Making a Better Now

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Category

Campaign

Client

Open Source Medical Supplies / Internal

Country

USA, India, Spain, UK, Japan, France, Hungary, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Germany

Runtime

3:46

Year

2020

When the world ran out of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) due to COVID-19, volunteer makers in 55 countries got to work. From the earliest days, OSMS helped coordinate their efforts, facilitated the sharing of designs and empowered international collaboration between maker groups.

Millions of pieces of PPE later, this is their story.

During the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020, Prodigium used its logistics, impact tracking and dataviz expertise to contribute to pandemic-fighting efforts by working with Open Source Medical Supplies.

As part of this extraordinary effort, we decided to create a pro-bono video to capture the incredible energy of this global movement.

Over a two and a half month period, we were in touch with makers across the world to collect footage of makerspaces in action. The video includes perspectives from countries as different and diverse as Sweden, India, Afghanistan and Peru. Director Tessa Byford honed in on working with local makers to get a consistent style into the video, and its release came with an extensive impact campaign to drive donations to multiple organizations around the world, as well as reinforcing the existing maker community to find renewed, global meaning in their selfless work.

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