Gaborone – In an era where Innovation and Entrepreneurial spirit are crucial to Economic Growth and Societal Development, BA ISAGO University has taken a significant step forward. By partnering with These Hands Global, Social and Sustainable Enterprise (GSSE) through the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), the University is[…]
These Hands begins operations in New Zealand
Thabiso Mashaba, CEO and co-founder of These Hands, won an Edmund Hillary Fellowship. The prestigious Edmund Hillary Fellowship is awarded to international entrepreneurs who demonstrate exceptional leadership and achievement in their field. The fellowship is based in New Zealand and this has given These Hands the unique opportunity to share[…]
These Hands Facilitates Local Technology & Enterprise Development in the Southern African Development Community
These Hands has successfully assisted communities in the Southern African Development Community to develop technological solutions to local development challenges. In 2017, These Hands helped cofound the International Development Innovation Network – Southern African Development Community (IDIN-SADC) in partnership with the Kafue Innovation Center in Zambia and the Twende Social[…]
IDDS 2018 Final Report
After several months of hard work, These Hands has successfully hosted the 2018 International Development Design Summit. This summit brought together development practitioners, engineers, and designers with local communities in rural Botswana. These teams collaborated with local entrepreneurs and innovators in D’kar, Dutlwe, Rakops, and Kaptura to create technologies that[…]
IDDS Botswana 2018 Participants Selected!
We want to congratulate all the international participants who have been selected to participate in IDDS Botswana 2018. These participants will be joined by 16 other local participants which includes 4 participants from each of the host villages and innovation centers of Dkar, Dutlwe, Rakops and Kaputura. These participants will[…]
Value of Culture 2018
These Hands is pleased to announce that it will be hosting a Value of Culture 2018 course in D’kar, Botswana from 19-23 February 2018. This course, which is run in partnership with the CREARE Foundation, will allow policymakers, artists, and academics to learn about the role that cultural and creative[…]
These Hands Promotes Technological Innovation
The These Hands team has been very busy over the last few months. Since the successful completion of the D’Kar Innovation Center and the conclusion of the 2016 International Development Design Summit (IDDS) in D’Kar, our work has aggressively expanded. During IDDS, development practitioners and engineers from around the world[…]
IDIN Microgrant-Funded Social Enterprise Launches Unique International Development Social Media Platform That Doesn’t Require Internet Access
This article originally appeared on IDIN.org and can be found here. Many developing countries have low levels of internet usage, often times resulting from a lack of internet infrastructure. However, in places where the internet is available it is often prohibitively expensive for the average person to use. Unfortunately, this[…]
Presentation Day
We got a great showing! We kept having to pull out more benches from the church to seat the people coming. I hope our audience found our prototypes interesting – as a participant, I was impressed with what we were able to do in just two weeks, especially considering that[…]
Working
It’s make-it-work time. I went to Ghanzi to scope out our material options. On the list was sheet metal, rod, hardened steel blades. These things exist, but not necessarily in the dimensions desired. There are three hardware stores and they all carry similar stock. We also stock up on groceries,[…]
