Nigeria’s CCHUB enters East Africa

FOSTERING regional technology ecosystem in Africa, Nigeria’s Co-creation hub (CCHUB), on Monday, unveiled the ‘CCHUB Design Lab’ in Kigali, Rwanda.

The lab is expected to further strengthen Nigeria as a leading technology power house in sub-saharan Africa through the export of its indigenous expertise.

Besides, the lab will also facilitate cross-fertilisation of ideas from Nigeria to East Africa and then Africa as a whole.the Kigali lab is expected to help creates more technology entrepreneurs in Africa,

The design lab is an unprecedented next step in Africa’s growing tech sector, and is set to become a leading creative space where its multidisciplinary team of product designers and engineers will collaborate with scientists and stakeholders globally, to explore the application of emerging technologies that will solve Africa’s systemic problems in public health, education, governance and the private sector.

The new lab sees CCHUB, the innovation centre dedicated to accelerating the application of social capital and technology for economic prosperity; expand its physical presence to an- ment and social challenges, will be powered by a multidisciplinary design team of designers and engineers. On the launch of the Design Lab, ‘Bosun Tijani, CCHUB’S Co-founder and CEO, said: “We’ve been building tech businesses alongside African entrepreneurs for almost a decade and in that time, we’ve identified a common challenge that businesses face when it comes to sustainable growth - Design and Innovation. With the CCHUB Design lab, we will be collaborating with organisations that may not have the capacity to design, build and innovate as quick as leaner startups would.

“The lab will also build on CCHUB’S extensive global and pan-african network of partners, research institutes and governmental organisations to execute practical design projects that will solve some of our social and business challenges at scale. “Whilst our work from the lab will focus on the entire continent, we chose Rwanda as the country to operate from because of the ease of doing business in the country. Additionally, by collaborating with the Government of Rwanda, whose vision aligns with ours, we hope to find solutions that will enable socio-economic development, productivity and development across Africa.”