Amy Sun
Social Innovation Fellow 2011
Fab Folk — Cambridge, MA — Open Technology
A founding architect of MIT’s Fab Lab program and director of its Jalalabad, Afghanistan branch, Amy Sun helps people and communities become innovators through access to technical equipment and knowledge. In addition to providing a package of tools designed to make essentially any object, her Fab Folk initiative focuses on mobilizing communities to put those tools to practical use. One example, the FabFi project, creates open, high-speed wireless Internet access on a city-wide scale, and has been piloted by user-developers in Norway, South Africa, Afghanistan, India, and Kenya. Fab Folk is dedicated to enabling grassroots technology development by and for the community.
