Apply here for GOSH’s 2022 Regional Events Funding (Round 2)

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Applications are submitted by responding to this thread (see instructions below).

If you already submitted an application for Round 1, it will automatically be considered unless you:

• Ask us to no longer consider your application
• post a revised version of your original application here

Applications can target any 3 of the funding tiers, but the reviewers may recommend different funding tiers if accepted.

If you have a question about this funding or a related discussion, please post in [the other thread]()!

For general feedback on round 1 applications which can help you in this round, please see and discuss in this other thread!

There is currently limited funding to support open source software/hardware projects, but far less that specifically supports science-related open source hardware.

Therefore, this application is for groups that want to host an event, workshop, conference, or get-together aimed at advancing open science hardware. The main eligibility criteria is that the event must be aligned with the GOSH Manifesto to make open source science hardware ubiquitous and with the GOSH’s ethos of inclusiveness.

Applications open: 8 March 2022
Applications close: end of day 25 March 2022 (UTC-12)
Applicants notified: Mid-April 2022

We expect this to be the final funding round.

Funds

The total funding for this Regional Events funding scheme is $99,100 USD, much of which has been awarded during round 1 ($53,550). This means there is still $45,550 left to be awarded for Round 2.

The original source of these funds is a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, currently held by GOSH Inc., a non-profit organization in the United States. However, we - the wider GOSH community - gets to decide how to use these funds.

This money will be awarded to groups applying here to hosting Regional Events, and a small amount is reserved to fund a final meta-event for reviewing how this process went.

Eligibility criteria

All organizations are eligible to apply as long as their proposed events are aligned with the GOSH code of conduct and ethos. You do not need a previous relationship/involvement with GOSH. Grants can only be given to a legal organization and not to individuals.

To be clear, physical hardware or hardware designs are great, but do not have to be the primary output of the event. If hardware is produced from your event, it must be published in a way that meets the OSHWA Open Source Hardware Definition.

Proposals for virtual, in-person, or hybrid events are welcome.

Sadly, because the funds are held by GOSH Inc. (a United States-based non-profit), the funding cannot legally go to organizations based in a place subject to United States trade embargoes (full list here).

To recap eligibility criteria:

• Organization (not individual)
• Event is aligned with GOSH Manifesto
• Event aligns with GOSH code of conduct and ethos
• Not based in a place the USA has a trade embargo

Review Process

Reviewers

Proposals will be reviewed by the Regional Gathering Funding Distribution Working Group formed under an open call published on the GOSH forum and open to anyone to apply. Once this group of 3 to 7 people (which will include at least one Community Council member) is set by the Community Council, they will select projects based on the eligibility criteria.

If a member of this review panel has a conflict of interest with an application, they will recuse themselves from reviewing said application. We will target having at least 3 reviewers be able to review each application who do not have conflicts of interest.

Selection Process

Only projects that meet the aforementioned eligibility criteria will be granted full evaluation.

Applications will be evaluated on three key aspects.

1. The first is how the event will advance the GOSH Manifesto at the local level. In short, the GOSH Manifesto contains 10 key principles
   • GOSH is accessible
   • GOSH makes science better
   • GOSH is ethical
   • GOSH changes the culture of science
   • GOSH democratizes science
   • GOSH has no high priests
   • GOSH empowers people
   • GOSH has no black boxes
   • GOSH is impactful tools
   • GOSH allows multiple futures for science

Since this is funding for a GOSH regional event (and not just funding for a specific project), several of these principles should be targetted, but not necessarily all of them must be directly targetted for this single event. Your proposal should note which principles of the GOSH manifesto you hope to target in your event.

2. Applications will be reviewed on the broader impacts of this event for the global community concerning the GOSH manifesto. How many people will the event directly impact? What are the indirect impacts? What happens after this event? What documentation, takeaways, lessons, publications, deliverables, or other outputs will come from this event having occurred? How will the persons involved in this regional event continue the ideas or projects encountered at the event?
3. Finally, the feasibility of the project is taken under consideration. For instance have the organizers demonstrated experience in planning and leading events such as these? Does the budget seem reasonable for what their planned actions are? Does the event seem doable considering their declared goals and timeline?

The reviewers will give a numerical rating (1-3, with 3 being best) to each of the review criteria. The reviewers will then meet amongst themselves to evaluate the applications, deliberate, and create a final list of recommendations for funding.

Review criteria table

The rubric for evaluating the applications is listed below. These review criteria maybe be subject to further refinement, but we shall note any changes once this is posted.

Criterion	3	2	1	Comments
Eligibility	Proposal meets all eligibility criteria	Some criteria need clarification	not eligible
Local development of GOSH mission	The event will have a dramatic impact the specific community and spread the GOSH ethos in ways that would not be possible without this grant. Several of the targets of the GOSH manifesto are met.	The event will impact the specific community in some ways. A few targets of the GOSH manifesto are met	The event will have minimal impact on the specific local community, or the impact garnered could have been made manifest through other means
Broader Impacts	The proposal has clearly defined ideas for the results and documentation of the event. The resulting outputs will impact those involved and spread to other people and realms as part of an ongoing practice promoting the ideas of open science hardware. The funds are efficiently used towards greatest impact possible	The proposal describes some of the ways in which this event will have an impact after the event has ended	No plans or proposed ideas for post-event impact are described.
Feasibility	The proposal definitley seems accomplishable given the described timeline, goals, and budget. Budget seems reasonable and includes estimated costs, requested costs, and costs covered by other sources. All expenses are justified.	Some aspects of the event are unclear about their feasibility	The proposal overall does not seem possible to pull off given the timeline, goals, and budget

Final recommendations for funding will be approved by the the Reviewers internally as a group and then sent to the GOSH community council. The Community Council will only intervene if it considers that there are exceptional circumstances.

Next the Reviewers will notify the recommended awardees of their selection, but the final official approval will only come after the grant awarding body (GOSH Inc.) finishes a final due diligence legal review of the awardees which might take a few weeks.

Announcement of the round 2 awardees will happen after the due diligence process is completed.

Budget

Based on their needs, applicants can choose to apply for one of these funding options (in United States Dollars (USD)):

• $3000 for smaller regional events
• $6000 for medium regional events requiring more support
• $9910 for larger proposals involving more people, some travel and accommodation costs and local infrastructure needs

To re-iterate, applicants will can apply for any of these 3 levels of funding.

Documentation Bonus

In addition, there will be an $800 bonus awarded once the applicant has submitted their post-event documentation output (see responsibilities below).

Event Cancellation / Virtualization

In case an event needs to be cancelled (for instance due to COVID-19 restrictions or other emergencies), we can still supply 10% of the awarded money to help with forms of “virtualizing the event” (if the event was not originally planned as virtual). For instance, a large event that was awarded $9910 but had to cancel can still ask for $991 for help with any alternatives.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities of selected event proposals:

• Attend check-ins with the Regional Funding Working group and/or GOSH community Council
• Make a post on the GOSH forum about their event at the conception of the grant
• Post at least one pre-event update on this forum
• Post at least one post-event update on this forum
• Publish at least one mature documentation output that will tangibly benefit the open source community
  • This is broadly defined so be creative. The output can be hardware designs but doesn’t have to be!
  • At least this output (but preferably all outputs) from the event should be shared under an appropriate open source license (i.e. OSHWA-compatible licenses for hardware, free software licenses for software, and CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-SA 4.0 for other types of outputs)

How to apply

Timeline

Timeline for applicants for first round:

• 8 March 2022 to end of day 25 March 2022 (UTC-12) - Submit your application
• Mid-April 2022 - Successful applications announced (pending official confirmation from the GOSH non-profit, which currently holds the funds)
• April to 5 November 2022 - Run your event!
• After 5 November 2022 - Submit your primary documentation output to receive the USD $800 bonus.

Application questions

Please fully answer each of the ten questions below and post your completed application before the deadline as a response to this thread!

1. Name of your organization
2. Reliable email address (or another reliable way of official contact)
3. Tell us about your organization
4. Does your organization have representation for a marginalized demographic due to factors such as, but not limited to, race, ability, place of birth, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class situation or other identification? If so, how?
5. How would your event address GOSH’s values of diversity and inclusion?
6. What is the event about, and what do you want to achieve with it?
7. How will your event contribute to advancing OPEN SCIENCE HARDWARE?
8. How does your event address each item in the review criteria table above?
9. Which of the three levels of funding would you like to apply for? (USD $3000, $6000, or $9910)
10. What is the funding for? Describe your budget. List what you are going to spend it on and how.
11. How will you share the outcomes of this event. What documentation or other outputs will benefit the open science hardware community as a whole? (videos? photos? a how-to or other education materials? innovative hardware designs?)
12. Can you confirm that at least the primary output from your event will be published under an appropriate open source license as described above in this announcement?
13. Are there any conflicts of interest that you wish to declare? (a conflict of interest does not always mean disqualification!)

After you submit your application here, the working group will use your answer to question 2 to acknowledge that your application has been completed and will be considered for review. This is also how we will contact you to communicate any final decisions.

Applications are submitted by responding to this thread (see instructions above).

If you have a question about this funding or a related discussion, please post in the other thread!

For general feedback on round 1 applications which can help you in this round, please see and discuss in this other thread

[C.I.C]

Name of organization
Creative innovation centre
Reliable email address (or another reliable way of official contact).
c.i.c.tech2021@gmail.com
Tell us about your organization
Creative innovation centre is a youth lead organization located in ofua 3, ofua zone rhino refugee camp Uganda.
Our vision
To empower youths with skills for societal transformation and generation integrity
Our mission
To inspire and transform the youths through providing skills, creativity and innovations
Creative innovation centre aims at achieving youth comprehensive and sustainable development through providing skills, service programs and projects to improve the economic standing of the youth and create new educational, rehabilitation and vocational training opportunities followed with mentoring and guidance services.
Our target groups of people are the youth and the parents since they play a bigger role in the development of the community.
Does your organization have representation for a marginalized demographic due to factors such as, but not limited to, race ability place of birth gender sexual orientation socioeconomic class situation or other identification? If so, how?
This organization has been working with representatives from marginalized demographic group of people who are refugees with limited access to education and other services and resources since they live in restricted area and its program operates regardless of sex, race or even tribe to build cohesive society.
How would your event address GOSH’s values of diversity and inclusion?
The event will in-cooperate the community members both the refugees and the host. By doing such it will give chance to all the community members’ equal opportunities to participate in the event giving it a broader impact in the community.
What is the event about, and what do you want to achieve with it?
Carry out school visits in the refugee camp to expose the students to hardware science and technology (3 visits to ofua secondary, royal secondary and st luke secondary school rhino extension omugo). This activity will guide the on choosing their career and encourage them to study
Setup an innovation centre within the refugee camp which is densly populated with youths with majority being school dropouts. The Centre will give the youth’s access to technology
The organization will train 15 beneficiaries on basic electronic repair, 5 beneficiaries shall be trained on domestic electrical installation and basic knowledge on electronics. This will increase on the level of self-employment and will increase house income levels.

