Labmobile: on the road in Northern Uganda

Labmobile: on the road in Northern Uganda

By Ricardo Ruiz Comment Closed
Young people between the ages of 18 and 30 in Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement and surrounding communities in northern Uganda face many problems, two of which GIG and Platform Africa proposed a project that seeks to address: Youth unemployment and lack of media literacy. With a youth unemployment rate of almost 70% and a high percentage of people who could not complete their school education but were traumatized by war and flight as schoolchildren, misinformation often leads to outbreaks of violence. Tensions have increased over the past year, particularly following the Ugandan government's restrictive measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic and the World Food Program's (WFP) simultaneous 30% cut in food rations for refugees. Platform Africa foundation was in 2017 in Uganda by South Sudanese refugees. It is a non-profit organization that supports young people of all nationalities, ethnicities, genders, and sexual orientations through capacity-building programs (SDG 4). It focuses on media skills development, entrepreneurship, social-technological innovation, and establishing an open, peaceful...
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GIG@35C3. Hacking Diversity at a Hacker Congress.

GIG@35C3. Hacking Diversity at a Hacker Congress.

By Victoria WenzelmannNo Comments
In December 2018, we managed to gig up rp:Accra and just a week later also 35C3. It has been an intense time - but totally worth it! What is 35C3? The Chaos Communication Congress is an annual conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club, Europe’s largest association of hackers. The congress features a variety of lectures and workshops on technical and political issues related to security, cryptography, privacy and online freedom of speech. The event takes place regularly at the end of the year since 1984, hence the 2018 edition is the 35th one - 35C3. With now 16,000 participants, Congress is considered one of the largest events of this kind, and it is completely self-organized. GIG@35C5 Similar to re:publica and due to the bottom-up nature of the events, Congress is quite focused on Europe and Northern America, which is reflected in the speakers, participants and topics. We want to make sure international perspectives beyond these are represented at CCC. . Hence, GIG...
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GIG @ re:publica 2018

GIG @ re:publica 2018

By Zen EditorNo Comments
“We are what we create together” re:publica #18 is happening again and we are excited that a vibrant, diverse community of innovators joined for the 6th Global Innovation Gathering (GIG). The GIG network brings perspectives from across the world to Europe’s leading conference on the Internet and society. Every year since 2013 the Global Innovation Gathering hosts a track and since 2015 a pop-up Makerspace to showcase innovations from all over the world. In the past couple of days over 85 people from 30 different countries arrived in Berlin to meet up, share sparkles, experiences, design projects and prepare for re:publica with speakers representing projects in Kenya, Pakistan, Nepal, South Sudan, India, Brazil, Colombia and many more. You find many of our sessions in the Tech for Good and also in the tracks such as Blockchain, Fe:male Digital Footprint, or re:health. We will be reporting on how the unconnected are connecting themselves, how Zero Net Neutrality unintentionally accelerated Fake News, tell...
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GIG@re:connecting Europe 2017

GIG@re:connecting Europe 2017

By Victoria WenzelmannNo Comments
In 2017 the re:publica team came up with an ambitious project to take the idea of re:publica further: Activists, scientists, hackers, entrepreneurs, NGOs, journalists, social media and marketing experts gathered in Dublin and Thessaloniki to debate the future of the information society in Europe. With re:connecting EUROPE, we aim to promote the development of a Europe-wide network of creative industries and push the exchange between the various digital scenes along our North-South axis. The conferences in Dublin and Thessaloniki gave us valuable insights and new perspectives on our interconnected world, which we discussed in-depth with our speakers and visitors. The events also created spaces for a cultural exchange of ideas across our European borders and allowed us to learn more about the issues concerning people on the ground at the re:publica locations. As a global network whose aim is to connect grassroots innovators we were huge fans of the re:connecting events. With the Labmobile already being used as a Mobile Ressource Center by Greece Communitere, GIG was excited to...
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#Labmobile on tour to Greece

#Labmobile on tour to Greece

By Zen Editor1 Comment
Our sparkling Big Blue #Labmobile is on it's way to Greece together with a fabulous team: its creator Vicy, Communitere and FabLab Siegen. Follow @labmobil   Wrapping up Berlin Maker Faire, Big Blue is ready for her 9 day 2000km road trip to Greece. #NationalWeekofMaking #WorldRefugeeDay #WeAreCommunitere #mfb17 @greececommunitere A post shared by Doc North (@docnorth) on Jun 11, 2017 at 11:41am PDT Campaign update #1: Raised 3% of goal & a GC voyage to share #maker magic! https://t.co/j5wfMuvBtx @weareGIG @FabLabSiegen @MakerFaireBER pic.twitter.com/xQNuqMZun6 — Communitere (@INTCommunitere) 7 June 2017 Photos from a great day one of the @MakerFaireBER #mfb17 with #BigBlue @LabMobil @FabLabSiegen @weareGIG! pic.twitter.com/r5i3SZPZnv — Communitere (@INTCommunitere) 11 June 2017 We @INTCommunitere @FabLabSiegen @weareGIG won the #makerofmerit award at @MakerFaireBER today! Thank you!! #BlueRibbon for #BigBlue 🎉🙋🏻💕 pic.twitter.com/qJa5FOgG2C — Labmobile (@labmobil) 11 June 2017   Also at this years re:publica was the #labmobe the centre of all amazement. Final destination: Thessaloniki. DIY #LoveOutLoud Letters with @saadcaffeine @tusitalabooks at #makerspace #labmobile #gig17 pic.twitter.com/jW5NHa54uu — GIG (@weareGIG) 8 May 2017  ...
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