Action Madinati Tafroz (means “my city will sort”) was launched by the waste management coalition with the idea was to select 15 appartments located in a representative congested, middle class neighborhood with a fair share of people who were not political and people attached to 2/3 political parties, and to survey how much waste they have. The entry point was to create a community and then spread the organization type to the city. More than 30 different people and several areas expressed interest and will to join the project. A manual was produced but did not produced the domino effect expected in the city and the process was thought through so as to be concretized.

Thus, Beirut Madinati was first a political campaign for the 2016 municipal elections and became a political movement led by volunteers from various backgrounds such as urban planning, transport engineering, waste management, economics.

This movement aims at building an alternative to the traditional political system in Beirut and it places livability at the heart of his program. The movement claims social, economic and political rights of the population whilst also preserving the environment and taking care of the cultural and natural heritage of Beirut. It has set up a 10 points municipal programme.

Contact : contact@beirutmadinati.com

The hub provides for co-working space, event space, training space, hardware studio as service and makerspace. It is meant to be scalable anywhere in the world and the structure already started to collaborate with organisations based in Kenya, Myanmar, and Nepal (Global Innovation Exhange, May 22. 2018) and in Senegal.

Concerning the organisation itself, two programs are active within the Hive.

• The Hive hardware incubator which incubates selected hardware startups, helping them move from idea stage through prototyping to product -for- market stage with both technical and business development support.
• And, the Hive Business accelerator program focuses on non-hardware startups program and is activate for the early stage startups.

Kumasi Hive is also connected to more common people, also working towards making resources available for the student community. In particular, Creativity Group is an undergraduate student community of engineers, makers, innovators, entrepreneurs and social thought leaders, eager to use innovation and technology as a tool to address critical challenges through social intervention and development of their communities. Eventually, Kumasi Hive believes in women empowerment; it indeed supported over 5000 women to start their business.

Contact : info@kumasihive.com

How does it work? The first step consists for citizens and field team to photography zones with local urban issues, using their phone. Identification and geo-localization of problems is the first key point. Once identified, the team of experts go on the field to carry out detailed studies measures. Following that, Map Action evaluates the impact on humans and on the environment and classifies the problem. To then propose solutions and measures to address the issue and provide people with strategies to anticipate inondations or to advise for waste management, for instance. A report is eventually sent to the competent authorities.

Website : https://map-action.com/

Contact : CONTACT@OYOPROJECTS.COM

Its projects can be summarized in three main categories including the Vivace project, comprising a call for project and the deployment of the latter (in which the social distance between the project proactors and the neighbors was observed), and which was backed by the project managers and interns, the Laboratory sites which represent experimentation grounds and eventually the limited partnership with the municipality which is proactive towards federating communities.

All the projects are envisioned on the long-term and focus on giving tools for the community to get more autonomous. The projects are mainly implemented in Montreal, but also in Quebec where there are 2 projects, as well as in Toronto. Other small cities in rural areas have contacted la Pépinière less cosmopolitan. As an example, for the project “Rue de Dijon”, they fostered the creation of the “comité d’amis” through which they federated a nucleus of community around the project.

Contact : info@pepiniere.co