipari Forradalmat éli meg,
Industrial Revolution right now,
and biological worlds.
massive interconnectivity
of artificial intelligence and robotics,
és a robotok jelenléte miatt
and are used to right now
is a lot greater, in many ways,
was industrializing, for example.
Ázsia iparosodásánál volt.
of person that you need
on the continent.
the number of engineers
when they were industrializing,
who are studying engineering
in auditing firms and banks,
vagy bankoknál köt ki,
doing accounting and so on
számlázással, stb. töltik,
to do my undergrad and postgrad education
és posztgraduális tanulmányaimat
és az USA-ban végeztem,
in countries, environments,
that you required,
for about three years in Japan
to having good equipment,
at the University of Nairobi,
Mérnöki karához,
and be on the continent.
I was really quite useless,
hogy nem tudok dolgozni,
that I had become accustomed to available.
amihez korábban hozzászoktam.
find very bright ideas in their minds
akiknek nagyszerű ötleteik voltak,
things that I knew
to the challenge of industrialization.
keltette kihívásokhoz.
and became quite entrepreneurial
vállalkozóvá váltam,
to buy the equipment that we required.
a szükséges felszerelésekre.
out of MIT, called the Fab Labs.
with not very expensive equipment,
kis, olcsó felszereltségű helyeken
a government official
egy kormányhivatalnokot,
where I was teaching.
az egyetemnek, ahol tanítottam.
of innovations coming through,
in this context at the university,
from different disciplines
tudományágakból
together in the same space.
a labot és a gyakorlati feladatokat.
who weren't engineers at all
who had nothing to do with the university,
akiknek semmi közük nem volt
differently from one another,
is really good for innovation.
came and said to me,
odajött, és azt mondta,
who spend most of the time in the Fab Lab
nagy részét a Fab Labban töltik,
so well in certain things
amiben annyira jeleskedtek,
and offering services for money.
és pénzért árulták azokat.
weren't focusing on their studies.
what a good problem to have.
I'm an academician.
things were a bit too bureaucratic,
kicsit bürokratikus volt,
with people who, in Nairobi,
azokkal, akik Nairobiban
and things like that.
are really quite famous.
which we are setting up right now.
amit most indítunk el.
a wide range of equipment,
tools that I mentioned,
so you come in, you pay,
and do whatever it is that you want,
és azt csinálunk, amit akarunk.
an engineer, necessarily.
are setting up a small company.
and are able to set up their offices.
és irodákat hoznak létre.
for a certain period of time.
to accommodate all of this
that is really quite active.
mely meglehetősen aktív.
over here is Douglas,
who was really active in the Fab Lab.
is a copper sheet.
egy rézlemez van.
that the client came to him and said,
majd megkereste az ügyfél:
for a pay-as-you-go system."
egy felosztó-kirovó rendszerhez."
and services for very poor people
sokkal könnyebben hozzáférnek árukhoz
because they're able to pay a little bit,
hiszen keveset tudnak fizetni.
to pilot a new idea that they had,
akart volna megvalósítani,
what the circuit will be
hogyan fog kinézni a hálózat,
to an etching process --
using this robot.
ennek a robotnak a segítségével.
a day or something to solder by hand,
kézzel összeforrasztani,
using this machine.
the entire order within Gearbox,
az egész rendelést határidőn belül,
what we provided right now,
volna azt, amit most,
a company in China to do this,
it would have taken a long time.
sok időbe tellett volna.
wouldn't take small orders,
kis rendeléssel,
is really very important,
igencsak fontos.
within the progress of the business idea
az üzleti ötlet megvalósításában,
go back and make corrections and so on.
