Seven initiatives.
One record format.
Each one owns an outcome rather than a sector, and each one is documented the same way — council, partners, funding, measured outcomes — so they can be compared on the same terms.
- Live initiatives Seven, numbered 00 to 06
- Every record contains Advisory council · Partners · Funding sources · Measured outcomes
- Outside the seven If a challenge does not fit any of them cleanly, that is often the more interesting conversation.
How the index is organised
Numbered, not ranked
00 through 06 is an index, not a priority order. The numbering exists so an initiative can be referenced unambiguously in a council paper, a funding conversation or an intake form.
- Advisory council
- The practitioners this specific outcome needs in the room. Different for every initiative — an energy engineer is not interchangeable with a health informaticist.
- Partners
- The organisations that deliver: operators, institutions and networks with reach in the places the work has to happen.
- Funding sources
- The instruments that fit the work. A climate initiative and a food security initiative do not raise money the same way, and the record says which lines each one draws on.
- Measured outcomes
- What counts as finished, fixed at design time and reported against. This is the part that makes two initiatives comparable.
00
Initiative Health
AI-enabled healthcare
AI-enabled healthcare systems.
Interoperable records, decision support, and diagnostics that work in low-resource settings. The constraint is rarely the model. It is whether the data can move between the clinic, the lab, and the ministry at all.
- Advisory council
- Clinicians, health informaticists, ministry of health data leads.
- Partners
- Hospital networks, diagnostic labs, health information exchanges.
- Funding sources
- Global health funders, ministry budgets, technology partners in kind.
- Measured outcomes
- Facilities interoperable · time to diagnosis · records exchanged · clinician hours returned.
Partner on Initiative Health How the record works
Hospital networks, diagnostic labs and health information exchanges.
01
Initiative Climate
resilience and clean energy
Climate resilience and clean energy.
Distributed energy and adaptation infrastructure, prioritised by where failure would take the most other systems down with it.
- Advisory council
- Energy engineers, climate scientists, resilience planners.
- Partners
- Utilities, renewable developers, regional planning authorities.
- Funding sources
- Climate finance, green bonds, energy access funds.
- Measured outcomes
- Clean capacity installed · outage hours avoided · emissions displaced · people served.
Fund Initiative Climate How the record works
Climate finance, green bonds and energy access funds.
02
Initiative Zero
digital inclusion
Digital inclusion for underserved communities.
Connectivity, devices, and digital skills for the communities that every other initiative depends on reaching. Zero underwrites the rest: a population that cannot get online cannot be served by any of the systems the other six are building.
- Advisory council
- Telecom regulators, community network operators, digital literacy educators.
- Partners
- Infrastructure providers, municipal governments, local training organisations.
- Funding sources
- Universal service funds, corporate infrastructure partners, development finance.
- Measured outcomes
- Households connected · devices placed · digital skills certified · cost per connected household.
Deploy Initiative Zero How the record works
Municipal governments and infrastructure providers.
03
Initiative Talent
workforce and leadership
Future workforce and leadership development.
Training people to run the systems the other initiatives install. A deployment that leaves when the funding leaves was never an initiative. It was a pilot.
- Advisory council
- Universities, employers, vocational institutes, alumni networks.
- Partners
- Technology firms, public sector employers, professional bodies.
- Funding sources
- Employer sponsorship, education funders, workforce development grants.
- Measured outcomes
- Learners certified · placement rate · retention at 12 months · local operators trained.
Collaborate on Initiative Talent How the record works
Universities, vocational institutes and employers.
04
Initiative Food
agriculture and food security
Agriculture and food security.
Yield, storage, and market access for smallholder farmers, with the data infrastructure to make each of those legible to lenders and buyers.
- Advisory council
- Agronomists, cooperative leaders, agricultural economists.
- Partners
- Farmer cooperatives, agri-processors, logistics operators, lenders.
- Funding sources
- Agricultural development funds, blended finance, buyer offtake commitments.
- Measured outcomes
- Yield per hectare · post-harvest loss · farmers reached · income per household.
Partner on Initiative Food How the record works
Cooperatives, agri-processors, logistics operators and lenders.
05
Initiative Cities
smart and resilient communities
Smart and resilient communities.
Urban systems that hold up under stress: transit, water, waste, and public safety data working as one estate rather than seven procurement contracts.
- Advisory council
- City managers, urban planners, civic technologists.
- Partners
- Municipal governments, transit authorities, utility operators.
- Funding sources
- Municipal budgets, urban development banks, civic technology grants.
- Measured outcomes
- Services digitised · response times · service coverage · resident satisfaction.
Bring technology to Initiative Cities How the record works
Transit, water, waste and public safety systems.
06
Initiative Africa
regional development and diaspora
Regional development and diaspora engagement.
The initiative that connects the other six to capital, expertise, and networks held by the diaspora, and routes them back into regional development that the diaspora itself has a stake in.
- Advisory council
- Diaspora business leaders, regional development bodies, returnee entrepreneurs.
- Partners
- Chambers of commerce, regional institutions, investment platforms.
- Funding sources
- Diaspora investment vehicles, regional development finance, philanthropy.
- Measured outcomes
- Capital mobilised · ventures supported · expertise placements · jobs created.
Connect with Initiative Africa How the record works
Diaspora networks, chambers of commerce and investment platforms.
Outside the seven
Bring us an initiative
Seven is where the work is today, not a closed list. If the outcome you want to move does not fit any of them cleanly, that is often the more interesting conversation — and it is the one the intake is built to capture properly, in one pass, rather than over six emails.