How will your event contribute to advancing open science hardware
This event will bring in new ideas because technology keeps on changing and advancing. This will come as a result of creativity and innovation
The event will focus on exposing the refugees and the host community most especially the youth who could not continue with education or have access to electronics and modern technology.
How does your event address each item in the criteria table above?
Creative innovation centre works majorly on technology as such it carry out an activity on open hardware science.
The organization is very flexible in terms of resources as such the organization might use some of the local resources such as electronic waste which will be recycled as such protecting the environment.
Creative innovation centre will produce all the expenditures and receipts shall be attached. This will be attached. This will be included at the end of the event.
The activity will have a great impact on the youths since they will be exposed to technology as such it will a great opportunity for the refugees. It will also give the learning opportunity to school drop outs in the camps. Electronic services such repair will be at reach because youths from different villages within the refugee camp will be trained as such it will reduce on the cost of repair for those who could not afford to be able to afford.

Which of the three the three levels of funding would you like tio apply for? (USD $3000, $6000, or $9910)
We shall estimate budget of USD $6,000
What is the funding for? Describe your budget. List what you are going to spend it on and how.
The funding will promote education through providing vocational training and workshops on technology
It will also be used for carrying out career guidance to the youths in the refugee camp for societal transformation.
To improve on the health and sanitation in rhino camp refugee settlement by distribution of hand washing facilities in schools and health facilities
The budget includes all the operational cost for the event as below
s/no
item
Cost( $)

1
Materials
3,300

2
Transport
300

3
Catering
400

4
Consultancy facilitation
500

5
2 Computers, 1 router and a printer
1500

Total cost
USD $6,000

How will you share the outcomes of this event. What documentation or other outputs will benefit the open science hardware community as a whole? (Videos? photos? a how-to or other education materials?innovative hardware designs?)
A documented report will be given to GOSH at the end of the event
Videos and photos shall be share in all our media platforms
Can you confirm that at least the primary output from your event will be published under appropriate open licenses as described above in this event?
Yes
are there any conflicts of interest that you wish to declare? (a conflict of interest does not always mean disqualification)
No

[GFOSS]

1. Name of your organization

Open Technologies Alliance - Greek Free Open Source Society (GFOSS)

2. Reliable email address (or another reliable way of official contact)

info@eellak.gr

3. Tell us about your organization

Open Technologies Alliance (GFOSS) is a non-profit organization founded in 2008, 37 Universities and Research Centers are shareholders of GFOSS. Our main goal is to promote [Openness] through the use and the development of [Open Standards] and Open Technologies in Education, Public Administration and Business in Greece.

In many cases, GFOSS works as a catalyst for the adoption of Open Standards, Free Software, Open Content, Open Data & Open Hardware in Greece through various activities. The major Greek Universities and Research Centers participate in GFOSS, while leading members of the Greek community of developers play a key role in the implementation of our policies.
GFOSS is affiliated with Creative Commons, is a founding member of COMMUNIA and FAB LAB ATHENS, member of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Network, Node of the Open Data Institute , partner of the Open Forum Europe, member of the Open Budget Initiative, member of the Open Policy Network, Associate Organisation of FSFE (Free Software Foundation Europe), Associate Member of Eclipse Foundation, Associate Organization of OW2 Consortium and local hub of MyData.

4. Does your organization have representation for a marginalized demographic due to factors such as, but not limited to, race, ability, place of birth, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class situation or other identification? If so, how?

In relation to gender, GFOSS strives to promote equal representation of female and male as members in its working groups. For instance the regulation for the opengov & open data working group states that the group and all its working subgroups do not adopt any negative or positive gender discrimination, and do not exclude any gender from any role. Overall for their staffing, in cases of stakeholders of equivalent experience and commitment, we aim to achieve a 50:50 ratio for both male and females. Furthermore, this working group, in order to foster intergenerational balance in its composition and the resulting youthfulness of ideas and sustainable staffing in its operation, seeks a positive distinction in terms of the ages of its members which is codified in the empirical rule of 30-30, i.e. aiming for 30% of members to be up to 30 years old. This objective is applied at the plenary level of the working group and, as far as reasonably possible, in a balanced way in the composition of its sub-groups, allowing in specific cases for the selection of members with a commitment and willingness to contribute that are deemed capable of compensating for the lack of experience that is objectively possible due to their younger age. The age weighting of the plenary assembly of the working group in accordance with the above policy shall be reviewed at the end of each two-year term of office of its members in order to launch the renewal of the working group and its sub-groups.

5. How would your event address GOSH’s values of diversity and inclusion?

GFOSS is a community open to the society by its very design, recognizing and respecting others’ values and differences and demands an active choice to reach out on the basis of mutual understanding and respect. Openness also means recognizing that our diversity is a strength and a wellspring of creativity and renewal for all societies and communities. For this reason everyone is welcome and strongly enouraged to take part in the FOSSBot community building kick off event irrespective of age, gender, social or racial background, sexual orientation. Colleagues in GFOSS and the wider GFOSS community are experienced community event organizers accommodating diverse perspectives and viewpoints on an equal basis and will be very happy to apply GOSH’s code of conduct when facilitating the event.

6. What is the event about, and what do you want to achieve with it?

The FOSSBot community building kick off event will take place as a side event within the Scientix conference in September 2022. It will evolve around the concept of open design, 3D-printing and open software for educational robotics. The event will aim to disseminate the results of various GFOSS activities in this field, which have been developed through two open source projects (one funded by GSoC 2019-2021) and address the needs of IoT and Robotics enthusiasts, as well as STEAM educators that want to take advantage of Robotics and ICT in their educational activities. The first robot (DIY Robot Kit for educators (GitHub - eellak/gsoc2019-diyrobot: A DIY robot kit for educators) mainly covers the needs of researchers or educators that want to delve into the development of various robotics’ scenaria, as well as of educational activities ranging from sensor data collection and visualization to computer vision and reinforcement learning, which can be summarized in online notebooks. The second robot (FOSSBot - GitHub - eellak/fossbot) has been emerged from the DIY robot kit, is a less expandable, though more easy to use robot, which allows the construction of educational scenarios in the form of workflows, using Google’s Blockly blocks. The event is expected to bring together multiple communities in the common ground of robotics, such as designers, engineers, electronics experts, programmers and educators and STEAM experts. All these user communities will collaborate to promote the concepts of design, 3D printing, robotics programming and STEAM education and further enhance the penetration of open software, hardware and design to the related population groups (i.e. students, educators, researchers, etc.).

In particular, in parallel to the Scientix conference, we will organize a hackathon with emphasis on the use of the FOSSBot, the DIY Robot Kit and other open technologies around 3d-printing and rapid prototyping. The objective of the hackathon is to bring GFOSS work to the front and connect it a) to the cognitive subjects of STEAM education, b) to engineers and scientists that would like to expand GFOSS’s open designs in order to support scientific experiments.

Educators and other stakeholders will present their ideas on how the robots can become part of applied science training and education, and will be supported by facilitators, computer science students and educators that will convert the ideas into actual educational activities that use the robots within the time frame of the competition.

The hackathon will bring together educators of sciences (participants) computer programmers (facilitators) and other interested people (engineers, researchers) and will pave a new way and common sense about how the open robot can become a new platform for promoting visual coding (no-code) and STEAM in the context of education and sciences.

Participants from all ends will put effort together to set challenges and develop solutions, with the use of open technologies, and consequently to boost inspiration, innovation, creativity, and productivity in education, whilst promoting the ideas of open and citizen science.

Α jury, consisting of educators, academics and STEAM experts, will evaluate the best and most applicable proposals judging in tandem their pedagogical, productive, innovative and collaborative aspects.

Prizes will be awarded to the winners as an incentive to build upon their initial ideas, solutions and applications, and bring the outcome of this event to their schools, given that the artifacts produced are available under open license terms.

7. How will your event contribute to advancing OPEN SCIENCE HARDWARE?

The expandable architecture of the DIY Robot Kit for educators, which allows sensors, actuators and other electronics to be included in the Robot, and the flexible software stack (based on Python), that separates low level control of sensors and electronics, from the high-level control of the robot, facilitates educators to quickly develop a wide variety of educational experiments and activities that spans mathematics, physics, and engineering. The ability to design and print additional components for the robot, extend it with more sensors and easily attach them to the modular robot allows the setup of more advanced science experiments. Such extensions can be supported by the development of additional libraries that control the extra robot parts, and create an infinite number of setups. All hardware setups, designs, code and experiments will be opened to the scientific community, helping the project results to multiply.

The aim of the hackathon is to motivate teachers to adopt open technologies, open content and open design principles at school, to use STEAM education methodologies in order to improve students ’ academic performance in terms of knowledge, skills and emotion coping, motivation, attitude, problem-solving skills and guide students to combine science with major human problems.

It will promote cooperative work and new ways of diffusing knowledge, within the educational community, through the adoption of open digital technologies, co-creation practices and collaborative tools, gradually shaping an open philosophy to the scientific process, as mentioned at https://www.fosteropenscience.eu

8. How does your event address each item in the review criteria table above?

GFOSS has a long track of organizing impactful events promoting the open hardware and open design in the education system, see for instance the nation wide open technologies in education competition 3rd Open Technologies in Education Competition – Πανελλήνιος Διαγωνισμός Ανοιχτών Τεχνολογιών στην Εκπαίδευση.

The proposed FOSSBot community building kick off event meets each and every of GOSH review criteria as it will bring together the multiple stakeholders described above. The broader impact will be made possible as a result of the fact that it will take place as a side event in the context of the Scientix conference 3o Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Scientix για την εκπαίδευση STEM | Scientix aiming to build community among diverse constituents of STEM open education who otherwise wouldn’t have had the chance to convene, interact, work with each other and lay the common ground for future common activities.

Which of the three levels of funding would you like to apply for? (USD $3000, $6000, or $9910)

9910

9. What is the funding for? Describe your budget. List what you are going to spend it on and how.

Please also see the detailed budget table here: GFOSS 4 GOSH Budget - Google Docs

• Fossbot Community Website. Website design, development & maintenance. Presentations about Fossbot, links to community room in GFOSS Matrix-Element-Jitsi. 1500

• Promo materials design and production. T-Shirts with Fossbot logo and website for 100 people. 900

• Community participants. Travel & subsistence for 20 people (targeted contacts from STEM community: educators, leaders from makerspaces). 4000.

