Research, field reports and essays on technology, territories and citizenship.
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The participation of Casa Hacker and Quebrada em Movimento at Campinas Innovation Week 2026 brought initiatives and leaders from the territory closer to discussions on innovation. The presence of Horta do Itajaí, the Na Viela collective, and Karla Marques showed how knowledge, collaborative practices, and everyday experiences are also part of this conversation.
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.
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.
Casa Hacker open-sources its accessibility bar with a free license: the features we standardized across our platforms can now be used by any website — and the Casa Hacker website now speaks four languages.
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.
While the debate about AI splits between productivity tricks and grand promises of social impact, we decided to solve the problem that came first: our own database. This is the account of what we did in eight stages, of the mistakes that measurement disproved, of the privacy rules we did not negotiate. In the end, the base did become accessible to AI — an MCP server with 86 tools, live, without opening the database or loosening a single permission — and what remains are the questions about drop-out and welcome that our data still cannot answer.
Social impact projects have deadlines and deliverables, but the transformations they seek to help build happen at different paces. Drawing on the experience of the Active Citizenship Hubs, Marcelo Oliveira reflects on how the Theory of Change can support long-term strategies, guide decisions, and allow adjustments along the way.