My work
These are some of the organizations that I am currently working with or supporting:
- Appropedia: Appropedia is the largest wiki in the world for sustainability and international development. I’m currently the Executive Director for its parent organization, The Appropedia Foundation.
- Insitu Global: I am a core team member of Insitu, an initiative that explores how communities can participate to create and improve public spaces by including digital and analog fabrication techniques.
- Internet Society El Salvador: I am part of the board of the Salvadoran Chapter of Internet Society.
- Creative Commons El Salvador: Creative Commons is an organization focused on open licenses around the world. I am currently serving as the Chapter Lead for its Chapter in El Salvador.
- Media4Development: I am professor of the Media for Development Pro seminar at Brandeis SID.
Happenings
Research and texts
These are some papers or articles related to maker culture, international development and technology.
- Velis, E., Torres, D., & Caballero, G. (2021). Gamification for social perception: Introducing scientific literacy to dabblers in citizen science. Journal of Science Communication, 20(6), A08. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.20060208
- Menichinelli, M., Velis, E., Rocha, A., & Schmidt, A. (2021). Collaborative ontology design for Open Hardware and Open Design. In L. Di Lucchio, L. Imbesi, A. Giambattista, & V. Malakuczi (Eds.), Design Culture(s). Cumulus Conference Proceedings Roma 2021, Volume #2 (pp. 1535–1550). Cumulus.
- Dosemagen, S., Heidel, E., Murillo, L. F. R., Velis, E., Stinson, A., & Thorne, M. (2021, June 14). Open Climate Now! Branch, 1(2).
- Velis, E., Samson, K., Robles, I., & Rodríguez, D. (2020). Craft and Artisan Initiatives of the Salvadoran Civil War (1980–1992). Digital Culture & Society, 6(1), 37–56. https://doi.org/10.14361/dcs-2020-0103
- Arndt, F., Bonvoisin, J., Burkert, T., Schattenhofer, L., Vos, J., Flüchter, F., Haeuer, M., Jäger, D., Wille, T., Hassan, M., Mies, R., John, B., Moritz, M., Redlich, T., Schmidt-Gütter, C., Velis, E., Well, J., Wingerden, D., Wenzel, T., & Zimmermann, L. (2020). DIN SPEC 3105-1: Open Source Hardware. https://doi.org/10.31030/3173063
- Velis, E. (2019, March 17). A Card Game Approach to Community Mapping. Public Lab.
- Make, Tinker, Learn. In Scheeren, Herrera & Sperling. Homo faber 2.0: Politics of Digital in Latin America. São Carlos, Brazil (2018)
- Velis, E., Samson, K., & Valladares, C. (2018). Experiencias de cultura maker y educación informal de Mesoamérica. In A. Zucchetti, R. Winocur, N. Remolina, A. Lombana Bermúdez, S. Doccetti, L. Brossi, S. Cortesi, & C. Cobo (Eds.), Jóvenes, transformación digital y nuevas formas de inclusión en América latina. Centro de estudios Fundación Ceibal. https://digital.fundacionceibal.edu.uy/jspui/handle/123456789/229
- Velis, E. (2017, June 7). Open hardware groups spread across the globe. Opensource.com.
- Velis, E., & Robles, I. (2017, July). Fab labs as catalists for sharing economies in Latin America (ark:/13960/t26b34d19). 13th international Fab Lab Conference and Symposium, Santiago, Chile.
- Velis, E., Baptista, P., Brazil, J., Machado, R., Valladares, C., & Waissbluth, N. (2016, August). Peer-based design, prototyping and construction of a Floating Fab Lab in the Amazon (ark:/13960/t2v45k85d). 12th international Fab Lab Conference and Symposium, Shenzen, China.
- Satyan, A., Gomes, A. L., Falcão Luna, C. E., Velis, E., Castro de Queiroz, F., Van Amstel, F., Ferreira Filho, I. F., Gama, J., Carraro, J., Carreira, L., Guedes, L., Vilutis, L., Ugalde, P., Henrique Jatobá, P., Gonzatto, R. F., & Rodrigues de Barros, S. (2014). Coralizando: Um guia de colaboração para a economia criativa (1st ed.). Plataforma Corais.
- Van Amstel, F., Gonzatto, R. F., Junges, E., Costa, R., Veloso, D., da Cruz Costa, K., Marins, P., Giuliano, R., Chuves, V., Fuchs, F., Ferraz, G., & Rückert, A. (2012). Diseño Libre (E. Velis, P. Álvarez, J. Soto Galindo, S. Henríquez, I. Sol, R. Flores, S. Burgos, & D. Palacios, Trans.; 1st ed.). Instituto Faber-Ludens.
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