Together with the World Bank we welcomed four teams to the "2024 World Bank Accelerator" to develop tech-enabled tools that enhance citizen participation and decision making across climate. 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.
Find an introduction to the teams below.
Savimbo
Led by Drea Burbank, Jhony Lopez, Fernando Lezama, and Roberto Duif
Villagarzón, Colombia
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.
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Savimbo is building solutions for HOW to save a planet. Savimbo is building tools that make it easy to pay Indigenous Peoples and local communities fast, transparently, and on their terms!”
Drea Burbank, Savimbo CEO & Co-Founder
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.
This partnership is not just about technology—it’s about honoring and elevating Indigenous knowledge and leadership in the fight for climate justice.
Diana Mastraaci, Space4Innovation CEO & Founder
Integrity Action
Led by Brittany Stevens, Arran Leonard, and Jasmina Haynes
London, UK & Nigeria
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.
Integrity Action is very excited to bring our citizen-centered accountability expertise to the climate space, incorporating what we’ve learned over 20 years so we can bring citizen voices and greater transparency to the voluntary carbon market.
Brittany Stevens, Integrity Action Head of Programme Development
Altruistech
Led by Abdul Karim Sesay, Mercy Nyamusi, and Daniel Falama
Kigali, Rwanda
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.
We are building this specific innovation because we believe that climate data transparency empowers countries to make informed decisions, set meaningful targets and develop relevant policy responses.
Abdul Karim Sesay, Altruistech Founder
