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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

The General Assembly elects the Executive Board for two years. It decides on all matters of the association as long as they do not require a resolution of the General Assembly. It carries out the keys of the General Assembly and develops the GIG strategy joint...