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FabLab Research Report 2015 By: - Osunyomi Babasile Daniel, Tobias Redlich
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From the slums in India to the shacks in South Africa, the need for the creation of global and sustainable values are of paramount importance. The value creation concept aims to create not just a paradigm shift in strategies, but also a shift in the distribution of livelihood, thereby providing adequate means of wealth and job creation to the populace of a developing and less developed countries. From a global, national, and institutional level, many initiatives and organizations were rolled out to tackle the urgent issue of inadequate value creation, among which is FabLab. FabLab means fabrication laboratory, it is a small-scale workshop equipped with flexible computer controlled tools and systems for the production of digital fabrications of widely distributed products, which are used to encourage creativity and innovation among individuals irrespective of their geographical and demographical status. The focus of this paper is to uncover what FabLab is, study the strategies being utilised at FabLabs (that is, the mode of operation), and analyse the success rate of FabLabs by comparing FabLabs in developed countries to FabLabs in developing countries, so as to ascertain the accomplishment rate of the FabLab ecosystems. 2
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... Drawing from these acclaimed benefits, the GreenLab microfactory was introduced in the Nigerian community to further provide adequate studies of the FabLab concept in a third world country, to measure its significant contribution to the global competitiveness and innovativeness of a country as depicted in the global competitiveness report and global innovation index (Osunyomi & Redlich, 2015). ...
... Performing a headcount of FabLabs per country shows Egypt as the fore-leader with a total of 9 FabLabs, and South Africa holding the second place with 8 FabLabs. Moreover, a remarkable discovery was made about the functionalities of FabLab in South Africa, as one of the respondent to the survey conducted in 2015 (Osunyomi & Redlich, 2015) indicated that some FabLabs in South Africa were inactive. This importantly provides a glimpse to the sustainability and viability issue presently confronting the FabLab ecosystem which will be concluded at the end of this section. ...
The present overall impact of the FabLab initiative is tremendous, with records of its significance been recorded across different economic sectors, from the agriculture, energy, education, and to the health sector. However, with recorded advantages, Nigeria a country of approximately 200 million people does not have one. In lieu of this, on the 20th of April 2017, GreenLab Microfactory, the first registered FabLab on Nigerian soil, kicked off with a Do-It-With-Others (DIWO) workshop, appropriately named AJUMOSE meaning collaboration or cooperation in the Yoruba language. The goal of the workshop was to promote the FabLab concept in Nigeria, to the participants, through displaying the significance of collaboration and openness in solving social issues currently existing in the Nigerian community. This article gives an account of the event and its goals, detailing the results and findings from the workshop as well as benefits, lessons learnt which could be applied to future projects, and limitations of the event realised. The report also includes the analysis of feedback collected from the events participants.
The participation of spatially distributed individuals in the whole production cycle is feasible through the transnational possibilities of information, communication, and production technologies. To a much greater extent than ever before value creation is generated through the use of knowledge. Open Production is a concept which enables companies to apply the criterion of openness to the whole value creation process. These new patterns of value creation (bottom-up-economics) enable the realization of small firms, which combine the three production factors - labor, ground and capital - in one stakeholder. This article addresses the social aspect of sustainability and gives an overview on the chances of micro-factories to foster social sustainability in manufacturing and redirect development efforts towards a collaboration-oriented rather than a growth-oriented approach.
In this paper we present a series of Fab Lab workshops on reusing and repurposing existing objects. These workshops, called 'Hack-a-Thing', were organized as part of "THE MACHINE - Designing A New Industrial Revolution" exposition (see: http://www.the-machine.be/). The Hack-a-Thing workshops took place at FabLab Genk on the 7th and 8th of July and the 15th and 16th of September 2012. We invited people to bring old objects that they were bound to throw away, such as defect toasting machines, useless inkjet printers and other household appliances. The aim of the workshop series was to encourage the participants to reflect on the stuff they were about to throw away and show them how these objects could be easily repurposed using the Fab Lab infrastructure and network.
Internationally, efforts to increase student interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers have been on the rise. It is often the goal of such efforts that increased interest in STEM careers should stimulate economic growth and enhance innovation. Scientific and educational organizations recommend that efforts to interest students in STEM majors and careers begin at the middle school level, a time when students are developing their own interests and recognizing their academic strengths. These factors have led scholars to call for instruments that effectively measure interest in STEM classes and careers, particularly for middle school students. In response, we leveraged the social cognitive career theory to develop a survey with subscales in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. In this manuscript, we detail the six stages of development of the STEM Career Interest Survey. To investigate the instrument's reliability and psychometric properties, we administered this 44-item survey to over 1,000 middle school students (grades 6-8) who primarily were in rural, high-poverty districts in the southeastern USA. Confirmatory factor analyses indicate that the STEM-CIS is a strong, single factor instrument and also has four strong, discipline-specific subscales, which allow for the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics subscales to be administered separately or in combination. This instrument should prove helpful in research, evaluation, and professional development to measure STEM career interest in secondary level students.
There is a growing sense that the Digital Divide and the role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in international development need to be fundamentally reconceptualized. This paper presents the composition and the rationale behind the creation of a network of fabrication laboratories, FAB LABs, whose mission is to provide concrete examples that would lay the foundation for a new framework for this reconceptualization. At the heart of this idea is the belief that the most sustainable way to bring the deepest results of the digital revolution to developing communities is to enable them to participate in creating their own technological tools for finding solutions to their own problems. Each FAB LAB consists of a collection of tools for design and modeling, prototyping and fabrication, instrumentation and testing and debugging, and documentation for a wide range of applications in formal and informal education, health and environmental monitoring, as well as economic and social development.
The research vision of printing physical devices has been around for a decade, and in research prototypes this vision is being realized. With fabrication laboratories (fab labs) emerging around the world and with more powerful modular computing platforms becoming available, the possibility of creating innovative smart devices and ubicomp products is becoming reality.
Rapidly-changing technologies are changing the rules of business for many US corporations. New management approaches are needed to better couple business strategy and technology, and to offset the impact of short-term financial perspectives. The paper discusses the development of these approaches in a major US corporation, and their application to the corporate research laboratory.
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