Good afternoon Me and we share I only have 15 minutes because of some rescheduling stuff

Mahatma story from ice Alexandria ice network is abbreviation for innovation collaboration and entrepreneurship and We are targeting these three main values the innovation and collaboration entrepreneurship and we have the sea in the middle because we we aim of collaborating with all the hubs that is sharing the same visions with with us and

Yeah The next slide please. Yeah, this was one of the photos we we had it in Kenya in one of the slums there Kibera Yeah, and I was just telling you that my name is Ahmad Bastawi and some people found it hard to pronounce it That's why in Africa in most of the countries there. I used to put my last name first initial

So it was B and then a smiley face and then they used to call me be happy Yeah, so in ice Alex we have Too many projects working on related to the entrepreneurship and we are trying to Enhance the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Egypt not only in Egypt, but collaborating with different countries in Africa and other

Countries and moreover we have the fab lab the fabrication laboratory as you know that Because we are talking Bilal was talking about the makerspaces generally and we have one of the projects The laser cutter that Moshira will talk about it later And I want to tell you about a free makers project that we we were collaborating with the Stefania on it

And we started that in Egypt actually in January. Yeah, could you slide please? Yeah, a free makers project mainly is The vision of a free makers is to empower young Africans to solve local challenges using the technology That's why we we had a free makers in different countries

Broly seven countries over Africa and the basic idea was to to train mentors to bus on the experience to the kids and to work collaboratively together on solving the local challenges they have and Some of the projects we have yeah as we see here some of the projects and pictures we have here for different countries

So there it was an I have in Kenya and there it was in Zambia and here it was in Egypt and all over the countries in Africa Yeah So these are some of the projects we have

So for example, one of the projects we had is the DIY microscope Do it yourself microscope and the basic idea was to use the old wet cans we have in our homes and use them as microscopes One of the other things that we had in Egypt as well the air quality monitoring session Station and the basic idea of it is to monitor the quality of the air the carbon monoxide

Air pollution generally to know how much pollution we have in each area and different Projects that has happened already in other countries and we are trying to build this Ecosystem between the African makers to work together Instead of having the idea of a white guy that went to Africa to teach them everything now

We have the African to African collaboration. Yeah Yes Yeah, and now Moshirah will talk about the laser cutter project and this is one of the projects we are trying to Work on in ice Alex to have it from just the idea of the prototyping into the market. So could you talk about it?

Hi everyone, my name is Moshirah, which is even more challenging to pronounce number story and So you might have seen this in the maker space quarter and it's a Laser cutter kind of work in progress, which I'm really interested in telling you. It's a story in like five minutes

So I approached ice Alex with the idea that I would like to make a laser cutter that's portable That's cheap And that's also works with a mobile phone so that anyone can use it if they can as long as they can sketch Or draw they don't really need to have a computer or need to have understanding of how drawing programs work

and So I went to the fab lab in ice Alex and I told him like yeah I have this idea and I would like to work on it and then they asked do you have a team and I was like not really so and this is where the crucial part was and it started with a suggestion like let's make a Facebook event and then elaborate on what we want to do and We're gonna put the example of the micro slicer, which is also like a portable low-power laser cutter

That's open source and you can find the instructions on indestructibles and this is what we did So we did a Facebook event and we just put like hey everybody we want to make a team to make a laser cutter We don't know yet how it works, but we want to do it So if you want to come and try with us, please join we had like 30 people attending virtually

but on the day of the event 14 people showed up and actually to my surprise that was like Whoa, like seriously, honestly, I arrived there and I stayed for like five minutes and I was like probably nobody's gonna show up Like who wants to come and build a laser cutter and then we were also like challenging the people that this is going to be

We're gonna learn together but 14 people showed up and each and every one of them had their Previous experiences of making they also have their passion about learning We had people from different Disciplines like electronics engineer mechanical makers hackers and they were all together in the room and everybody was like, yeah

I'm gonna take care of this. I'm gonna take care of that and we had like a to-do list after two hours I was like, wow For me that was like a big surprise actually to two days after we met and we actually had someone designing an initial prototype of a new design that's actually different from

The open source one found an instructables and from there one week after we even had another design It was someone was making and there we also had some iterations with electronics That was in mid-november Iteration after iteration trial after trial learning and learning

