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Please give is your feedback on the draft principles to guide Humanitarian Makers in their work: humanitarianmakers.org/…/HM-Principles-Action-Requested Over the past several months, Humanitarian Makers have been developing 8 principles to guide humanitarian making...

We have finally found a home for iZone Hub in the city centre of Harare, Zimbabwe and we like to call it a ‘makerspace’ – a place where makers, innovators...

Originally published at webfoundation.org/…/, this guest post was written by Eva Yayi Mawa, Co-Founder of the GoGirls-ICT Initiative and Lecturer at the University of Juba. She is part of the Global Innovation...

The Dakar Policy Hackathon brought together more than sixty key players in the entrepreneurial ecosystem at Impact Dakar with the goal of developing a Start-Up Act. All stakeholders in the...

At the Procomum Institute, we just launched our open call for short term residencies at our lab with a focus on arts, communities and aesthetics of the commons. We had...

Alexandria, Egypt- June 27th, 2018: The networking event, taking place in Cairo on June the 28th 2018, titled “Impact Investing and the Future of Startups”, concludes the second part of the...

The MakerNet initiative has been making progress, and a report has just been released that looks at design and knowledge sharing and procurement from local manufacturers. The report is shaping...

Last week, pan-African journalist Lee Kasumba stopped by Kumasi Hive for an interview with Jorge Appiah.  Excerpt What started out as a community of makers, innovators and entrepreneurs has quickly grown into...

I just arrived this week back home from my last visit to Berlin, attending to this year’s editions of re:publica and the Global Innovation Gathering (GIG) Network annual meeting. This is my...

“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)...

In the past two years we have been developing human-centered formats for teaching the contents and especially the new transformative components of the SDGs to policy makers that work for...

The year 2017 was the growth and consolidation of the Procomum Institute in Santos, on the coast of São Paulo, Brazil. We are working as a network in the construction...