ABOUT THE SPEAKER
DK Osseo-Asare - Designer
DK Osseo-Asare creates architecture with and for the people that design overlooks.

Why you should listen

Africa today has the youngest population and fastest rate of urbanization on the planet. How can we amplify indigenous innovation continent-wide to accommodate the needs of Africa’s next billion urban dwellers? Collaborating with thousands of young people in West Africa over the past decade, DK Osseo-Asare has pioneered new approaches to design and deliver architecture and inclusive innovation to people living in resource-constrained environments: reframing the micro-architectures of "kiosk culture" as urban infrastructure for resilience; experimenting with "bambots," or bamboo architecture robots; and prototyping off-grid in the Niger Delta an open-source model of hybrid rural/urban development for Africa.

In 2012, Osseo-Asare and Yasmine Abbas launched the Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform (AMP), a community-based project to empower grassroots makers in Africa and beyond. Co-designed with over a thousand youth in and around Agbogbloshie scrapyard in Accra, Ghana -- infamously mischaracterized as "the world's largest e-waste dump" -- AMP Spacecraft is an open architecture for "crafting space" that links a mobile structure with modular toolsets to help makers make more and better, together. AMP has deployed three spacecraft to date, with the goal of networking a pan-African fleet of maker kiosks that enable youth to reimagine (e-)waste as raw material for building digital futures, recycle better and unlock their creative potential to remake the world.

Osseo-Asare is co-founding principal of Low Design Office (LOWDO), a trans-Atlantic architecture and integrated design studio based in Ghana and Texas. He co-founded the Ashesi Design Lab as Chief Maker and is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Engineering Design at Penn State University, where he runs the Humanitarian Materials Lab (HuMatLab) and serves as Associate Director of Penn State’s Alliance for Education, Science, Engineering and Design with Africa (AESEDA).

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TEDGlobal 2017

DK Osseo-Asare: What a scrapyard in Ghana can teach us about innovation

DK Osseo-Asare: Kipi ambacho jalala lililopo Ghana linaweza kutufundisha kuhusu uvumbuzi

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Sehemu iitwayo Agbogbloshie, jamii iliyopo Accra, Ghana, watu huenda kwenye jalala kuokota vifaa vibovu vya kielectroniki ili kupata malighafi. Bila mafunzo maalumu, wachimbaji hawa wa mjini hujifunza wenyewe jinsi gani vifaa hivi vinafanya kazi kwa kuvifungua na kuvifunga tena. Mshiriki wa TED DK Osseo-Asare anajiuliza: Kipi kitatokea kama tutaunganisha mafundi hawa waliojifundisha pamoja na wanafunzi na vijana wataalamu katika nyanja ya STEM(Sayansi, Teknolojia, Uhandisi na Hisabati)? Matokeo: jamii ya waundaji iliyo kubwa ambapo watu wanaungana pamoja na kuhamasika kutokana na kile wanachotaka kutengeneza. Jifunze zaidi ni namna gani sehemu hii ya uundaji inaongoza katika uchumi ulio na mzunguko katika ngazi ya chini.
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Come with me to AgbogbloshieAgbogbloshie,
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Twende pamoja sehemu iitwayo Agbogbloshie
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a neighborhoodjirani in the heartmoyo of AccraAccra,
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eneo lililopo katikati ya jiji la Accra,
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namedjina lake after a god that livesanaishi
in the OdawOdaw RiverMto.
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sehemu ambayo imepewa jina la miungu inayoishi mto wa Odaw.
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There's a slumslum, OldZamani FadamaFadama,
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kuna kitongoji duni na kongwe, Fadama,
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builtkujengwa on landardhi reclaimedreclaimed
from the KorleKorle LagoonKulikuwa na ziwa,
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uliojengwa kwenye ardhi iliyochukuliwa toka kwa Korle Lagoon,
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just before it openskufungua
into the GulfGhuba of GuineaGuinea.
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kabla ya kufunguka kwenye ghuba ya Guinea.
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There's a scrapyardscrapyard here where people
take apartmbali all kindsaina of things,
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Kuna jalala la vifaa chakavu hapa ambapo watu hufungua kila aina ya kitu,
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from mobilerununu phonessimu to computerskompyuta,
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kuanzia simu za mkononi hadi kompyuta,
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automobilesmagari to even entirenzima airplanesndege.
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magari na hata ndege nzima.
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Agbogbloshie'sWa Agbogbloshie scrapyardscrapyard is famousmaarufu
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jalala la Agbogbloshie ni maarufu
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because it has becomekuwa a symbolishara
of the downsideupande wa chini of technologyteknolojia:
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kwa sababu pamekuwa ni ishara ya athari ya teknolojia:
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the problemtatizo of plannediliyopangwa obsolescenceobsolescence.
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tatizo litokanalo na mpango wa utupaji wa vifaa vilivyokwisha muda wa matumizi.
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It's seenkuonekana as a placemahali where devicesvifaa
from around the worldulimwengu endmwisho theirwao life,
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Inaonekana ni kama sehemu ambayo vifaa kutoka duniani kote hufikia mwisho wa maisha yake,
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where your datadata comesinakuja to diekufa.
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ambapo taarifa zako zinakwenda kufa.
