Four pillars. Six kinds of actors. Every direction.
Knowledge can influence policy. Policy can stimulate innovation. Enterprise can generate new knowledge. Communities can identify the challenges that drive research. The relationships are never linear — and the platform is built to keep them moving.
Knowledge Co-Creation, Sharing & Dissemination
Research, universities, publications, training and fellowships.
Technology & Innovation
AI, digital transformation and innovation labs.
Policy, Governance & Public Leadership
Governance, diplomacy and policy advisory.
Enterprise & Sustainable Development
Industry, start-ups, investment and executive education.
Impact & Social Transformation
From lived reality to measurable change.
Real-world situations
Contextual realities and lived, observed, carefully analysed experience.
Knowledge
Research, plural knowledge systems, and creative and scientific innovation.
Policy & ventures
Evidence informs policy design; ideas become programs, ventures, and solutions.
Impact
Action that generates results, improves lives, and strengthens societies.
This is the KPI framework — Knowledge, Policy, Impact — GPS's diagnostic platform, policy interface, and implementation bridge in one.
Transdisciplinary
GPS organizes action across interconnected domains — methodology, epistemology, culture, socio-economic systems, technology, and environment — rather than within academic silos. Research agendas are framed by problems, not disciplines.
Trans-sectoral
Universities, governments, businesses, innovators, researchers, civil society, artists, and communities co-design and implement together. The platform's job is to hold these actors in productive, equitable relationship.
Context-responsive
Locally grounded research aligned to priorities defined by Global South states and communities — with solutions that are historically grounded and socially embedded, engaging lived experience while contributing to global conversations.
- 01A hub of research and knowledge institutions
- 02A policy implementation platform
- 03A leadership and training ecosystem
- 04An innovating and accelerating partnership pivot
- 05A global convening forum for dialogue
- 06A strategic catalyst for Global South transformation