Exploring identity and contesting racism through games: a co-design lab in Brazil

Exploring identity and contesting racism through games: a co-design lab in Brazil

By Ricardo Ruiz Comment Closed
Racism is a pervasive and complex problem, affecting individuals and societies differently. How can we address this issue creatively and engagingly? How can we use games for empowerment, awareness, and education? These questions motivated a co-design lab in Brazil in a partnership between GIG and the University of Bristol and its collaborators. The co-design lab is part of the project Contesting Algorithmic Racism in Brazil, funded by the AHRC Impact Acceleration Fund. The project explores the cultural responses to racism embedded in data and digital technologies, such as algorithms, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. The project also seeks to create games and other interactive online resources that challenge and address algorithmic bias in Brazil. Date: 2008 - 2012.Location: Piscinao de Ramos, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Description: Black man uses sunblock cream on his arms over a chess board in front of a glass with beer at Ramos Public Swimming Pool. Credit: Julio Bittencourt The co-design lab consists of online workshops with...
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Tropixel Brazil 2022

Tropixel Brazil 2022

Tropixel is a community that operates on the borders between culture, science, technology and society, dreaming of regenerative futures for our side of the world. Tropixel Sementes (seeds) is a self-organized meeting of the Tropixel network. At this moment in Brazil and the world, it is essential that we meet again and design (continue designing) joint strategies for this difficult year. There are elections at the end of the year, and that is a challenge in itself. In every state and across the country, 2023 will also be intense. So let's meet and discuss either creating ways to survive even worse conditions, or starting to regenerate from the rubble (and regenerating is not rebuilding, it is not repeating, it is not resuming old premises). Plans Tropixel Sementes will take place over four days at the headquaters of Instituto Neos; a fantastic space surrounded by Atlantic Forest .  Instituto Neos headquaters. Image from Ubatuba Wiki It's a date, not a festival. In other words: Tropixel doesn't imagine having...
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Olabi innovation hub promotes a toolkit to encourage diversity in companies.

Olabi innovation hub promotes a toolkit to encourage diversity in companies.

By Ricardo Ruiz Comment Closed
The digital toolkit consists of an ebook, a podcast series, and a video manifesto aiming to clarify concepts and encourage companies to create environments of diversity in the workplace, supporting more women, LGBTQIAP+, black, indigenous and people with disability in their frames.It contains tips and guidelines on creating policies for welcoming and retaining people in the teams and the experiences and challenges of companies that experienced transformations in the workplace. Diversity is a theme that occupies more space in publicity, politicians and corporate addresses, classrooms, and journalistic guidelines each time. But how do you take real action? How do we convert themes to working policies? Include, insert and accept the broad and diverse range of people who coexist in the society, with respect and opening to welcome ideas, perspectives, and many different cultures can not be a desire but a requirement. However, it presupposes paradigms overturns not always straightforward incorporated. Olabi has extensive experience in consulting and actions to create more inclusive environments in...
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Citizen-led data journalism from Brazil’s favelas fills historical information gap

Citizen-led data journalism from Brazil’s favelas fills historical information gap

By Mugethi GitauNo Comments
Citizen-led data journalism from Brazil’s favelas fills historical information gap: while the favela communities may be ignored by the government, a local organisation, Data Labe, is using the power of data journalism and narrative storytelling to re-write these, often forgotten, histories of the favelas, and the people who call them home. Through this, Data Labe is working to empower and uplift these communities, fighting for a new legacy of social agency and political representation. @Internewsviews wrote a super cool article about @data_labe and our citizen-generated data project: Poopoozap (@cocozapmare). The report tells a little about the history of the project and the impact of our actions on the 'Favela da Maré' and its residents. It is a great opportunity for GIG partners to understand a little about the basic sanitation problems in Brazil's favelas and how we have been working, through data generated voluntarily and community-based for political impact on the topic. Keep up with us on our social platforms instagram.com/data_labe twitter.com/data_labe ...
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Olabi launches a project to empower and engage seniors through technology.

Olabi launches a project to empower and engage seniors through technology.

By Mugethi GitauNo Comments
In May of this year, Olabi held the second edition of "Aprenda com uma avó". The project was created in 2020 to be exclusively face-to-face, but its activities were adapted to a 100% digital environment during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a proposal for people over 60 to offer classes on varied knowledge to a wide audience. The idea is to build a space that connects older people who want to transmit knowledge through digital tools in online classes, promoting a meeting of different generations, valuing the knowledge accumulated in our society, and bringing a reflection about the aging of the population. In the process of assembling their content, the seniors learn more about new technologies, expanding their digital literacy. To deal with this matter, the project was divided into two stages: the first is digital training for the elderly, which provides classes on several digital tools, such as Zoom, presentation techniques, narrative and social networks, taught by selected monitors in a...
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Careables Moving Exhibition Beta Edition at Olinda, Northeast Brazil.

Careables Moving Exhibition Beta Edition at Olinda, Northeast Brazil.

Careables Moving Exhibition is moving from Berlin to land next in Olinda, Northeast Brazil. After an inspiring first experience at Re:publica Campus, next stop for Careables Moving Exhibition is  Polyclinic Hospital João de Barros Barreto and Casa Criatura Lab. The exhibition will present the careables created, adapted and co-designed covering worldwide replicated prototypes by Casa Criatura during the year of 2020. From different models of face shields and aerosol boxes against Covid-19 to open source stadiometers hardware and software; Hyperactive Stool, and Glifo pen holder. The exhibition aims at broadening people’s perspective on digital manufacturing and collaborative production as critical aspects of the care for the others and oneself. This is the first time where Careables exhibition happens in a Public Hospital fighting contagious infections, like dengue fever, measles and covid-19, while also being a support centre for people with disabilities. Time frame of Exhibition: 17th-27th November First week: the exhibition will be hosted by the Polyclinic Hospital João de Barros Barreto. Second week: the exhibition will...
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Co-creating urban water information systems

Co-creating urban water information systems

By Zen EditorNo Comments
Digitologias Belo Jardim A 3-months conference (Oct 27 - Dec 19, 2017) in Belo Jardim, Northeast Brazil had the aim to collect and manage water and sanitation data on the city of Belo Jardim together with different actors. The city is located in Brazil’s hills of the north-east semi-arid region. It was once “The city of the waters”, but climate changes are making Belo Jardim pass long periods of years with no rain and restrict access to water. This oasis has on its 20-year-old established industries the main responsible for the 4th GPD on Pernambuco state but at the same time extremely dependent on water resources. As consequence, the vast majority of the population have no local knowledge about water springs, water quality, it’s access, treatment, and levels of pollutants. The project was a cooperation between students, teachers, citizens, NGO, industrial sector and the municipality. A web platform is responsible to co-collect and analyses the data: saneamentomunicipal.org - a small startup on sanitation from Brazil. As an educational project,...
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ColaborAmerica 2017

ColaborAmerica 2017

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We finished 2017 with the first GIG meeting in Latin America. The gathering happened at ColaborAmerica, one of the biggest festivals in new economies in the continent, that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from November 23th to 25th, and was co-organized by Olabi, one of our GIG associates in Brazil. More than 2.500 innovators, makers, entrepreneurs and change makers attended the 3-days event, that had a makerspace organized by GIG and Olabi. Giggers from Rwanda, Kenya, USA, Germany, and other parts of Brazil was there leading activities. The next Colaboramerica edition is already being created and GIG continues as an institutional and content partner. For more impressions check flic.kr/olabi-makerspace/albums...
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