Our Goals
Creating the geospatial foundations for development
Without precise maps of streets, buildings and services, societies are incapable of understanding their problems and plan for their future. This includes responding to climate change as it increases risks of flooding, extreme heat or landslides. We build the modern digital geospatial infrastructure collaboratively with local communities and cities to support integrated solutions to all these challenges.
Just development, from the bottom up
About half of local communities in African cities are informal. These communities house over a billion people worldwide but have been historically disadvantaged, lack public services and are absent from most official statistics. They are also the main victims of land speculation and evictions. Improving in the lives of informal settlements residents lies at the center of many sustainable development goals. We work with local communities to better understand and characterize their main challenges and priorities. This amplifies their voices and capacity so that they are included in processes of local development. Hundreds of millions of people become in this way the driving forces for just development and climate resilience.
Science and technology for context and scale
Science and Technology are major enablers of problem solving and development, ahead of economic policy. TransformYourCity are leaders in the science of urban development in collaboration with civic organizations, technology companies and other universities, with expertise in urban planning, nature based solutions, climate change mitigation, design and architecture. We have built tools to analyze and map infrastructure access, and to grow existing local capabilities to develop solutions that are technically sound, fair, context appropriate, and informed by the most advanced knowledge worldwide.