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 […]

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, […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]