Connecting Knowledge Innovation Policy Enterprise
A transdisciplinary platform connecting universities, governments, enterprise, and communities across the Global South — turning research into policy, and policy into impact.
GPS hubsPlanned hubsThe Global South
Who do we connect?
Universities, governments, businesses, civil society, innovators, researchers, artists, and communities.
What do we connect?
Knowledge, technology and innovation, policy, and enterprise — in every direction, never a straight line.
Why do we connect them?
To co-create solutions, opportunities, sustainable development, and societal impact across the Global South.
What makes GPS unlike anything else.
Four pillars in constant exchange, six kinds of actors in orbit, one destination. Hover any node — nothing here is linear.
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
Current priorities.
Kigali Knowledge Crossroads Week
400+ participants from five continents. Education in motion, research in action — the Global South's flagship knowledge convening.
Enter the microsite → Academic cooperation · 2027GCUB General Assembly
University leaders from across the South, convening in Kigali.
Explore → Research · policy · dialogueReparations Initiative
Repair and historical justice, treated with rigor.
Explore → Technology & policyAI for the Global South
The South setting its own defaults for AI.
Explore → PeopleYouth & Leadership
The succession plan for everything GPS builds.
Explore →Rooted in the South. Globally connected.
Six hubs on three continents, three more in consultation, and a headquarters in Kigali — held together by one platform.
Kigali
Global headquarters — strategy, coordination, and the Kigali Knowledge Crossroads Week.
Hover any hubA knowledge producer, not just a convener.
GPS Outlook
The annual Global South Outlook — analysis, foresight, and narrative. First issue 2027.
The publication → Latest researchPolicy briefs & papers
The filterable repository.
Library → Multimedia platformSouthPlus
Essays, film, sound, and art.
Enter → AudioThe Crossroads Podcast
Conversations with the people doing the work.
Listen → VideoInterviews & lectures
The video library.
Watch →Knowledge → Partnership → Implementation → Impact.
Every story follows the arc — told through the people living it, photography first. The first stories publish as the first programs complete.
The first Dialogue
Education transformation — who came, and what they decided to do next.
Two universities, one Atlantic
The first joint supervision pilot takes shape.
The young leader's year
Twelve months inside the first cohort.
Latest updates.
Latest
GPS launches its digital platform
GPS and GCUB align on Kigali 2027
Founding documents adopted in Kigali
Build the South-led century with us.
Institutions, funders, researchers, and builders — there's a place for you in the network.