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. In the 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.
Hello, Hackers! How are you? I would like to say that I am reaching my last days as part of this incredible organisation, and I need to give some context about the last journey I took part in! When people look at a project like PerifaImpacto, they usually see what happens on stage.
This text sets out to discuss the importance of localising the way activities are developed and to consider how outreach sessions — the activities that invite young people to sign up for the Hackerclubes — are more than a way of promoting the project and end up offering young people a space for first contact with
On 3 July 2026, Casa Hacker took part for the third time in the training programme of the Escola de Conselhos of Unicamp, leading a session on Digital Safety for Children and Adolescents.
PerifaImpacto's cycle of advisory sessions in São Paulo went beyond training: it became a strategic process for strengthening leaders and developing initiatives in the peripheries.
The territory of Campo Grande is a district of the municipality of Campinas/SP, where you find diversity, creativity and the strength of community participation. It is made up of residents who are building their own path every day, bringing improvements to their neighbourhoods, strengthening bonds and creating opportunities to change the reality they live in for the better.
The training journey was run as a path of progressive strengthening of the territory's initiatives, bringing together reflection, planning, organisation and the development of socio-environmental impact projects rooted in local reality.
Between May and July, the Hub Cidadania Ativa Quebrada em Movimento ran another edition of the Jornada Formativa, an eight-week pathway for community leaders, impact entrepreneurs and organisations already working in their territories.
Since August 2025 I have followed closely the journey of the leaders taking part in Inova Quebrada as an Impact Adviser. Along the way I have lived through processes of listening, planning, challenges, achievements and many transformations.
This article gathers reflections and records from the closing of the first Hackerclubes class in Sumaré, a moment that marked not only the end of a learning cycle but also the consolidation of a collective experience built over the semester.
Impacta Mais is one of Brazil's main events dedicated to the impact economy, bringing together leaders, organisations, investors and entrepreneurs who drive social and environmental transformation. It took place in São Paulo on 20 and 21 May 2026.
Writing articles was recently adopted as a monthly routine at Casa Hacker. It was a long-standing wish of the teams: to create more space to share publicly the experiences, lessons and encounters that arise over the course of our projects. When the idea was put forward, it made sense to me straight away.
The journey of the Coletivo Ecoresistência in the permanent preservation area of Parque Itajaí 4, with support from the Fundo da Quebrada.
I have been teaching since 2013, always in social organisations. In that time I have worked with adults, older people and people with a range of difficulties. Technology has always been part of the way I teach. More than using computers, I have always tried to use it as a way of bringing people closer, creating connections and making lessons more meaningful.
At PerifaImpacto, choosing where and how in-person gatherings happen is a pedagogical decision: for the project assistants, <b>the operational is the condition of possibility for the educational</b>.
Teaching in pairs in Casa Hacker's STEAM projects in Sumaré shows that <b>collaboration, trust, and care among educators</b> sustain a sense of belonging for those who teach and those who learn.
Behind the scenes at PerifaImpacto, <b>agile management, a supplier database, and data</b> sustain monthly gatherings between Campinas and São Paulo without losing the active listening and care for those who take part.
While the periphery puts out fires in the territory, it leaves empty the chair where laws and budgets are decided. Occupying councils and city chambers means bringing the knowledge of the quebrada to the planning table.
AI is already in the classroom: it broadens access to knowledge, but it also opens gaps for surveillance and inequality. Casa Hacker's path is critical use mediated by the educator.
With the support of the Fundo da Quebrada, the Gabriel Sustentável project built an accessibility ramp and strengthened the ONG Gabriel, benefiting 210 people and turning a physical barrier into dignified access.
For leaders from the periphery, taking care of yourself is not selfishness: it is a survival strategy that protects time, health and money so that the project does not perish along with the person who runs it.
As the final stage of the Redes Conectadas project, Casa Hacker trained educators from four institutions so that each one could carry digital inclusion forward in their own territory.
An experience report from an impact advisor at Casa Hacker: supporting 16 peripheral leaders is, above all, about translating technical knowledge and walking alongside them, from listening to strategy.
Nyak shares how <b>agile management</b>, applied with active listening and adapted to the reality of the periphery, turns the power of peripheral leaders into structure without losing its essence.
Myla Silva, a leader from <b>Jardim Lapena</b> supported by Perifa Impacto, shows that understanding the territory is the first step toward social projects that truly make sense in the community.
Nara Leme, manager of Inova Quebrada, proposes seeing <b>accountability</b> not as red tape but as a pedagogical tool that builds autonomy in peripheral leaders.
At the Quebrada em Movimento HUB, women lead initiatives born from the reality of their territories: trajectories of courage, care and strategy that show the strength of women in the collective construction of social impact.
A record of the training gathering led by Aliene Villaça and Patrícia Polzl with Casa Hacker educators: affection, read through Vygotsky and popular education, as the pedagogical foundation of those who teach and learn in peripheral territories.
Emily Gomes tells the story of the LGBTQIA+ movement — from Stonewall to Pride Month — and discusses the role of technology and networks in the community's visibility, organisation and achievements.
Marco Mourão examines digital dependency as a new frontier of mental health: the real benefits of connection, the mechanisms that lead to compulsive use, and the paths to prevention for families and educators.
Leandro Lacerda explains what the metaverse promised by Zuckerberg is — and why total immersion raises questions that go beyond virtualised interactions: work, affection, consumption and the boundaries between presence and simulation.
An essay by Marco Mourão on how the mass consumption of digital pornography shapes relationships and affections in the platform era — from the impacts on mental health and intimacy to the urgent need for critical sex education, consent and healthier representations of sexuality.
Print media and regional outlets remain powerful allies of social causes: local communication provides the reach, credibility and presence in the territory that digital strategies alone cannot achieve.
Marco Mourão examines the double role of social media in sexual harassment: a space where violence is committed and amplified, but also a tool for reporting, support and mobilisation for victims.
From the discreet applications to the indiscreet ones, Renata Neves maps out where artificial intelligence is already present in everyday life — and the baggage of ethical, social and regulatory challenges that comes with it.
Starting a business is already hard; starting an impact business in the periphery is doubly challenging. Renata Neves examines the barriers — capital, networks and territory — and the routes for the quebrada to build enterprises with impact.
Every click becomes behavioural data: Renata Neves shows how platforms store, sell and use our emotions online to predict and influence behaviour — and what the psychic economy of algorithms means for each person's autonomy.
On the eve of the 2022 run-off, this piece examines how deliberate disinformation circulates on social media, why it weakens democracy, and what each voter can do to verify information before sharing it.
Renata Neves unpicks the three pillars of electoral disinformation in 2022 — fake news, hate speech and bots — showing how each mechanism works and how voters can defend themselves.
Leandro Lacerda starts from the story of the orca Tilikum to discuss sentience as a new ethical paradigm: what science already acknowledges about animal consciousness and suffering — and what that demands of us.
STEAM education brings together science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics in projects that start from real problems — and, in the periphery, it becomes a tool for investigation, autonomy and transformation of students' reality.
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