Vertical Atlas
A new atlas to help us navigate the digital geopolitics of the world today.
Impact
Vertical Atlas is a new atlas to help us navigate the digital geopolitics of the world today.
The digital reality we find ourselves in is increasingly complex. Geographical maps only yield limited agency as tools for navigating this reality. They do not account for new folded, fractal borders that are created in cyberspace and do not show how national digital borders materialize at odd places in the world.
If maps are tools to aid in navigation, new kinds of mappings are needed. These mappings must account for current global techno-political realities as well as alternative technological and cultural histories, they must explore multiple perspectives that embrace different meanings in different zones of the world.
Vertical Atlas emphasizes the need for alternative and accessible contemporary mappings. Here, at the merging of language, art and design can provide us with approaches and leads that aim to achieve just that.
Service
Fundraising & Project Management
International
2020-2021
Partners
Activities
New Silk Roads was responsible for the fundraising and project management for the realization of Vertical Atlas. The Atlas was produced by a group of over 50 international designers, artists, and thinkers from a broad range of disciplines spanning over 20 countries across continents.
Challenge Fund for a Just Transition (CFJT)
EG
TN
MA
DZ
Contributing to just green transition processes in North Africa through sustainable, decent job creation for young people.
Services: Fundraising & Programme Design
Investor Matchmaking Sessions
TN
EG
Sustainable employment through impact investment.
Services: Project Management
Collaborate for Impact - EVPA
GE
Facilitating knowledge sharing and meaningful connections between impact actors from Eastern Europe and the Middle East/North Africa regions.
Services: Programme Design and Facilitation
GreenWorks
EG
TN
DZ
Assist business support organizations (BSOs), scaleups, and SMEs to leverage their impact in order to catalyze job creation and boost the green economy in Egypt, Tunisia, and Algeria.
Services: Fundraising
Madar Innovation
TN
Contribute to the strengthening of a dynamic, resilient and innovative entrepreneurial ecosystem in Tunisia.
Services: Fundraising & Project Management
ReBootKamp
TN
ReBootKamp (RBK) is the first immersive coding bootcamp which trains young people to be employment-ready software engineers and connects them with ICT companies, at scale. New Silk Roads is supporting ReBootKamp’s scaleup across Tunisia and internationally, such that more young people can develop the skills for a successful, dignified career.
Services: Business Development, Monitoring and Evaluation, Strategy
Afkar Fellows
EG
MA
DZ
LY
TN
An unique fellowship program for catalyzers of social change in North Africa that seeks to boost fellows’ social impact and visibility as influencers in the region. New Silk Roads supported What Took You So Long and Wasabi to raise funding from the Swedish Institute as well as provided project management and strategic services.
Services: Income Generation & Strategic Services
Expedition Bavaria
EG
In what creative way would you promote a new drink on the Egyptian market?
Services: Project Management