Until actually like last week we ended up with this It's not our final but it's pretty much progressive like it works and it solves most of the problem Prototype and It's Well, probably by July we need like two more iterations And I think we're gonna be done with the final product with the final application and everything

And actually I would like to take this opportunity to say that we are also going to be launching a crowdfunding campaign on better place better place org I'm sorry, I never heard about it before but but I'm sure it's gonna be a better place as long as it's terrible against raise money. So, of course, it's a better place

It's German. It's actually local and it's a tax deductible. So it must be more appealing to Germans than anyone else I need to wrap up. So The reason why I'm here is that I'm I was making a workshop on showing the people how to build the laser cutter That was just yesterday it lasted for two hours and

we're supposed to follow up and continue now in like 30 minutes and I found this very interesting because usually the The notion is that and no offense, huh? Why people go to Africa to teach people how to make things and today we have Africans teaching people how to do things Because also Victor Yay

Because there's also Victor Augustine from Tanzania who's been running workshops on the DIY Arduino and What else doing that solar? Yeah, the potable solar charger if you have seen that So thanks for listening. That was a short story Five minutes. Oh, yeah Questions for him. Yeah, we might have it ask questions. So we have questions here

Just a quick question on the target for the laser cutters is for cutting cloth and leather and What what do you what can you do with it? Yeah, I think we share has a target and I have another target So we can share them. Okay, what's

Okay, basically the the for me I'll talk generally about the hops and how the hops are looking forward to take Money from investors to support them in getting big machines that are closed and cannot hack The basic idea of the laser cutter is to to make something that's replicable and scalable and could be repeated easily

In a DIY culture aspect in different hops without Bombing too much money in that so as to if you manage it to finalize this prototype in a well-done case We can replicate it easily in the rest of the hops we have So this is one of the targets but the main target of the laser cutter itself. We should I can talk about it

So this is low power this is it's very good for craftsmen So if you can engrave on a t-shirt on fabric and you can cut paper So it's basically for I would say craftsmen crafts women Origami artists anyone interested in making things but they are not like into learning how to really draw and learn all the CAD software

It's also cheap. So Questions We have time for one more question. So anyone Okay, so I can run for my session Was thanks for listening. Thank you

So so quick 10 minutes follow up. We'll just be hearing quick examples from Indonesia and Brazil on the maker spaces over there and so for that we have era and Gabriella Gabriella will be speaking about the maker space in Brazil and era will be speaking about what's happening in Indonesia

Welcome ladies Hi, good afternoon everyone I'm Gabriella. I live in Rio Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and just to give some context

Brazil is a country in South America which is in this part of the world and basically is a huge country with around two hundred me two thousand hundred millions of people and Twenty seven states and we have Lots of things happen there because the areas are totally different one for each other

so when we talk about Brazil, it's not that easy because The the areas are completely different and entrepreneurship sin the tax in and everything is different over there but there are lots of things happen in connection, so We can talk about the whole country in a in a one sense

We are in a good moment our economy at the moment is like Is I think we are living our best moment that we have people are like find good jobs if you compare of course with the past and we are like in a in a better condition that we used to have to have and

We we still have a huge Inequality in the country So we have few people who is really read some medium class and some huge population That is living in not in a good condition But these things is getting better even and year by year, you know, so we can we can feel it

We can see so if you compare Rio de Janeiro, how was Rio de Janeiro five years ago? And how is it now or if you compare in ten years time is completely different So the things is getting better and we have a a really nice connection with internet So the things are going growing fast in the country

Brazilians are really passionate about social media So, I don't know if you heard about it before but it's like everyone the country is on Facebook We used to be the first country in the world in the orchids the last social network connection and The people spend quite a long time in this kind of network which make us which make for us a huge

opportunity business opportunity so lots of startups coming so lots of business and if some we have a cultural approach for this kind of Interactions the connections, you know, so for example this

This Twitter account is Juma Bolada is not official one It's just someone who is making joke about the president our president But the most surprised thing is the president is replying all the time and talk with the people Who is who is making this page and it's really fun and everyone the country is like following it and it's like