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These are the imagesPicha
that the mediavyombo vya habari lovesanapenda to showonyesha,
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Hizi ni picha ambazo vyombo vya habari hupenda kuonyesha,
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of youngvijana menwatu and boyswavulana
burningkuwaka wireswaya and cablesnyaya
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za vijana wa kiume na wavulana wakiunguza nyaya
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to recoverkupona coppershaba and aluminumalumini,
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ili kuweza kupata shaba na alumini,
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usingkutumia StyrofoamStyrofoam and oldzamani tiresmatairi as fuelmafuta,
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kwa kutumia Styrofoam na matairi chakavu kama mafuta,
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seriouslykwa uzito hurtingkuumiza themselveswenyewe
and the environmentmazingira.
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wakijiumiza sana wao na mazingira.
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It's a super-toxicsuper-zenye processmchakato,
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Ni mchakato wenye madhara makubwa mno,
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producingkuzalisha pollutantsuchafuzi wa mazingira that enteringiza
the globalkimataifa ecosystemmazingira,
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uchafuzi ambao unaharibu mazingira ya ulimwengu,
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buildjenga up in fattymafuta tissuetishu
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unaojijenga katika tishu za mafuta
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and threatenkutishia the topjuu of the foodchakula chainmnyororo.
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na kutishia ngazi ya juu ya mlolongo wa chakula.
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But this storyhadithi is incompletehaijakamilika.
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Lakini hadithi hii haijakamilika.
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There's a lot we can learnkujifunza
from AgbogbloshieAgbogbloshie,
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Kuna mengi tunaweza kujifunza kutokea Agbogbloshie,
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where scrapchakavu collectedzilizokusanywa
from city-mji- and nationwidekote ulimwenguni is broughtkuletwa.
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ambapo vifaa chakavu vinakusanywa kutokea majiji yote kitaifa na kuletwa hapo.
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For so manywengi of us,
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Kwa wengi wetu,
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our devicesvifaa are blacknyeusi boxesmasanduku.
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vifaa vyetu ni sanduku za taarifa.
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We know what they do,
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Tunajua zinafanya nini,
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but not how they work or what's insidendani.
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lakini hatufahamu zifanyavyo kazi au kuna nini ndani yake.
01:55
In AgbogbloshieAgbogbloshie, people
make it theirwao businessbiashara
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Katika mji wa Agbogbloshie, watu hufanya hii ni biashara yao
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to know exactlyhasa what's insidendani.
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kwa kujua hasa yaliyomo ndani.
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ScrapVyuma dealerswafanyabiashara recoverkupona coppershaba,
aluminumalumini, steelchuma, glasskioo, plasticplastiki
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Mawakala wa vifaa chakavu hupata shaba, alumini, chuma cha pua, kioo, plastiki
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and printedkuchapishwa circuitmzunguko boardsbodi.
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na sakiti za kuchapisha.
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It's calledaitwaye "urbanmijini miningmadini."
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Inaitwa "uchimbaji madini wa mjini."
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It's now more efficientufanisi for us
to minemgodi materialsvifaa from our wastetaka.
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Ni rahisi sasa kwetu kupata madini na malighafi kutokana na uchafu wetu.
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There is 10 timesnyakati more golddhahabu,
silverfedha, platinumplatinum, palladiumPaladi
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Kuna dhahabu, fedha, platini, paladi mara kumi zaidi
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in one tontani of our electronicsumeme
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katika tani moja ya vifaa vyetu vya kielectroniki
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than in one tontani of oreore minedimechukuliwa
from beneathchini the surfaceuso of the earthdunia.
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kuliko katika tani moja ya mtapo wa jiwe la madini lililochimbwa kutoka chini ya ardhi.
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In AgbogbloshieAgbogbloshie,
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Mjini Agbogbloshie,
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weightuzito is a formfomu of currencyfedha.
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uzito ni mfumo wa fedha.
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DevicesVifaa are dissectedililichambua to recoverkupona
materialsvifaa, partssehemu and componentsvipengele
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Vifaa hufunguliwa ili kupata malighafi na vipande
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with incredibleajabu attentiontazama to detailmaelezo zaidi,
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kwa uangalifu mkubwa mno,
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down to the aluminumalumini tipsVidokezo
of electricumeme plugsplugs.
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mpaka chini kwenye ncha za plagi ya umeme zilizotengenezwa kwa aluminum.
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But scrapchakavu dealerswafanyabiashara don't destroykuharibu
componentsvipengele that are still functionalkazi.
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Lakini wakala wa vifaa chakavu hawaharibu vifaa vidogo ambavyo bado vinafanya kazi.
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They supplyusambazaji them to repairukarabati workshopswarsha
like this one in AgbogbloshieAgbogbloshie
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Huvipeleka kwenye karakana za matengenezo kama hii hapa mjini Agbogbloshie
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and the tensmakumi of thousandsmaelfu
of techniciansmafundi acrosskote the countrynchi
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na makumi ya mamia ya mafundi nchini kote
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that refurbishkukarabati electricalumeme
and electronicumeme equipmentvifaa,
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ambao hukarabati vifaa vya umeme na kielectroniki,
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and sellkuuza them as used productsbidhaa
to consumerswatumiaji that mayinaweza not be ableinaweza to buykununua
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ambao huviuza kama bidhaa zilizotumika kwa wateja ambao hawawezi kununua
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a newmpya televisiontelevisheni or a newmpya computerkompyuta.
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televisheni au kompyuta mpya.
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Make no mistakekosa about it,
there are youngvijana hackerswatapeli in AgbogbloshieAgbogbloshie --
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Usifanye makosa katika hili, kuna wadukuzi wadogo mjini Agbogbloshie --
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and I mean that in the very bestbora
sensehisia of that wordneno --
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Na ninamaanisha kwamba katika uhalisia wa neno hilo --
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that know not only
how to take apartmbali computerskompyuta
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sio kwamba tu wanajua kufungua kompyuta.
