Designer · Manager · Researcher · Cultural strategist
Technology, innovation management and inclusion, designed with communities.
I am a Brazilian designer, manager, researcher and cultural strategist. For over 25 years, across government, development cooperation and academia, I have designed digital ecosystems that empower communities and uphold dignity.
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Consulting
LabHacker Maceió: free-software management system with Odoo
Open-source management system with Odoo for a digital-culture laboratory in Maceió.
Review
Technical Assessor, Wellcome Snakebite Innovation Prize
Technical assessor for the Wellcome Snakebite Innovation Prize.
Consulting
Casa Criatura: management and innovation consulting
Strategy, products and management tools for a maker laboratory in Olinda.
Book
How to Measure Innovation? (book)
How to Measure Innovation? A diagnostic for social and technological innovation.
Teaching
Open Education Resources (OER) webinar for r0g agency
Open Educational Resources webinar prepared for r0g agency, Berlin.
Course
How to measure innovation? (online)
Como medir a inovação: online course on Udemy and Google Classroom.
What I do
Lead networks
As Executive Director of GIG I lead a global network of grassroots innovation hubs, makerspaces and changemakers, many rooted in the Global South.
Research & measure
Innovation metrics, citizen social science and policy research for the European Commission, BMZ/GIZ and universities.
Design & build
Digital platforms, open hardware programmes, management systems and visual identities for organisations and communities.
Teach & advise
Courses, webinars and consulting on open education, innovation and cultural management.
Organisations call me when good ideas need to become working systems: a strategy the board can follow, a management platform a small team will actually use, a funding pipeline, a way to prove impact, or a training programme that spreads the knowledge.
I bring 25 years of delivery across public, non-profit and academic settings: a federal digital-culture programme that supported more than 1,000 cultural centres in Brazil, a national innovation lab with 43 researchers and 30 community action projects, EU-funded citizen-science work that reached 1.6 million people, and open-hardware programmes recognised with a Mozilla award.
Where I can help
- Strategy and management for cultural and civil-society organisations
- Innovation measurement and impact frameworks that funders understand
- Open-source systems and digital platforms, from Odoo to web portals
- Fundraising and proposal writing, including EU and international programmes
- Open education and capacity building for teams and networks
- Responsible, culturally aware AI, co-designed with the communities it affects
Professional highlights
- Consultant, IBM Corporate Service Corps / PYXERA Global
- Project Director, Federal University of Pernambuco / Cities Innovation Research Group (InCITI)
- Project Manager, Ministry of Culture Brazil, Digital Culture Programme
- Director, 3Ecologias: IT consulting for environment, education and culture
Academic credentials
- MA in Local Sustainable Development Management, University of Pernambuco
- Specialization in Hypermedia Design, Anhembi-Morumbi University
- Co-creating Sustainable Cities, AMS Institute, Amsterdam
- Health Effects of Climate Change, HarvardX