It's really common. This kind of things happen. For example, this is Juma Rousseff Is the president and the part of the section of the Twitter is like Juma Rousseff So they are just putting the people tracking all their selves that Juma is doing with people in the street around the country and putting

There we also have a hacker space inside the government now it's been like three months or maybe four that some Some hackers some hacker community just asked for a place inside the government So basically was the government open when hackathon for just one weekend like one year ago and some people

Start to work with the database and all these things and trying to make some apps and things Relate to the government and then they start to you know Just go to the place and ask for more space and now they have a space is free

Everyone can go there and there are some people just trying to make the things happen And it's like it's been three or four months months that is official when you go to the Congress you can see in the list of the space the hacker space the official one. It's quite it's quite funny We used to have a hacker minister

Joubert you I don't know if you if you heard about it before but he used to be a singer and then he He was a minister of culture for like four years and he could push lots of things In between the government and the hacker community and tech community and people who was really working in a bottom-up

initiatives So this one was a festival and he was there with everyone doing all the workshops and everything We also have a TV show a really popular one on Sundays called this kenta Which is basically bringing the all the internet culture to the TV. So they are just this girl Lwany

She used to be a vlogger about She was just saying about the reality and make some jokes about the people and everything You know, she has I space on this TV show. He's one of the lemos. He's He's in Brazil representing the media lab of MIT and he has I space on the show as well. So lots of

different ideas and things is in the TV in the On the Sundays, you know during the lunchtime. It's like makes it's really popular and now we also have it starts on Monday I think a new soap opera and these two guys will be like the

the principle How can I say the principle characters on the soap opera and they will be a hacker couple So this picture we made like few weeks ago We were helping them to understand all this kind of space and everything and real and we also have some Support from the government in official programs for startups and these things all these programs and initiatives. I like

starts like few years ago, so things just happen like really fast and This is this place that I mean, this is the place that I'm running Rio is a co-working space So we have two houses at the moment and 210 people working inside there and some freelancers

Some of them are companies some nonprofits. We we can find different kinds of people we are also working in workshops doing some trainings and course and try to active this network and There are some pictures of our space and

We also have now this new this new house that there is a pool inside so you can even swimming While you are working, it's nice and We are open now this month a maker space inside the co-working space. So we are just at this moment

Just inviting people who is already working in robots technology electronics Software and whatever just to come and make this space with us. So we I think we can open like in two weeks or something like that and

Now we will see what's happened there. This is our website and our page and Facebook if we want to follow it and and here are some challenge that We are having the country at the moment if I can put a like in just a few words about the entrepreneurship scenes like

Basically, I think them the most difficult thing at the moment is To spread this culture to all the areas in the country because basically all the connections and all these initiatives are happening in Rio and Sao Paulo Minas in the south of Brazil is not something that's strong in the whole country and it's such a big challenge to make it

happen You know to bring it to different parts of the country where you don't even have sometimes internet You don't have infrastructure and everything So we've been working with the government to try to help them to make some public policies and some foundations and all this kind of

People who is looking for the situation and I think is that's our main challenge at the moment And I don't know if you have some questions. I'm confusing about the time I think I start to count in a wrong way. So I don't know how how many time we still have But I think one minutes

Four minutes, so if someone want to ask something no, no one What projects are you most excited about that the that the makers are working on In in the templo space are there projects that you think are most interesting?

Yeah, we have weak house weak houses English project. That is now is a start in Rio Is about to an open design community to trying to construct house with different kinds of materials We have metamakana which I start up focus on

They are they are building 3d printers in our open hardware associated with open hardware communities There are some guys from It's called overdrive electronics It's an start-up just focus to training people how to deal with electronics that are engaged with a company

For software just to make like crowdsource softwares and engage the people to understand more about software There are some freelancers guys working in whatever in hardware and software and lots of things and the people is like

Just coming and start work There are some people working in with art and technology these intercess actions with sensors or something I think it's called we sense or something like that We didn't open already all these people just came came before so we are not that well organized in this area yet

So we are basically preparing the space and building some machines with these people who just start before the things Opened, you know, so but we already has this we have these people work together Which is really cool because basically we didn't buy any machine and nothing We just put on a Facebook that we we had in the space and we want to work

