Four teams joined the 2024 cohort on a six-month journey to develop tech-enabled tools that enhance citizen oversight and decision making in climate finance and climate action. These teams stood out for their close collaboration with Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, commitment to developing open source tools, and their innovative use of data and technology to build trust, transparency, and accountability between citizens, civil society organizations, and government partners.
The complete announcement can be found here.
Find an introduction to the teams below.
What solution is Savimbo developing?
The Indigenous-led team at Savimbo is designing Kapital, a mobile application for managing direct payments to Indigenous communities based on the unique needs of these often unbanked communities. The app facilitates and transparently tracks the revenue share these communities receive from the direct sale of fair-trade carbon and biodiversity credits in the Colombian and Ecuadorian Amazon. Kapital also allows for innovative governance solutions when Indigenous communities are involved in land stewardship or restoration as a collective.
Learn more here.
Space4Innovation
Led by Diana Mastracci, Titus Letaapo, and Lilian Nguracha
Samburu, Kenya & Prague, Czech Republic
What solution is Space4Innovation developing?
Space4Innovation is co-creating a mobile mapping tool called Namunyak, which enables Indigenous Peoples to map their territories using symbols and audio inputs, so individuals of all literacy levels can participate. On top of this spatial application, Space4Innovation will develop a citizen monitoring and reporting mechanism. This solution is developed in partnership with the Samburu tribe of Northern Kenya and the winners of its Indigenous hackathons: the Symbols team (Yoanna Dimitrova, William Booth, and Lucandrea Mancini) and the Nappu Ntomok team (Benard Odhiambo and Miroslawa Alunowska Figueroa).
Learn more here.
What solution is Integrity Action developing?
Integrity Action is developing a mobile app and web platform to bring citizen-centered accountability to carbon projects. The technology will support citizen monitoring that builds community oversight, increases accountability and transparency, and supports decision making in carbon projects. The tool will help strengthen claims around high integrity carbon projects by making project claims openly verified in real-time at the grassroots level and ensure that benefit-sharing mechanisms both align with community needs and fulfill the promises made.
Learn more here.
What solution is Altruistech developing?
Altruistech is building tools to ensure accountability between local government authorities, citizens, and industrial manufacturers regarding the enforcement of environmental policies. Starting with air quality, their Environmental Compliance Gauge gives stakeholders the tools and support to hold companies and government authorities responsible for air pollution by measuring industrial emissions and making this data publicly accessible.
Learn more here.
