{"id":3262,"date":"2011-11-30T02:22:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T09:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/30\/what-happens-when-a-government-wants-to-build-hackerspaces\/"},"modified":"2011-11-30T02:22:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T09:22:08","slug":"what-happens-when-a-government-wants-to-build-hackerspaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/30\/what-happens-when-a-government-wants-to-build-hackerspaces\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens when a government wants to build hackerspaces?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">It is going to be true! Shanghai Government Technology committee has announced a proposal that to build 100 \u201cinnovation houses\u201d funded by the Chinese government. Each space is required to be at least 100 square meters, open more than 200 days a year, and equipped with wood lathes, metal lathes, saws and drill grinding combined machine, milling machine and other tools. Sounds nice!<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcsm.gov.cn\/jsp\/xxgk\/zhtz\/content.jsp?id=2267\" target=\"_blank\">official government announcement<\/a><\/u> (<u><a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=zh-CN&amp;tl=en&amp;js=n&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;layout=2&amp;eotf=1&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stcsm.gov.cn%2Fjsp%2Fxxgk%2Fzhtz%2Fcontent.jsp%3Fid%3D2267&amp;act=url\" target=\"_blank\">English version<\/a><\/u>) says the Shanghai government wants to boost folk innovation and nurture local makers by building up those hackerspaces. Actually, the first Chinese hackerspace, <u><a href=\"http:\/\/xinchejian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">XinCheJian<\/a><\/u>, was exactly started in Shanghai last November, by David Li and partner\/project generator Ricky Ng-Adam.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/chaihuo.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"chaihuo\" border=\"0\" alt=\"chaihuo\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/chaihuo_thumb.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">We also have the new buddy, <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaihuo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ChaiHuo<\/a><\/u>, the first hackerspace in Shenzhen. Their long-term goal is to spread the concept and philosophy of \u201cMaker\u201d across China and inspire Maker Spaces in every large city from east to west.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">But back to the question, what\u2019 the result? Don\u2019t know yet. It\u2019s good to see that people start recognizing the importance of folk innovation. Funding and equipments are also good, at least more and more spaces will be available to the makers. But, hey don\u2019t get too close! Leave the spaces to the folk and release the leadership to the makers. Who knows what will come out from those smart brains?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is going to be true! 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