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but how to put them back togetherpamoja,
how to give them newmpya life.
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wanajua kuzifunga tena, na wanajua namna ya kuzipa maisha mapya ziendelee kufanya kazi.
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AgbogbloshieAgbogbloshie remindshukumbusha us
that makingkufanya is a cyclemzunguko.
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Agbogbloshie inatukumbusha kwamba kutengeneza ni mzunguko.
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It extendshuongeza to remakingremaking and unmakingunmaking
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Inaenda hadi katika kutengeneza tena na kufungua
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in orderamri to recoverkupona the materialsvifaa
that enableitawezesha us to make something anewupya.
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ili kuweza kuokoa vifaa ambavyo vinatuwezesha kutengeneza kitu kipya.
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We can learnkujifunza from AgbogbloshieAgbogbloshie,
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Tunaweza kujifunza kutoka Agbogbloshie,
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where cobblerswakikaidi remakeremake work bootsbuti,
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ambapo mafundi viatu hukarabati buti za kazi,
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where womenwanawake collectkukusanya plasticplastiki
from all over the cityjiji,
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ambapo wakina mama hukusanya plastiki kutokea pande zote za jiji,
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sortfanya it by typeaina,
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hupanga kwa aina,
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shredshred it, washsafisha it
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hukata, kuosha
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and ultimatelyhatimaye sellkuuza it back
as feedstockfeedstock to factoriesviwanda
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na kuuza tena kwa viwanda
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to make newmpya clothingnguo,
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ili kutengeneza nguo mpya,
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newmpya plasticplastiki bucketsndoo
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ndoo mpya za plastiki
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and chairsviti.
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na viti.
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SteelChuma is stockpiledwaliwezaje kuhifadhi separatelytofauti,
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Chuma cha pua hupangwa peke yake,
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where the carcassesmizoga of carsmagari
and microwavesmikro and washingkuosha machinesmashine
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ambapo machuma ya magari na majiko ya mionzi na mashine za kufulia
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becomekuwa ironchuma rodsviboko for newmpya constructionujenzi;
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hugeuka kuwa nguzo za chuma kwa ujenzi mpya;
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where roofingdari sheetskaratasi becomekuwa cookstovescookstoves;
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ambapo mabati hugeuka kuwa majiko ya kupikia;
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where shaftsshafts from carsmagari becomekuwa chiselschisels
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ambapo mipini ya magari hugeuka kuwa patasi
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that are used to scrapchakavu more objectsvitu;
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ambazo hutumika kuchambua malighafi katika vifaa chakavu;
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where aluminumalumini recoveredwalipata
from the radiatorsradiators of fridgesfrige
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ambapo alumini inayopatikana kutoka kwenye majokofu
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and airhewa conditionersviyoyozi
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na kiyoyozi
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are meltedkilichomwa down
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huyeyushwa
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and use sandmchanga castingakitoa to make
ornamentsmapambo for the buildingkujenga industrysekta,
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na kujazwa katika vitengeneza umbo kwa ajili ya kupata mapambo yatumikayo katika sekta ya ujenzi,
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for potsvyungu whichambayo are soldkuuzwa just down
the streetbarabara in the AgbogbloshieAgbogbloshie marketsoko
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au vyungu ambavyo huuzwa kwenye mitaa ya masoko ya Agbogbloshie
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with a fullkamili arraysafu of locallyndani ya nchi madealifanya
ovensmeko, stovesjiko and smokerswavuta sigara,
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na wingi wa majiko yaliyotengenezwa kienyeji,
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whichambayo are used everykila day
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ambayo hutumika kila siku
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to make the majoritywengi of palmmitende nutnut soupssupu,
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kutengeneza supu ya mbegu za mchikichi,
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of teachai and sugarsukari breadsmikate,
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kuchemsha chai na mikate ya sukari,
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of grilledgrilled tilapiaperege in the cityjiji.
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kuchoma samaki.
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They're madealifanya in roadsidebarabara workshopswarsha
like this one by welderswelders like MohammedMohammed,
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Yanatengenezwa katika karakana zilizopo pembezoni mwa barabara na mafundi kuchomelea kama Mohammed,
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who recoverkupona materialsvifaa
from the wastetaka streammkondo
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ambaye hupata malighafi kutoka katika vifaa vilivyotupwa
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and use them to make all kindsaina of things,
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na kutumia kutengeneza kila aina ya vitu,
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like dumbbellsdumbbells for workingkufanya kazi out
out of oldzamani cargari partssehemu.
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mfano vinyanyua uzito kwa ajili ya mazoezi vitokanavyo na vifaa chakavu vya magari.
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But here'shapa what's really coolbaridi:
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Lakini hili ndilo jambo la kufurahisha:
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the weldingkulehemu machinesmashine
they use look like this,
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mashine za kuchomelea wanazotumia kama hii,
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and they're madealifanya
by speciallyhasa coilingcoiling coppershaba
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zinatengenezwa kwa shaba maalumu zilizoviringishwa
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around electricalumeme steelchuma
recoveredwalipata from oldzamani transformertransfoma scrapchakavu.
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kwenye chuma cha pua kilichotokana na transfoma chakavu.
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There's an entirenzima industrysekta
just nextijayo to AgbogbloshieAgbogbloshie
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makingkufanya locallyndani ya nchi fabricatedyaliyotengenezwa weldingkulehemu machinesmashine
that powernguvu localmitaa fabricationupotoshaji.