és változtathatunk rajta, stb.
of a digital fabrication machine.
it doubles as a plasma cutter
the cutting of plate and sheet metal,
páncélos lap és fémlemez vágására,
a design on the computer
it will cut the shapes you want.
a kívánt a formát.
and put on a spindle,
by my Head of Engineering.
a lot of people
and become a good story for us."
sztorid kapóra jön majd.
using his machine
for Isuzu truck fabrication in Nairobi,
tehergépkocsi gyártásához Nairobiban,
equipment manufacturer in Nairobi
berendezésgyártó Nairobiban,
an industrial robot
a General Motorst.
the population growth being what it is,
are looking very closely
Volkswagen, Peugeot, Renault,
a Peugeot, a Renault,
they've been there a long time.
járműveik összeszerelését,
planning to assemble vehicles
itt is gyártják le.
to manufacture in the country.
alkalmazottak képzését tervezik,
to train lots of people that they'd hire,
for the economy,
their parts for the vehicles
a járműalkatrészek felvásárlását
is something that's very important
az, ami nagyon fontos nekünk,
and to have very productive economies,
gazdaságok megalapozására.
we're focused on at our space.
another class of customer that he has.
egy másik típusát mutatja.
who are actually using very crude tools
akik nyers eszközöket használnak
of about 44 million people.
are in the informal sector.
az informális szektorban van.
at the top left over there
for the marketplace
Wachira up with a bank,
to train people from this sector
a szektorból képezzen embereket
to buy the machine for themselves.
vehessék meg a gépet.
where they can carry their material,
ahová magukkal vihetik az anyagot,
that have been made really, really fast
ami nagyon hamar elkészült,
for example, out of metal,
they might make 10 in a day.
akár 10 is készülhet egy nap.
of our population
nagy részének termékenysége
amount, quite significantly,
so this is really very exciting.
szóval ez nagyon izgalmas.
about a problem that she explained.
aziránt, amit elmondott.
every month by young girls
kihagynak tanítási napokat
to buy a sanitary towel.
packaged these in bundles of seven to 10,
7-10 darabos csomagokban adják,
is unhygienic at the retail level,
kereskedelmi szinten nem higiénikus,
of them is too expensive.
which is brilliant, and simple.
egyszerű megoldást.
can break down the bundles
kibontja a csomagokat,
these sanitary towels
in a public space, in a school, and so on.
nyilvános helyen, iskolában stb.
and it worked really very well,
get the bugs out and so on.
is that the piloting process is possible.
a kísérletezés fázisa.
to be able to help her to do this,
a megvalósítás érdekében.
with a business accelerator,
that was done at University of Nairobi
projekt eredménye látható,
a solar cell into a roof tile
who is an architect,
who is doing development and say,
egy fejlesztőnek, akinek azt mondták:
of just the roof tile without the solar."
mint a napelem nélküli cserépnek."
using the internet of things over time,
használják felrakásukhoz,
of the utility charges for the electricity
kell majd kifizetniük,
back to the grid.
quite a few installments.
to show this to somebody kind of famous,
valakinek, aki viszonylag híres –
actually presented the same idea,
az ötletet mutatta be,
if it was after us, so --
minket utánozott, szóval –
of course being able to prototype
hogy prototipizálhattunk
in this kind of a setting
for the industrialization process,
az iparosodási folyamatnak,
of a lot of new ways of doing things:
lehetőséget is kihasználjuk:
circular production.
for not just industrializing
nem csak az iparosodáshoz,
that the environment is taken care of.
a környezet védelmét.
around who we were as Africans,
kik voltunk mi, afrikaiak,
and ethnicity and corruption and so on.
a korrupció, stb. fényében.
adding value to people
értéket adunk az embereknek,
to things or materials
értéket a dolgokhoz, anyagokhoz,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kamau Gachigi - TechnologistAt Gearbox, Kamau Gachigi empowers Kenya's next generation of creators to prototype and fabricate their visions.
Why you should listen
Dr. Kamau Gachigi is the founding executive director of Gearbox, Kenya's first open makerspace for rapid prototyping, based in Nairobi. Gearbox provides a unique window into Industry 4.0 capabilities to innovators in Kenya, and it offers incubation/acceleration services. Gachigi also co-founded the Africa Innovation Ecosystems Group (AIEG), a company that focuses on creating and managing real-estate based innovation centers of varying scales.
Before establishing Gearbox, Gachigi headed the University of Nairobi's Science and Technology Park, where he founded a fab lab full of manufacturing and prototyping tools in 2009. He then built another lab at the Riruta Satellite in an impoverished neighborhood in the city. Gachigi is a member of the Global Council on the Future of Production under the World Economic Forum and of the consultative advisory group of the World Bank's Partnership for skills in the Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology.
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