Kersti Wissenbach On December 14, 2022 we celebrated the launch of our Global Perspectives publication. We took the opportunity to introduce the authors and their contributions to the five topics of the publication to a wider audience. The...
By Khan Rahi, Canadian Community-Based Research Network, Toronto, Canada In 2016, the Canadian Community-Based Research Network (CCRN) and its volunteers, based in Toronto, Canada, held a series of community-wide conversations to identify community...
By Andrew Anda Wöndu The formal educational system in South Sudan has its origins in the mid-nineteenth-century British colonial period. Christian missionaries set up mission schools to train natives for evangelization and recruitment into the...
By Julia Kleeberger On this school day, the classroom of 7a at the Kurt-Schwitters-Oberschule presents a different picture than usual: In one corner of the room, some students are sitting and building a gripper arm that can be operated with one hand...
By Yine Yenki Nyika For a very long time, and globally, women and girls shy away from science. Yet, our mothers, in one way or the other, practice science every single day. The limited recognition of local traditional activities, such as brewing and...
Nurturing a shared understandings of concepts and opening up knowledge in cross-disciplinary research By Kersti R. Wissenbach Critical Making session during DOtS 19, Nakuru, Kenya On September 22, GIG hosted its final hangout addressing pressing...
Hangout Recap by Kersti Ruth Wissenbach Jaiksana Soro – Platform Africa & Stephen Kovats – r0g_agency Picture credits rCC-BY-SA Pawel Ngei On September 15, GIG hosted the 4th out of 5 hangouts, addressing pressing issues to enable...
On September 22 we will meet for our fifth and final hangout in the process to raise our voices with Global Perspectives in CSS. This time we warmly invite you to discuss with us what is required in order to establish and follow ethical standards...
Due to little participation during the holiday season we are offering a new date for this exciting conversation! We will meet on September 15, 12h CEST to discuss what is required to fully open the black-box of participation and overcome the common...
by Kersti Ruth Wissenbach On June 23, 2022, GIG hosted the third 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...
