Andrew Lamb

Andrew Lamb chairs the Internet of Production Alliance. 

As a Shuttleworth Fellow, Andrew explored the concept of Massive Small Manufacturing. This is about shifting the paradigm of production back from its increasingly centralised mass production orthodoxy towards distributed and decentralised production by the masses. It is about enabling everyone with the power to create and achieving a high-tech but post-consumer society. The concept is based on promoting the adoption of new manufacturing technologies that enable economies of scope - rather than the traditional economies of scale - and then networking them together with new kinds of digital infrastructures. Andrew led a series of experiments and helping to convene different communities that can help make a paradigm of participatory production a reality.

Andrew is a board member of the Appropedia Foundation, which runs the www.appropedia.org website - a sustainability wiki. He is the chair of the board of FabLab Winam, a makerspace in Kisumu, Kenya. He has board roles with Mekanika, Helpful Engineering, Massive Small Manufacturing Ltd, Distributed Manufacturing Ltd, and the Global Innovation Gathering.