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Some of us working at design firms or companies that have been around a a while might have this experience: Your boss sends you to the godforsaken flatfiles--a wasteland of rusting T-squares and chipped triangles, where there are actual pencil draftings on vellum--and has you convert a 2D drawing into 3D, turning .016" pencil lines into CAD strokes.

Soon industrial designers and corporations may be able to outsource tasks like this to Rwanda. The Kigali Institute of Science and Technology is collaborating with SolidWorks Corporation on the Gasabo 3D Design Project, which will develop custom software and train Rwandan students and workers to convert drawings from flat to fat; it would also make Rwanda the first African nation to make a push into the global ID market. And just as many developing nations made the push from no-phone to cell phone without ever touching a landline, so Rwandan designers will get to skip the T-square step altogether.

via biz community