Adaptation
We tailor global technologies to fit the local context, working closely with communities to ensure solutions are culturally relevant, practical, and deeply responsive to local needs and realities.
Context
While globally proven civic technologies are powerful, they often fail to account for the unique social, cultural, and infrastructural realities of communities in East Africa.
We closely collaborate with communities to tailor these technologies, ensuring solutions are relevant, trusted, and effective in driving inclusion, protecting rights, and strengthening civic participation.
Our adaptation process
Our adaptation process begins with understanding the needs of the communities we serve. Next, we identify globally proven technologies with the potential to address these needs. Through careful engineering, we reshape these tools to fit local contexts, ensuring they are relevant and effective. Finally, we refine, scale, and empower organizations to sustain these solutions for lasting impact.
Understanding local realities
Understanding local realities
We begin by engaging directly with communities to uncover their lived experiences, challenges, and aspirations. This ensures solutions are grounded in the cultural, social, and infrastructural realities of East Africa.
Identifying existing globally proven tools
Identifying existing globally proven tools
Next, we explore globally tested technologies that have demonstrated impact elsewhere. By drawing on existing strengths, we avoid reinventing the wheel and focus on what already works.
Engineering context-specific solutions
Engineering context-specific solutions
We then engineer and customize these tools or solutions to adapt to local languages, functionality, culture, design, and infrastructure so they are not just accessible, but genuinely useful and trusted by the communities that they serve.
Refinement, Rollout & Empowerment
Refinement, Rollout & Empowerment
Our iterative process ensures the final solution is intuitive and effective. Once perfected, we pilot, refine, and scale solutions while equipping local organizations with the skills to sustain and evolve them, ensuring long-term impact and ownership.
Explore our work
Discover how our adapted technologies help communities protect rights, foster inclusion, and amplify civic engagement.