Bio
As a kid, Joni wanted to be a mason, fascinated by the idea of making buildings from scratch. He also spent countless hours drawing, and eventually became the official birthday card maker for his whole family.
After dabbing into drawing in high school, he considered studying advertising or graphic design in college and, more out of curiosity than conviction, he decided for the latter. He fell in love with it and, after getting his degree, he started teaching at the university and hasn’t stopped since.
He met Nico two decades ago on his first job, and met him again years later on a bus. From that moment on, Joni has been the mastermind behind the visual identity of Manas, first as a contractor, then as part of the organization. A lifelong learner, nowadays he also began programming and is having loads of fun doing it.
Humor runs constantly in the background of Jonathan’s mind, and he enjoys a good play on words, almost as much as he loves going camping with his two sons, and practicing kung fu with his eldest, Ivan.
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SMS Gateway
1 /3 Client Nuntium is an open-source development created for InSTEDD, which emerged as a common factor from multiple applications which needed to exchange text messages, mails, tweets or any other kind of messages. 2 /3 Approach Nuntium takes care o... -
IVR App Builder
1 /7 Client InSTEDD (innovative support to emergencies diseases & disasters) is a non-profit organization focused on improving global health and safety by implementing a blend of social and technical approaches. InSTEDD works closely with communities... -
Award voting platform
1 /4 Client El Ojo de Iberoamérica is an international advertisement creativity award that's been growing for the past 25 years. Behind it is LatinSpots, a media company specialized in communication, advertising, marketing, film, events and entertain... -
Connecting trucks with cargo
1 /5 Client Avancargo is an Argentinean company who seeks to optimize land transport in Latin America, by facilitating the process of finding and booking cargo vehicles through a platform that puts together supply and demand in one place, thus simpli... -
Multi-modal survey tool
1 /6 Client Surveda was developed in collaboration with InSTEDD as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative NCD Mobile Phone Survey. In the context of this project, the tool collects critical information about noncommunicable d... -
Service location optimization
1 /5 Client PlanWise is a tool developed by Concern’s Innovations initiative, in partnership with InSTEDD. It helps planners and responders in low-resources settings see how they can serve as many people as possible, as cost-effectively as they can,... -
Connected Diagnostics
1 /6 Client CDx (Connected Diagnostics initiative) is a collaborative initiative between InSTEDD and FIND that seeks to use diagnostic data to improve healthcare delivery, outbreak detection and response, and health systems management, working also a... -
Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics
1 /5 Client The RADx-rad Data Coordination Center Discovery & Diagnostics Core (RADx-rad DCC Dx Core), based at UC San Diego, is focused on closing the loop between data acquisition, structuring, analysis, data-driven modeling, decision support, impl... -
Maximizing operation rooms utilization in healthcare
1 /4 Client Wúru is a health-analytics provider, whose platform leverages data and algorithms to enhance the productivity of healthcare providers and create better experiences for patients. Founded in 2019 and led by Luciano Tourn, their platform fee... -
Technology that thinks like a fashion editor
1 /5 Client Everywear is the brainchild of Brandon Holley, and it’s self-defined as the first B2B technology platform to bring editorial authority to e-commerce, through personalized recommendations. What does that mean? In their CEO & founder’s own... -
Simplifying medical testing requests
1 /4 Client Biomakers specializes in genetic and molecular studies for cancer and other complex diseases, operating mostly in Latin America. They provide physicians and patients with comprehensive molecular diagnostic services and advice. This was a... -
Data-Driven Healthcare Delivery
1 /5 Client Wúru is a health-analytics provider, whose platform leverages data and algorithms to enhance the productivity of healthcare providers and create better experiences for patients. Founded in 2019 and led by Luciano Tourn, their platform fee... -
Amplifying knowledge sharing
1 /5 Client Amplio is a Seattle based company with a mission to empower the world’s most vulnerable communities through knowledge sharing. They have developed a robust offering that combines innovative technology, services, and a network of in-countr... -
Remote-controlled lighting
1 /4 Client Evolux is a chilean company specialized in efficient lighting using LED technology. They provide lighting fixtures and other equipment to various industries throughout Chile. 2 /4 Requirements & Context As a service to their clients in th... -
Helping soulmamas find each other
1 /5 Client Socialmama is a Houston based startup founded by Amanda Ducach, that aims to help mothers connect with each other. The idea for the app was born as Ducach struggled to help a friend of hers with a child’s new medical diagnosis, knowing al... -
