USD 500 microgrants available for workshops, short courses

General
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1. Your name, and that of your organisation (or the organisation that will receive funds on your behalf).

Tafia Sabila Khairunnisa, Foldscope Network - Indonesia Fellows (organized under Meaningful Design Group)

2. Name of event. Make another post with another event name if you have another event.

Jimbaran Fishing Communities Looking Closer with Foldscope

3. Email address by which you may be contacted.

tafiasabila@gmail.com

4. What open science hardware tool(s) will be the focus of your event?

Foldscope (https://foldscope.com/)

5. Describe your course or workshop, whom and what it is for, where and when it will be held, how many attendees (IRL or virtual) you expect.

Last year, Foldscope was introduced to Indonesia during the Bali Fab Fest event. As part of our commitment to ensure an ongoing evangelization of Foldscope, while supporting marine conservation efforts through citizen science movement across coastal communities in Indonesia, the Foldscope Network Indonesia is planning to conduct a series of workshops for the fishing communities in Bali. The aim is to expand on our pilot outreach to the Jimbaran-Kedonganan fishing communities, starting by hosting a 3-day workshop in May 2023 at the traditional fishing village of Jimbaran beach. The workshop will include the following activities:

  • Day 1: Plankton Net Workshop - Making frugal plankton nets out of local materials
  • Day 2: Foldscope Workshop and Water Sampling in Jimbaran Beach (refer to this video)
  • Day 3: Microcosmos Workshop - Documenting and sharing with community

We expect to involve at least 30-40 fishermen across 10 fishing groups around the Jimbaran bay, with at least 1 community leader and 1 younger fishermen from each group. And though specifically intended for the fishermen, we allow any other interested stakeholders in the fishing communities to take part in, so we will prepare more foldscopes as buffers.

6. Do you have plans for ongoing activities after this event OR is it intended that the participants will continue activities after this event? If so, describe the intentions and plans here.

Definitely. As a representative for Foldscope Fellows in Indonesia, our mission is to spread as many foldscopes as possible across Indonesia, with strong emphasis to enable direct mass data collection from the local & coastal indigenous communities and include them in the marine conservation efforts. To achieve that, our approach is by first establishing a system in the community where this movement could run and continue organically. This workshop serves as a kickstarter that meant to be an ongoing event. In this particular one, we aim to plant a seed to nurture more citizen science activists within the Jimbaran fishing community. That is why we encourage and prioritize the community leads and also the younger fishermen from each fishing groups in Jimbaran, so they would be the anchors that help spread this further within their communities. We will keep engaging, monitoring, and offering support to the fisherman through Whatsapp group. As a continuation of this particular workshop, we plan to conduct upcoming rounds of workshops with the same community but to include other users, like the fisherman’s children and university students and researchers from Bali’s Udayana University, in order to set the ecosystem that enables this citizen science movement to really happen. Besides, we also plan to spread this movement to other potential coastal communities in Bali, such as the traditional fishing village of Tianyar, Karangasem, Bali, where a local organization there happens to also train local fishermen in the reef conservation effort.

7. What event outputs (e.g. teaching materials, curricula, software, etc.) will you make available? Will these outputs carry an open licence?

We will make a video documentation about the whole workshop, a microcosmos post, as well as an open ‘Citizen Science Guidebook’ for fishing communities which will highlight:

  • How to make frugal plankton nets
  • Collect water samples & towing guide
  • What to make of their findings

8. What you will use the grant for, roughly.

9. Provide links (references) to documentation or reviews of similar
events or works you have executed. School coursework or projects
can be listed, even social media posts. Anything to give a sense
of what you’re about and your ability to successfully conduct this
course or workshop. To keep this short, just the links and their descriptions will do.

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