Collaborative Innovation for Future Resilience
May 21, 2020

I had the chance to share space with the founders of great innovations and other experts on a Virtual Roundtable organized by Wikifactory, in relation to how innovation can build resilience for the current COVID-19 pandemic. The amount of inventive […]

#DigitalOrganizing
April 27, 2020

Tomorrow, I will be taking part of an event organized by NOVACT (International Institute for Nonviolent Action). The event aims to share experiences on related to the uses of technology in ways that protect human rights and personal privacy. My […]

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AWEsome Competition Keynote
April 25, 2020

Last month, I had the incredible opportunity to visit Arcata CA to speak about Latin American experiences in technology and community development. The keynote was part of the Awesome Business Competition, an event focused on agriculture, energy and water projects […]

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FABLAT: Tecnología digital en El Salvador
March 12, 2020

Recientemente tuve la oportunidad de compartir espacio junto con Kako Valladares para contar un poco sobre nuestros proyectos colaborativos a partir de nuestro trabajo en la red Fab Lat. La presentación fue facilitada por Benito Juárez, de Fab Lab Perú. […]

Open hardware from Academia
February 15, 2020

During the first week of February, a group of researchers and users of open hardware in academic contexts gathered in Bath to discuss topics that relate to hardware development, documentation, licensing, and the involvement of academia with the open source […]

Parking Space Wars
October 17, 2019

This is a story that I wasn’t planning on telling anyone, but I was invited recently to propose a technological project that relates to traffic issues, which are very severe in my city. This brought this to my mind. The […]

Metadesign and participation
June 01, 2019

This May I had the chance to develop some ontology work as a workshop at the Creative Commons Summit in Lisbon. The goal was to present some of the ideas on the subject, some of which I have already written […]

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Towards an Ontology of the Open
March 17, 2019

One idea has been forming in my mind over the past year, as a combination of different experiences that I’ve seen over different communities dedicated to open content, and how the same problem of documentation affects all communities alike. The […]

A Card Game Approach to Community Mapping
March 12, 2019

Originally published as a research note on publiclab.org. Last year my good friend Gino Caballero and I we were asked to implement a methodology for violence prevention in San Salvador in urban communities downtown. Although we had previous experiences with […]

Should we think of manual work in an automated future?
October 16, 2018

This past month I had the opportunity to organize a workshop in Boston for makers, based on a workshop that Mario Gómez and I we did in Colombia back in 2016, this time with support from people at the Fab […]