Tolocar banner taken from the Tolocar Playbook
Tolocar showcase event
February 27, 2024

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 […]

OGP/NDI Montenegro Event
December 16, 2023

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 […]

Pancarta: "El derecho a un ambiente sano"
Wiki for los Derechos Humanos
November 14, 2023

Gracias a la atenta invitación de Wikimedistas de Uruguay, participé en el evento regional de Wiki por los Derechos Humanos. Este evento se llevó a cabo en Montevideo e integró a personas parte de varios capítulos de Wikimedia para discutir […]

Doing the Digital Doughnut at re:publica
June 06, 2023

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Open Climate Then and Now
September 06, 2022

Following our previous text on Branch Magazine and inspired by Open Climate’s discussions with dozens of practitioners over a few years, we published a new article on Branch Magazine’s fourth issue focused on Open Climate as the main subject. Read […]

Explorando la documentación para el impacto social (Premio Solidaridad)
July 28, 2022

Tuve el gusto de presentar un webinar para los jóvenes del Centro ¡Supérate! de la Fundación Poma que fueron parte del #PremioSolidaridad. En esta sesión, reflexionamos sobre el tema: “Documentando y comunicando el impacto de mi organización”. En la sesión […]

Final notes on the Green Web Fellowship
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 […]