Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) is launching a Design Lab in Rwanda’s Capital, Kigali in the coming weeks. According to the CEO, Bosun Tijani, this Design Lab will be a ‘first of its kind’. This seems to be another initiative aside from its much acclaimed innovation hub.
The workroom will house its internal research and development unit comprised of designers, engineers and product developers— who will work together with top scientists globally to take on social challenges. At the time of filing this report, efforts to reach Tijani for more details was abortive, but we will update you when we have more information.
Techpreneurs have it rough in Africa, especially in some countries where investment doesn’t come easily and access to needed infrastructure seem to be difficult. All these may become easy now as the new Digital lab will provide the needed infrastructure and will focus on connecting Africa’s innovators to the global community to solve social challenges.
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CcHUB is Nigeria’s first open living lab and pre-incubation space premeditated to be a multi-functional space where work to catalyse creative social tech ventures take place. Not for everybody but for technologists, social entrepreneurs, tech companies, impact investors and hackers in and around Lagos, Nigeria to co-create new solutions to a number of social problems in the country.
The voyage of more than 5 years for CcHub have seen them leveraging on technology to effect social change and recorded major milestones. These include: CcHUB Pitch Drive from Africa to Europe, NG_HUB by Facebook (Deep-tech Innovation hub), ₦1 Billion Growth Capital Fund, Re:Learn, Student Innovation Challenge by Office of the Vice President, 95+ Ventures (Early Stage Venture Support) and many others.
With these in the hat, CcHub is on the move to set Kigali on the path to technological boom and evolve into one of the top destinations in the region for investments.
If you are interested in working on some major issues in public health, education or governance while being part of the Rwanda story, do reach out to the company’s people director, Toun Tunde-Anjous via here or Bosun Tijani here.