Global Working Group “Fab Labs and UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”### Pieter van der Hijden (coordinator) (The Netherlands & Suriname), Enrico Bassi (Italy), Vaneza Caycho Ñuflo (Peru), Nagwa ElNwishy (Egypt), Neville Govender (South Africa), Ted Hung (Taiwan), Arundhati Jadhav (India), Beno Juarez (Peru), Yogesh Kulkarni (India), Noksy Letsoalo (South Africa), Jean-Baptiste Natali (New Zealand), Mess Wright (USA)The global Fab Labs and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) working group (WG) aims to align local fab labs and the global fab lab network with the United Nations Agenda 2030 (Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs).## This repositoryThis repository contains:1. basic information on the global working group1. the workshop kit for our basic workshop on "How to align your fablab with the UN SDGs" (resulting in SDG Profile). BTW, a Fablab SDG Profile is a selection of 2-4 SDGs most appopriate for that fablab.1. the tool "Explore the SDGs" in various languages1. auxiliary data on SDGs, eg texts, logos and banners in various languages1. the aggregated fablab SDG profile data1. mailing templates related to the acquisition and/or confirmation of SDG profilesFor further processing of the aggregated fablab SDG profile data, see repository Fab Lab Network Data.The WG also develops other activities and workshop formats on fablabs and SDGs. These will be documented in a new repository.The flagship product of the WG is an interactive online mindmap of all Fablab SDG Profiles.## TreeIn the folder "local-workshop-kit" you will find the instructions and materials to run our basic workshop.In the folder "local-workshop-sources" you will find the source files used to produce the kit.In the folder "aggregated results" you find the submitted SDG profiles and their processing. For descriptive statistics, merging with fablab data etc., see Jupyter Notebooks in https://gitlab.fabcloud.org/fl-management/fab-lab-network-data.In the folder "fab-conference-proceedings" you find information about the workshops that the working group has organized at various annual international fab lab conferences.## ProductsThe working group develops workshop formats and other products for the local fab labs. Their documentation will be moved to a new repository. Until now, you find it here:1. Basic workshop: How to align your Fablab with the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); Learn about SDGs and develop a SDG profile for your local fablab2. Advanced workshop: How to involve your Fablab in tendering procedures for SDG projects; Experience the world of SDG projects in our management game. Make proposals for SDG projects. Learn how the assessment works out;3. Sustainable Development Goals and targets; interactive mind map; English, Spanish, French and Dutch editions; copy of official UN document in Arabic;4. Fab Labs and their SDG profiles; spreadsheet with all the data and interactive mind map.The ready-to-use documentation for these products can be found in the folder "Local Workshop Kits" and the corresponding "local workshop sources".## External products and services usedThe workgroup uses the following software and web services:* the (30 days free) Mindmanager program from Corel to create and edit .mmap files; these are zipped XML files that can also be imported by certain free and open source software (XMind, Freemind);* Mindmanager to generate and publish interactive mind maps (HTML5) in the cloud of Corel; these mind maps are always free to download as .mmap file and as HTML5 file;* Researchgate to publish reports and Slideshare to publish reports and / or presentations;* Bitly to produce short links.## Contact* pvdh@sofos.nl ## Keywordsunited nations, un, sustainable development goals, sdgs, sdg, global goals, fab lab, fablab, makerspace, innovation centre, maker movement, future, policy, vision, mission, SDG Profile## RightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.