IPA | switxboard
Innovation and Planning Agency
Global Networking and Humanitarian Expertise
We connect the world’s capacities with the world’s needs.
We can transfer any knowledge, technology or money from one end of the world to the other in seconds.
Our world can find solutions for everything.
There’s an answer to most problems we face. We have the resources and capabilities to provide for the housing, energy, water and all other needs. But the resources of the world belong to few. They are unknown and unavailable to more than half of the world‘s population.
Digital revolution is changing the paradigm of how we communicate, produce energy and meet our day-to-day needs, through robotics, digital technologies, and disruptive innovation. The combined global wealth of knowledge from all communities and countries can save humanity.
And that is what we do:
We make the match and connect the world’s capacities with the world’s needs.
THE CHALLENGE
1 billion in 2014 live under unsafe, unhealthy conditions in slums, informal settlements or camps
3 billion by 2050 will live in informal Settlements – that is 1/3 of the world’s population
Nearly 3.5 billion people number among the total poverty headcount in 2015 (based on poverty line $3.70/day/person).
Wealth ratio between the richest and poorest countries was 44:1 in 1973 and will be 80:1 in 2015
The scope, scale and complexity of challenges facing the dispossessed require more efficient and innovative approaches.
OUR SOLUTION
The global inventory of social and innovative
resources and opportunities
We combine technological, social, financial and spatial innovations with the needs, talents and skills of dispossessed populations in several service lines.
IPA | switxboard makes the connection.
We communicate directly using simple structures and communication paths and facilitate a sharing of resources and ensure synergy. Cooperation then happens on site, valueing the human aspect of partnership.
Our activities: lean – quick – direct
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