• Hackathon awards|3 money awards will be given to individuals or teams with the best ideas about specific open educational resources/scenaria on Fossbot or designs that extent Fossbot. 3500

• Total $9900

10. How will you share the outcomes of this event? What documentation or other outputs will benefit the open science hardware community as a whole? (videos? photos? a how-to or other education materials? innovative hardware designs?)

GFOSS has Framework agreement with the Ministry of Education in the context of acting as the Ministry’s advisor, on issues related to the development of STEAM education.

Supports and promotes collaboration and exchange of knowledge and educational resources among STEM teachers, education researchers, policymakers, the Ministry of Education and the Hellenic Institute of Educational Policy.

Organizes and disseminates actions, projects, competitions and resources

More than 2.500 STEAM teachers/members have been registered in GFOSS registers. More than 10.000 teachers have participated in actions, projects and events organized by GFOSS related to STEM education during the covid 19 Period.

It is also the National Contact Point for the European Project Scientix, the community of STEAM educators in Europe. Through Scientix, GFOSS has the opportunity to disseminate its actions and share their results to a wider audience among the European educators.

GFOSS Develops and maintain registers of teachers and schools (with more than 2500 teachers/members) who are actively involved in STEAM education, ΜΗΤΡΩΑ ΑΝΟΙΧΤΩΝ ΤΕΧΝΟΛΟΓΙΩΝ – Οργανισμός Ανοιχτών Τεχνολογιών – ΕΕΛΛΑΚ in order to promote STEAM action aiming at:

• To promote Computational Thinking skills in primary education through the integration of basic technology skills with simple ideas of computational thinking, while in secondary and vocational education to act as a tool for solving and deepening in advanced subjects of computer science.
• To familiarize teachers and students with modern training models based on S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) and in the learner-centered approach of knowledge, in order to create the foundation for an open learning environment that will create active citizens.
• To promote collaboration and team spirit through the application of modern teaching methods, materials and software, innovative educational ideas and practices through the use of open technologies.
• Help schools to open up to society through actions that students will be called upon to implement, exploring solutions to problems in their school, neighbour, city, the local economy, or the wider community.
• To develop student skills, encourage student initiative, cultivate critical thinking, computational thinking, and student creativity.
• To develop students’ personality, self-esteem, self-confidence, creativity and self-esteem through group-cooperative teaching methods.

The educational scenaria and activities developed during the event, the additional content developed by the hackathon winners after the event, as well as all the presentation and audio-visual material developed during the event will be made available via the Fossbot community website, other GFOSS websites and newsletter to the relevant communities to act as the yeast for more similar events in the future.

11. Can you confirm that at least the primary output from your event will be published under an appropriate open source license as described above in this announcement?

A major outcome of the hackathon, behind the exchange of ideas between educators and designers and programmers of educational robots, will be the actual educational scenarios that will be backed up by the scripts (jupyter notebooks) or blockly workflows that demonstrate the actual scenario in practice. This will be a valuable resource for educators and their students, as well as for the developers’ community behind the two open robots, who will find many more uses for what they have developed so far, and opportunities for further develoment.

GFOSS Develops and maintains Open Educational Resources and Content tepositories (i.e. https://openedtech.ellak.gr/projects-2019/, https://mycontent.ellak.gr/), that will host all the output of the event, while all outputs will be disseminated through our social media platforms, our educational sites and the Panhellenic School Network.

12. Are there any conflicts of interest that you wish to declare? (a conflict of interest does not always mean disqualification!)

No

[Bior]

Name of your organization

Ataka Hub South Sudan

Reliable email address (or another reliable way of official contact)

atakahub@gmail.com
+211920242512

Tell us about your organization.

Ataka Hub South Sudan is a community based youths lead organization, that was founded to bridge the cap and ensure youths and community can work together in order to realize a positive change in culture, education, children rights, gender equality, Climate change, environment, entrepreneurship, technology, support for disabled and innovation in our community.

Vision: to build a just and innovative South Sudan with confident youths forming a sustainable and independent generation.

Mission: to build and empower our communities on technology, activism and sustainable programs that can bring development and positive change.

Organizational Philosophy: Ataka Hub is a non-political, non-profit making, and shall collaborate with the government, national non governmental organization (NNGO) and non governmental organizations (NGO) in the national culture, technology and development effort.

Our activities.

• Education.
• Tech and innovation
• Culture.
• Child protection.
• Youths empower.
• Food security.
• Entrepreneurship
• Peace building
• Girl’s education
• Support for people leaving with disabilities.
• Advocacy.
• Safe water and sanitation.
• HIV/AIDS peer education.
• Climate and Environment

Does your organization have representation for a marginalized demographic due to factors such as, but not limited to, race, ability, place of birth, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class situation or other identification? If so, how?

We work with all groups of people, since our organization started operation we have not limited our field of work because we believe everyone is of importance to our progress. We work with all groups of people with no discrimination. Because we are innovators and activists of human rights.

How would your event address GOSH’s values of diversity and inclusion?

The event is open for everyone regards of where you come from. With no limitations.

What is the event about, and what do you want to achieve with it?

Target audiences: 3000-5000

Target: Participants; Over 50

Event name: “South Sudan Open Science Challenge”

About Event; This event is about understanding the level of understanding that people of jonglei State South Sudan have on Open Science.

Event Objective
When it comes to technology no one is doing it’s best, so has a tech organization we have to assess the level of understanding that people have on Open Science and what are the ideas they have towards open science. So our intention is to form our a group of open scientist, this will help us in statistics on who to target when organizing training of trainers on Open Science because they already have ideas on open science. Living in the third world country is one of the hardest things so building a group like this group will Open way for us to use science for solutions.

How will your event contribute to advancing OPEN SCIENCE HARDWARE?

This event will give open science hardware activists a chance to know the level of understanding science in south sudan, with the outcome and ideas presentation during the event.

How does your event address each item in the review criteria table above?

This event will be made available online for everyone to access it, such that they can add their ideas on how to make science better in south sudan and all comments and will be forwarded to Participants for them to understand where they went wrong and how they can correct next time, without humiliating them because of their telling them mistakes are part of success and we will empower them on how to be better by organizing another training for them on how they can impact their community with what they do. This is event will also not be dictitative that’s to say every participants will do what he or she wants to for the challenge.

Which of the three levels of funding would you like to apply for? (USD $3000, $6000, or $9910)

9910$

What is the funding for? Describe your budget.
List what you are going to spend it on and how.

1000$ will go for transportation of participants from around the country since the event is open for everyone.
1000$ goes to the top ten best ideas
2000$ goes to event’s documentation (videos& pictures)
1000$ for the publicity (bunners, t-shirts, stickers, rigs bands and caps)
1000$ for Tents&chairs hiring
1000$ for Drinks and snacks
1000$ for our Volunteers for the event
500$ for Space hiring
500$ for the event logistics.
500$ for entertainment (musicians)
250$ for internet availability during the event for everyone.
150$ for Bank charge.

Totaling to; 9900$

How will you share the outcomes of this event.
What documentation or other outputs will benefit the open science hardware community as a whole? (videos? photos? a how-to or other education materials? innovative hardware designs?)

All the videos and pictures from the event will be open. Because we believe in Open Science, Open Education, Open Documentation etc CC-BY-SA 4.0 . And they will also be made available at all our social media platforms, under open source license.

Can you confirm that at least the primary output from your event will be published under an appropriate open source license as described above in this announcement?

All our event documentations and resources will be made available at CC-BY-SA 4.0

Are there any conflicts of interest that you wish to declare? (a conflict of interest does not always mean disqualification!)
No

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[Rachel]

1. Name of your organization
Association Hackuarium

2. Reliable email address
rachelaronoff@gmail.com

3. Tell us about your organization

Hackuarium is a community laboratory in Switzerland, which aims to democratize research. We mix together biology and technology for life-long learning and fun, and were initially founded more than seven years ago. From bioart to public health, Hackuarium member projects push our community lab and inspire many. Just before the end of 2021 we submitted our request to be recognised as a public service group (exonerated from taxation), in order to more readily access various funding opportunities, and we are hoping to learn more in this regard soon. In the meantime, we are trying to resurrect our community more, ‘post’ pandemic (even if it is a bit early to call it that), and continue to encourage open science, which is about much more than just open access publications, and better science communication.

4. Does your organization have representation for a marginalized demographic due to factors such as, but not limited to, race, ability, place of birth, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class situation or other identification? If so, how?
Our Swiss association is open to everyone and is membership-based, with very low monthly fees for 24/7 access to the lab space (20chf/month) and even a policy of supporting members’ projects with microgrants. We want to invite everyone to discover the world of biohacking, and follow the GOSH ethos and DIYbio.org ethical codes. Additionally, we have a particular focus on representation of women in science. Our newer ‘coding for all’ project is also focused particularly on disadvantaged groups, but this still in early stages (even though a first event around Bob3 building and programming was promising.). The pandemic has affected our community greatly, of course; and we are currently hoping to get people activated again to come to our weekly #OpenHackuarium events. We have colleagues not only from many countries but of varying orientations and abilities, and celebrate diversity at all levels to encourage representation of marginalized demographics.

5. How would your event address GOSH’s values of diversity and inclusion?
We plan to have diverse participants and will specifically invite people that support a local Women in Science organisation to join in for the initial workshop event introducing soldering and fun electronics. We hope amazing members of the Hackteria network will join in, too.

6. What is the event about, and what do you want to achieve with it?
The event is about getting members of the public excited about participating in open science projects, by providing hands-on experience in our community lab. The ultimate goal is to attract more people to open science and open science hardware. In particular, we propose to bring people together to make fun electronics (i.e. TV-B-Gone) in an initial hacking event open to all and ultimately build, develop, and test the latest OpenFlexure microscope for high resolution epifluorescence imaging.

We were very inspired by our participation in GOSH2018 in Shenzhen, where we first learned about the OpenFlexure microscope, potentially the perfect platform to make our ‘Cheek Cell Chip’ project for public health take off! Before the pandemic, we were already beginning to develop a method to automatically detect micronuclei, and were able to observe fluorescent nuclei on the OpenFlexure epifluorescence build (v6), but not the desired comet tails, when the pandemic suddenly pushed all our plans aside (to instead focus on our ‘Corona Detective’ R&D).

We now propose an initial electronics event for generating inspiration for open hardware electronics. The in-person workshop (tentative date 25-June-2022) will get people excited about electronics in general, and will be animated by the ‘original hacker’ Mitch Altman, who loves to teach and share, giving people the sense of confidence and accomplishment to explore and find what it might be that is meaningful for them. No high priest, he feels that we all need time and permission and opportunities to explore, to become engaged, to become motivated to find what is meaningful. In our open science environment, this necessarily includes science. Mitch Altman had already agreed to come visit Hackuarium from Berlin for a week of workshops in collaboration with local FabLab friends, and the initial event at Hackuarium will be open to the general public. It will be aimed particularly at girls and women and also newbies to the biohacking scene, from ages 9-99.