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ambapo wanatengeneza mashine za kuchomelea ambazo hutumika kutengeneza vifaa.
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What's really coolbaridi as well is that
there's a transferuhamisho of skillsujuzi and knowledgeujuzi
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Uzuri ni kwamba kuna mabadilishano ya utaalamu na maarifa
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acrosskote generationsvizazi,
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kutoka kizazi kimoja kwenda kinachofuata,
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from mastersmabwana to apprenticeswanagenzi,
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kutokea kwa mwalimu kwenda kwa mwanafunzi,
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but it's donekufanyika throughkupitia activekazi learningkujifunza,
throughkupitia heuristicheuristic learningkujifunza,
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lakini inawezekana kwa kujifunza kwa vitendo,
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learningkujifunza by doing and by makingkufanya.
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kujifunza kwa kufanya na kutengeneza.
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And this standsinasimama in sharpmkali contrastTofauti
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Na hii inadhihirisha utofauti uliopo kutokana na
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to the experienceuzoefu
of manywengi studentswanafunzi in schoolshule,
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uzoefu wa wanafunzi wengi mashuleni,
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where lecturersWahadhiri lecturehotuba,
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ambapo walimu hufundisha ubaoni,
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and studentswanafunzi writeandika things down
and memorizekukariri them.
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na wanafunzi huandika vitu na kuvikariri.
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It's boringboring, but the realhalisi problemtatizo is
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Inachosha, lakini tatizo halisi ni
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this somehowkwa namna fulani preemptspreempts theirwao latentlatent
or theirwao inherentasili entrepreneurialujasiriamali powernguvu.
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kwamba hali hii huondoa uwezo wa nguvu yao ya kijasiriamali.
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They know booksvitabu but not how to make stuffvitu.
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Wanajua vitabu na sio namna ya kutengeneza vitu.
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FourNne yearsmiaka agoiliyopita, my cofoundercofounder
YasmineYasmine AbbasAbbas and I askedaliuliza:
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Miaka minne iliyopita, mimi na mwanzilishi mwenzangu Yasmine Abbas tuliuliza:
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What would happenkutokea if we could couplewanandoa
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Kipi kitatokea kama tukiunganisha
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the practicalvitendo know-howkujua jinsi gani of makerswatengeneza
in the informalisiyo rasmi sectorsekta
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utaalamu wa kiufundi walionao waliopo katika sekta isiyo rasmi
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with the technicalkiufundi knowledgeujuzi
of studentswanafunzi and youngvijana professionalswataalamu
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na maarifa ya kiufundi waliyonayo wanafunzi na vijana wataalamu
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in STEAMMVUKE fieldsmashamba --
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katika nyanja ya STEM --
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sciencesayansi, technologyteknolojia, engineeringuhandisi,
artssanaa and mathematicshisabati --
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sayansi, teknolojia, uhandisi na hisabati --
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to buildjenga a STEAM-poweredMVUKE-powered innovationinnovation engineinjini
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kutengeneza mfumo wa ukuzaji ubunifu unaoendeshwa na nyanja hizi
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to drivekuendesha what we call
"SankofaSankofa InnovationUbunifu," whichambayo I'll explainkuelezea.
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ili kuendesha kitu kiitwacho "Ugunduzi wa Sankofa," nitaelezea.
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We tookalichukua foraysforays into the scrapyardscrapyard
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Tulivamia majalala vya vifaa chakavu
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to look for what could be repurposedrepurposed,
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kuangalia kipi tunaweza kukipa umaana wake tena,
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like DVDDVD writerswaandishi that could
becomekuwa laserlaser etchersetchers,
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kama viandishi vya DVD vinavyoweza tumika kuchapa maneno kwenye metali
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or the powernguvu suppliesvifaa of oldzamani serversseva
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au kifaa cha kusambaza nguvu ya umeme katika seva
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for a start-upUwashaji in KumasiKumasi
makingkufanya 3D printersvichapishi out of e-wastee-taka.
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kwa ajili ya kampuni iliyoanzishwa Kumasi ambayo inatengeneza vichapishi vya 3D kutokana na taka za kielectroniki.
06:45
The keyufunguo was to bringkuleta togetherpamoja
youngvijana people from differenttofauti backgroundsasili
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Maana yetu ilikuwa ni kuleta pamoja vijana wadogo kutoka katika hali mbalimbali
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that ordinarilykawaida never have
anything to do with eachkila mmoja other,
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ambapo kwa kawaida hawana chochote kinachoweza kuwaunganisha pamoja,
06:52
to have a conversationmazungumzo
about how they could collaborateushirikiana
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kufanya maongezi ya namna ambavyo wanaweza kushirikiana
06:56
and to testmtihani and developkuendeleza
newmpya machinesmashine and toolszana
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kujaribu na kuunda machine na vifaa vipya
07:00
that could allowkuruhusu them to shredshred
and stripmstari coppershaba insteadbadala yake of burningkuwaka it,
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ambapo itawasaidia kukata na kuchuna shaba badala ya kuchoma moto,
07:04
to moldmold plasticplastiki bricksmatofali and tilestiles,
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kuunda matofali na marumaru,
07:07
to buildjenga newmpya computerskompyuta out of componentsvipengele
recoveredwalipata from deadwamekufa electronicsumeme,
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kutengeneza kompyuta mpya kutokana na vifaa vinavyotokana na mashine za kielectroniki zisizofanya kazi,
07:13
to buildjenga a droneNdege isiyoongozwa na rubani.
