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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”
Written by Theresa Fend
The month of February was a month for ‘Innovation with a cause’. Nepal Communitere in partnership with Field Ready successfully wrapped up the first-ever Humanitarian Design Challenge (HDC) where students from different disciplines formed 4 multidisciplinary teams to prepare prototypes to combat real-life challenges! 20 avid learners from different colleges and universities across Kathmandu participated in this … Continue reading “Fab Lab Humanitarian Design Challenge 2020!”
Written by Theresa Fend
GIG member Pitchworthy is part of a group that has an interesting announcement coming up: Safir offers you the opportunity to join the first regional network of social impact incubators in Northern Africa and the Middle East. By participating in Safir, you can benefit from skill-building sessions to share your methodologies and create a regional … Continue reading “Safir – call for applications for social impact incubators (MENA) ”
Written by Theresa Fend
Born on the day after the announcement of the first three cases of coronavirus in Madagascar in the begining of April, Hackoragna, a name composed of “Hack” and “Koragna”, is an 100% online collaborative platform that aims to develop the digital economy of Madagascar by bringing together “informal” talents as well as micro, small and … Continue reading “HACKORAGNA, a platform co-op of young entrepreneurs and innovators for Madagascar’s digital transformation after COVID19.”
Written by Theresa Fend
Between 11-13 May 2020 HONF Foundation, CAST Foundation, Social-Digital Innovation and Ke:Kini organized an online grassroots hackathon for Indonesia. GIG wasn’t only represented by Regina (SDI) and Ira (HONF), Saad came on board as a mentor and Ricardo as an evaluator to help us activate citizens’ zest for action and creativity and form interdisciplinary teams … Continue reading “Hack from Home #retasdarirumah”
Written by Theresa Fend
How can we stay safe at our Makerspaces during the current pandemic? Kijenzi in Kenya and GIG member Field Ready have designed a poster for maker spaces to print out and share with their members. The poster shares the steps they can use to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 in the spaces. The poster is … Continue reading “Makerspace Covid-19 Safety Protocols “
Written by Theresa Fend
The Project A Colaboradora – Arts and Communities of the Instituto Procomum has already selected the 12 artists participating in the second edition via open call. More than 80 artists subscribed from all over the region. This time, the artists will be part of an open and cooperative arts school that will help them to … Continue reading “Collaboration and arts against the economic crisis and precarious work”
Written by Theresa Fend
Careables is a community of makers and users of open-source, collaborative hardware innovations that can be easily replicated globally via 3D printing and other forms of fabrication. The aim of our work package in Olinda is to engage stakeholder communities, bring these existing communities together and connect them in the field of open source healthcare … Continue reading “Careables Olinda Diary: Our first 15 days”
