For the Togolese entrepreneur, in Togo, residents can create sustainable solutions to meet their own needs. To help them do so, he created an enabling framework that earned the trust of many entrepreneurs and birthed interesting projects.

Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou (photo) is the founder of le WoeLab, Togo’s first fablab.  The fab lab, created in 2012, hosts, trains, and accelerates the startups’ high-value-added projects.  For the founder, WoeLab -a section of the Hub City (a smart city adapted to African realities) launched by his NGO Africaine d'Architecture- is a framework that enables everyone to “invest to realize their creative potentials.” 

Kofi Agbodjinou’s approach to developing entrepreneurs’ potential has seduced numerous innovative project leaders. Urbanattic, Woebots, SysWoe, and Scope are some of the startups incubated by WoeLab. 

One of the major projects incubated by the fablab is possibly W.Afate 3D Printer, the first African 3D printer made from electronic waste.  

Thanks to his various ventures, Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou acquired international credibility with many organizations commissioning him to organize tech events like the Nasa International Space Apps Challenge, the FabJam, the Arduino Day, the Global Data Fest, the Hack4Dev, the Open Source Circular Economy Days, etc.

Apart from those tech events, Koffi Agbodjinou, through WoeLab, also leads the  Open Street Map Togo, JerryClan-Togo, ArchiCamp, BlogCamp Togo, and BootWoeCamp communities. 

Melchior Koba