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kuunda ndege ndogo zinazoendeshwa kwa rimoti.
07:16
And here you can see it flyingkuruka
for the first time in AgbogbloshieAgbogbloshie.
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Na hapa unaweza kuiona ikipaa kwa mara ya kwanza katika Agbogbloshie.
07:22
(ApplauseMakofi)
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(Makofi)
07:27
YasmineYasmine and I have collaboratedwalishirikiana
with over 1,500 youngvijana people,
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Mimi na Yasmine tumeshirikiana na zaidi ya vijana wadogo 1500,
07:31
750 from STEAMMVUKE fieldsmashamba,
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750 wakitokea katika nyanja ya STEM,
07:34
and over 750 grassrootsmaeneo makerswatengeneza
and scrapchakavu dealerswafanyabiashara
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na zaidi ya 750 ambao ni mawakala wa vifaa chakavu
07:39
from AgbogbloshieAgbogbloshie and beyondzaidi.
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kutokea Agbogbloshie na sehemu nyinginezo.
07:41
They'veWao wameweza joinedalijiunga handsmikono togetherpamoja
to developkuendeleza a platformjukwaa
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Wameungana pamoja kutengeneza jukwaa
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whichambayo they call SpacecraftChombo cha angani,
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linalofahamika kama Spacecraft,
07:49
a hybridmseto physicalkimwili and digitaldigital
spacenafasi for craftingwakiunda,
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sehemu ambayo ni mchanganyiko wa eneo halisi na eneo la kidijitali kwa ajili ya uundaji,
07:53
more of a processmchakato than a productbidhaa,
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zaidi kuhusu mchakato kuliko bidhaa,
07:56
an openkufungua architectureusanifu for makingkufanya,
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ujenzi huru wa utengenezaji,
08:00
whichambayo involvesinahusisha threetatu partssehemu:
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ambao unahusisha namna tatu:
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a makerspacemakerspace kioskKiosk,
whichambayo is prefabLivingHome and modularmsimu;
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kibanda cha mtengenezaji, ambapo ni utengenezaji na uundaji;
08:04
toolchombo kitsvifaa vya whichambayo can be customizedumeboreshwa
basedmsingi on what makerswatengeneza want to make;
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vifaa ambavyo vinaweza rekebishwa kulingana na kile anachotaka kuunda mtengenezaji;
08:09
and a tradingBiashara appprogramu.
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na programu ya uchuuzi.
08:10
We builtkujengwa the appprogramu specificallyhasa
with the needsmahitaji of the scrapchakavu dealerswafanyabiashara
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Tumetengeneza programu hii mahususi kwa mahitaji ya mawakala wa vifaa chakavu
08:14
in mindakili first,
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tukiwaweka akilini kwanza,
08:15
because we realizedgundua that it was not enoughkutosha
to armmkono them with informationhabari
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kwa sababu tulitambua kwamba haikutosha kuwapa taarifa
08:20
and upgradedkuboreshwa technologyteknolojia
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na teknolojia ya kisasa
08:21
if we wanted them to greenkijani
theirwao recyclingkuchakata processesmichakato;
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kama tulitaka wafanye mchakato wa kurudisha malighafi uwe salama kwa mazingira;
08:25
they neededinahitajika incentivesVivutio vya.
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walihitaji motisha.
08:27
ScrapVyuma dealerswafanyabiashara are always looking
for newmpya scrapchakavu and newmpya buyerswanunuzi
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Wakala wa vifaa chakavu muda wote wanatafuta vifaa chakavu na wanunuzi wapya
08:30
and what interestsmaslahi them
is findingkutafuta buyerswanunuzi who will paykulipa more
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na wanachofurahia ni kupata mnunuzi ambaye atalipa zaidi
08:35
for cleansafi coppershaba than for burntkuteketezwa.
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kwa shaba safi kuliko iliyochomwa moto.
08:38
We realizedgundua that in the entirenzima ecosystemmazingira,
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Tuligundua kwamba katika mzunguko mzima,
08:40
everyonekila mtu was searchingkutafuta for something.
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kila mtu alikuwa akitafuta kitu fulani.
08:43
MakersWatunga are searchingkutafuta for materialsvifaa,
partssehemu, componentsvipengele, toolszana, blueprintsmiongozo
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Watengenezaji wanatafuta malighafi
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to make what it is they want to make.
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za kutengeneza vifaa wanavyotaka kutengeneza.
08:51
They're alsopia findingkutafuta a way
to let customerswateja and clientelewateja
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Pia wanatafuta namna ya kuwataarifu wateja
08:55
find out that they can repairukarabati a blenderblender
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kutambua kwamba wanaweza kurekebisha mashine ya kusaga matunda na mboga
08:57
or fixtengeneza an ironchuma
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au kurekebisha pasi mbovu
08:59
or, as we learnedkujifunza yesterdayjana,
to make a frenchKifaransa frykaanga machinemashine.
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au, kama tulivyojifunza jana, kutengeneza mashine ya kukaanga chipsi.
09:03
On the flipflip sideupande, you find
that there are endmwisho userswatumiaji
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Katika upande mwingine, utagundua kwamba kuna watumiaji wa mwisho
09:06
that are desperatelykwa makusudi looking for someonemtu
that can make them a frenchKifaransa frykaanga machinemashine,
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ambao kwa hali na mali wanatafuta mtu ambaye atawatengenezea mashine za kukaanga chipsi,
09:10
and you have scrapchakavu dealerswafanyabiashara who are
looking how they can collectkukusanya this scrapchakavu,
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na una wakala wa vifaa chakavu ambao wanatafuta namna wa kukusanya vifaa chakavu,
09:14
processmchakato it, and turnkugeuka it back
into an inputpembejeo for newmpya makingkufanya.
