 You have a disability and assistive tech solutions for that are either unavailable in your country or extremely expensive. Or they come in a terrible hospital light green. The team of caribos.org has been tackling this problem since three years and today they were presented insight into their journey. We are really happy to have Aprika here today who will give you an overview over their journey, their actions, their key moments and how they were able to help people. We're really glad to have you here today. Thank you so much. And it's so exciting to be here on the stage and I'm presenting today caribos open source hardware for care. We went on a journey three years ago to explore how to co-create open hardware for care to create an open hardware platform and to bring different people together to create these solutions together. And first I want to say quickly what a caribol is and thankfully most has already been said so it's co-created with those people who need it. So if you're a person with disability or with a person with a temporary or chronic illness, you have specific needs and you are the expert about your needs. So makers, designers, people in healthcare create together. Then it's replicable and adaptable for the individual need in the local hacker space or in the local maker space of Helblab. And lastly and most importantly I think as well, it's open and documented. So we have an open platform where you can upload and download open hardware designs, get inspired and where you can see which solutions there are that might fit your needs. And why do we need this? Because the solutions sometimes don't exist because they're very often super expensive and often also unfortunately stigmatizing or just wrongly designed and not so beautiful like we would want them to be. I'm standing here on the stage but I'm representing a global community of people who are creating these caribolds. Here you see the members of the Global Innovation Gathering, an association registered in Berlin but spread across the whole world, a little bit maybe comparable to a Chaos Computer Club Air Force, like a knowledge exchange group that comes together. And where you see people who are in Basra, in Iraq, have very similar problems to people who are in South Sudan for example and creating a hacker space there. Or if you are in Nairobi, you have things to discuss with people who are in Brazil in Olinda for example. So that's how we come together. And that's also a tiny map of where caribolds' activities already started to be taking shape and we are like now in the stage of opening up to everybody who wants to become part of that. And I want to give you a little bit of an insight into the different projects we are creating and in the different, yeah, products created and the different events created and because I'm only standing here for such a huge number of amazing people and their communities, I bring mostly videos they send to us from their events and I'm starting with a very inspiring video from Berlin that had worked from here last year at the Congress, so I'm happy to now show it in an even better version and I will start it now. So you see the Open Health Academy and what happened there. We are developing a small team of helpers and life hacks that make life really easy. From the idea to the functioning product. This is what TARDOS looks like for every day. And is it fun? Yes, it's fun. What is also fun? Our solution with which every roly will become the role of the hero. We want to make it easier. If it works, we do it for everyone. Open Source for everyone. You didn't hear that, did you? There is a lot of space for extraordinary innovations. In addition to workshops and contracts, you can also try out really cool things like 3D printers, or pens, or something like that. That's really cool. It makes sense to develop a product with the person who needs it. Finally, a project where you don't think about what the whole thing is supposed to be, but just do things. If you have ideas for the development of the school, then do it with us. I'm the Open Health Academy, that's why I have the time to blame the industry. It can't actually be that hobby product developers think of better ideas than what I think about the future. So you see, all the solutions created here had the beginning in the need of the person who wanted to have it, like Sven, who wanted to ride a bicycle, but couldn't. So that's at core of everything we try to do. And as everybody knows, during the COVID pandemic, we had lots of people all over the world creating protective equipment, personal protective equipment, also here in Berlin, but also all around the world. And here I bring an example from Kumasi Hive in Ghana, where the makers in the makerspace also created lots of face shields, for example. And we still were thinking that face shields were super important for protection. And also, of course, for a medical field. So in Kumasi Hive, they were already connecting to local hospitals for people with disability and also with engineering students and worked with lots of people in these regards, but also had to see that they can't access the makerspace. There were only always a few people allowed to enter the makerspace, but still they created lots and lots of these PPEs and these face shields and other helpful equipment. And they also were part of the caribou... They ceased to empower people living with disabilities by removing the barrier of the lack of assistive devices. The project is in two phases. Training and co-creation, which culminates in a hackathon and patron summit. Manufacturing and incubation. Trainees for the program have been selected. They have been taking through intensive and interactive training sessions on products design, 3D modeling and fabrication, and material selection. This training is done in person and veteran. A veteran challenge to engage and evaluate the skills of trainees in 3D modeling and fabrication and material selection has been launched and trainees are working on mini-projects in teams. Teams will develop a versatile door knob lever that easily converts the standard door knob into a lever handle. People with difficulty gripping a standard door knob should find this adapted lever handle an easy way to open a door. The handle should be ideal for anyone who has weak hands, osteoporosis or arthritis. Designed by each team will be shared on all our social media platforms for online community boosts for the better. Now in Nepal, the community in Nepal created all the programs that co-created, took care of and worked together with students mostly and of new designs but also reproducing designs that were already published on the platform and on the internet generally. They are opening very soon, the very first FabLab in Nepal. So for them it was also really good to show the community around their region that of FabLab and the tools and the machines and just creating things personally can help a lot in the local community and it's not only about operations of course and in the end they published this as open knowledge again for example work together with a local hospital for people with disabilities where Palap from Nepal community care could help the local engineers to work together in the hospital to fix their 3D printers for example and this is Palap and to fix the 3D printers and to work together to create designs they needed. Now we also see what they did during the humanitarian design challenge. We will also of course publish the videos so you can revisit them and see what you can take from it for