CRADLE OF LEADERSHIP : Making of a Rural Entrepreneur
My Interview in Magazine Corporate Citizen Issue September 16-30, 2016
http://corporatecitizen.in/v2-issue13/cradle-of-leadership-making-of-a-rural-entrepreneur.html
विज्ञान आश्रमाच्या कामा निमित्ताने मला अनेक ठिकाणी बोलण्याची व लिहण्याची संधी मिळते. मला स्वत:ला यातून खुप शिकायला मिळते.या सर्व लिखाणावर विज्ञान आश्रमातील (www.vigyanashram.com ) कामाचा व डॉ.कलबाग यांच्या ’Rural Development through Education system (RDES)' या संकल्पनेचा खुप प्रभाव आहे. असं सर्व प्रासंगिक लिखाण या ब्लॉग वर मांडण्याचा उपलब्ध करण्याचा प्रयत्न आहे. आपल्या सुचना व चर्चेचे स्वागत आहे. आपला : डॉ.योगेश रमेश कुलकर्णी
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Fab Lab 0.0 to Fab Lab 0.4 - Learning from running a lab in an Indian Village
Abstract
Fab Lab in developing countries have different
operational problems. Within the constraints of resources, they have to prove
effectiveness and the impacts of utilization of Fab Lab for their community. Vigyan Ashram (VA)
Fab Lab was started in Pabal, a small village in western India
with the support of MIT and Fab Foundation in 2002 and has been operational
since then. It was started in a small 150 sq.ft tin shed with few machines.
This lab is used by rural youth mainly, school dropouts. As the utility of the Fab Lab was
experienced by the community, the lab grew in size. It saw three phases of
expansion in terms of physical space and machinery. This paper is presenting
challenges faced in this evolution in terms of machinery, inventory,
infrastructure, manpower and projects. It is also presenting different
approaches tried by VA to overcome these challenges.
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