Subsequent workshops to enable proposed DIT builds of the epifluorescence system of the OpenFlexure version 7 microscope will be based particularly around people who are interested in the ‘cheek cell chip’ project, and could also allow virtual participation from anywhere in the world. We will be making a complete v7 system, with lenses of higher magnification and fluorescence sensitivity (20x FluoTAR) and a higher resolution RaspberryPi camera, to provide more sensitivity than before (for detection of comet tails). This will also allow collaboration for developing an ideal ‘top level’ for the system, substituting the current ‘stage module’ with prototype ‘check cell chip’ fluidics. This would allow imaging of the cell sample for assessment of micronuclei, followed by the fluidics treatments and a short electrophoresis step necessary for the comet assay, and then another round of imaging to visualise the comet tails from the same sample of cells, providing information about the levels of DNA damage found in the cell sample. The idea is to also jump-start the project after its long hiatus.

Documentation of all of the work (with videos of events and video blogs) will provide long-term access to the outputs of these efforts, allowing many people to engage even after the fact, perhaps to really fulfill the dream of the ‘cheek cell chip’ project (with everyone collecting data on their baseline levels of DNA damage, and seeing what happens after various steps are taken – like eating blueberries or dark chocolate, or going running)!

7. How will your event contribute to advancing OPEN SCIENCE HARDWARE?
By getting more people excited about electronics and collaborating to make OpenFlexure microscopes together, we hope to not only bring more attention to this super precision microscopy system but to assess its utility for data acquisition in this context.
Making sure that open science hardware provides reliable data is also very important. For instance, we have already done initial side-by-side tests of the ‘pocket pcr’ system developed in the Gaudi-Labs, with our old ABI pcr machine in the lab. The spectro project from Hackuarium also has to be put through its paces, in comparison to the old lab spectrophotometer. For research we need reproducibility.
We imagine that more people will get excited and maybe the .org kits will be also in more demand, benefiting all the amazing people like Richard, Julian and Valerian, who have been working on its development.

8. How does your event address each item in the review criteria table above?
The items in the review criteria table are addressed by this proposal. The proposal will impact local development of the GOSH mission, and give people the experience of doing open science, that they might want to share and take further, for broader long-term impact. To do this all is feasible, and we hope that before next fall we would thus have several prototypes to compare.

9. Which of the three levels of funding would you like to apply for? (USD $3000, $6000, or $9910)
$3000, even though this proposal is for more than just the initial event and includes funding for three high-resolution, epifluor builds of the OpenFlexure scope.

10. What is the funding for? Describe your budget. List what you are going to spend it on and how.
This is the current budget request:
Budget Table (details of estimate basis available in links)

Train: Berlin to Lausanne (round trip)	250
Workshop venue (twice in large space in coop)	100
Food and Drink	150
Electronics Kits from MA for soldering initiation and fun	100
Honorarium for MA: Saturday workshop event	300
OpenFlexure main costs + Arduino/motors 100 x3	300
20x FLUO-TAR objectives 400 x3	1200
Comar filters for Epifluor (based on 2019 costs) 100x3	300
RaspberryPi 65 x3	200
Train fares for OpenFlexure build people (inside Switzerland)	200
Sum Total Requested	3100

To note: This total leaves out funds for accommodation and other plans for Mitch’s visit, which will be covered by a microgrant from Hackuarium and support of our FabLab friends.

11. How will you share the outcomes of this event. What documentation or other outputs will benefit the open science hardware community as a whole? (videos? photos? a how-to or other education materials? innovative hardware designs?)
As mentioned above, we will document our builds and experiments extensively, of course, in the Hackuarium Wiki and Github, but also via networks in multimedia formats. With bioart&design so gorgeous, hopes to make others excited to try more, too, seem justified. The special electronics workshop and subsequent gathering(s) for the OpenFlexure builds (after orders are received and printing done) will be also recorded, and we propose vlog style presentations, too.

12. Can you confirm that at least the primary output from your event will be published under an appropriate open source license as described above in this announcement?
Yes, definitely.
13. Are there any conflicts of interest that you wish to declare? (a conflict of interest does not always mean disqualification!) As President of Hackuarium and founder and CSO of AGiR!, I, Rachel Aronoff, have personal interest in not only open science efforts but in seeing both the community lab, Hackuarium, and the cheek cell chip project succeed.

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Rachel Aronoff, PhD

Directrice Scientifique
AGiR! Action pour l’intégrité Génomique via la Recherche!
www.genomicintegrity.org
#genetics #risks
@AGIRgenomes

Présidente et
Responsable Biosécurité
Hackuarium
20 Route de Crochy, 1024 Ecublens
www.hackuarium.ch
wiki.hackuarium.ch
#DIYbio #citizenscience #DoItTogether
#OpenHackuarium #CoronaDetective
@hackuarium

[YimerAmare]

Bahir Dar University

Bahir Dar Institute of Technology

Business Incubation and Techno-Entrepreneurship Center (BiTec)

Regional Workshop on OpenFlex Microscope Design, Development, Standardization and Utilization in Ethiopia

Submitted to GoSH’s 2022 Regional Events Funding

Prepared by: Business Incubation and Techno-Entrepreneurship Center (BiTec), Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Bahir Dar University-Ethiopia

March, 2022

Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

Summary of the Project

Name of Organization	Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Business Incubation and Techno-Entrepreneurship Center (BiTec)
Project Title	Regional Workshop on OpenFlex Microscope Design, Development, Standardization and Utilization in Ethiopia
Project purpose	To establish a network on open source system design and development in Ethiopia. To realize this, the workshop shall gather OpenFlex Microscopy experts and scientists from regional institutes. Besides, experts from Center for Global Equality, University of Cambridge, University of Bath and other African institutes will share their experiences to the workshop virtually.
Partner institutes for the workshop	Bahir Dar University, Center for Global Equality, University of Bath and other African Maker Space Gatherings Networks.
Aims of the Project	A regional workshop will be prepared on mid of July, 2022 on OpenFlex Microscopy system design, development, standardization and utilization.
Total Grant Requested	$9, 910.00 USD
Contact Persons: Email Address and Phone	Dr. Amare Kassaw, amex2121@gamil.com, +251-929-267-116

Dr. Seifu Adimasu, satadm86@gmail.com, +251-929,-919-962|

Motivation

There is great potential in being able to extract quantitative information from relatively simple open source bioimaging technologies in clinical diagnostics and research. In most African countries, there is already some capacity to acquire microscopy imaging, but there is often a lack of knowledge and shortage of skilled experts and scientists to design and develop open source devices and systems. In this workshop, we plan to connect our existing network of opensource design experts, scientists, engineers, and clinical researchers with the global Open science and OpenFlex Microscope community.

Our aim is to establish a regional network to share best experiences on current technologies and tools in open source systems and devices. Specially, OpenFlux Microscopy imaging techniques will be the main focus. Besides, best practices on OpenFlex microscopy image archiving, definition, interpretation, and analysis will be considered. Besides, opportunities and challenges on open source system design for clinical and education functionality will be discussed. Finally, a Biohackathon competition will be done at the workshop by BDU students who have ideas and startups on opensource applications and systems.

To realize these, OpenFlex Microscope experts from national and regional institutes will participate and share their best experiences to the workshop. Besides, experts from our open science network such as University of Bath, University of Cambridge, the Center for Global Equality and several African universities will also share their opensource design knowledge and experiences to the workshop virtually.

Business Incubation and Techno- Entrepreneurship Centre at Bahir Dar Institute of Technology (BiTec)

Business Incubation and Techno-Entrepreneurship Center (BiTec) is an incubating center under Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Bahir Dar University. It was initially established by BiT-BDU in 2018. The main aim of the center is to enable students and staff to prototype and commercialize technologies, create jobs, and strengthen local economies by producing financially viable small firms. The business idea behind the center is to inspire, facilitate and support young entrepreneurs and to help them to create their own businesses. In this regard the center mainly works on innovation, business incubation, technology transfer, techno-entrepreneurship, and startup prototyping. The institute has strong commitment that a successful implementation of this idea shall result in the creation of jobs and contribute to the national economic growth.

Under BiTec, the BiT MakerSpace was established in 2019 as part of BiTec to enhance innovation culture and creates a space for business incubates prototyping and sample production. The BiT Makerspace at Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Bahir Dar University aims to create an innovative environment for BiT students and staff. The Makerspace has been organized with state-of-the-art 3D-printing, electromechanical, digital electronics, computer laboratory, CNC and Laser Cutting Machines, Digital Manufacturing Tools. The BiT Makerspace provides has the potential to be an innovation hub to allow students to develop multiple projects.

The activity of the center will take part from pre-incubation to post-incubation period which ranges from making calls to business ideas up to creating successful start-ups and entrepreneurs. To do that, the center is structured with coaching members mainly containing coaches for giving training on entrepreneurship and business idea development and technical coaching. Since Bahir Dar University is focusing on different industries, BiTec will work on different incubation to create a startup in the area. Using the developed partnerships with different industries, universities, partners and vocational colleges, the start-ups will benefit from getting support to transfer their business ideas and prototypes to the next level.

The BiT Makerspace serves as a hub for business incubation and startup prototyping. The center has well-organized facilities, resources and experienced staff. The makerspace established to create an innovative environment for students and staff at the university and the community at large. The BiT Makerspace is a business incubation and entrepreneur hub that provides human-centered design, techno-entrepreneurial, business incubation and prototyping skills.

The BiT Maker Space is founded in 2019 by Dr Seifu A Tilahun, Miss Sewnet Alemu and Mr Henok Mebratie from Bahir Dar Institute of Technology together with Dr Lara Allen from the Center for Global Equity. The need to establish the Makerspace at Bahir Dar University was a case in point. Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the founding of BiT Makerspace is part of an ongoing partnership between BiT and Center for Global Equality (CGE) to create an enabling environment in Bahir Dar for Inclusive Innovation. The makerspace is now a flagship initiative of Business Incubation and Techno-Entrepreneurship Centre at Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Bahir Dar University. Currently the Make Space is directed by Dr Amare Kassaw and coordinated by Ms. Bezawork Tilahun. The BiT MakerSpace is cooperated with Bahir Dar University, CGE, GIZ, University of Cambridge, University of Wisconsin, University of Bath, USAID, IWMI and PUM.

Some of the innovative products at the BiT Maker Space include fingerprint scanner for the University, Packaging papers and tableware from agricultural bi-product, glue from defatted soy flour, OpenFlex optical microscope, 3D printed masks and face shields, laser cutting face shields, oxygen concentrator, prosthetic hand, handheld soil moisture meter and RAY cosmetics which entails cosmetics produced from fish scale and a Turbo ventilator.

