Digital Ecosystem Declaration Ceremony
March 04, 2023

Fab City Hamburg kindly invited me as a presenter for its Digital Ecosystem Declaration Workshop and Ceremony at tfom23. The event took place from Mach 1-4, 2023 with participation from community leaders of the maker movement (including, among many others, […]

Introduction to Appropedia at GIG Communit Cally
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. […]

Open Climate Fellowship
February 02, 2023

Thanks to support from the Wikimedia Foundation, the Open Climate collective carried out a fellowship program to increase the knowledge commons and collaborative communities of practice. The Open Climate Fellowship is described as follows: We will build an engagement path […]

UNDP Accelerator Labs call
February 01, 2023

At the end of January, I had the chance to present the joint work with Rodro Morán, the Mapper for the UNDP Accelerator Labs. The presentation occurred at the weekly call that the Lab organizes for the mappers in 85 […]

Photo of the participants posing at the Open Toolchain Foundation design event
Open Toolchain Foundation Kick-Off
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 […]

A diagram showing an earlier design of the tool.
Towards Open Source Patents
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 […]

An ontology diagram of the Global Surgical Training Challenge knowledge model
Documenting and assessing open innovation
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 […]

Updates from the Bali Fab Fest
November 01, 2022

After a long in-person hiatus, the 2022 Fab City Fest at Jimbaran, Bali, was one of the first massive maker events. I had the chance to participate in a variety of activities described here: Global Surgical Training Challenge presentation Using […]

Digital Rights and Climate Justice event
October 17, 2022

This October, a group of activists and practitioners working on the intersection of digital rights and climate justice joined for a two-day in-person event to discuss common challenges in our initiatives. The track in which I participated was Open practices, […]

Critical Making Programme banner from social media
Critical Making: Share How You Make
October 11, 2022

In collaboration with Global Innovation Gathering, I had the opportunity to mentor a group of makers and innovators during the Critical Making Programme, an initiative by European Union’s Horizon 2020. My session was called Share How You Make, and was […]