About Us
Networking around free technologies, art and entrepreneurship
We are a network of people which believes in collaborative work and sharing for local development. We aim to provoke critical thinking and empower all those young talents wanting to build a better future for all, through free technologies, social and solidarity economy and art.
We use free technologies that guarantee access to the source code, which allows us to deepen technical knowledge, promote technological development and innovation, and offer an economic model that favors technical autonomy, essential for a technological sovereignty that promotes local development.
We are interested in introducing the living and performing arts into processes of reflection and debate around technology, promoting a holistic approach to societal projects in order to create an alliance between technology, the arts and science.
We work together in new projects but we also like accompanying existing initiatives, since we think innovation is not about starting always from scratch with a brand new idea but making real our dreams.
We believe in cosmolocalism, culture as a universal right and that alternatives come from the grassroots, diversity is a must and there is no only one true vision, so we expect always to be enriched by others and we recurrently question ourselves in order to advance together with others.
Carolina García Cataño
Coordinator
Carolina García Cataño has been a working on technology for over 20 years, as a free software advocate and promoting free sfotware community in Spain, founder member of wh2001 hacklab in Madrid and member of the organization of several hackmeetings.
In 2005 she founded Dabne, a women’s cooperative working with free software for NGO’s, social organizations and cultural institutions, where she had the role of web developer that evolved into project management.
She has been technical coordinator of GRUNDTVIG European project called ELBA in 2010 for the creation of an electronic book and LEONARDO European project DEAN(2011) to build a digital library, both coordinated by Aldesoc.
In 2012 she moved to Berlin to deepen into upcoming technologies, new web development frameworks and agile methodologies. In Berlin she also had the opportunity to join refugee women self-organized group Women in Exile, as project manager, online communication and fundraising.
Since February 2020, she has been coordination Weesuwul project, a programme for women’s empowerment through free technologies in Dakar and developing with local women a women’s training center and a bakery cooperative which goals is the sustainability of the training center.
In 2021 she created Nit Tekna Logik in Senegal as a network device for the promotion of innovation projects at the meeting point of Technology + Arts + Science, where she carried the following projects: “Weesuwul: empowerment of women through free technologies“, “Training in project management and digital communication“, and she is also developing the “Thinking techonology” project, which consists of a series of workshops with artistic methodologies organized around three axes: “the body and technology”, “techno-colonialism” and “imaginary futures”.
She has written multiple articles and contributed to several books providing her futuristic vision on the social impact of technology.
“In chaos we find harmony”