In 2022, the makerspace plans to conduct an Annual Hackathon/Makerthons on Agri-Tech, Digital Health, Artificial Intelligence Apps, Alternative and Smart Energy Technologies to provide problem-solving innovation results focusing on the country’s priorities and responding to the development needs of the country through technology-based services. We also plan to prepare human centered design (HCD), business incubation and prototyping training for selected Graduate projects and increasing the participation of women, youth, students, and graduates at the Makerspace activities. By creating and strengthening partnerships with foreign partners, the Makerspace has involved in different innovation projects. To achieve this plan, the BiT Makerspace is also working on increasing partners from universities, government offices and international organizations.

Opportunities for Gender and Marginalized Community at BiTec

The BiT Maker Space is working on providing opportunities for females, low income students and marginalized communities. The center provides the place for them to incubate, prototype and develop their innovation ideas into valuable products. To achieve this, we establish a female innovation support (FIS) group that follow up and facilitate opportunities and facilities for female students to enhance their innovation and research culture in technology and engineering.

Besides, the center hunts and support high school and middle school students in the rural area who have special talents, but could not have the opportunity to exercise their talents. Further, a Hackathon and Makerthons are prepared for the females and marginalized communities to support them to incubate their ideas into business.

By using the above experiences and platforms, the workshop team is committed to promote gender equality in the program. Engineering and technology is currently poorly representative of the gender balance in most of African countries. To promote the experience and advancement of women in open source design and development, the workshop team commits to maintain a good participation of women open source design experts in the workshop.

Addressing GOSH’s Values of Diversity and Inclusiveness

We plan to provide prior opportunities for females and various communities to attend the workshop. To achieve this, experience sharing, networking and partnership session shall be established for females, high school and middle school students to integrate themselves with the workshop participants. Besides, the event will be open for everyone regards gender, ethnic and economy.

Thus, the workshop shall create accessibility and sharing on science for females and marginalized communities. Besides, the workshop shall bring empowerment and impact to share the best experiences on opensource system design and development. It helps to integrate the female and disadvantaged communities with the experienced scientists and technologists. That helps to avoid the digital divide and enhances the democratization of science in developing country, Ethiopia. Besides, a Biohackathon competition will be done at the workshop by BDU students who have ideas and startups on opensource applications and systems. Experienced juries shall be assigned to evaluate the pitching of the Biohackathon computation. This helps to distribute Open Science to the larger community

Proposed Event Type

Our event is regional workshop on OpenFlex Microscope design, standardization and utilization in Ethiopia. We expect above many audiences from the region, universities, and national communities. The workshop helps to establish a network among OpenFlex Microscope experts and scientists that help to enhance the regional capacity in OpenFlex Microscope image acquisition, feature extraction and analysis in Ethiopia. To realize this, the workshop shall gather opensource system and OpenFlex Microscope experts and scientists from regional institutes. Besides, experts from Center for Global Equality, University of Bath and other African Maker Space Networks will support and share their experiences to the workshop virtually.

Relevance of the Workshop on Advancing Open Science Hardware

If the regional workshop is implemented successfully, it will lead to:

Share best experiences on open source device design and development.

Share best experiences on open source device standardization

Provide knowledge on OpenFlex microscopy design and development.

This will lead to increase the number of OpenFlex microscopy experts and scientists with expertise in design, development, standardization and utilization.

Ultimately, enhancing capacity in OpenFlex microscopy imaging will improve the diagnosis; treatment and patient follow up accuracy in clinics and hospitals, and contribute health and wellbeing across Ethiopia.

Addressing the Review Criteria

We plan to prepare a workshop to discuss on OpenFlex Microscope design, development and standardization in particular and opensource system and device in general. To realize this, we utilize our profound experience on OpenFlex Microscope Design and development. Besides, we integrate our partners and collaborators from Europe and other African countries. Hence, our proposal meets the eligibility criteria.

We plan to create a platform for OpenFlex Microscope imaging scientists to share their best experiences and learn recent opensource technologies and tools. Besides, the workshop aims to create a place for female and marginalized communities to get experiences and knowledge on Opensource system design. Furthermore, the forum aims to establish a network of scientists and technologies on Opensource design and development for developing country Ethiopia. Finally, a Biohackathon competition will be done at the workshop by BDU students who have ideas and startups on opensource applications and systems.

In this regard, if the workshop is implemented successfully, it will lead to an increased number of OpenFlex Microscope researchers having received training on how to design, develop, and standardized open source system. It helps to advance regional collaboration through better utilization of regional knowledge and resources. It helps to integrate regional network organization engaging in collaboration with their counterparts globally which helps to improve the capacity in the region.

To realize the workshop and Biohackathon in this very short time period, we plan to utilize our networks in the region, Africa and Europe. In this regard, we plan to participate our OpenFlex Microscope partners from UK and Africa to the even virtually. Besides, we can utilize the regional university hubs to get support and cooperation for the workshop preparation.

Requested Budget for the Workshop

The requested budget for the workshop is $9, 910.00 USD.

Detail Budget Breakdown

The detailed budget breakdown for the project is shown in the Table below .

Conference room, tea-coffee and lunch to participants = $ 2,500 USD.

Printing, stationary materials, banners and posters= $1,000 USD.

Travel expense for national experts from various Ethiopian institutes= $2, 500 USD.

External experts for conference organizing, preparation and reporting= $2,000 USD.

Awards for three Biohackathon competition= $1,000 USD.

Platform development to share resources and outputs of the workshop= $910 USD.

Hence, the total project budget to run the workshop is $9, 910.00 USD.

Platform to Share Resources from the Workshop

We plan to record the workshop events and sessions. Then, we will upload the event reports and results in Bahir Dar University and BiT Makerspace website and Social Media sites. Besides, we will communicate the national and regional media to attend and share events to the larger community. Furthermore, a detail reporting and analysis shall be done to summarize the results and achievements of the event.

Publishing The Results Under an Appropriate Open Source License

The team shall work on to publish the results and outputs of the event on appropriate open source license platforms. To achieve this, we will integrate and utilize our partners from the Center of Global Equity, University of Cambridge, University of Bath and other African Institutes that work on OpenFlex Microscope and other Open source systems. Hence, all the results and findings of the event shall be access freely to the open science community.

Conflict of Interest

There is no any conflict of interest related to this event.

Amare Kassaw Yimer (PhD)

Director, Business Incubation and Techno-entrepreneurship center (BiTec)

Assistant Professor at Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Bahir Dar University

Phone: +251-929267116,

Email: amex2121 @ gmail.com , amare1616@yaoo.com,

Linkdin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amare-kassaw

[BiTec]

1. Name of your organization
   Bahir Dar University
   Bahir Dar Institute of Technology
   Business Incubation and Techno-Entrepreneurship Centre (BiTec)

2. Reliable email address (or another reliable way of official contact)
   Dr. Amare Kassaw, amex2121@gamil.com, +251-929-267-116
   Dr. Seifu Adimasu, satadm86@gmail.com, +251-929,-919-962

3. Tell us about your organization
   Business Incubation and Techno-Entrepreneurship Center (BiTec) is an incubating center under Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Bahir Dar University. It was initially established by BiT-BDU in 2018. The main aim of the center is to enable students and staff to prototype and commercialize technologies, create jobs, and strengthen local economies by producing financially viable small firms. The business idea behind the center is to inspire, facilitate and support young entrepreneurs and to help them to create their own businesses. In this regard the center mainly works on innovation, business incubation, technology transfer, techno-entrepreneurship, and startup prototyping. The institute has strong commitment that a successful implementation of this idea shall result in the creation of jobs and contribute to the national economic growth.

Under BiTec, the BiT MakerSpace was established in 2019 as part of BiTec to enhance innovation culture and creates a space for business incubates prototyping and sample production. The BiT Makerspace at Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Bahir Dar University aims to create an innovative environment for BiT students and staff. The Makerspace has been organized with state-of-the-art 3D-printing, electromechanical, digital electronics, computer laboratory, CNC and Laser Cutting Machines, Digital Manufacturing Tools. The BiT Makerspace provides has the potential to be an innovation hub to allow students to develop multiple projects.

The activity of the center will take part from pre-incubation to post-incubation period which ranges from making calls to business ideas up to creating successful start-ups and entrepreneurs. To do that, the center is structured with coaching members mainly containing coaches for giving training on entrepreneurship and business idea development and technical coaching. Since Bahir Dar University is focusing on different industries, BiTec will work on different incubation to create a startup in the area. Using the developed partnerships with different industries, universities, partners and vocational colleges, the start-ups will benefit from getting support to transfer their business ideas and prototypes to the next level.

The BiT Makerspace serves as a hub for business incubation and startup prototyping. The center has well-organized facilities, resources and experienced staff. The makerspace established to create an innovative environment for students and staff at the university and the community at large. The BiT Makerspace is a business incubation and entrepreneur hub that provides human-centered design, techno-entrepreneurial, business incubation and prototyping skills.

The BiT Maker Space is founded in 2019 by Dr Seifu A Tilahun, Miss Sewnet Alemu and Mr Henok Mebratie from Bahir Dar Institute of Technology together with Dr Lara Allen from the Center for Global Equity. The need to establish the Makerspace at Bahir Dar University was a case in point. Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the founding of BiT Makerspace is part of an ongoing partnership between BiT and Center for Global Equality (CGE) to create an enabling environment in Bahir Dar for Inclusive Innovation. The makerspace is now a flagship initiative of Business Incubation and Techno-Entrepreneurship Centre at Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Bahir Dar University. Currently the Make Space is directed by Dr Amare Kassaw and coordinated by Ms. Bezawork Tilahun. The BiT MakerSpace is cooperated with Bahir Dar University, CGE, GIZ, University of Cambridge, University of Wisconsin, University of Bath, USAID, IWMI and PUM.
Some of the innovative products at the BiT Maker Space include fingerprint scanner for the University, Packaging papers and tableware from agricultural bi-product, glue from defatted soy flour, OpenFlex optical microscope, 3D printed masks and face shields, laser cutting face shields, oxygen concentrator, prosthetic hand, handheld soil moisture meter and RAY cosmetics which entails cosmetics produced from fish scale and a Turbo ventilator.

In 2022, the makerspace plans to conduct an Annual Hackathon/Makerthons on Agri-Tech, Digital Health, Artificial Intelligence Apps, Alternative and Smart Energy Technologies to provide problem-solving innovation results focusing on the country’s priorities and responding to the development needs of the country through technology-based services. We also plan to prepare human centered design (HCD), business incubation and prototyping training for selected Graduate projects and increasing the participation of women, youth, students, and graduates at the Makerspace activities. By creating and strengthening partnerships with foreign partners, the Makerspace has involved in different innovation projects. To achieve this plan, the BiT Makerspace is also working on increasing partners from universities, government offices and international organizations.

