Voices from GIG: News, Events & Insights

Tell us what you think: Humanitarian Maker Principles

Written by Fadia Elgharib 5 October 2018

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. The process has been to move forward a draft created at the Fab12 conference, to integrate reputable humanitarian and industry principles into the draft and … Continue reading “Tell us what you think: Humanitarian Maker Principles”

GIG Network

iZone Hub has a new address

Written by Fadia Elgharib 15 September 2018

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, creatives and small business people can become part of a community of like minded people. Our first activity was to start up a maker community … Continue reading “iZone Hub has a new address”

Innovation

Technology Not For Her?

Written by Fadia Elgharib 8 August 2018

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 Gathering, a diverse community of innovation hubs, makerspaces, hackerspaces and other grassroot innovation community spaces and initiatives as well as individual innovators, makers, technologists and changemakers. … Continue reading “Technology Not For Her?”

Conference

#SenStartupAct and the Dakar Policy Hackathon

Written by Fadia Elgharib 20 July 2018

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 ecosystem have been mobilized to share different proposals to improve the business environment and equip themselves with startup-friendly legislation and regulations to support entrepreneurship and … Continue reading “#SenStartupAct and the Dakar Policy Hackathon”

Incubator

Two years anniversary at Procomum Institute

Written by Fadia Elgharib 6 July 2018

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 138 registrations for our first commons residency, beautiful people coming from 30 different countries and 25 different Brazilian cities. We consider it a great victory … Continue reading “Two years anniversary at Procomum Institute”

Incubator

A New Wave of Impact Investments Sweeping Across Egypt

Written by Fadia Elgharib 28 June 2018

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 Mentoring Up activities. As a seed for putting “impact” in investment in the Egyptian ecosystem, the highly anticipated networking event will witness the presence of … Continue reading “A New Wave of Impact Investments Sweeping Across Egypt”

Innovation

MakerNet report on design and knowledge sharing

Written by Fadia Elgharib 27 June 2018

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 where the MakerNet concept goes next. It shares the results of experiments, workshops and interviews with makers, humanitarian staff and GIG members. THANK YOU to … Continue reading “MakerNet report on design and knowledge sharing”

Entrepreneurship

How Ghana’s Maker-Movement is driving young innovators

Written by Fadia Elgharib 21 May 2018

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”

GIG@re:publica

GIG AND RE:PUBLICA 2018

Written by Fadia Elgharib 19 May 2018

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 “

Digital Africa

GIG @ re:publica 2018

Written by Fadia Elgharib 2 May 201817 March 2022

“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”