DigiCAP: Towards digitalization for empowerment and capacity building of handcraft developments in Sub-Saharan Africa

Marzano, Adelaide; Viza, Evdoxia; Cano, Michele

Abstract

This work presents a digital toolkit, which brings together multidisciplinary expertise in manufacturing, human factors and female entrepreneurship, to develop new methods to capture, predict and enable capacity building by digitalising local craft knowledge in Sub-Saharan Africa. The overall goal of DigiCAP is to produce a toolkit, derived from new fundamental capability engineering research that will enable women craft to increase productivity, support Digital skills adoption and de-risk the implementation of future digital skills through the consideration of human requirements and capabilities.

Citation

Marzano, A., Viza, E., & Cano, M. (2019, July). DigiCAP: Towards digitalization for empowerment and capacity building of handcraft developments in Sub-Saharan Africa. Presented at 13th CIRP Conference on Intelligent Computation in Manufacturing Engineering, Gulf of Naples, Italy

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 13th CIRP Conference on Intelligent Computation in Manufacturing Engineering
• Start Date: Jul 17, 2019
• End Date: Jul 19, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Jun 13, 2020
• Publication Date: 2020
• Deposit Date: Mar 22, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 22, 2023
• Journal: Procedia CIRP
• Print ISSN: 2212-8271
• Electronic ISSN: 2212-8271
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 88
• Pages: 179-184
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2020.05.032
• Keywords: digitalization; manufacturing; human factors