Ubuntu Space

Ubuntu Space| Better Together

Awards & Nominations

Ubuntu Space has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!

Global Nominee

Better Together

Your challenge is to create a tool, app, or resource that helps close a gap that causes people to experience inequality. This combination of humanity and technology should eliminate or lessen a systemic issue and educate the user so they can grow.

Summary

Ubuntu Space gathers playful educational resources, developed to help combat racism in its different forms, seeking to rescue humanistic values and meanings such as solidarity, cooperation and respect.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Ubuntu Space was developed to unite creativity, fun, and education, promoting cooperation and respect as ways to tackle social inequalities, corroborating the SDG objectives for 2030.

Ubuntu Space combines technology and fundamentals of the cutting edge education, to disseminate the positive image of the black population through their contributions, using a gamified approach to identify and avoid pejorative terms present in different languages. Its format is expandable to other languages and cultures, allowing connections and partnerships with entities that work with the theme, taking with it the basic principle of Ubuntu philosophy: education, respect, and solidarity.

How We Developed This Project

Driven by the feeling of change and empathy, we chose this challenge. To arrive at the proposed solution, we studied the data provided by NASA and decided to focus on the problem of racial prejudice. Then, a search was made through Google forms to understand and collect qualitative information from people who suffer from this problem. We developed Ubuntu Space using web technologies to develop the website and the quiz like JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Visual Studio Code. To develop the digital game we use Construct2.

Site Project: http://tatyanecalixto.com.br/HackathonNasa-UbuntuSpace/index.html

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

Nasa qualitative data from NASA were used to delimit and define ways of approaching the challenge Better Together.

More specifically, articles, podcasts and videos with approaches to combat racism.

Especially those available at the link Resources for Learning and Talking about Racism & Inequality. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/hq/eodm/documents_resources/resources_for_learning_and_talking_about_racism_and_inequality

we also seek to use the material on the experience lived by astronauts, who boosted the philosophy of observing the earth as a living being and the need for cooperation from all:Why We Explore : https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/whyweexplore/Why_We_09.html and

The Overview Effect https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/HWHAP/the-overview-effect

As well as, the article “Racism, Sexism, and Space Ventures”: Civil Rights at Nasa in the Nixon Era and Beyond. Kim mcQuaid: https://www.history.nasa.gov/sp4801-chapter22.pdf

In addition, we use elements from the biography of astronauts and NASA employees to compose some educational objects.