With decades of proven experience, we bring together networks of slum-dweller communities around the world, the open mapping movement, and international urban science to launch Transform Your City.

Thousands of slum communities, hundreds of thousands of digital volunteers, and leaders in science, policy and tech worldwide are ready to take part and act.

We build from the ground up to create global change based on transparent methods and data.

By the numbers:

• Our Chicago scientists have recently built the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation. The University of Chicago are worldwide leaders in urban science and technology, data sciences for social good, formal project monitoring and evaluation, and the co-production of tools for informal communities.

• Our SDI team is a network of thousands of self-declared slum communities in hundreds of cities, collecting data, and expressing their priorities. This process influenced the New Urban Agenda, SDGs 1 and 11.1 and led to many slum upgrading collaborations with local governments.

• Our HOT team is the world leader in knowledge and data for humanitarian response. Its networks count on over 300,000 volunteers; mapping over a billion people in 96 nations and over 1.7 million places.

Our team has the capacity to execute in depth and breadth. We work with each local communities and across many thousands of places.

Our team has the enabling relationships. We can summon slum-dwellers and other organizations representing poor and marginalized communities, science and technology experts from around the world, architects and designers, international organizations, local governments networks.

Our team is build around community leadership and input at all levels in thousands of places, based on peer to peer networks and collaborative hubs.

Our costs are known and scalable from current work at many diverse locations.

We know how to work in unpredictable, contingent environments by hedging risk and multiplying paths to success.