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Pivot Projects is a global voluntary collaborative initiative launched at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. It aims to apply collective intelligence, systems thinking and modeling, and technology tools (including augmented intelligence) to helping the world pivot in directions that are more sustainable, resilient, and equitable within and among countries. It aims to apply these tools and methods to discover ecological, social, and technical solutions that create virtuous circles.

The group’s three founders were Colin Harrison, a former IBM researcher and Distinguished Engineer; Peter Head, Chairman of Resilience Brokers, a UK-based non-profit sustainability consultancy; and Rick Robinson, an urban planning expert. The group is virtual—no office, no legal status, no bank account.

Hundreds of people from more than thirty countries, both developed and developing, have participated. They are organized in workstreams, each taking on a different facet of the sustainability domain, but also including faiths and spirituality, education, arts and culture, and economics. Trans-disciplinary teams are formed from these workstreams, together with local planners, ecologists, and researchers, to address the challenges of cities and regions.

The group is allied with SparkBeyond, a technology company whose AI-powered research tool helps people navigate complex systems and quickly discover interactions among system elements and solutions to systemic problems.