"Shubra El Khema Smart clinic in Egypt is now open!

GIG together with MBM (Masr Bela Marad, which translates as "Egypt without illness") an Egyptian NGO and the donation of Siemens AG and
Siemens Energy AG set up in Shubra El Khema (outskirts of Cairo, Egypt) a Smart clinic. This clinic is providing high-quality care for around 15,000 patients yearly in an area lacking access to healthcare.
The clinic is an example of participatory and inclusive development, where all partners are working together for a common goal - to improve access to health at a time when it is needed more than ever. Our aim is to establish the Careables programme in the Smart Clinic, to train
engineers, makers and designers together with doctors and nurses to improve the access to medical devices for all people."
Read more about it here!

Gig @ re:publica '21

Together with our partners Distributed Design Market Platforms (DDMP) we hosted the first day or re:publica '21, whose theme was "In the meantime" On behalf  of re:publica, GIG  prepared an online programme of speakers,  two online workshops and a meetup within the framework of re:publica 2'1. re:publica is Europe’s biggest conference on topics concerning digitisation and society, while also being one of the world’s most exceptional festivals on digital culture. 

The opening session in our program was a conversation among Geraldine de Bastion, Sheilah Birgen, Jay Fajardo and Gabriela Agustini on re:publica and the Global Innovation Gathering.
Speakers included Reem Talhouk who unpacked notions of resilience and how humanitarian technologies contribute to dystopian futures for refugees. Mathilde Berchon who  spoke on the present and the future of 3D printing., Bart de Witte in conversation with Nick Couldry on the topic of Open Health data and Renata Avila who came in conversation with Paola Vilarreal on Smart Cities in South America. The topic on climate change has been discussed by FabLab Bhutan and Nepal Communitere whose work as makers spaces included projects that specifically address green and sustainable solutions. 
We hosted two online workshops on the same day, one is ‘The remote control Lab’ where Tarek Omar presents Senet Lab — a new remote control lab environment for engineering and science education by Cairo Hackerspace. The second workshop was called ‘The Story of a Maker Microscope’ hosted by Obasegun Tekena from Vilsquare, who presented a transformation story on how they managed to turn an open design for a microscope into an off the shelf supermarket product, making science accessible and affordable. 
The DDMP and GIG networks also gathered online for a meetup -watch party, which was followed by a moderated virtual discussion between speakers and members on the second day of the re:publica event. 
Watch the videos fron the GIG re:publica sessions here

We are launching three open calls to foster CSO-led Citizen Social Science projects on Gender Equality. Any non-profit organisation registered in the eligible countries can apply. If you are a CSO working on Gender Equality, apply between July 1st and Sept 30th, 2021.

Read more here. https://coactproject.eu/opencalls/ 
 

New grant: Nord-Sued-Bruecken

We are excited to be working with  Stiftung Nord-Sued-Bruecken for a project to share the Careables global activities with makers and the public in Germany:  This will involve 
Exhibitions in 4 makerspaces, workshops + exhibitions during 2 events
Currently, we are holding a moving Careables exhibition and Meet-Up in the heart of nature during Fläminger Kreativsause Festival in Brandenburg, Germany from the 12th-14th of August. For the meetup, we will be joined virtually by the amazing Ricardo Ruiz and Saad Chinoy from Brazil and Singapore who will talk about their experience with Careables in the past years.
Read more here

Global Scale Up X. A community of female founders

Looking for inspiring stories of female founders raising $$$ and scaling businesses in emerging markets?💡 if so, Global Scale Up X is a new #instagram community for you. Join by following this link now and please help our friends at MIT D-Lab spread the word! https://www.instagram.com/global_scaleupx/

Read about awesome female founders on their Instagram

 

Our friends over at  at Instituto Procomum, in Santos-SP, Brazil, continue to work to protect and promote the commons. They have just completed a process of training 18 popular health agents to deal with the pandemic.
Understanding care and health based on local demands, the Popular Health Agents trained 18 community leaders to fight the pandemic.

Co-creating new possibilities and dreams for the LAB Procomum
Procomum are re-creating their citizen laboratory to face the challenges of the crisis with more than 30 creative agents from their network; And will launch the action-research affirming the historical and current protagonism of the black population in Baixada Santista.


Read more about it here!

Read about the CoAct community hangout

You can now read more about our first CoAct community hangout (April, 2021). The aim of our first hangout was to introduce our community to CoAct and our plans in regards to growing a Citizen Social Science (CSS) approach. We answered questions and collectively identified the topics relevant to the community in order to craft a future hangout agenda. Read it here.