mAkE is African-European wide consortium project focusing on makerspaces as key drivers for local digital innovation. It aims at establishing mutual relationships and sustainable networks between African and European Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs).
The core concept of mAkE is to equip African and European hardware makerspaces and their members with relevant skills, infrastructures and regulation in order to support local businesses in implementing local digital innovation.
The goal is to help them to collaborate and scale up to become financially sustainable.
The Internet of Production Alliance is proud to be contributing towards this goal by enabling decentralized, local manufacturing to create new local value chains and business models.
Led by Manufacturing Change, an IOP Alliance member, the work on business models will result in:
Open Catalogue of Business Models is planned to be published in fall 2023.
A webinar series to present business models for makerspaces and makers.
View Youtube playlistThe IOP Alliance will create the following open specifications, tools and systems enabling makers and makerspaces across Africa and Europe to form a distributed manufacturing network.
A Specification for Skills will be developed, which will form the prototype of a Maker Passport.
Specification for Skills500 makerspaces and local manufacturers across Africa and Europe will be added to the IOP global map of machines.
Add your machinesA report on the requirements for distributed contracting will be published, a template for a distributed contract will be tested and a digital distributed system will be prototyped.
People and Skills Specification (PSS) is currently in beta. The final version is expected in June 2023.
World map of manufacturing developed under the Open Know-Where initiative.
Webinar series on Business Models.
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