We are GIG
Written by Fadia Elgharib
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 the biggest Maker Movement in Ghana. Heading this movement is Kumasi Hive – a tech innovation hub that supports entrepreneurs in the process of rapidly … Continue reading “How Ghana’s Maker-Movement is driving young innovators”
Written by Fadia Elgharib
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 second year in both events and again it was a reinvigorating experience. Here some comments about it. re:publica had its usual packed program with talks, workshops, … Continue reading “GIG AND RE:PUBLICA 2018 “
Written by Fadia Elgharib
“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). The GIG network brings perspectives from across the world to Europe’s leading conference on the Internet and society. Every year since 2013 the Global Innovation … Continue reading “GIG @ re:publica 2018”
Written by Fadia Elgharib
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 or with the German Development Services. Hence we are training parters, policy consultants and politicians to stop designing perfect solutions for ill-defined problems and unknown … Continue reading “Human-centered formats and the SDGs”
Written by Fadia Elgharib
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 and promotion of common goods and using citizen innovation and free culture to improve people’s lives and solve local problems. Among other projects, we carried … Continue reading “Building the commons and working social innovation from the bottom up”
Written by Fadia Elgharib
Our GIG colleagues Vicy, Jaiksana, Stephen and Jo made their way to Kumasi, Ghana to attend the very first Open Science Hardware summit in Africa: AfircaOSH. The event is being hosted at Kumasi Hive. AfricaOSH is a gathering for everyone interested in Open Science & Hardware as a means to achieve locally adapted, culturally relevant, technologically and economically … Continue reading “Building the Africa Open Science Hardware community”
Written by Fadia Elgharib
In 2016, several GIG members came together to launch the MakerNet Consortium. Starting with a pilot project in Kenya, MakerNet explored how products needed for development and humanitarian purposes can be made locally by digital designers and hardware entrepreneurs, rather than being imported. From the work we’ve done so far, we know that this is … Continue reading “Join the global alliance of makers and local manufacturers”
Written by Fadia Elgharib
data_labe is becoming an independent NGO. The lab, wich is part of GIG, is understanding how to be a civil and tech organization at the delicate moment for favela’s dwellers in Rio de Janeiro. Currently, the empowerment of young people coming from popular classes necessarily passes through the access, diffusion and production of information. The … Continue reading “A laboratory of data and narratives in the favela”
Written by Fadia Elgharib
Thanks to a GIG meeting during re:publica 2016, Chinmayi SK and I met some folks from giz who funded the development of our Atlas of Innovation Spaces. With some mapping help from Bilal Ghalib, Lukonga Lindunda, Martín Restrepo, and Gabi Agustini, and beautiful graphics by Joséphine Lesaffre, we’re building a living, collaborative Atlas of all … Continue reading “Building a living, collaborative Atlas of innovation spaces worldwide”
Written by Fadia Elgharib
#ThinkB4UClick (Think Before You Click) is an awareness campaign that aims at pointing out the dangers of misinformation, fake news and hate speech with a focus on South Sudan. Over a period of one month, we aim to discuss with the public the consequences of hate speech and how it can be mitigated through individual … Continue reading “#ThinkB4UClick to #defyhatenow on social media”
