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Written by Theresa Fend
As part of the Disruption Network Lab’s focus on Borders of Fear, the r0g_agency’s #migrantmedianetwork hosted a session in October that centered on questions of migration from African countries to Germany. The evening’s activities, which included role play and expert discussions, focused on the obstacles individuals face when attempting to apply for a visa and … Continue reading “r0g_agency: Discussions On Migration, Open Technology, and Hate Speech”
Written by Theresa Fend
LAB Procomum is launching an action-research to highlight the role of the black population of Santos-SP. The LAB Procomum citizen laboratory is located in Santos-SP, a coastal city and the largest port in the country. Historically known as the land of freedom and the vanguard in the fight against slavery, in recent years the city has undergone a … Continue reading “LAB Procomum: Memórias, Narrativas e Tecnologias negras da Baixada Santista”
Written by Theresa Fend
We are proud of our Careables members that were chosen for the Global Community Bio Fellowship 2020! Some of our lovely Careables members were chosen for the Global Community Bio Fellowship 2020 – an initiative at MIT Media Lab! Our congrats go to:ARAVINTH PANCH, DreamSpace Academy, Batticaloa, Sri LankaSTEPHANIE OKEYO, Under The Microscope, Nairobi, KenyaJAIKSANA SORO, Platform Africa, Arua city, UgandaMowoh Azong … Continue reading “Four Careables members have been chosen as Global Community Bio Fellows!”
Written by Theresa Fend
At the end of the 12-month mentoring and development program for creative social impact entrepreneurs selected through a public call, “Colaboradora – Empreender e Transformar” launches their downloadable manual! The publication systematises the project’s methodology and learnings and contains the pedagogical journey the participants went through. Along with the manual, participants produced a video summarising … Continue reading “Celebrating the Creative Economy: Colaboradora – Empreender e Transformar”
Written by Theresa Fend
Through the support of the Moss Challenge Covid-19 action, promoted by the Mozilla Foundation, Careables Casa Criatura developed an open-source aerosol box model to use at Intensive Care Units (ICU). The aerosol box is used in the process of intubation and extubation of patients, to avoid the contact of aerosol sprays of patients with doctors. … Continue reading “Casa Criatura developes an open-source aerosol box in response to Covid-19”
Written by Theresa Fend
We have been selected as one of the 10 post-Covid “common challenges” projects of the Frena La Curva (FLC) platform, which is present in 16 countries. FLC is a citizen platform where volunteers, entrepreneurs, activists, social organisations, makers and public and open innovation labs, cooperate to channel and organise social energy and civic resilience in … Continue reading “CoAct – Frena La Curva”
Written by Theresa Fend
The Olabi, in Brazil, built a digital platform that organises information related to the decentralised production of medical supplies during the pandemic. Protege BR shows the production of more than 220 groups across Brazil, organises online events to transfer technology between them, connect the groups with health agents and donors, and also provides open PPE … Continue reading “Protege BR: Support network for health professionals against COVID-19”
Written by Theresa Fend
You put a lot of love and effort in your open hardware and you want others to find it and see how grand it is? Here is something to help you out: the Open Know-How Manifest Standard Specification 1.0 is out! What is this? A hardware metadata standard for discoverability of open hardware. How does this work? … Continue reading “Make your hardware discoverable with an Open Know-How Manifest”
Written by Theresa Fend
Innovations spanning food supplies, medical records and PPE manufacture were today included in the final three awards made by Mozilla from its COVID-19 Solutions Fund. The Fund was established at the end of March by the Mozilla Open Source Support Program (MOSS), to offer up to $50,000 each to open source technology projects responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. In … Continue reading “Careables Casa Criatura Olinda wins Mozilla COVID-19 Solutions Fund”
Written by Theresa Fend
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”
