Global Knowledge Initiative

GKI is a new type of non-profit organization focused on maximizing what’s available to solve pressing global development problems like food insecurity, environmental degradation, and disease control and prevention. As a global community, we are poised to take on these complex issues. But to do so we need to confront what’s prevented so many previous well intentioned efforts from succeeding at scale. GKI believes it is not a failure of intellect, nor a lack of resources, that keeps us from solving complex, global development challenges. Rather, the failure lies in how we connect committed individuals and their resources—technologies, expertise, financing—to fill these gaps. GKI believes we need better methods for connecting the resources we have – experts, technology, knowledge – to the people and places that need them most. Collaborative Innovation is all about bridging those gaps and helping people connect so that they can do more with less: more problem solving, more knowledge sharing, more life changing.