Our Strategy
Innovators without Borders
Our strategy focuses on understanding real human needs first, then building bridges between allies across sectors to create solutions that work for everyone. Through Collective Design, we align diverse perspectives, prototype solutions rapidly, and scale what works.
Staging Area
We are a staging area for partners in industry, academia, civil society, and government to coordinate mutually reinforcing actions and combine strengths. Together, we will embed change we cannot achieve alone.
Our Strategic Pillars
These foundational elements shape how we work together and drive meaningful change across sectors.
Independent platform fostering trust and collaboration
We are a neutral, inclusive pathway for allies who share our mission to collaborate more easily across sectors and borders. But we're more than a meeting place. We exist to give allies a license and rally point to build shared understanding, generate ideas, and experiment.
- Neutral banner to understand new technologies, community needs, and each other
- Enable rapid prototyping and testing of cross-sector solutions
- Work together to identify and understand emerging patterns and opportunities
- Build and refine shared tools through continuous feedback and improvement
Connect government, industry, academia, and civil society
We provide a neutral, collaborative space where different actors can work together effectively:
- Connect government, industry, academia, and civil society
- Share knowledge and coordinate activities
- Build trust through transparent collaboration
- Create space for new ways of working together
Unite allies with shared purpose
We bring together diverse allies with different strengths to achieve more than any could alone:
- Unite allies with shared purpose
- Support practical action for change
- Scale successful work to help more people
- Improve outcomes through collaboration
Support and scale successful initiatives
We tap into existing momentum and help everyone focus on what they do best:
- Support and scale successful initiatives
- Avoid duplicating existing work
- Connect related efforts
- Share practical knowledge and experience
Help successful programs reach more people
By working together under a shared banner, we can achieve more:
- Help successful programs reach more people
- Expand work across regions and sectors
- Create lasting positive change
- Enable initiatives to influence broader change
Share practical tools and expertise
Working together gives everyone access to more tools and networks:
- Share practical tools and expertise
- Build helpful connections across sectors
- Learn from each other's experience
- Combine strengths to tackle bigger challenges
Iterative and Partner-Driven
Together, we advance our shared purpose through a combination of Action Clusters, informal collaborations, and activities allies lead independently.
The CoLab's success is measured not in widgets, but in practical ways to work together: the real difference we make in communities and the lasting changes we create in how AI is developed and deployed for public benefit.