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kuvichakata, na kurudisha katika hali yake ya upya.
09:18
We triedwalijaribu to untanglekutatua
that knotjani of not knowingkujua
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Tulijaribu kufungua fundo la kukosa ufahamu
09:21
to allowkuruhusu people to find what they need
to make what they want to make.
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kuwafanya watu kutafuta wanachohitaji ili kutengeneza wanachotaka tengeneza.
09:24
We prototypedprototyped the makerspacemakerspace
kioskKiosk in AgbogbloshieAgbogbloshie,
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Tulitengeneza kibanda cha uundaji cha mfano katika Agbogbloshie,
09:28
conceivedmimba as the oppositekinyume of a schoolshule:
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ikionyesha utofauti wa shule:
09:31
a portalportal into experientialhatumia
and experimentalmajaribio makingkufanya
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sehemu ambayo ni ya kutengeneza kwa kufanya majaribio
09:35
that connectshuunganisha localmitaa and globalkimataifa
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ambayo inaunganisha kwetu na ulimwengu
09:37
and connectshuunganisha makingkufanya
with remakingremaking and unmakingunmaking.
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na inaunganisha kutengeneza, pamoja na kukarabati na kufungua vifaa.
09:41
We madealifanya a ruleutawala that everything
had to be madealifanya from scratchmwanzo
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Tulitengeneza sharti ambalo linasema kila kitu kinatakiwa kutengenezwa kuanzia mwanzoni
09:45
usingkutumia only materialsvifaa madealifanya in GhanaGhana
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kwa kutumia malighafi zilizotengenezwa Ghana
09:47
or sourcedinatolewa from the scrapyardscrapyard.
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au zilizopatikana kwenye jalala la vyuma chakavu.
09:50
The structuresmiundo essentiallykimsingi are
simplerahisi trussestrusses whichambayo boltbolt togetherpamoja.
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Muundo unatokana na mihimili ambayo inaungwa pamoja na bolti.
09:54
It takes about two hoursmasaa to assemblekusanyika
one modulemoduli with semi-skillednusu ya ujuzi laborkazi,
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Huchukua takribani masaa mawili kukusanya jengo moja kwa mjengaji mwenye utaalamu wa kati,
09:59
and by developingkuendeleza toolingzana
and jigsjigs and rigszitaanzishwa katika wilaya hii,
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na kwa kutengeneza vifaa,
10:02
we were ableinaweza to actuallykwa kweli
buildjenga these standardizedstandardized partssehemu
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tunaweza kutengeneza hivi vipande vya kuunda jengo
10:06
withinndani this ecosystemmazingira of artisanalwadogo welderswelders
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ndani ya mzunguko wa ufundi wa fani ya uchomeleaji vyuma
10:09
with the precisionusahihi of one millimetermillimeter --
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katika usahihi wa milimita moja --
10:12
of coursebila shaka, usingkutumia made-in-Agbogbloshiealifanya-katika-Agbogbloshie
weldingkulehemu machinesmashine,
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Kwa uhakika, tukitumia mashine za kuchomelea zilizotengenezwa Agbogbloshie,
10:15
as well as for the toolszana,
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na vile vile kwa vifaa,
10:17
whichambayo can lockfunga, the toolboxestoolboxes,
and stackstack to make workbenchesworkbenches,
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ambavyo vinaweza kufungwa, na kutengeneza mahala pa kufanyia kazi,
10:20
and again, customizedumeboreshwa
basedmsingi on what you want to make.
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na tena, kufunga kwa kulingana na unachotaka kutengeneza.
10:23
We'veTumekuwa testedkupimwa the appprogramu in AgbogbloshieAgbogbloshie
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Tumeijaribu programu ndani ya Agbogbloshie
10:26
and are gettingkupata readytayari to openkufungua it up
to other makermtengenezaji ecosystemsmazingira.
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na tupo tayari kuizindua kwa mizunguko ya watengenezaji sehemu nyingine.
10:30
In sixsita monthsmiezi, we'llvizuri have finishedkumalizika
threetatu yearsmiaka of testingkupima
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Ndani ya miezi sita, tutakuwa tumemaliza miaka mitatu ya kujaribu
10:34
the makerspacemakerspace kioskKiosk,
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kibanda chetu cha uundaji,
10:36
whichambayo I have to admitkukubali, we'vetumekuwa subjectedilitiwa
to some prettynzuri horrifickutisha abuseunyanyasaji.
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ambapo inabidi nikubali, tumefanya uharibifu wa kutisha sana.
10:40
But it's for a good causekusababisha,
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Lakini kwa maana iliyo nzuri,
10:42
because basedmsingi on
the resultsmatokeo of that testingkupima,
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kwa sababu kutokana na matokeo ya majaribio yetu,
10:44
we'vetumekuwa been ableinaweza to redesignredesign
an upgradedkuboreshwa versiontoleo of this makerspacemakerspace.
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tumeweza kufanya maboresho ya kibanda cha uundaji.