4. Does your organization have representation for a marginalized demographic due to factors such as, but not limited to, race, ability, place of birth, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class situation or other identification? If so, how?
   The BiT Maker Space is working on providing opportunities for females, low income students and marginalized communities. The center provides the place for them to incubate, prototype and develop their innovation ideas into valuable products. To achieve this, we establish a female innovation support (FIS) group that follow up and facilitate opportunities and facilities for female students to enhance their innovation and research culture in technology and engineering.

Besides, the center hunts and support high school and middle school students in the rural area who have special talents, but could not have the opportunity to exercise their talents. Further, a Hackathon and Makerthons are prepared for the females and marginalized communities to support them to incubate their ideas into business.
By using the above experiences and platforms, the workshop team is committed to promote gender equality in the program. Engineering and technology is currently poorly representative of the gender balance in most of African countries. To promote the experience and advancement of women in open source design and development, the workshop team commits to maintain a good participation of women open source design experts in the workshop.

5. How would your event address GOSH’s values of diversity and inclusion?
   We plan to provide prior opportunities for females and various communities to attend the workshop. To achieve this, experience sharing, networking and partnership session shall be established for females, high school and middle school students to integrate themselves with the workshop participants. Besides, the event will be open for everyone regards gender, ethnic and economy.
   Thus, the workshop shall create accessibility and sharing on science for females and marginalized communities. Besides, the workshop shall bring empowerment and impact to share the best experiences on opensource system design and development. It helps to integrate the female and disadvantaged communities with the experienced scientists and technologists. That helps to avoid the digital divide and enhances the democratization of science in developing country, Ethiopia. Besides, a Biohackathon competition will be done at the workshop by BDU students who have ideas and startups on opensource applications and systems. Experienced juries shall be assigned to evaluate the pitching of the Biohackathon computation. This helps to distribute Open Science to the larger community

6. What is the event about, and what do you want to achieve with it?

Our event is regional workshop on OpenFlex Microscope design, standardization and utilization in Ethiopia. We expect above many audiences from the region, universities, and national communities. The workshop helps to establish a network among OpenFlex Microscope experts and scientists that help to enhance the regional capacity in OpenFlex Microscope image acquisition, feature extraction and analysis in Ethiopia. To realize this, the workshop shall gather opensource system and OpenFlex Microscope experts and scientists from regional institutes. Besides, experts from Center for Global Equality, University of Bath and other African Maker Space Networks will support and share their experiences to the workshop virtually.

7. How will your event contribute to advancing OPEN SCIENCE HARDWARE ?
   If the regional workshop is implemented successfully, it will lead to:

-Share best experiences on open source device design and development.
-Share best experiences on open source device standardization
-Provide knowledge on OpenFlex microscopy design and development.
-This will lead to increase the number of OpenFlex microscopy experts and scientists with expertise in design, development, standardization and utilization.
-Ultimately, enhancing capacity in OpenFlex microscopy imaging will improve the diagnosis; treatment and patient follow up accuracy in clinics and hospitals, and contribute health and wellbeing across Ethiopia.

8. How does your event address each item in the review criteria table above?

We plan to prepare a workshop to discuss on OpenFlex Microscope design, development and standardization in particular and opensource system and device in general. To realize this, we utilize our profound experience on OpenFlex Microscope Design and development. Besides, we integrate our partners and collaborators from Europe and other African countries. Hence, our proposal meets the eligibility criteria.
We plan to create a platform for OpenFlex Microscope imaging scientists to share their best experiences and learn recent opensource technologies and tools. Besides, the workshop aims to create a place for female and marginalized communities to get experiences and knowledge on Opensource system design. Furthermore, the forum aims to establish a network of scientists and technologies on Opensource design and development for developing country Ethiopia. Finally, a Biohackathon competition will be done at the workshop by BDU students who have ideas and startups on opensource applications and systems.

In this regard, if the workshop is implemented successfully, it will lead to an increased number of OpenFlex Microscope researchers having received training on how to design, develop, and standardized open source system. It helps to advance regional collaboration through better utilization of regional knowledge and resources. It helps to integrate regional network organization engaging in collaboration with their counterparts globally which helps to improve the capacity in the region.
To realize the workshop and Biohackathon in this very short time period, we plan to utilize our networks in the region, Africa and Europe. In this regard, we plan to participate our OpenFlex Microscope partners from UK and Africa to the even virtually. Besides, we can utilize the regional university hubs to get support and cooperation for the workshop preparation.

9. Which of the three levels of funding would you like to apply for? (USD $3000, $6000, or $9910)
   The requested budget for the workshop is $9, 910.00 USD.

10. What is the funding for? Describe your budget. List what you are going to spend it on and how.
    The detailed budget breakdown for the project is shown in the Table below .

    -Conference room, tea-coffee and lunch to participants = $ 2,500 USD.

    -Printing, stationary materials, banners and posters= $1,000 USD.

    -Travel expense for national experts from various Ethiopian institutes= $2, 500 USD.

    -External experts for conference organizing, preparation and reporting= $2,000 USD.

    -Awards for three Biohackathon competition= $1,000 USD.

    -Platform development to share resources and outputs of the workshop= $910 USD.

Hence, the total project budget to run the workshop is $9, 910.00 USD.
11. How will you share the outcomes of this event. What documentation or other outputs will benefit the open science hardware community as a whole? (videos? photos? a how-to or other education materials? innovative hardware designs?)
We plan to record the workshop events and sessions. Then, we will upload the event reports and results in Bahir Dar University and BiT Makerspace website and Social Media sites. Besides, we will communicate the national and regional media to attend and share events to the larger community. Furthermore, a detail reporting and analysis shall be done to summarize the results and achievements of the event.
12. Can you confirm that at least the primary output from your event will be published under an appropriate open source license as described above in this announcement?

The team shall work on to publish the results and outputs of the event on appropriate open source license platforms. To achieve this, we will integrate and utilize our partners from the Center of Global Equity, University of Cambridge, University of Bath and other African Institutes that work on OpenFlex Microscope and other Open source systems. Hence, all the results and findings of the event shall be access freely to the open science community.
13. Are there any conflicts of interest that you wish to declare? (a conflict of interest does not always mean disqualification!)
There is no any conflict of interest related to this event.

Amare Kassaw Yimer (PhD)
Director, Business Incubation and Techno-entrepreneurship center (BiTec)
Assistant Professor at Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Bahir Dar University
Phone: +251-929267116,
Email: amex2121 @ gmail.com , amare1616@yaoo.com,

[gamelmag]

1. Name of your organization

Just One Giant Lab (JOGL)

2. Reliable email address (or another reliable way of official contact)

gameli[at]jogl[dot]io

3. Tell us about your organization

Just One Giant Lab (JOGL) is the first non-profit platform dedicated to supporting communities for collaborative development of science and technology at the service of the sustainable development goals. JOGL believes that humanity’s biggest problems cannot be solved through business-as-usual approaches, whereas research institutions and companies work in tightly defined disciplines and sectors. Rather, we believe that the biggest global challenges will be solved through interdisciplinary thinking and collaboration. By building a global community of contributors (scientists, activists, innovators, entrepreneurs, and students) through app.jogl.io and engaging them through a unique community animation dynamic, JOGL is uniquely placed to connect talents with needs, and foster networks and interactions that can deliver research and innovation projects at a tenth of the cost of existing institutions. We partner with academic labs, companies, startups, foundations, NGOs and public services to help them create vibrant communities around their initiatives and co-develop participatory programs (‘giant labs’) to understand and solve the grand challenges of our time.

JOGL operates based on five main pillars:

• A scalable digital open source platform capable of connecting very large numbers of stakeholders and fostering collaboration
• An open and continuous community-based evaluation framework that offers due-diligence services to all initiatives proposed by the community
• An agile funding model providing fast and additive microfunding to initiatives positively evaluated by the community, where applicants are also reviewers
• The creation of scientific and technological commons to facilitate egoless collaboration and faster information propagation
• A community animation dynamic that is efficient at fostering collaborations and support among all members of the community.

4. Does your organization have representation for a marginalized demographic due to factors such as, but not limited to, race, ability, place of birth, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class situation or other identification? If so, how?

JOGL has been very keen on supporting marginalised communities to participate in community-based science and innovation. Our global team members come from different backgrounds and are based in different countries, on five continents. By keeping the platform free and globally accessible, we’re reducing barriers to entry as far as participation is concerned. Through our emerging regional chapters (e.g. JOGL Africa), we enable greater participation in science and innovation in developing countries, and therefore play a key role in driving the application of science and technology for sustainable development. For example, our Africa Against AMR initiative built the capacity of about 90 students and lab technicians in understanding, tracking, and fighting antimicrobial resistance through traditional and technological means. Grantees of our flagship OpenCovid19 initiative come from all over the world, with over 42% of project leaders being women. While there is more to be done to achieve equality across all fronts, JOGL’s track record so far shows that we’re dedicated to ensuring that science is indeed for everyone.

5. How would your event address GOSH’s values of diversity and inclusion?

We’ve designed the event to be fully virtual in order to increase access and ensure that as many people as possible participate and are not hindered by travelling costs. We will maintain a low participation fee (10-20€ per ticket), and also provide waivers for accepted participants who may not be able to afford the fee. The summit organising team is made up of JOGL team members, ambassadors, and volunteers from all over the world. We have both racial and gender diversity in the team, allowing for a variety of perspectives and ideas in the planning process. In order to cover and address the issues that matter, we have launched a call for collaboration through which we’re gathering inputs and suggestions from diverse contributors to shape the summit. Just One Giant Summit will have several tracks, and Diversity and Inclusion will be included as one of the main topics within the track on Roadblocks and Bottlenecks, ensuring that issues that matter to marginalised communities are addressed. Also, we will ensure fair geographical and gender representation on various panels and sessions to ensure participation from diverse stakeholders. In the spirit of enhancing participation the Summit will publish guidelines inspired by JOGL’s Code of Conduct (which aligns with GOSH’s principles). All participants of Just One Giant Summit must agree to this standard of reasonable behaviour, which will also serve as a reference point in dealing with inappropriate behaviour or resolving any emerging issues.

6. What is the event about, and what do you want to achieve with it?

Just One Giant Summit is the first of its kind global summit focused on community-driven science and innovation (CoSI). We believe that community approaches make solving global challenges more inclusive, efficient, fun and impactful. But community science and innovation asks for different kinds of infrastructure, governance and resource allocation logics to what we’re used to. As these processes are being built by many actors around the world, we’re creating the space where these initiatives can share their experiences and perspectives with each other.

