About Nico-Tech Shenzhen Community
We are Shenzhen based, Open Hardware community. Our office is HuaQiangBei, and over 3000 members on the Facebook group online. We were running the event 1–2 per month, writing the report for famous Japanese media 15–30 per month, and publish the books 2–3 per year, about to introduce Open Hardware, Shenzhen Technology, Makers Ecosystem, and a current Chinese tech scene.
We organize the event, arrange the funding, marketing, user-meetup, Business development. We are non-profit community, these activities is more glow the open hardware ecosystem.
Nico-Tech [Nico] means Smile in Japanese, Nico-Tech means tech for fun and interest. Many Nico-Tech activity in Japan, we are only based in Shenzhen.
Our member looks so diverse, Tech-Geek, Researcher for Technology, Researcher for China economy, Researcher for Innovation system, Startup founder, Investor, and Community Organizers.We want to share own interest for the community, and improve together by the community, Thet is the reason we join the community and share the activity.
We often correlate with Startup, Incubator, and many tech-community in Shenzhen, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Such as iMakerBase, M5Stack, Seeedstudio, Elecrow, Sipeed, MakerNet,ShenzhenFan, DFRobot, wikifactory, Chaihuo MakerSpace, Kaiyuanshe, CEC, Science Centre Singapore, Maker Faire Shenzhen, Singapore, Bangkok etc., etc.,,,
We are a part of Shenzhen. Our two founders are Japanese and major member also Japanese, but Two Japanese founders also live in Shenzhen too.
Two founders
Co-Founder Junichi Fujioka (Jerald Fu)
JENESIS Shenzhen CEO, JNS Group (Japan Stock market Tier1) Executive Vice President, He is running an EMS company in Shenzhen 10 years. He has experience how helps start-up and make hardware with Shenzhen Ecosystem.
Co-Founder TAKASU Masakazu
Maker Ecosystem Ltd HK CEO, WASEDA University associate Researcher, and Switch Science Global Business Development. He is running tech community in Shenzhen and Singapore more than 6 years, and He had been over 100 Maker Faire and Maker Space in all around the world. He has experience how the maker community makes innovation.
Maker Ecosystem Ltd also support this community.【Why we did】
We want to make the relationship between Shenzhen and others. Some our community member did collaboration works with Maker Space in Shenzhen, and startup in Shenzhen.
TAKASU also move to Shenzhen after this tour. We want to grow the community, and grow the difference.
【TOUR and Event】
Sometime we make event, such as talk and meetup
https://medium.com/shenzhen-high-tour-by-makers/amazingshenzhen-70f80e314182
100 Japanese meetup in Shenzhen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFiVweXEaNI
【Community】
We are a community, by around 250 past tour members and 3000 Facebook group, include Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, USA, China and around the world.
This group is international, but many discussion only in Japanese, no worry about language issue, we can use some computer translate system.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ntshenzhen/
