Innovation Centers

Innovation center partners are community organizations connecting people to resources, education, infrastructure, and support for the development of technologies that will have an impact on communities living in poverty. 

Each center is unique, its offerings a reflection of its founders and the community it serves, but all of them provide a basic foundation:

  • Training in design and fabrication
  • Shared tools and equipment for prototype and product fabrication in a variety of materials 
  • Space in which to gather, learn, and create
  • A community of like-minded individuals with whom to share and test ideas for development solutions

IDIN-affiliated innovation centers are up and running in Botswana, Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nepal, Pakistan, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.

Connect with Our Innovation Center Partners

If you’re interested in learning more about our innovation center partners, in visiting, volunteering, interning at a center, or in partnering with one or more of them, feel free to contact them directly through the channels listed below. You can also learn more about them on by reading our blog! 

AFRICA 

 

Artisan Hive
Cameroon

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ChangeHub Innovation Centre
Run by ChangeHub Kenya, LTD
Lang'ata Women's Prison, Nairobi, Kenya

 

Facebook

D'Kar Innovation Centre
Managed by These Hands GSSE
D'Kar Botswana

 

Email

DefkoAkNiep Lab
Managed by Ker Thiossane
Dakar, Senegal

Web
Facebook
@DefkoLab

Fablab Kivuli
Managed and run by Gearbox 
Nairobi, Kenya

 

Facebook

Global Innovation and Creativity (GIC) Space
Bamenda, Cameroon

 

Web

InLabs
Managed by Global Minimum 
Nairobi, Kenya

 

Web
Email

Kafue Innovation Center
Kafue, Zambia

Facebook

Kepler Tech Lab
Kigali, Rwanda

Web
Facebook
@KeplerTechLab

Kumasi Hive
Kumasi, Ghana

Web
Facebook
@kumasiHive

Tet Center
Managed by Caritas, Gulu Archdiocese
Pader District, Uganda

 

Email

Twende Innovation Center
Plot 146TASO Buildings (South Side)
Njiro, Arusha, Tanzania

Web
Facebook
@twendetz

Victronix Workshop
Operated by Victronix
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

 

Email

 

 

LATIN AMERICA

 

C-INNOVA - Centro de Innovación de Tecnologías Apropiadas y Educación
Bogotá, Colombia 

Web
Facebook

Vila Nova Esperança Community Innovation Center
Managed by Caos Focado
São Paulo, Brazil 

 

Facebook
YouTube Channel

Makerspaces at the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
In Guatemala City, Sololá, and Santa Lucia Cotzumalguapa, Guatemala

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Contact Victor Hugo Ayerdi at vhayerdi@uvg.edu.gt

 

 

 ASIA 

Project DEFY
Multiple Locations, India & Uganda

Web
Facebook
@projectdefy

Make-i-Stan
Lahore, Pakistan

Facebook 
@Makeistan

Peace Innovation Lab
Run by Rural Innovation Labs
Simpani, Nepal

 

Email

Sisaket Innovation Lab
Run by Raitong Organics Farm
Sisaket, Thailand

 

IDDS Sisaket Website