This decentralised summit is a chance for individuals and organisations working in the CoSI space to connect with each other, collaborate, and take lead on identifying the latest trends in community-driven science and innovation as well as celebrate what we are all achieving together as part of a larger community of communities.

The tracks of the summit will address trends and roadblocks, application fields, regional issues, and cross-cutting topics. Some of the topics the summit will cover include health, education, synthetic biology, climate change, pollution, artificial intelligence, technology platforms, open production, and standardisation. Formats of engagement include plenaries, panel discussions, meetings, roundtables, unconferences, and fireside chats. We will also offer opportunities for matchmaking, one-on-ones, parties, career fairs, and exhibitions. We will encourage sessions that can potentially lead to identified outputs and call-to-actions.

The summit will be a two day virtual event in July 2022. We are currently talking to organisations in different countries to take leadership of various tracks including the regional ones. Representatives of these organisations will be involved in organising and shaping sessions addressing the role of Open Science Hardware in fostering community-driven science and innovation in their regions. Just One Giant Summit is a unique opportunity to at once explore community, regional, and global perspectives. Multiple plenaries and parallel tracks (presentations, workshops, panel discussions, and breakout sessions) will be held online, giving participants an opportunity to engage with topics they’re interested in. We’re crowdsourcing content for the program through an online form, ensuring we cover topics important to the communities we engage with.

As a completely interactive digital summit, we want to make it as nice as possible. We will be creating specially customised virtual environments to enhance the experience. There will be a dedicated thematic space for every track of the summit, a whole space for informal meetings and discussions as well, and a place for projects and organisations to display their work.

Just One Giant Summit will target members of communities who are interested in community approaches to science and innovation around the world. We aim to bring together hundreds of researchers, innovators, students, artists, and activists who are interested in building new approaches to community-led initiatives that can bring sustainable change. Ultimately we hope to showcase Community-driven Science and Innovation (CoSI), with Open Science Hardware, as the new way of building the future.

7. How will your event contribute to advancing OPEN SCIENCE HARDWARE?

Access to hardware is integral to community-based science and innovation, from sensors for environmental monitoring to low-cost sequencers for genetic studies. Lack of funding for open (community) projects often means that teams are unable to access quality and reliable equipment for their work. This constitutes a major roadblock to the realisation of more community-based science and innovation projects for large-scale social impact. While gathering contributions for the event, several organisations have expressed the desire in running an Open Science Hardware track to address these issues. Activities and explorations around Open Science Hardware at the summit will include:

• Design of open science hardware for different contexts such as research, health, education, environmental monitoring, art, biotech and crises situations
• Experiences of JOGL supported projects developing open hardware for research, diagnostics, education, and other applications through the OpenCovid19 program
• Sessions explaining and discussing the GOSH Roadmap for Open Science Hardware, and regional variants, and how to make OScH more ubiquitous
• Discussions and debates on open production processes, with special focus on design, IP, sharing, and standardisation
• How to signpost new entrants, and how to distribute knowledge across regions and backgrounds

JOGL members are makers and innovators from across the globe. Many of them use open hardware in their projects, but not all are aware of the organisations out there like GOSH or Africa OSH that take the community approach, and how it can support their goals. While it is a prominent field in Open Innovation, and many resources are shared in the community, there is still a need to continue the conversation on some of the issues listed above and more. The JOGL Summit will gather veterans in the field as well as newbies from across the world, providing the space for fresh perspectives on these conversations.

8. How does your event address each item in the review criteria table above?

Local development of GOSH mission: GOSH’s key mission is to make Open Science Hardware ubiquitous around the world. The GOSH manifesto emphasises reducing barriers and widening access for diverse creators to access scientific tools to advance knowledge, highlighting 10 key principles. JOGL’s modus operandi fully aligns fully with GOSH’s principles, and the design of Just One Giant Summit addresses most of them. Greater adoption of Open Science Hardware, as promoted by GOSH, will advance our mission of enabling community-driven science and innovation.

At Just One Giant Summit, we will focus on local and regional issues around adoption and valorisation of Open Science Hardware with our dedicated Regional Tracks. Leveraging our work with Communities of Practice in various geographies, we intend to further the conversation about how to overcome local obstacles to utilising Open Science Hardware. While we have had iterations of this conversation before, we have now grown and learned more deeply, and will be able to progress the conversation towards local guidebooks highly applicable to the OScH context.

Broader Impacts: We intend to leverage the summit to further promote the Community-driven Science and Innovation (CoSI) paradigm, and recruit more contributors into this space. During Just One Giant Summit, we will identify opportunities for new programs and communities that can benefit from the CoSI and Open Science Hardware approaches, and work with a wide array of stakeholders to implement them. By organising multiple regional sessions, we are increasing the odds of learning across geographies and replication of solutions that have worked elsewhere. There will be many networking opportunities that will hopefully lead to some brilliant future collaborations.

Just One Giant Summit will bring together experts in different fields to centralise knowledge about the biggest opportunities and challenges in CoSI in 2022, and will produce recordings, reports and blog articles to be distributed and shared easily between communities of practice. We have a strategy to disseminate our learnings to various stakeholders including local organisations (through our regional chapters) and intergovernmental institutions (IGIs). Engaging with IGIs will open the door for policy changes desired by our communities.

Feasibility: We are building a strong and diverse team for Just One Giant Summit together with several organisations in the open science and innovation space. Many of our team members have been involved in the organisation of very large events (e.g. the biosummit, Africa OSH, Friendzymes Hackathon, etc). We regularly launch and animate global programs with diverse participants, pooling their expertise and encouraging participation across the spectrum. The Summit will be built as a cooperative effort between prominent local and global organisations, distributing the expertise and organisational capacity where it is best put to use. JOGL itself will contribute to funding the summit, and we are mobilising additional resources from several of our collaborators who have come on board. We have already recruited over 20 volunteers from across the globe who are working on the topics being covered and active in the relevant communities who will be engaged for the summit.

9. Which of the three levels of funding would you like to apply for? (USD $3000, $6000, or $9910)

$9910

10. What is the funding for? Describe your budget. List what you are going to spend it on and how.

FUNDING	PORTION	DESCRIPTION
Event management	JOGL will cover it	Cost of the time of the organising team
Platforms (community events and conferencing)	$1000	Subscription to various platform services (e.g. SwapCard, Zoom, and Gather Town)
Graphical Design	$4000	1- For developing customized experiences by bringing relevant virtual environments to the participants. 2- For event materials, onboarding toolkit, and digital merchandise (backgrounds, frames, etc)
Communication and video editing	$4000	Digital mobilisation campaigns. Recording and handling of the event content. Montage and distribution.
Overhead	$910
TOTAL	$9910

11. How will you share the outcomes of this event? What documentation or other outputs will benefit the open science hardware community as a whole? (videos? photos? a how-to or other education materials? innovative hardware designs?)

Our goal is to make the outcomes of Just One Giant Summit available to different audiences in different formats in order to extend its impact beyond the three days of the program. Key outputs of the will include:

• Conference proceedings
• A comprehensive conference report and a communique to be shared with various stakeholders including big organisations like UNESCO
  • The report will include outcomes of a satisfaction survey measuring participants experiences of Just One Giant Summit
  • A list of new programs and communities to be created by JOGL and partners based on recommendations (votes) of summit participants
• A separate summary of big trends (big numbers and themes) identified during the summit will be published
• Video recordings of key sessions will be published on JOGL YouTube channel
• Blog articles highlighting most interesting sessions and participants’ experiences will be published by JOGL and partners
• Content created by attendees and partners through social media and other channels

12. Can you confirm that at least the primary output from your event will be published under an appropriate open source license as described above in this announcement?

Yes. We will publish under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License or similar one.

13. Are there any conflicts of interest that you wish to declare? (a conflict of interest does not always mean disqualification!)

No

[ffederici]

1- Name of your organization

reGOSH (Chile node and Mendoza-Argentina Node). (We will collaborate with Dr Teresa Damiani and other researchers at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, and Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, where the meeting will take place)

2- Reliable email address (or another reliable way of official contact)

fernanfederici (at) protonmail [dot] com

3- Tell us about your organization

reGOSH is a regional network created by GOSH members and initially supported by CYTED, the Iberoamerican programme of science and technology. This network connects people, communities and institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean. reGOSH works on Free and Open Source Hardware for science, entrepreneurship and education. Its mission is to support and connect the work of those who study, develop and use open technologies for science and education in the region, while linking them with the global GOSH community. Today, the network is composed of 7 countries (Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, México) and can be considered as the regional chapter of GOSH global community.

reGOSH holds monthly online meetings, capacity building workshops and a main annual event in the form of an “intensive residency” that gathers members from different nodes to work on open hardware prototypes for 2 or 3 weeks. Although reGOSH has secured funding from CYTED until 2023, these can only cover mobility costs of reGOSH members for attending reGOSH annual events (“residencies”). These funds can’t be used for traveling expenses for people outside the network.

The Chile node has been an active group focused on open source technology for education and research in molecular biology. The Mendoza node in Argentina has been a co-founding member and an active participant of reGOSH since its inception, shaping its agenda and activities. Its members develop work on open technologies both in academia (mainly National Cuyo University), and in civil society organizations such as CEFIC and the Ayllú Cooperative.

Both nodes have already collaborated in the organization of workshops addressing OSH for molecular biology, combining open tools for DNA assembly and open hardware for fluorescence microscopy. For instance:

• Open source hardware workshop, with @neuro3en and @amchagas in 2018.
• Open source tools for molecular biology, in 2019.

Members of these nodes have participated twice in CIACIAR (Open Science Conference in Argentina) Furthermore, the Mendoza node has organized several activities in rural contexts, many of them together with CEFIC. Currently, the Mendoza node is working together with CEFIC and Coop. Ayllu in the Open Agroecology Lab. Agroecology research is scarce in official research agendas dominated by industrial agriculture. The proposal aims to integrate several low cost and open source methods and instruments into an open lab, to generate local appropriate knowledge for the agroecological transition in the region. This year, with support from Mendoza node and founded by Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, the first Lab will be materialized at CEFIC. We feel the open source “bio” component will complement these efforts to bring molecular monitoring capacity to our projects (e.g. homebrew LAMP reactions held in open hardware devices to monitor pathogens in farms).

4- Does your organization have representation for a marginalized demographic due to factors such as, but not limited to, race, ability, place of birth, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class situation or other identification? If so, how?

Our organizations develop their everyday work in a mixed scenario. On one hand, members working in academia have a stable income and a more secure source of (small) funds; on the other hand, members from outside these academic circles face a more challenging funding situation. Although financial support such as CYTED has been very helpful, we still face a complex context of chronic economic crisis and socio-environmental conflict due to constant pressure on natural resources. Research budgets are highly limited, which makes us work with scarce resources even in well-established academic laboratories.

