Schedule FAB14 France 2018

My name is Neville Govender, I am employed by the City of Ekurhuleni as a Project Manager in the Economic Development Department. I am responsible for Innovation within the City. I was first introduced to the Fablab concept in 2006 and was really impressed and decided to persude the City, that this was the way to go, inorder to help our communities to get out of poverty and unemployment, by exposing them to technology. It was only in 2011 that I managed to successfully convince the principles and in 2011, we setup up our first Fablab in Thokoza. Since then we have setup an additional four Fablabs, Fablab Tembisa, Fablab Tsakane, Fablab Duduza and Fablab Vosloorus. Since then it has not been a hard task to continue sourcing funding for more Labs. The City is one of the Cities that signed up to becoming a Fab City in 40 years.