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Berlin Globally Fair – Changing the city together BER and its members have been working together around the clock for years on the vision of One World City Berlin, a globally just, anti-racist and sustainable city. We are guided by the question: How do we change our city together? With this question, we are committed to a […]
Time is in CEST It is the monthly gathering where new members get to introduce themselves and all GIG members get to chat and share any updates, news, and achievements. This is an Internal Call that happens on the last Wednesday of the month.
WHAT IF WE CELEBRATED STEM THE WAY WE CELEBRATE ATHLETICS? WELCOME TO THE SPORT WHERE EVERY KID CAN GO PRO.The FIRST Global Challenge is an olympics-style, international robotics competition that takes place in a different country each year. FIRST Global invites each nation to send a team to build and program a robot to compete. Teams work together to complete tasks […]
Time is in CEST This is a monthly Internal Call where members meet to discuss fundraising possibilities, learn how to fundraise and share opportunities.
This episode of the series will focus on the diverse risks makers working in conflict zones are exposed to in times of ever more sophisticated technological advancements. We will explore how AI technologies create new front lines in the strive of makers to bring their skills to the support of people in conflict zones. Whilst […]
Time is in CEST The Final session of our Ethics and AI series will unpack ecological understandings and enacted practices of ecology in times of AI. Whilst we are experiencing buzzing attention on the need for regenerative agendas, we need to ensure that it becomes more than a new wrapping for the same old practices. […]
Time is in CEST It is the monthly gathering where new members get to introduce themselves and all GIG members get to chat and share any updates, news, and achievements. This is an Internal Call that happens on the last Wednesday of the month.
Time is in CEST This is a monthly Internal Call where members meet to discuss fundraising possibilities, learn how to fundraise and share opportunities.
The AfriLabs Annual Gathering serves as a platform for Africa’s innovation community to converge, collaborate, and drive forward the continent’s digital transformation. In 2023, hosted by Rwanda’s Minister of ICT, Hon. Paula Ingabire, the event in Kigali focused on “Accelerating Africa’s digital economy; by the strength of our community.” Stakeholders from diverse sectors came together […]
Time is in CET In this session we will present how alternative tech stacks, that we call "pocket infrastructures", combining microwikis, data storytelling and digital malleable metatools are used to preserve and revitalize indigenous linguistic knowledge for the People of the Center (Los Pueblos del Centro) in the Colombian Amazonas Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas is […]
Time is in CET. This session will provide an opportunity to learn about the experiences of makerspaces hosting makers from Africa. We will discuss their key learnings from the residency program, their overall evaluation of the program, and their recommendations for future iterations. Additionally, we will explore the role of network organizations such as GIG […]
The 2025 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 30) will convene in November 2025 in Brazil. It will include the 30th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 30), the 20th meeting of the COP serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 20), and the seventh meeting of the COP […]
