We are GIG
Sustainability: Building & Supporting an Ecosystem That Sustains Us All A national gathering of leaders representing the breadth of the maker movement, the Nation of Makers Conference ("NOMCON") aims to spark and increase connections across sectors, generate robust collaborations, and promote the growth of an inclusive Nation of Makers. A central goal of the event […]
#Fabricating the Commons AB16 brings together members of the international Fab Lab Network, as well as government representatives, academic researchers and experts in the field of digital fabrication, to present, envision, discuss, and create community around digital fabrication, manufacturing, technology and innovation. This meeting includes several events for the manufacturing community and for the general […]
From the announcement: On behalf of Médecins Du Monde, the German Red Cross, the Berlin Chamber of Physicians and Médecins Sans Frontières, as well as our official partners Greenpeace and Oxfam we would like to invite you to this year’s Humanitarian Congress Berlin: Exposing Power & Privilege in Times of Crisis. When we titled the […]
The Heinrich Boell Foundation Washington, DC and Konnektiv would like to invite you to an online discussion on perspectives on digital sovereignty in the Global South. Digital technologies are instrumental for global exchange and connectivity – nothing illustrates this better than the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet there is fierce competition over who gets to reap the […]
Challenging inequality takes courage, compassion, commitment... and community. That’s why the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme, a funded fellowship based at LSE’s International Inequalities Institute, is building a global network of thinkers, doers and change-makers. Applications are open now for our 2021-22 fellowship Join our webinar on 28 October to find out more Our Fellows are mid-career policy-makers, researchers, activists and […]
Connect. Share. Learn. Innovate. Get Involved. Are you a policymaker working to build a more just and sustainable economy? About this Event Join us on November 5th at 10:00 EDT - 11:30 EDT // 14:00 UK- 15:30 UK for WEAll's first wellbeing economy policy event. As we face multiple crises around the globe, innovative policy […]
Rest and Refuge Scholarship is a project run by Reporters Without Borders Germany and taz Panter Foundation, a non-profit organization linked to „die tageszeitung“ (taz), a daily newspaper from Berlin. We invite three journalists from countries in crisis or war to stay in Berlin. We offer them a time of refuge and rest for three […]
Careables Moving Exhibition is moving from Berlin to land next in Olinda, Northeast Brazil. After an inspiring first experience at Re:publica Campus, next stop for Careables Moving Exhibition is Polyclinic Hospital João de Barros Barreto and Casa Criatura Lab. The exhibition will present the careables created, adapted and co-designed covering worldwide replicated prototypes by Casa […]
"Health: A Technology in Common" is the title of the Moving Exhibition happening from the 30th of November till the 11th of December in Santos, Brazil. The moto; health and technology united to create affordable and low-cost solutions to improve people's lives. Uncomplicating, simplifying and bringing access to health solutions to the community is the […]
You are invited to apply to the upcoming Digital Naturalism Conference (Dinacon 3). It is an experimental conference about exploring new ways of interacting with nature!It runs from July 1-31, 2022, in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka and people come in and out for days or weeks at a time. For one month, they will be hosting […]
Tropixel is a community that operates on the borders between culture, science, technology and society, dreaming of regenerative futures for our side of the world. Tropixel Sementes (seeds) is a self-organized meeting of the Tropixel network. At this moment in Brazil and the world, it is essential that we meet again and design (continue designing) joint […]
On August 25 we will meet for the 4th out of 5 hangouts. This time we will discuss what is required to fully open the black-box of participation and overcome the common practice of false representation. “It is important to differentiate levels of participation, acknowledge that participation in international collaboration is often characterised by false […]
