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February 03, 2023
As a follow-up to last year’s class and Q&A session for the Critical Making program, I’ll be at the GIG Community call this next Wednesday to talk about how to use Appropedia as a tool for creating and managing documentation. […]
December 30, 2022
Most of the heavy lifting to enable democratizing digital fabrication processes is done through open source software. Despite this, there are many challenges related to the uses of software across stages of the design and manufacturing workflow, for example, when […]
December 11, 2022
These past months I had the pleasure of collaborating with the FAST team from Western University by discussing possible ways to automate the process of applying the OSHWA Certification to open source appropriate technology projects in a way that makes […]
November 30, 2022
In the past, I’ve explored the uses of data models in various aspects related to documentation. More specifically, how actionable knowledge can be extracted during the documentation process and repurposed. Some examples are here and here, both in the context […]
July 21, 2022
For the past year, I participated in the Green Web Foundation Fellowship program, which focused on their goal of enabling a carbon-free Internet. Alongside other great members of my cohort, we explored and studied together how the Internet’s physical infrastructure […]
June 13, 2022
In May, some members of the Open Climate Team (Shannon Dosemagen, Evelin Heidel, Alex Stinson, and Michelle Thorne) had the opportunity to sit down with the people from Open Future to chat about our work in bringing awareness of openness […]
June 09, 2022
One of the results of my work as a Green Web Foundation fellow was a workshop at re:publica, a festival in Berlin focused on digital culture. The workshop title was Sustainability, Accountability and Power: What Remote Work Means for the […]
June 01, 2022
SolariseCon 2022 was a day packed with conversations about the concept of solarpunk, a movement focused on the reimagining of a carbon-free future. From the organizers of the event: Solarpunk imagery tends to conjure up visions of solar panels and […]
December 11, 2021
Recientemente tuve la oportunidad de compartir con Mariana Salgado de Diseño y Diáspora sobre algunos de los elementos de mi trabajo en Appropedia, así como experiencias sobre mapeo comunitario y diseño social. Emilio Velis es un ingeniero industrial salvadoreño que […]
November 30, 2021
Gracias a una amable invitación del Centro Nacional de las Artes de México, formé parte de las Jornadas de Autodeterminación Digital, un evento orientado a la discusión sobre el concepto de autodeterminación, un elemento clave de la identidad personal y […]
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These are some papers or articles related to maker culture, international development and technology.
- Peplinski, J., Velis, E., & Pearce, J. M. (2022). Towards open source patents: Semi-automated open hardware certification from MediaWiki websites. World Patent Information, 71, 102150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wpi.2022.102150
- Arancio, J., Velis, E., & Torres, D. (2022). Documenting and assessing open innovation: Co-creation of an open data model for surgical training. fteval Journal for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation, 54, Article 54. https://doi.org/10.22163/fteval.2022.574
- Thorne, M., Dosemagen, S., Heidel, E., Stinson, A., Murillo, L. F. R., & Velis, E. (2022). Open Climate Then and Now. Branch, 1(4). https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-4/open-climate-then-and-now/
- Velis, E. (2022, August 29). Critical openness and digital sustainability. Branch. https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-4/critical-openness-and-digital-sustainability/
- 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.