Welcome to GIG's April Digest!

In this edition we'll be taking a look through how things went for GIG in terms of Best Posts Published, Articles of the month, Projects Initiated and those that ended, overall Projects Achievements, Members Projects, Opportunities and so much more..

Let's start with our overall best performing posts this month.

According to the last 30 days Analytics, these are the posts that were: 1. Most Engaging - 2. Most Reaching - 3. Most Shared

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this is the post that engaged most people in the month of april

this is the post that reached most accounts during the month of april

this is the post that people shared the most in april

Monthly Events

Meet The Members Talk

The objective of these meetings is for GIG Members to stay up-to-date with each others projects, communicate and coordinate where they can exchange their knowledge, experience and even tools to support each other.

Amongst other things, April's Meet the members Talk was mainly focused on Open Agriculture Innovation.

mAkE | Business Models Talk - Membership Models with Dale Dougherty and Karim Jafarmadar

Business Model Talk | mAkE

This month's guests were Dale Dougherty (President at mAkE Community LLC) and Karim Jafarmadar (Co-Founder of HappyLab Vienna) who gave really insightful perspectives on Membership Models Around the World. 🗺

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Knowledge Pill | mAkE

In the fourth Knowledge Pills episode, mAkE hosted GIG Founder Geraldine deBastion, to share some experiences from Gobal Innovation Gathering on how to build a community.

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Bi-weekly Events

Inspiring Stories | Critical Making

Inspirational stories about Gender-Inclusive Making.

Critical Making | INSPIRING STORIES - Rebeca Duque Estrada

Critical Making | INSPIRING STORIES - Gertrude Mawuena Goh

A Moment's Portal Podcast | GIG in collaboration with Change Darer

This is a series of 8 episodes showing the essence of the GIG family through hosting some of GIG’s Community Members, while also being hosted by Members of the Community: Star Ngei along with Daniela Marzavan from Change Darer.

A MOMENT'S PORTAL | Episode 6 "INNOVATION CAN HAPPEN IN INDIA AS WELL" feat Nidhi Mittal

“𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝗻-𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗿”

Nidhi has been approached by GIG members as a designer awarded for her College Project: The Wearable Technology “𝘋𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨” which aimed at protecting women.

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A MOMENT'S PORTAL | Episode 7 "| TACKLING HUMANITARIAN DESIGN CHALLENGES IN NEPAL" feat. Pradita Pradhan

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗯𝗟𝗮𝗯 𝗰𝗼-𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆

Praditha shares the stories of empowering women in tech through her project: Miss IN Tech; taking us through a journey of creating a humanitarian response after the 2015 Kathmandu earthquake - Nepal Communautaire.

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General Updates

LabStorm

LabStorm Tempestade was successfully launched and its Initial Submersion for Prototyping took place in April.

We have joint forces with Casa Criatura and Instituto Procomum to prototype ideas and face climate change in the Metropolitan Region of Recife.

THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING: LAB TEMPESTADE PRESENTS RESULTS AND INVITES YOU TO THE FINAL EVENT!

We had 71 applications from 50 different territories.
19 black/black, 4 indigenous, 7 white people, 17 women, 1 non-binary, 12 men; between the ages of 19 and 50.

Call for proposals opened on April 2nd with the aim to connect with the makers community to create crucial products together!

This will support teams of Ukrainian makers and makers from outside Ukraine to collaborate.

Critical Making | Caretaker and Child Inclusive-Making Activities Blog Post

Want to organize more Caretaker and Child-Inclusive Making Activities?

Check out the lessons learned by the Critical Making Team in their latest blog post!

Mentorship Program’s Demo Week was a Huge Success!

The talented mentees shared their final open source hardware prototypes and project documentation, discussed their critical making experiences, and encouraged each other as a global community of critical makers.

Celebrating the Innovation Global Project and Its Online Exhibition

Workshops

Workshop: Design for Circularity for Makers and Designers

This is a super interesting online workshop on circularity for makers ad designers. One of GIG Members has personally attended a similar workshop with Theresa from the Danish Design Center and can only recommend her and the resources of their center further.

Opportunities

🌱 Dreams of Women (DoW) is an initiative of DreamSpace Academy that provides a platform for women to serve other women, strengthen their capabilities and create a positive impact in their communities while challenging stereotypes of women.

🔬 Call for Low-Cost Tools for Science - Science has always relied on tools and instruments to extend our experimental powers. Many of those tools have grown expensive and exquisite. Low-cost science tools increase access and the pace of exploration.