I recently had the opportunity to co-present the work done by the Global Innovation Gathering in documenting projects to be reproduced by Tolocar. This is a project by GIZ focused on enabling mobile makerspaces to aid in care and reconstruction […]

I recently participated in the #REvaluationPodcast to discuss the work and findings related to evaluating open innovation for the Global Surgical Training Challenge. We discuss how a data model can be designed and used to monitor and assess complex contributions […]

I was invited to present at the Exchanging Knowledge and Ideas for Open and Transparent Governance in Montenegro event, organized by the National Democratic Institute and the Ministry of Public Administration of Montenegro. The topic of the conversation was “Open […]

Over the past few months, I collaborated with several experts in open hardware to draft a guidance note for UNESCO regarding developing and using open hardware for scientific practice. This guidance note was connected to the UNESCO Recommendation on Open […]

As part of my involvement in developing the Surgical Education Learners Forum, I had the opportunity to engage with surgical educators, practitioners, and other technologists at the SELF Symposium hosted by Intuitive Foundation at the Intuitive Surgical headquarters in California. […]

As a follow-up to the Digital Rights x Climate Justice event in Berlin (now known as the Green Screen Coalition) and taking advantage of the number of practitioners attending the RightsCon 2023 conference in San José, a large group of […]

As a brilliant follow-up to my 2022 participation at re:publica, Alistair Alexander was very kind to invite me to co-facilitate a workshop connected to a framework he is promoting for digital sustainability called the Digital Doughnut. What is the Digital […]

The Global Innovation Gathering is a community of social innovation practitioners with over 155 members from 47 countries. This vibrant community celebrated its 10th anniversary in Berlin with a large event, with support from Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, in which the community shared […]

This year, I was honored to be selected as a fellow of the Post-Growth Institute. This fellowship engages individuals working on prosperity and well-being from perspectives beyond capitalism. This includes solidarity economics, conflict resolution, decolonial thought, and fair uses of […]

SURGHub is a new platform developed by UNITAR along with support of the Global Surgery Foundation and the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland. I was recently invited to be part of its Technical Committee, which is developing standards related to […]