Bergrivier – FLOW – Fostering Local Wellbeing

Country		South Africa
City		Bergrivier
Name		Flow
Date		2012
Description of the project		The FLOW Project is currently going through a transition process from research project (it was born as a two-years project at Cape Town University) to independent entity, having as a main aim the facilitation of the “commons transition”. The project is active in three areas of SouthAfrica: the local Municipality of Bergrivier, the city of Kokstad and the suburb of Bo-Kaap. In Bergrivier, FLOW has developed the Climate Change Adaption Plan. The project involves the local unoccipied youth – the FLOW Ambassadors – to build individual and community capabilities in order to stimulate growth and to produce innovation in the fields of climate change, exploitation of resources and inequality
Urban Co-Governance		Strong
Enabling State		Strong
Pooling		Moderate
Experimentalism		Moderate
Tech Justice		Moderate
Project Website		http://www.flowafrica.org
References, sources, contact person(s)		Interview to Anna Cowen and John Ziniades (co-founders of the FLOW project); website info@flowafrica.org