10:49
If a fabfab labmaabara is largekubwa, expensiveghali,
and fixedimara in placemahali,
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Kama maabara ya uundaji ni kubwa, iliyo ghali, na ipo mahala isipohamishika,
10:55
think of this as the counterpointcounterpoint:
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waza hili kama ulinganishi:
10:58
something low-costgharama nafuu,
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kile kilicho cha gharama ya chini,
11:00
whichambayo can be locallyndani ya nchi manufacturedviwandani,
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ambacho kinaweza tengenezwa kienyeji,
11:04
whichambayo can be expandedkupanuliwa
and kittedkitted out incrementallykwa kiasi kikubwa
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ambacho kinaweza kuongezwa vifaa na nafasi
11:07
as makerswatengeneza acquirekupata resourcesrasilimali.
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pale mtengenezaji anapopata vifaa vipya.
11:09
You can think of it as a toolshedtoolshed,
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Unaweza kuwaza ni kama vile kijisehemu cha vifaa,
11:12
where makerswatengeneza can come and checkangalia out toolszana
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ambapo watengenezaji wanaweza kuja na kuchukua vifaa
11:15
and take them viakupitia handcartmikokoteni
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na kuweka katika toroli la kusukuma na mkono
11:18
to whereverpopote they want in the cityjiji
to make what it is they want to make.
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popote pale watakapo ndani ya jiji kutengeneza kile wanachotaka kutengeneza.
11:21
And movingkusonga into the nextijayo phaseawamu,
we're planningkupanga to alsopia addongeza
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Na kuelekea katika hatua nyingine, pia tunapanga kuongeza
11:24
ceiling-mountedvyema na dari CNCCNC botsroboti,
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roboti waliofungwa kwenye dari,
11:27
whichambayo allowkuruhusu makerswatengeneza to cocreatecocreate
togetherpamoja with robotsrobots.
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ambapo itasaidia watengenezaji kutengeneza pamoja na roboti.
11:31
UltimatelyHatimaye, this is a kitkit of partssehemu
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Kwa uhakika, hii ni zana ya vifaa
11:33
whichambayo can be assembledwalikusanyika locallyndani ya nchi
withinndani the informalisiyo rasmi sectorsekta
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ambayo inaweza kusanywa kawaida katika sekta isiyo rasmi
11:37
usingkutumia standardizedstandardized partssehemu
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kwa kutumia vifaa vya wastani
11:38
whichambayo can be upgradedkuboreshwa collectivelypamoja
throughkupitia an open-sourcechanzo cha wazi processmchakato.
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ambavyo vinaweza boreshwa kwa pamoja kupitia mchakato huru na wazi.
11:46
In totalityjumla, this entirenzima
makerspacemakerspace systemmfumo
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Kwa ujumla, huu mfumo mzima wa sehemu ya uundaji
11:49
trieshujaribu to do fivetano things:
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unajaribu kufanya vitu vitano:
11:50
to enableitawezesha emergingkujitokeza makerswatengeneza
to gatherkukusanya the resourcesrasilimali they need
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kuwasaidia watengenezaji wanaochipukia kukusanya rasilimali wanazohitaji
11:56
and the toolszana to make
what they want to make;
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na vifaa vya kutengeneza wanachotaka kuunda;
11:58
to learnkujifunza by doing and from otherswengine;
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kujifunza kwa kufanya na kwa wengine pia;
12:01
to producekuzalisha more and better productsbidhaa;
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kutengeneza bidhaa nyingi na zilizo bora;
12:04
to be ableinaweza to tradebiashara
to generatekuzalisha steadyimara incomemapato;
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kuweza kufanya biashara na kutengeneza kipato imara;
12:06
and ultimatelyhatimaye, to amplifyinahusu
not only theirwao reputationsifa as a makermtengenezaji,
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na mwishoni, kuongeza nguvu si tu katika sifa yao kama watengenezaji,
12:10
but theirwao makermtengenezaji potentialuwezo.
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lakini pia uwezo wao wa utengenezaji.
12:13
SankofaSankofa is one of the mostwengi powerfulnguvu
AdinkraAdinkra symbolsalama of the AkanAkan peopleswatu
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Sankofa ni moja ya ishara za Adinkra zenye nguvu za watu wa Akan
12:17
in GhanaGhana and CoteCote d'IvoireCoast,
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nchini Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire,
12:19
and it can be representedkuwakilishwa as a birdndege
reachingkufikia ontokuingia its back to collectkukusanya an eggyai,
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na inaweza kumaanisha ndege anayegeuka nyuma ili kukusanya yai,
12:24
a symbolishara of powernguvu.
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ishara ya nguvu.
12:27
It translatesTafsiri literallyhalisi from the TwiTwi
as "returnkurudi and get it,"
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Inamaanisha kwamba "rudi nyuma na pata" kutokea kwa Twi
12:30
and what this meansina maana is that if
an individualmtu binafsi or a communityjumuiya or a societyjamii
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na hii ina maana kwamba kama mtu au jamii
12:35
wants to have a successfulimefanikiwa futurebaadaye,
they have to drawkuteka on the pastzilizopita.
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anataka kuwa na mafanikio siku za mbeleni, anatakiwa vuta kwa yale yaliyopita.
12:40
To acquirekupata and masterbwana
existingzilizopo waysnjia of doing,
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Kujipatia na kuzoea namna iliyopo ya ufanyaji vitu,
12:43
accessupatikanaji the knowledgeujuzi of theirwao ancestorsmababu.
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kutumia maarifa ya mhenga.
12:45
And this is very relevanthusika
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Na hii ni halisi
12:47
if we want to think about an inclusivepamoja
futurebaadaye for AfricaAfrika todayleo.
