Category: GIG Network

Careables is an international platform collaboration that enables citizens to co-design and deliver people-centred health products through means of digital fabrication. In Latin America, partners LabCOCO, Casa Criatura and Coletivo 3D (in Olinda city) and LabProComum (city of Santos) function as the hubs to connect to local communities of citizens with (physical) healthcare needs, carers, and public healthcare professionals with the community of … Continue reading “The first month of a maker lab against Covid-19 in northeastern Brazil”

The month of February was a month for ‘Innovation with a cause’. Nepal Communitere in partnership with Field Ready successfully wrapped up the first-ever Humanitarian Design Challenge (HDC) where students from different disciplines formed 4 multidisciplinary teams to prepare prototypes to combat real-life challenges! 20 avid learners from different colleges and universities across Kathmandu participated in this … Continue reading “Fab Lab Humanitarian Design Challenge 2020!”

GIG member Pitchworthy is part of a group that has an interesting announcement coming up: Safir offers you the opportunity to join the first regional network of social impact incubators in Northern Africa and the Middle East. By participating in Safir, you can benefit from skill-building sessions to share your methodologies and create a regional … Continue reading “Safir – call for applications for social impact incubators (MENA) ”

Born on the day after the announcement of the first three cases of coronavirus in Madagascar in the begining of April, Hackoragna, a name composed of “Hack” and “Koragna”, is an 100% online collaborative platform that aims to develop the digital economy of Madagascar by bringing together “informal” talents as well as micro, small and … Continue reading “HACKORAGNA, a platform co-op of young entrepreneurs and innovators for Madagascar’s digital transformation after COVID19.”

Between 11-13 May 2020 HONF Foundation, CAST Foundation, Social-Digital Innovation and Ke:Kini organized an online grassroots hackathon for Indonesia. GIG wasn’t only represented by Regina (SDI) and Ira (HONF), Saad came on board as a mentor and Ricardo as an evaluator to help us activate citizens’ zest for action and creativity and form interdisciplinary teams … Continue reading “Hack from Home #retasdarirumah”

How can we stay safe at our Makerspaces during the current pandemic? Kijenzi in Kenya and GIG member Field Ready have designed a poster for maker spaces to print out and share with their members. The poster shares the steps they can use to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 in the spaces. The poster is … Continue reading “Makerspace Covid-19 Safety Protocols “

Careables is a community of makers and users of open-source, collaborative hardware innovations that can be easily replicated globally via 3D printing and other forms of fabrication. The aim of our work package in Olinda is to engage stakeholder communities, bring these existing communities together and connect them in the field of open source healthcare … Continue reading “Careables Olinda Diary: Our first 15 days”

On March 14th, Lab Procomum will celebrate the 2019 cycle ventures of our social entrepreneurship school, A Colaboradora – Empreender e Transfomar (Entrepreneurship and Transform). The event will take place at the headquarters of LAB Procomum and marks the end of a one-year training, developing and mentoring process with 25 social impact entrepreneurs from Baixada … Continue reading “Celebrating the creativity and the transformation of social entrepreneurship”

Careables is a community of makers and users of open-source, collaborative hardware innovations that can be easily replicated globally via 3D printing and other forms of fabrication. Careables is an international platform collaboration that enables citizens to co-design and deliver people-centred health products through means of digital fabrication The aim of the work package of … Continue reading “Careables goes Olinda”