We believe learning is essential to generating impact: it is by learning that we understand how social change really happens — and design strategies that work. Our learning culture follows three paths: evaluating our strategies to know what works (and what does not), reflecting on the work together with those who live it in the territories, and researching the questions that run through digital inclusion and social innovation in the peripheries. All of it open — for consultation, critique and replication.
333,939 people, 29.3% of Campinas, live 10 km or more from the center. There, the median income of the head of household is R$ 2.567, compared to R$ 3.791 nearby, and there are more Black and brown people, more children, and less piped sewage. But distance doesn't explain everything: direction also matters.
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Territorial diagnosis of the Campo Grande district, Northwest region of Campinas (SP), based on sample microdata and census tract aggregate data from the IBGE 2022 Demographic Census: demographics, income, education, occupation and connectivity, featuring an interactive map of the 256 tracts and a critical reading of the territory.
read →In-depth original publications — the house’s experience documented at length.
open in the library →Manuals, learning tracks and methodologies tested in the territories, open to replicate.
open in the library →Field research and territorial surveys that inform our strategies.
open in the library →The honest measurement of what worked — and of what has not worked yet.
open in the library →Analyses and essays by those doing the work: the team and the leaders writing in the first person.
open in the library →Everything in one place — filterable by type, area of work and year.
EXPLORE_THE_LIBRARY →Organizations in our territories have been coming to us with an invitation to build together, not to execute an idea that arrived finished. Here is what we have learned in practice, alongside the Coalizão pelo Impacto training for ecosystem-building organizations, about structuring shared governance that survives the first surprise.
After talking about data for artificial intelligence, data protection, and accessibility, today I share how we have advanced over approximately a year and a half of compliance and integrity work at Casa Hacker. This year we participated in a Neoenergia training program focused on third-sector compliance and left with good news: what we were already doing was aligned with what the sector expects. This is an inside look at the program—who leads it, what the Board of Directors and the Council assume, the policies, the training, the whistleblower channel, supplier vetting, what lies ahead, and what we have learned so far.
Implementing STEAM Education in a public school involves listening, articulation, and planning. At Hackerclubes, Casa Hacker connects territory, students, and technology in a pedagogical proposal aimed at expanding opportunities.
Casa Hacker spent the past months hardening its platforms before letting artificial intelligence in. This is the account of what changed: what it means to say a piece of data is encrypted, why our copies leave the country every day and cannot be erased, how Project Galileo put enterprise-grade protection within reach of an organisation from the periphery, and why a single person authorises every data transfer out. It includes what we still don't do — because an organisation that only tells the finished part is asking you to believe it rather than check it.