example. The organization, the ideation, the empathy, the prototyping I don't have so much ideas about that. Can you help me and you can read these introductions and then also try it out yourself in your heart. It's a CreaturaLab in Olinda in Brazil and they've also been working a lot in the corporate response. Creatura started with the work of architecture, landscaping and urban interventions before the pandemic and for this reason I've been developing a natural and inventive work which was the creation of products in an ecological, maternal, feminine way. When the pandemic came we started thinking about new solutions to continue our work and at the same time not to offer more risks and to obey the determinations of isolation and social distancing. The material is primarily designed for the creation of the house where there is the base of the laser cutting machines. This cutting is done by a team, which in the case of the 3D collective I take this material and make its sterilization. The assembly was being developed, it was being developed by several models at the beginning there were other collage processes, pieces and we were improving more and more, more simple, more comfortable so the assembly is done quickly and we can have a good production to make this big demand that society is having. The focus is that we can really attend to the most needed populations that is, our intention is always to cheapen this cost so that it can be accessed and that it can really serve as a solution for the day-to-day of people. It's a great revolution, because before we were very much amazed by the technology being concentrated really in the big industries, in the companies when it comes to the access of people who are interested in technology that can even take a technology that is already developed and develop its own prototype on top of what is already there this is a very revolutionary thing those people who really need to be working on the street who don't have the option of staying at home, reserving themselves so these are the people we aim to meet so that we really strengthen this base of society that needs a special attention. This is the last one and it's something for all the 3D printing nerds among us beginning of the pandemic there was a huge hit, very struck and so they were mass producing, also pushing them down such a nice idea. So this was our very small places that contributed a lot to caribou there's many, many more to show of course but we tried to limit ourselves a little bit we created an exhibition that you can exhibit in your maker space or in your hacker space we created much more material of course that you can use so nice again so they also mass produced so much as you see now in the box and also worked together of course with hospitals and with other people who really used and needed these materials like many others did if you want you can become part of the caribou's community you can send us an email, connect on Twitter connect on the website of course check out the resources we publish and also just explore what's on there and if you have any questions or any comments please let us know and if you want to join please also let us know thanks a lot thank you so much for the talk of course we're supported gladly by the European Union if anybody wants to have the European Union supporting lots of different innovation programs and also this one thanks a lot for that cool so far we haven't gotten any questions from the internet if you're watching this and right now you think of a question please ask it over the usual channels and in the meantime I thought of maybe it's interesting for more people how did that get started is it traceable to a circle of people who sat around the table and were like this is what we need to do there's this problem and it needs to be tackled assistive tech communities all around the world working for example in humanitarian aid or in humanitarian collaboration where you see field ready it's working for a long time already CADOS is working for a long time already in this field of creating your own solutions for medical purposes for example then there's assistive tech communities from people with disabilities for example just creating their own tools that they need for example I don't know enhancements for your wheelchair or other things and then there was a group from the Wach Society in Amsterdam meeting Geraldine one of the founders of the Global Innovation Gathering in Brazil in Olinda I think in Rio at a really amazing event and they spoke about what can you do and there's this grant opening from the European Union where you can apply for with like 50 pages or 70 pages of proposal and we were always in contact also with the Feblup in Berlin and with lots of people from the hacker community of course and found people in Milan who were closely related with a centre for the rehabilitation for children with disability mainly neurological diseases and they had such beautiful products as well that you could just reproduce for other children and so they all came together and thought yeah we can create that proposal we can create that platform because back four or five years ago there wasn't so many open hardware platforms yet where you could really dedicated find assistive tech solutions but you would have all these general platforms you all know where you find door handles but also small ships and anything else that you could possibly 3D print and so the idea to have this platform dedicated for medical and for assistive tech use was born to have a place to collect this all and to have a place that is maybe also more accessible for people that is more accessible for example also for people in the medical field who maybe don't want to scroll through all the ships and all the other tiny gadgets you can print so that was the idea and then we won the grant and we could start it and now the grant period is over and now we expanded to whoever wants to contribute Thank you for the insight for the explanations maybe as a last thing I think no questions so far could you give us some outlook if everything goes great what has happened in five years what do you aim to get? Everybody knows how to create their own assistive tech and it's empowered to do so for example through online course and how to create designs in CAD programs for example people in the medical field are knowledgeable about what is possible and for example people in the physical therapy in these areas know about what's possible technically and are connected and of course everybody is just putting everything on the caribou's platform but there are more open hardware platforms out there now which is great and so we're more collecting also and open source hardware is advanced so like right to repair super important aspect that you're the owner of your own devices I don't know if many people know it but if you're a person in a wheelchair for example you're not the owner of your wheelchair but your health insurance is and so all these there are so many problems in this field we're trying to tackle a tiny bit of it and we hope that more people feel inspired to work in the field and we're also having a talk tomorrow in the main program which is super exciting as well to reflect a bit on the last three years as well and to give an outlook of what's coming in the next step Okay, thank you for all the explanations that sounds like a very good future we will continue at 7 o'clock with the next talk until then we have a dinner break Thank you so much for being here today Thank you so much for having me Bye