Forecasting wildfire behavior
1 /7 Concept "Drones that can understand fire" sure sounds impressive, but it can come off as a little threatening. However, that is a fairly accurate way of describing ForestFires.tools: a set of tools that can forecast the spread of wildfires, almo... -
Using Crystal to power the IOU economy
1 /5 Client Sikoba is an IOU (“I owe you”) platform that automates the creation, tracking and finally clearing of debt between its users. While Sikoba can be used in a wide array of settings, like business to business contracts and clearings, its des... -
Chatbot builder
1 /5 Client AIDA was developed by Manas.Tech and InSTEDD, in collaboration with mVAM, an innovative team at the World Food Programme (WFP), the food aid arm of the United Nations, and thanks to a grant from the Cisco Foundation and additional support... -
Tracking Health Status
1 /4 Client Health Check was developed in partnership with InSTEDD for the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine of the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention), to keep track of the wellbeing of federal employees that were traveling fro... -
Head-up display for spacesuit
1 /5 Client The Austrian Space Forum, in Innsbruck, defines itself as a network of space professionals and people with a passion for space. One of its members, Dr. Gernot Groomer, has had a lifelong dream: finding life in outer space. Not too ambitio... -
Real time gaming
1 /4 Concept Code Games is a real time programming game where you compete against other players by coding the behaviour of a space ship. The programming language is easy to learn and the game is super fun. Subscribe to one of our tournaments and comp... -
Time tracking
1 /4 Concept Brium tracks the time each member of your team spends on different activities, by asking them through chat what they are doing. A couple of words a day is all it needs to provide your company with accurate timesheets. 2 /4 Requirements &... -
Docker Cloud on iOS
1 /4 Concept Tugboat offers the first mobile experience to manage Docker Cloud accounts for iPhone and iPod users. 2 /4 Requirements & Context Tugboat was developed purely because Manas’ own engineers wanted a way to manage Docker deployments from a... -
Emergency Response Design Workshop
1 /5 Client Red Cross Argentina is part of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, a referent organization in the humanitarian world, whose mission is to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human bei... -
Risk Mapping
1 /3 Client Voices of Youth Maps is a collaboration program between UNICEF, youth communities and local governments, developed through the InSTEDD iLab LatAm. 2 /3 Approach This initiative seeks to connect teenagers with an opportunity to document an... -
Diagnostics Visualization
1 /4 Client Cepheid is a worldwide molecular diagnostics company which manufactures, among others, the GeneXpert family of systems: accurate yet easy-to-use machines which automate testing for organisms and genetic-based diseases. Thanks to the agile... -
Log Analysis
1 /3 Client Poirot is a set of tools and libraries for log collection and analysis developed for InSTEDD. 2 /3 Approach Poirot includes loggers for multiple platforms, which post log entries to a log receiver that indexes them in an ElasticSearch bac... -
Paper Based Encoding
1 /3 Client The genesis of the Reporting Wheel lies in the feedback obtained during usability tests performed for InSTEDD Geochat in Thailand and Cambodia, in order to arrive to a simple syntax that could allow health workers in remote areas to repor... -
SMS App Builder
1 /3 Client mBuilder, which we developed for InSTEDD, is a free and open source tool that you can use to build scalable SMS applications without any programming knowledge. 2 /3 Approach mBuilder works in a very intuitive way. To create an application... -
SMS Group Chat
1 /3 Client GeoChat is a flexible open source group communications technology developed for InSTEDD, that lets team members interact to maintain shared geospatial awareness of who is doing what where over any device, on any platform, over any network... -
Disaster Response
1 /4 Client Watchfire was developed with InSTEDD for assisting the American Red Cross in improving their community level disaster response in the San Francisco Bay Area. 2 /4 Approach After working together with the Red Cross in identifying potential... -
Time management
1 /3 Concept 7 Horizons is a time management method that helps you set time aside to work on specific goals. This project was born as yet another scratch to one of our itches: since we’re constantly trying out new ways to rearrange the way we work, t... -
Immunization Tracking
1 /3 Client Inmuniversia is an open source platform for providing information on vaccines and the diseases they prevent, and subscribing to vaccination reminders, developed by InSTEDD iLab América Latina. 2 /3 Approach Parents can get information in... -
Applicants Tracking
1 /3 Client R4IT Tracking System is a highly customizable Applicant Tracking System (ATS) developed for Recruit4IT, a Dutch company specialized in recruitment in the field of IT, for managing large volumes of applicants to multiple companies. 2 /3 Ap...