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AU i4Policy Innovation Hub Gathering

Dear Friends of GIG,

we are beyond excited: The African Union and i4Policy are convening Africa's largest hub gathering to take action in policy making!

The i4Policy team around Jon Stever, Geraldine de Bastion, Georgia Haddad Nicolau and Nanjira Sambuli has been working hard on this project since the GIG panel on policy frameworks for innovation and entrepreneurship at re:publica 2016 - Congratulations for this huge success!

The First Africa Innovation Hub Convention will take place on May 6-7. Read more
Apply TODAY for the i4Policy Hub Gathering

We can't wait for the buzz, creativity, sharing and inpriation taking place during the next few weeks of GIG with Asia Pacific Week, our annual GIG Summit, re:publica 2018 and the Transform Africa Summit coming up all in one go from April 23 to May 9.

This fourth edition of our quarterly newsletter from the GIG network further features reports from Brazil, Germany, Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, and South Sudan.

Also check out the upcoming events as well as our GIG Activities. Many exciting activities took place in the last 3 months around the globe - enjoy the reading and be inspired to continue our work!

We are what we create together – GIG


Join the global alliance of makers and local manufacturers
MakerNet is expanding into a broader alliance, to bring together people and organizations working on different aspects of local manufacturing worldwide to share knowledge, connect with new partners and facilitate collaboration, and design tools, norms and standards needed to help local manufacturers connect with market opportunities. Get in touch via hello@makernetalliance.org or sign up at makernetalliance.org

Building the commons and working social innovation from the bottom up
The year 2017 was the growth and consolidation of the Procomum Institute in Santos, on the coast of São Paulo, Brazil. The team is working as a network in the construction and promotion of common goods and using citizen innovation and free culture to improve people’s lives and solve local problems. Read more on our blog.

Building an Atlas of innovation spaces worldwide

Chinmayi SK and Anna Waldman-Brown are building a living, collaborative Atlas of all the community innovation spaces worldwide to be launched officially in June. Read more

Human-centered formats and the SDGs
In the past two years Daniela Marzavan and colleagues have been developing human-centered formats for teaching the contents and especially the new transformative components of the SDGs to policy makers that work for or with the German Development Services.
Read the whole story on our blog.
Open Calls

Inclusive Insurance for Emerging Markets - 14th International Microinsurance Conference
Conference: 6-8 November in Lusaka, Zambia
Call open until: 10 May

AfriCHI  - 2nd African conference for Human Computer Interaction
Conference: 3-7 December in Windhoek, Namibia
Call open until: 10 May
#ThinkB4UClick is an awareness campaign that aims at pointing out the dangers of misinformation, fake news and hate speech with a focus on South Sudan, brought to you by the team of #defyhatenow. Explore more on our blog.

A laboratory of data and narratives in the favela 
To whom do the data belong? For whom are they available? How can we make the data visible so as to guarantee new narratives that allow the development of communities full of rights? data_labe is becoming an independent NGO and tackles to understand how to be a civil and tech organization at the delicate moment for favela dwellers in Rio de Janeiro.

IoTday celebration at the Rhino Camp refugee settlement, Uganda
A group of jHUB pioneers, along with local peers and colleagues came together with other refugees to introduce the concepts of IoT (Internet of things), inspire young people through the design and building of open technology-based ‘things’ such as DIY solar chargers, and LED lights. Find more at iotday.org/[…]

 


The dawn of #AfricaOSH 
The past weekend marked the kickoff for Africa's Open Science Hardware community AfricaOSH.com. Initiated by Thomas Mboa and colleagues from the Global Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH) about 80 dedicated scientists, makers and innovators came together to discuss status quo and ways forward. Stay tuned at #AfricaOSH and engage!
Upcoming Events

Asia Pacific Week Berlin
Apr 23-29 in Berlin, Germany

GIG Annual Gathering
Apr 28-30 in Berlin, Germany

re:publica
May 2-4 in Berlin, Germany

Africa Tech Summit
May 16 in London, UK

RightsCon
May 16-18 in Toronto, Canada

DINACON Digital Naturalism Conference
May 26 - July 8 in Koh Lon, Thailand

UNLEASH Lab
May 30 - June 6 in Singapore

International Tech4Dev Conference
Jun 27-29 in Lausanne, Switzerland

2nd Humanitarian Maker Faire Nepal
Sep 22-23 or 29-30 in Kathmandu, Nepal



Find all upcoming events and dates at globalinnovationgathering.org/events
The next GIG newsletter will be published in July 2018
 
Contact us at hi@globalinnovationgathering.org to submit content to the next newsletter edition and to announce upcoming events.
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