By Julieta Arancio As part of my doctoral project at CENIT-STEPS Latin America on open hardware, I am working as a mentor at the summer school of the Geneva-Tsinghua Iniciative,…
Hardware y software de código abierto para cambiar el mundo
Open science hardware across the Andes
After an intense programme of Open Scientific Hardware (OScH) workshops in Argentina and Chile, researchers André Chagas (University of Tübingen) and Ben Paffhausen (Freie Universität, Berlin) go back home with…
GOSH Roadmap: democratizing technology, from a Latin American perspective
As the year begins, also begin the efforts of low-budget university labs to make ends meet. The scene is unfortunately quite familiar to many of us in Latin America. How…
From social networks to robot scarecrows: Agroecology meets Open Source technologies
Agroecology has been traditionally based on co-producing knowledge with farmers, scientists, indigenous communities and technicians. As such, it could be regarded as an “open and collaborative” practice. But does this…