Falling Walls Falling Walls Science Summit 2023

Breaking the Wall of Solutions to Local Challenges

Thabiso Mashaba

Science & Innovation Management

The nominating institute Botswana Innovation Hub on the breakthrough:

Mashaba’s consortium mobilises communities to identify challenges and follow a design innovation framework that quickly creates scalable solutions. The model follows a social entrepreneurship route, and establishes sustainable businesses in the communities — thus enhancing their livelihoods. It is being rolled out regionally with partnerships that include financial micro-lending institutions.

Tags: Social Cohesion, Resilience, Education

 

We are looking for the Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2021. The global call for nominations closes on 25 June 2021.

Falling Walls Foundation

Thabiso Mashaba

These Hands GSSE

Thabiso Mashaba is a Strategist, Cultural Economist, Policy Maker, Development Practitioner and Social Entrepreneur . He is the co-founder and CEO of These Hands GSSE based in Botswana and New Zealand; Former Chairperson of the Botswana Human Resource Development Council’s Creative Industries Sector Committee; Member of the Global IDIN/IDDS Steering committee based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) D-Lab; Advisory Board Chairperson of YSAT Uganda and YSAT South Sudan; Co-Founder and Project Coordinator of the IDIN Southern Africa Consortium; Founding Member of the Southern Africa Innovation Collective Management Team; Former member of the Project Working Team for the Merger of the Botswana Digital & Innovation Hub (BDIH) and the Botswana Institute of Technology, Research and Innovation (BITRI) ; an International fellow of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship of the New Zealand Government; and a 2022 Science Engagement Category Winner of the Falling Walls Global Competition.

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