Open World: Twende Community Tech in Arusha, Tanzania

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Twende is a social innovation center in Arusha, Tanzania. Their mission is to empower people to become creative problem solvers who create technology solutions for community challenges— and they do! In partnership with MIT’s IDIN (International Development Innovation Network), they’ve built a community makerspace; they run workshops with hundreds of participants in “Creative Capacity Building,” innovation methodologies, and specific technologies; and they support ongoing development of several community technologies, from mining rock drills and multi-crop threshers to plastic recycling.

https://makezine.com/2018/01/01/open-world-twende-community-tech-arusha-tanzania/

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