Podcasts by re:publica 17 - Global Innovation Gathering (GIG)

re:publica 17 - Global Innovation Gathering (GIG)

The Global Innovation Gathering (GIG), a sub-conference developed by re:publica, brings together innovation hub managers, makers, hackers and entrepreneurs from across the world. In the last four years GIG has become a central part of the conference programme, showcasing tech innovation and maker projects from Asia, Africa and Latin America. The GIG members have formed a strong community, exchanging information and expertise on innovation and maker issues throughout the year.

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re:publica 17 - Global Innovation Gathering (GIG)
Ex Oriente Make: The future of maker culture is made in China from 2017-05-10T14:45

Silvia Lindtner In this talk, Silvia Lindtner examines how Shenzhen transformed into a laboratory where technological futures are prototyped. She will show how Western elites, more specifically Am...

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India of Things (en) from 2017-05-10T14:15

Sreowshi Sinha, Maya Indira GaneshSreowshi will give insights on the particularities of the IoT market in India. Together with her interview partner from Tactical Technology Collective she will dis...

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Nourishing Our Communities – Rural and Urban Platforms for Food Innovation (en) from 2017-05-10T11:45

Awa Caba, Gustaff Harriman Iskandar, Ivan Sawyer Garcia, Peter Volz, Yemesrach Tadesse New forms of bottom-up agriculture networks based on ucd methods and ict tools bringing urban drivers in dial...

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The politics of natural hair (en) from 2017-05-10T11:45

Mugethi Gitau It is ironic that in the world we live in today, wearing your hair the way it grows as an African person is considered a statement. For generations, majority of urban Africans have b...

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Pull Request: Restructuring the Global Power Paradigm through Open Source from 2017-05-10T08:00

Nnenna Nwakanma, Manuela Yamada, Carolyn Florey, Christoph Beier How do we need to change our systems in order to eradicate poverty and enable the world’s population to meet basic demands of all...

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Dignity: The Maker Movement and Refugees from 2017-05-09T16:00

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How the Internet bridges traditional and contemporary knowledge in the Brazilian Amazon (en) from 2017-05-09T14:45

Debora Leal Many communities in the Amazon region of the Brazilian north are without internet or mobile connectivity, especially in areas without road access that can only reached by boat. While t...

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Access all areas - Independent Internet Infrastructures in Brazil, India and South Africa (en) from 2017-05-09T14:15

Tim Human, Jan Lachenmayer The complex and multidimensional challenge of digital inclusion is being tackled by corporations, governments, and ever more so, by entrepreneurs and innovators. Before ...

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The end of Accelerators as we know it. (en) from 2017-05-09T13:30

Yatan Blumenthal Vargas, Jörg Rheinboldt, Alexander Hafner The end of Accelerators as we know it. Accelerators (think Y-Combinator, Techstars, PlugnPlay etc) became a huge trend in the last few ye...

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“The other 6 billion” - impact entrepreneurship in developing countries (en) from 2017-05-09T13:00

LizAn Kuster, Rosanna Lopez, Bahar Kumar While the world is still looking at Silicon Valley, the real innovation happens in developing countries. Coworking Spaces, Innovation Labs, Maker Spaces, I...

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