Global Platform for the South
GPS is a South-led global platform connecting people, knowledge, technology, policy, and enterprise to co-create and share solutions that advance social transformation across the Global South.
Universities, governments, businesses, civil society, innovators, researchers, artists, and communities.
Knowledge, technology and innovation, policy, and enterprise — in every direction, never a straight line.
To co-create solutions, opportunities, sustainable development, and societal impact across the Global South.
Co-create, share and disseminate research, journals, and Southern scholarship.
Read more 02AI, data, and tools designed with the Global South, not imported for it.
Read more 03Governance, public leadership, and policy that serve Southern priorities.
Read more 04Sustainable development through enterprise, investment, and practical solutions.
Read more 05Dialogues, convenings, and flagship programmes underway across the network.
Read moreAt GPS, people work together across disciplines, sectors and regions, connecting knowledge, innovation, policy and enterprise so that they reinforce one another and transform ideas into action, impact and social transformation.
Research, universities, publications, training and fellowships.
AI, digital transformation and innovation labs.
Governance, diplomacy and policy advisory.
Industry, start-ups, investment and executive education.
Six virtual dialogues, three languages, no fee.
See dates → Flagship · Kigali · October 2027In Development400+ participants from five continents. Education in motion, research in action — the Global South's flagship knowledge convening.
Enter the microsite → Academic cooperation · 2027In DevelopmentUniversity leaders from across the South, convening in Kigali.
Explore → Research · policy · dialogueIn DevelopmentRepair and historical justice, treated with rigor.
Explore → Technology & policyIn DevelopmentThe South setting its own defaults for AI.
Explore →Headquarters in Kigali and six regional hubs across three continents, with three further locations under consultation.
Global headquarters — strategy, coordination, and the Kigali Knowledge Crossroads Week.
Hover any hubPeer-reviewed, transdisciplinary scholarship. Abstracts for the inaugural issue are due 15 December 2026.
Submit a paper → RepositoryPolicy briefs, reports and working papers, filterable.
Open the library → Flagship · 2027The annual Global South Outlook.
Preview → Open to joinSix virtual dialogues, three languages, no fee.
See dates → What's nextSouthPlus, podcasts, books and more — with launch dates.
See the roadmap →Institutions, funders, researchers and builders — there is a place for you in the network.
Also in Get Involved: Join GPS · Collaborate · Contribute Knowledge · Support an Initiative