More closely to this kind of things and then the people just came and bring their own machines So we have the CNC from the week house project we have like just the people in their machines because they want to work together and share knowledge and they want to

Understand about other subjects related and some of them are looking for To understand how can they improve their own business and how can they Make it work into an open cause some people is just working in technology like Just for fun and they are look at it and say oh, maybe we can make something with these

Maybe I can leave with this project. So this is why they they are attracted to come in and that's it Great thank you so much Gabriela. Yes. I'll be here if you want someone want to talk and ask something I'm Open for everything. So, thank you. Thank you Gabriela. And now last but not least we will hear from era on their

Experiences and what's happening in Indonesia. So era welcome. So hello. So, my name is era era

Just call me era so I come from Indonesia. So we will wait until Presentation

Yeah, so I come from home it's refers to house of natural fiber so we come from Java small island in Indonesia and we started in 1999 and It just a little carriage before and then Yeah, it's us at 1999. So young and don't know what to do actually so

We are like group of designers it was after a formation so after Revolution and then it was no jobs that I'm in Indonesia. So we started home as as as a place how we can create and how we can do something instead of going to the street and do some

revolutions and then in 2011 so we established the first flap in Jakarta and Also in Southeast Asia and 2011 so we have three places one is called full fuck. It's a

hacker space and also but focusing on space science and bio-hacking and we also have fun for platform digital Prototyping and then also on factory that focusing on graphic prototyping. So I will show you Some slides of what we do. This was some of the project that full fuck running

And this is our lap on flap and we're doing many workshops also doing many research and making things This is one factory where it's it's also function as co-working space

So many people come there also street artists and then it's focusing on urban issues And then all of our activities actually run by one curriculum. We created a curriculum called education focus program. So

It is workshop or art or anything it has to be under education focus program We have two annual festival every year. So one is called search pattern

It's a community festival. So it's run by communities and then we are working with a lot of institutions So mostly we serve very low budget festival

And the other one is the international video festival so we do the exhibition in the

traditional market This is some projects that we develop is called micronation macronation. I will tell you about it later

It is some projects and events that we join

This one of the Project that we run under flap because we call win play. So actually it's a competition

so we are working with for you major universities and then and we also working with the Cooper plan, so the students so the university have the students come to the flap lap and they have to develop something for a window display and then

and then they will show it and then they will also collaborate with the With the Cooper to show to show it in the mall and then so people will fought through social media It was rich almost 10,000 People through social media. So it went very successful and then the other one is locust prosthesis

So we are working with the West Society now one institution in Amsterdam, Netherlands So actually it's a research project and how can you make a locust prosthesis through? Flap machines and then how you can make a self-adjustment prosthesis in in flap

touch some projects and then this project for micronation macronation Actually, it's reacted to the Indonesian government That plan to get the subsidies of the fewer so we make System a sustainable system like how you can democratizing the energy and then can

System energy and food independence So you can see this is the sustainable project. So we are also working with the farmers Yeah, we are working with from Muslim Prophet organization to independent ICT institution farmer university

artist designer and scientist to make it happen So this is the sites at the village and we also presented and in the gallery the showcase of the how we turn the hay into

biodiesel This is another initiative for exact slap. This is This focusing on girls learning like electronic art and then to DIY electronic and also we using like Do it with other system and this is South kitchen. It's focusing on the

By you're hacking and with yourself by you in the kitchen. So it's mostly for girls and children So this is some examples what we do and then also some of our research project

We make it into an artwork as can be installation or can be performance so this is one of the example of the project research that we did that we did with the Water pollution in the river in Jakarta And then this is a ultrasonic project that we do in the area 51

But how can you get the senior like ultra frequency signal and ultrasonic senior? And this is an asset actor project actually like how you can get energy from the plans and then how you can

make Something that doesn't have Life can can breathe from the planet This is one project called intelligent bacteria, so this very simple project actually and about fermentation process this project actually because of

many people died in Indonesia because of They round to use methanol instead as ethanol So and then this project is show how to save fermentation process and we work with the microbiology students from one university and Then it show as installation because every different fruits make every different sound so we call it the spectre orchestra

then Okay, so that's it since that what we do actually So 10% talking 10% hacking 10% making and 70% rock and roll