- Write Yourself Into Obsolescence.
This thought was pressed into my mind as I looked over all that I had created. Facing the inevitable end of one life chapter as it transitions into a new one, I recognized one possible way to improve our individual impact through documentation. …
- XPOST: Spurring New Digital Public Goods
Originally published on 27 September 2022 via unicef.org. This year, the UNICEF Venture Fund celebrates five graduating companies from a recent investment round. For the first time, many of these companies are exiting from the Venture Fund having …
- 2020/2021 in Open Source at UNICEF Innovation Fund
Open Source is a means to collaborate and solve common problems; during the COVID-19 pandemic, open data and tools proved useful in quickly tailoring and deploying life-saving services. How has the UNICEF Innovation Fund kept up with latest Open …
- Introducing UNICEF Open Source Mentorship
This post was co-published on the UNICEF Innovation Fund blog. 2020 saw the launch of a formalized Open Source Mentorship programme for the UNICEF Innovation Fund, built up on two years of work from RIT LibreCorps expertise and consulting. The Open …
- How Mozilla Open Source Archetypes Influence UNICEF Open Source Mentorship
In May 2018, Mozilla and Open Tech Strategies released a 40-page report titled, “Open Source Archetypes”. This blog post is a recap of how this report influences the Open Source Mentorship programme I lead at the UNICEF Innovation Fund. I joined the …
- Why FOSS Is Still Not on Activist Agendas
On December 13th, 2006, author Bruce Byfield reflected on why he thought Free and Open Source Software (F.O.S.S.) was not on activist agendas. My interpretation of his views are that a knowledge barrier about technology makes FOSS less accessible, …
- Keep Your Open Source Project Organized With GitHub Project Boards
This article was originally published on Opensource.com. Managing an open source project is challenging work. The challenge grows as a project grows. Eventually, a project may need to meet different requirements and span across multiple repositories. …
- Humanitarian Open Source Work: My Internship at UNICEF
In December, I received the happy news of an offer for a internship position at UNICEF in the Office of Innovation. The Office of Innovation drives rapid technological innovation by rapid prototyping of new ideas and building full-stack products to …
- 2017 - My Year in Review
I can’t remember how writing an annual reflection became a tradition, but after writing them for the last two years, it is now a habit. Every time I look back on all that the last year brought into my life, it is surreal. Many things that happened, I …