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kama leo tunataka kuwaza kuhusu Afrika ya kesho.
12:51
We have to startkuanza from the groundardhi up,
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Tunatakiwa kuanzia chini kuelekea juu,
12:54
miningmadini what alreadytayari worksinafanya kazi
for methodsnjia and for modelsmifano,
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kuchimbua kile ambacho tayari kinafanya kazi kwa namna na mifano,
12:58
and to think about how mightnguvu we
be ableinaweza to connectkuungana,
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na kuwaza ni namna gani tunaweza kuunganisha,
13:02
in a kindaina of "both-andwote- na,"
not "either-oreither-or" paradigmdhana,
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katika namna ya "vyote-pamoja" na sio "hiki-au kile",
13:06
the innovationinnovation capacityuwezo
of this growingkukua networkmtandao
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uwezo wa uvumbuzi wa mtandao huu unaokua
13:09
of techtech hubshubs and incubatorsmashine
acrosskote the continentbara
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wa vitovu vya teknolojia na sehemu za kutoa mafunzo barani
13:13
and to rethinkfanya upya beyondzaidi nationalkitaifa boundariesmipaka
and politicalkisiasa boundariesmipaka,
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na kuwaza tena zaidi ya mipaka ya kitaifa na kisiasa,
13:17
to think about how we can networkmtandao
innovationinnovation in AfricaAfrika
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kuwaza kuhusu namna gani tunaweza kutengeneza mtandao wa uvumbuzi barani Afrika
13:22
with the spiritroho of SankofaSankofa
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katika moyo wa Sankofa
13:24
and the existingzilizopo capacityuwezo
of makerswatengeneza at the grassrootsmaeneo.
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na uwezo uliopo wa watengenezaji waliopo katika ngazi ya chini.
13:30
If, in the futurebaadaye, someonemtu tellsanasema you
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Kama, siku za mbeleni, mtu atakuambia
13:31
AgbogbloshieAgbogbloshie is the largestkubwa
e-wastee-taka dumpkutupa in the worldulimwengu,
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Agbogbloshie ni jalala kubwa duniani la vifaa vibovu vya kielectroniki,
13:35
I hopetumaini you can correctsahihi them
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Nina imani unaweza kumrekebisha
13:37
and explainkuelezea to them that a dumpkutupa
is a placemahali where you throwkutupa things away
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na kumueleza kwamba jalala ni sehemu ambayo unatupa vitu
13:42
and leaveshika them forevermilele;
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na kuviacha milele;
13:43
a scrapyardscrapyard is where
you take things apartmbali.
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yadi ya vifaa chakavu ni sehemu unayovifungua vifaa hivi.
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WasteTaka is something
that no longertena has any valuethamani,
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Uchafu ni kitu ambacho hakina thamani tena,
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whereaswakati scrapchakavu is something
that you recoverkupona
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ambapo kifaa chakavu ni kitu ambacho kinakupa malighafi
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specificallyhasa to use it
to remakeremake something newmpya.
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mahususi kwa kutumia kutengeneza kifaa kingine kipya.
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Utengenezaji ni mzunguko,
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and AfricanAfrika makerspacesmakerspaces
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na sehemu za uundaji vifaa zilizopo Afrika tayari zinaongoza
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circularmviringo economyuchumi at the grassrootsmaeneo.
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katika uchumi mzunguko katika ngazi ya chini.
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Let's make more and better togetherpamoja.
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Tutengeneza zaidi na kilicho bora pamoja.
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Thank you.
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Asante.
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(ApplauseMakofi)
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(Makofi)
Translated by Nelson Simfukwe
Reviewed by Joachim Mangilima

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
DK Osseo-Asare - Designer
DK Osseo-Asare creates architecture with and for the people that design overlooks.

Why you should listen

Africa today has the youngest population and fastest rate of urbanization on the planet. How can we amplify indigenous innovation continent-wide to accommodate the needs of Africa’s next billion urban dwellers? Collaborating with thousands of young people in West Africa over the past decade, DK Osseo-Asare has pioneered new approaches to design and deliver architecture and inclusive innovation to people living in resource-constrained environments: reframing the micro-architectures of "kiosk culture" as urban infrastructure for resilience; experimenting with "bambots," or bamboo architecture robots; and prototyping off-grid in the Niger Delta an open-source model of hybrid rural/urban development for Africa.

In 2012, Osseo-Asare and Yasmine Abbas launched the Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform (AMP), a community-based project to empower grassroots makers in Africa and beyond. Co-designed with over a thousand youth in and around Agbogbloshie scrapyard in Accra, Ghana -- infamously mischaracterized as "the world's largest e-waste dump" -- AMP Spacecraft is an open architecture for "crafting space" that links a mobile structure with modular toolsets to help makers make more and better, together. AMP has deployed three spacecraft to date, with the goal of networking a pan-African fleet of maker kiosks that enable youth to reimagine (e-)waste as raw material for building digital futures, recycle better and unlock their creative potential to remake the world.

Osseo-Asare is co-founding principal of Low Design Office (LOWDO), a trans-Atlantic architecture and integrated design studio based in Ghana and Texas. He co-founded the Ashesi Design Lab as Chief Maker and is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Engineering Design at Penn State University, where he runs the Humanitarian Materials Lab (HuMatLab) and serves as Associate Director of Penn State’s Alliance for Education, Science, Engineering and Design with Africa (AESEDA).

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DK Osseo-Asare | Speaker | TED.com