Our reGOSH node is in constant dialogue (and cowork) with actors of many different backgrounds (ie. peasants, farmers, school teachers). On the other hand, as part of reGOSH we recognize there is gender bias in open hardware as in other STEM fields. reGOSH intentionally addresses this issue in its activities, while having a gender-balanced board of node coordinators. We consider inclusion as meaningful participation, aligning our work with the GOSH manifesto. This is why we focus on co-creation of open source tools so participants can appropriate them to address their own relevant problems or questions.

As a result of the ongoing dialogues between academic and rural knowledge(s) in the Mendoza node, the Escuela Campesina de Agroecología (Peasant school of agroecology) and Tecnicatura en Agronomía con orientación en Agroecología (Bachelor in Agronomy, specialization in Agroecology) have been created.

5- How would your event address GOSH’s values of diversity and inclusion?

We want to organize a workshop in Valdivia, Chile, and another in Mendoza, Argentina, focusing on the production of enzymes and diagnostic tools that integrate open hardware and free-to-use genetic tools. These events are programmed for Dec 2022 with the participation of:

• Jenny Molloy from the Open Bioeconomy Lab, who has not been involved in the writing of this proposal to clear any conflict of interest. She will be our guest instructor, along with members of the Chile and Mendoza nodes working on open biotechnologies.
• Fran Quero from CRI, who is actively working on open hardware for nucleic acid detection methods.

These events will gather a mix of Latin American developers, users and researchers of open science hardware and biotechnology. We will involve members of reGOSH and members of UNCuyo and UACh-Valdivia with the aim to expand the network and attract new members. We will pay special attention to consider gender balance and diversity.

The structure of the event will follow the GOSH events’ framework, with unconference sessions, hands-on workshops and collective agenda-building activities.

6- What is the event about, and what do you want to achieve with it?

The main goal of this event is to integrate efforts in the hardware and biotechnology community with the aim of building capacity in research and training in diagnostics. As regional outcomes, we expect to consolidate collaborative links between the different stakeholders and build a common agenda around relevant local issues. On a global level, we believe an outcome of this event will be to establish more locally-driven developments and contribute to the narrative of open source technology from our perspective.

7-How will your event contribute to advancing OPEN SCIENCE HARDWARE?

The pressing challenges we face will be better addressed by a more collaborative, frictionless and open strategy that integrates multiple disciplines. We aim to engage more actors in the relevance of open source technology to build these models. We also aim to attract local and regional media, connect with potentially interested policy makers and establish conversations around the need for more open approaches to tackle environmental problems and public health crises such as the current pandemic.

We will focus on OSH projects that integrate existing and new developments in the area of enzymatic reaction incubation, cell culture maintenance and fluorescence quantifications, among others.

8- How does your event address each item in the review criteria table above?

First, it will impact a local community in Chile and Argentina. Second, the event has a very clear focus (ie open hardware and free-to-use enzymes for building local capacity). We will document these developments and progress. In terms of feasibility, the participation of local and international instructors with experience in this sort of workshops guarantees a good development of the hands-on sessions and lectures.

9- Which of the three levels of funding would you like to apply for? (USD $3000, $6000, or $9910)

USD6000

10- What is the funding for? Describe your budget. List what you are going to spend it on and how.

This is our planned budget:

1. Airplane tickets for two global GOSH members to Chile/Argentina $ 4000
2. Accommodation/meals for two global GOSH members in Chile and Argentina $ 1000
3. Tools and materials for workshops $ 1000

reGOSH/Cyted 2022 residency travel and accommodation of regional network members will be funded by CYTED and other local sources.

11- How will you share the outcomes of this event. What documentation or other outputs will benefit the open science hardware community as a whole? (videos? photos? a how-to or other education materials? innovative hardware designs?)

We will present and share the documentation of all designs resulting from the residency in Gitlab, and document all sessions and workshops held during the event in the GOSH forum.

We will share documentation of the event, photos and repositories (in case of new projects being started). All these materials will be released under a CC-BY 4.0 license, hardware and software under CERN OHL and MIT/GNU GPL.

We will also post in the forum a document describing the activities and links (Also to be documented in blogposts published in reGOSH website). As long as participants provide media consent, we will produce audiovisual documentation.

12-Can you confirm that at least the primary output from your event will be published under an appropriate open source license as described above in this announcement?

yes.

13- Are there any conflicts of interest that you wish to declare? (a conflict of interest does not always mean disqualification!)

Fernando Castro, member of the Mendoza node, is a reviewer of projects, therefore he should opt out of assessing our application.

Jenny Molloy, one of our two invited instructors, is on the board of GOSH. However, she has not been involved in the writing of this proposal in order to avoid conflict. She has agreed to come if the funding is awarded.

[sofiaOScA]

1. Name of your organization

iGEM Community - Open Science and Accessibility Steering Group

2. Reliable email address (or another reliable way of official contact)

sofia_sanchez@igem.org - Estefany Sofia Sánchez Martínez (iGEM Community Coordinator)

deborah.schafhauser@gmail.com - Deborah da Cruz Schafhauser (iGEM Community OScA SG Head)

openscience@igem.org - iGEM Community OScA mail

3. Tell us about your organization

The Open Science and Accessibility Steering Group, founded in 2021, was an integrating part of the former “After iGEM” organization, now the iGEM Community. The main goal for its creation was to address the barriers people from the world find when creating Synthetic Biology. Throughout 2021, the group developed projects on translation initiatives, education, mentoring, and discussion, for instance, the Open Talks event. Hence, we approach the SynBio Community using accessibility tools to create open resources.

4. Does your organization have representation for a marginalized demographic due to factors such as, but not limited to, race, ability, place of birth, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class situation, or other identification? If so, how?

This year, the OScA Steering Group embraces nine different time zones, representing people from America, Asia, and Europe, with different backgrounds but related to synbio. With the cultural diversity, we are including multicultural perspectives about science, synthetic biology, geopolitics, ways of life, to be, and to demonstrate affection.

5. How would your event address GOSH’s values of diversity and inclusion?

We are an Open Science and Accessibility group, and we are planning an event that translates the uniqueness of local culture into technological science. We are also concerned with woman’s representation, minority voices, and community respect.

To assure a diverse presence, we are willing to dedicate a part of the funding to cover expenses from a diversity of Latin Peers to review projects, share knowledge, and willingness to contribute. In addition, the event can participate remotely, allowing participants with no financial or physical possibility to travel.

6. What is the event about, and what do you want to achieve with it?

Our proposed event is a Hackathon under a hybrid presence system. iGEM Community has members spread through the globe, and we will use those contacts to access different realities and ways to see science. The plan is to develop in 2 days a regional hackathon in Latin America, with talks and mentoring related to Open Science and, especially, open hardware:

Previous to the event:

• Promote the event = beginning of June

• Registration form = 50 vacancies, open until June 24

• Teams or individuals can register

• Main event prior to the Jamboree: September 17-18th.

Day 1.

• 2 speakers and 2 workshops - 1:30 to 2:00 h long

• Mini-courses on hardware, software, and licenses.

• Options for each topic (software, hardware), for licenses, for open innovation companies.

• Straight up activity - Multicultural perspectives in building with SynBio

• Feedback Sessions

• Transmission to iGEM TV

• Networking session (optional)

• Focus on Latin American speakers in person (+ some global ones )

Day 2.

• 2 speakers - 1:30 to 2:00 h long

• Straight up activity - Arts and Open Science approach

• Final networking session

With this in mind, we stimulate teams to make complicated concepts down to earth with cultural art. We aim the discussion to create science without the stone borders from a technical perspective. And to humanize the connection between innovation and open resources.

7. How will your event contribute to advancing OPEN SCIENCE HARDWARE?

We are concerned about hardware and software for SynBio parts/biotechnologies. And we understood that not only does biology comprise a level of complexity to forecast, but also a few questions are frequent during the process, such as documentation, publication license, and turning ideas into products.

We aim to reduce the bridge between creators and hardware brainstorming, in order to develop the SOPs required for Open Science good practices development. And with this, encourage former and future teams to sustain the SynBio ecosystem generating open resources.

This event will approximate biotechnologists to open science and enrich the exchange of ideas, culture, and projects on the subject.

8. How does your event address each item in the review criteria table above?

iGEM is a Foundation based in France, and the event’s scope is under GOSH ethos. We are planning an event with local language discussion in a hybrid system, empowering the community by art. This objective will certainly impact the participants and synbio scientists who see iGEM and GOSH as guidance.

There was already a plan to create an event on open bioscience in Latin America, in the end, the idea found a barrier on the biological theme, and that is the reason why we intend to pursue this integration.

Additionally, our organization is composed of members of different academic backgrounds and expertise, also with great commitment and experience in event management.

9. Which of the three levels of funding would you like to apply for? (USD $3000, $6000, or $9910)

We are applying for $9,910 USD funding.

10. What is the funding for? Describe your budget. List what you are going to spend it on and how.

Open Science Hackathon for Accessibility
Projected Number of Attendees:	75 - 100 vacancies (on-site)
Dates: Sep, 3rd - 4th	Location: LATAM (to be decided)
Event Budget	9,910 USD
Category	Projected Cost (USD)
Venue	2,000
-Rental Cost	1,000 (2 days rental)
-Security	500
-AV equipment	500
Food & Beverage	2,900
-Food/Beverage	1,400 (700 per day)
-Catering	600 (300 per day)
-Bar	200 (100 per day)
-Coffee	250 (125 per day)
Event Programming	4500
-Traveling expenses	4,000 (Speakers & Organizers)
-Printed Materials	300 (outcomes)
-Advertisement	200
Event Decor	510 (if required)
-Linens	210
-Lighting	100
-Additional Decorative Items	100
Total Project cost	9,910 USD

11. How will you share the outcomes of this event? What documentation or other outputs will benefit the open science hardware community as a whole? (videos? photos? how-to or other education materials? innovative hardware designs?)

Documentation is not a problem for us!

First of all, a how-to handbook as an educational tool containing the shared experience of the hackathon participants, along with all the reports, photos, and feedback.

In addition, an Open Science Teachers’ manual with the hackathon processes that involve designing open hardware. The resource is intended to help teachers introduce electronic and scientific concepts to kids and teenagers of neglected communities/ low-income countries.

All Videos will be available at iGEM Universe and iGEM TV transmission.

The resulting outcome will impact SynBio and the public involved. As part of an ongoing event, the iGEM Community participation will contribute to the Open Science resources development (hardware and software). In addition, the feedback and Peers networking will contribute to spreading multicultural, open resources.

12. Can you confirm that at least the primary output from your event will be published under an appropriate open source license as described above in this announcement?

Yes, as we described above.

13. Are there any conflicts of interest that you wish to declare?

No, that we are aware of.