Chintia Octenta is the Co-founder and Community Head at Koneksi Indonesia Inklusif (KONEKIN), a women-led impact platform established in November 2018, envisions an inclusive Indonesia through education and disability empowerment. Their core missions include disseminating disability information, promoting involvement of individuals with disabilities, and fostering cross-sector collaboration. Konekin has three primary programs: To raise public awareness about the rights of PwD and their empowerment to eliminate stigma, they are producing content through social media, community activities, and inclusive events. Furthermore, they run a Disability Equality Training (DET), a participatory learning approach that aims to sensitize participants to the implications of disability issues and introduce organizations to the essential tools and concepts for equal participation by PwD in workplaces, public service, and policy processes. Lastly, KONEKIN provide Upskilling Bootcamp in leadership, English province, and career readiness for Students with a disability.

KONEKIN has impacted more than 10,000 people through their events focused on disability inclusion. 36 companies in the Jakarta area joined the Disability Awareness Workshop and engaged with 3 companies and 75 disability communities as an inclusive business collaborator. They have also collaborated with an FMCG to produce 5 picture book series with disability characters for children from 5 - 9 years old. The picture book was a project collaboration with three writers and an animator with a disability and distributed to 20 literacy communities in several areas of Indonesia, such as Sumatera, Jakarta, Yogyakarta, and more.

María Gabriela Paz Jaramillo is the Legal Coordinator and Co-founder of AquaAyuda Foundation an initiative with a group of young professionals committed to fighting inequality and ensuring that mental health is not a privilege reserved for the few. Our mission is to promote free or low-cost mental health and legal services and to provide assistance to those facing economic barriers and disabilities. AquaAyuda offers a range of services including therapy sessions, legal assistance, and workshops and they also partner with various organizations such as sports clubs, gyms, drug banks, universities and high schools to not only benefit patients, but also raise awareness about the importance of mental wellness.

AquaAyuda also address social and legal issues, advocating for victims of violence, the discriminated, adolescents and children. They have also established a medical bank to address mental and psychiatric issues, ensuring that the necessary resources are available to those in need. AquaAyuda has more than 65 young professionals who volunteer in different areas working for the functioning of the Foundation. In less than a year they have helped more than 100 people by providing them with their mental health and legal services, specifically we have given more than 660 psychotherapy sessions and positively influenced and motivated more than 500 students of schools, high schools and universities.

Nilufar Mirady is the Local Lead of NASA Space Apps Challenge, an inittiative part of the global community of NASA’s Earth Space Division program called the NASA International Space Apps Challenge. It is a hackathon for coders, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, technologists, and innovators around the world to come together and use open data from NASA and its Space Agency Partners to create solutions to challenges we face on Earth and in space. Space Apps Challenge teams use these resources to solve challenges written by NASA experts, featuring topics ranging from storytelling to software development, astrophysics, climate change, space exploration, and more.

Each year thousands of teams submit projects that demonstrate creativity, collaboration, and potential to solve challenges we face on Earth and in space. The projects go through multiple rounds of judging to determine the NASA International Space Apps Challenge Global Winners. NASA Space Apps is the only global initiative presented in Tajikistan with a record number of community members which is over 1000 people. Under Nilufar Mirady's leadership Tajikistan’s section had over 400 participants and for the first time, a team from Tajikistan won one of the 10 global prizes in the Art & Technology category out of over 5.500+ teams worldwide.
 

Nátaly is an associate director in the Business Risk Office in a bank. She is the co-founder of a diversity group in the company, focused on the inclusion of people with disabilities. Nátaly is a supporter of CaminhaDown and BikeDown São Paulo in Brazil. CaminhaDown and BikeDown are projects created by Rosana Bignami and Rosana Ernani, both initiatives are focused on defining strategies to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities and to promote the practice of physical activities among the neurodivergent community.

The two initiatives have joined forces to try and reach a higher number of families who have neurodivergent members, the main objective now is to promote more events and reach more families. The most recent CaminhaDown and Bike Down event was in March 2023. It consisted of a bike ride and walk in a public park to promote inclusion and accessibility for neurodivergent , autistic and Down´s Syndrome. More than 2000 people participated in the event and 120 volunteers were involved.

Renata is the co-founder of a local NGO Further Together, university lecturer of Macedonian language at Beijing Foreign Studies University, and Young European Ambassador/ YEA on the platform WeBalkans. She is also a current curator in the Global Shapers Skopje hub. Through non-formal education Renata is advocating for topics such as human rights, culture, and the environment.

In her current role as a curator at the Global Shapers Skopje hub, she has been leading various initiatives centered on the domains of youth and mental health, financial literacy, and media literacy with the aim is to continue to work on these three topics and to build the capacities of young people in the local communities. Her involvement in the Young European Ambassadors network ( WeBalkans, where I was selected by the European Commission) includes activities such as educational outreach, advocacy, and community-building efforts, all of which contribute to raising awareness about climate issues and fostering sustainable practices in the region.

Vinodh is the founder of #TheSDGVizProject. An initiative with the aim to use social media and data visualization to raise awareness and promote the Sustainable Development Goals. In their work, they measure and report on progress towards the SDG’s, provide insight into quality of life inequities around the globe and provide opportunities for their community to contribute locally in achieving the SDGs.


#TheSDGVizProject also provides data with Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX). Vinodh also has an initiative with a focus on Climate Action titled #Viz4ClimateAction. The projects from #Viz4ClimateAction were featured in the UN Climate Change Conference online gallery for #COP26 by the Tableau team