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“The first way of openness is to depart from the perspective of the people we work with and not to perceive our perspectives as expert knowledge. We need to understand, learn, and depart from local perspectives and practices, adopting together the protocol loc...

The Ownership of Science

“We should acknowledge the constant interaction of science and ‘living hood’. We are taking care of others, enacting rituals, and making remedies. Is Citizen Social Science about bringing science back to its original ‘owners’? Do we have to admit that science ...

Decolonizing our educational/institutional influences

“Talking from an African scientist context, our role as social scientists has to be being the ‘pacemaker’ to establish good connections between our mythology and the western knowledge learned in school and academia. The biggest challenge for African scientists...

Practices to overcome false representation in participatory processes

“It is important to differentiate levels of participation and acknowledge that participation in international collaboration is often characterised by false representation since it is like a black box if people on the ground do not have access to the real knowl...

Examples of and learnings from ethical standard setting in OCSS communities

We need more advocacy for the ethics in Open Science (and we will need it for Citizen Social Science, too) to foster better documentation of open science processes. We need to create protocols to account for the voices of all those communities rooted in oral t...

Projects

Different projects were part of 2019 GIG's core activities. You can check them all here.

Projects

Funds and Fundraising

Members Handbook

Fundraising with GIG

CSS Global Perspectives

Global Perspectives on Citizen Social S... Locally driven protocols and local trad...

This CoAct co-publication brings together voices from around the globe to unpack what CSS needs to account for to be truly inclusive. Voices from diverse contexts share what science should look like when accounting for multiple voices, needs, and traditions wo...

Locally driven protocols and local traditions in the Open Citizen Social Sciences

On April 21, 2022, GIG hosted the first out of five hangouts addressing pressing issues to enable inclusive, bottom-up practices in the most diverse contexts worldwide. The given topics have been identified throughout a series of conversation formats. In addit...

Decentralising Science – Locally driven validation protocols in MboaLab Cameroon

Global Perspectives on Citizen Social S... Locally driven protocols and local trad...

by Nadine Mowoh, MboaLab Cameroon Scientific methods are repeatable by definition and validated for accuracy, specificity, reproducibility and robustness – meaning the same steps must be followed to predict future results. They also follow a systematic and st...

Diversifying the ownership of science – lessons from our 3rd community hangout

Global Perspectives on Citizen Social S... The Ownership of Science

Picture credits: Takiwasi, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Kersti Ruth Wissenbach, June 2022 On May 19, 2022, GIG hosted the first out of five hangouts addressing pressing issues to enable inclus...

Data generation as citizen science // A favela agenda to opening science

Global Perspectives on Citizen Social S... The Ownership of Science

Gilberto Vieira [1] In recent years I have come across an instigating debate that sometimes, depending on where it takes place, asks us: who does science belong? This seems to be a fundamental question for us to understand the paths that democracies...

Decolonizing our educational/institutional influences – Towards open science funding and mental decolonization

Global Perspectives on Citizen Social S... Decolonizing our educational/institutio...

by Kersti Ruth Wissenbach On June 23, 2022, GIG hosted three out of five hangouts addressing pressing issues to enable inclusive, bottom-up Citizen Social Science practices in the most diverse contexts. The topics have been identified throughout a series of...

Glossary

Biotech Lab - A facility where technology is utilized to develop or create different products from biological systems or living organisms. Citizen Social Science (CSS) - is an approach in which (citizens) communities and individuals are involved in de...

Intro

Open science offers the means to develop and build tools to help us overcome conflicts (e.g. water sensors in dry regions and seasons). Open science and data literacy equip us to think critically about the root causes and potential solutions to conflicts. And ...

The role of open science and the maker movement in peacebuilding

Obasegun Ayodele and Obialunanma Nnaobi This chapter introduces the world of Open Science and the Maker culture. After introducing concepts and their objectives, their integral role in peacebuilding processes will be unpacked. Introduction to Open Science O...

The role of open and citizen social science in peacebuilding

Georgia Haddad Nicolau, Gilberto Vieira, Kersti Ruth Wissenbach The corona revealed the importance of returning to communities, to their memories and knowledge, to their collective intelligence. It highlighted the essential character of solidarity between...

Overview of Open Science methods, approaches and concepts

Obasegun Ayodele, Obialunanma Nnaobi This chapter will discuss four approaches that have innovated peacebuilding using open science concepts. Different sector players have used these approaches and methodologies to tackle root causes of conflict through gamif...

Five Case Studies of Hubs using Open Science approaches for peacebuilding

Hive Biolab, Ghana Thematic fields: Health and Education The hub and our connection to Open Science and peacebuilding Hive Biolab is an open and collaborative DIY biohacking space in Kumasi Hive. Our biohacking space uses Open Science principles and Bio...

Communications Guide

Dear staff member, We have established several GIG communication channels to exchange information within the network, learn/see/exchange what everyone is working on, discover synergies, share and celebrate, communicate with the external world, and raise atten...

Travel & Procurement Policies

This handbook should cover all you need to know about spending money to realize our projects. Please, always add questions as comments so it stays a living document. Basics How-to invoices are explained in the nextcloud > Orga > Handbook > Accounting. Pleas...

Accounting

BASICS Our accounts: GLS Regular bank account (Girokonto): 1219867500 GLS Tagesgeld: 1219867501 GLS Credit Card: Sandra Mamitzsch Paypal: hi@globalinnovationgathering.org We use Transferwise and Azimo to transfer funds abroad. Passwords for both are...

GIG Cloud Procedures and Tips

GIG Cloud We have 2 file systems: Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B-qgKx8SCq0jfjdXRkhEcjNhb0RxYUF3clpZRHRuaHlGX3lockZhRm5ScmY3LUVfdnZ0UTQ?usp=sharing GIG Nextcloud: https://cloud.globalinnovationgathering.org/ So far, the rule i...

Welcome to the 2019 Annual Report of the Global Innovation Gathering!

Every year we ask ourselves: how can we best (re)present the projects, activities, events, and, most importantly, the global community that GIG has become? After seven years, this task is getting increasingly complex, and yet, it is our happiest moment that al...

Articles of Association

The association Digital Unite e.V., founded in 2012, was named Global Innovation Gathering e.V. in 2016. It is based in Berlin and registered in the District Court of Charlottenburg association register with the number VR 30791 B. Global Innovation Gathering ...

Our Members

Global Innovation Gathering (GIG) is a vibrant, diverse community of innovation hubs, makerspaces, hackerspaces and other grassroots innovation community spaces and initiatives as well as individual innovators, makers, technologists and changemakers. GIG is p...

Executive Board