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Kumu Project of the Week: a creative map from the Education Finance Network showing who’s doing what (and where) in non-state education. Built by @NatalieDavirro, with helpful filters + a network view for partnerships.

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Mapping Serbia’s AI ecosystem with Kumu 🇷🇸✨
Actors, projects & support programs—visually connected.
Explore by sector, region, or role.
Built by UNDP Serbia + collaborators.
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#Kumu #AI #Serbia #OpenData #SystemMapping

🎙️ New Podcast Episode 🎙️

What if the real problem isn’t what we think it is? When simple solutions don’t actually move the needle, it’s often a sign we’re treating symptoms, not systems.

Listen in through your favorite podcast platform or read the full transcript on blog.kumu.io !

As the World Heritage Committee wraps in Paris, check out this great example of transparent heritage governance: Azin Saeedi’s Kumu map shows who’s involved in managing Australia’s Victorian Goldfields — from advocacy groups to tourism boards.
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#PoweredByKumu #StakeholderMapping

Project of the Week

My goodness are we excited to showcase this project with you, it is a class on systems thinking and modeling created by The Sustainability Lab and Conor Meehan, built right in Kumu!

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#systemsmapping #systemsthinking #dataviz #poweredbykumu

Project of the Week!
A systems mapping process of environmental governance in Siak, Indonesia—built w/ LTKL, UNDP, Daemeter & Systems Mapping Academy.
In English/Bahasa Indonesia, talking about river pollution, palm oil, rice policy, logging, governance!

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Features we love:
- A geo map shows land & sea mines with clear color-coding.
- A toggle for switching between viewing materials or mines.
- Topic bubbles use icons to explain key ideas.
- The left panel links everything together for easy, curious exploration.

Project of the Week: Mining for the Twin Transition

What a joy to come across this beautifully done Kumu project interactively exploring the #twintransition in Norway from the Sustainability Lab at the University of Oslo:

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#EnergyTransition #DataViz #poweredbyKumu

Kumu Project Showcase: Honoring Juneteenth by Supporting Black-Owned Businesses

Last year, Holly Carter, Jacorey Moon & Jane Burnett shared 53 Black-owned businesses with a challenge:
“There’s never been a better time to put your money where your mouth is.”

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#Juneteenth

This map weaves the voices of 130+ kūpuna (elders), Indigenous leaders, students, researchers & nonprofit teams across Hawaiʻi.

It centers ʻāina (land/ocean/place), ʻohana (family), and kuleana (responsibility) — showing what strengthens or strains these relationships.

For #WorldOceanDay, we’re spotlighting a powerful systems project:
Oceans & Human Health, a living story of how island communities relate to the ocean.
It traces interwoven feedbacks between coastal health, culture, policy, and development.

@repatterninglabs.org

What patterns are shaping how we learn, lead, and live, and how might we begin to shift them? 🤔

In our latest In Too Deep podcast episode, we chat with Jessica Kiessel — artist, facilitator, strategist, and founder of (re)Patterning Labs 💡

Tune in now via your favorite podcast platform! 🎧

Soil Health is Human Health Basil's Harvest's Theory of Change

This is a story about Basil's Harvest #SustainableFoodSystems work done in a @kumu.io Story:
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And here is the causal loop map if you prefer to move around it yourself:
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Kumu Project Showcase: Breaking the Cycle of Drug Abuse
This #WorldDrugDay, explore maps that surface the root causes of drug harm — from stigma to poverty to prevention gaps.
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#StopOrganizedCrime #InvestInPrevention

From The Forest to the Team — Giving Structure to Ecosystems in Business Many fields are saturated with buzzwords — synergy, integration, and disruptor. These words sound nice and mean something, but they…

In our latest In Too Deep blog post, guest author Santiago Bunce, founder of Viabosque, explores the characteristics of an effective ecosystem as a way to define what it means and to help you and your team apply it to your own organization 🌿

Read it here: blog.kumu.io/from-the-for...

#ecosystem

Pando Funding: Financing System Change Networks By Robert Ricigliano and Anna Muoio

Our newest In Too Deep guest post by Robert Ricigliano and Anna Muoio dives deeper into the question "What exactly is Pando Funding, and how is it different from other funding models?" 🤔

Access it here: blog.kumu.io/pando-fundin...

#funding #systemschange

This was posted on the Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present); Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present) blog on Sunday, May 18, 2025. The headline: Mapping Strategy. Ideas. Libraries. The first paragraph reads, "I saw the visualization below last week. It was created using Kumu.io, which I've written about before. In the different nodes it shows places where students from many universities can do volunteer service in organizations working to help refugee, immigrant and LGBTIQ communities. I liked it because of the way it organizes and shares information."

I saw this @kumu.io visualization last week & it prompted me to post this on my #Tutor #Mentor blog today. tutormentor.blogspot.com/2025/05/mapp...

Please read and share.

Improving Lawyer Wellbeing from a Systems Perspective

The VLSB recently teamed up with First Person Consulting to explore what really drives lawyer wellbeing—shifting focus from symptoms to root causes. Keep an eye out for an upcoming podcast & blog!
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#systemsthinking #dataviz

Project of the Week!
System On Trial by Alex Conant explores how Canada’s justice system prioritizes efficiency over fairness—leading to delays, unsafe prisons, and systemic inequities. It offers thoughtful comparisons to Denmark’s rehabilitative model.
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#prisonreform #systemsmapping

🎙️ New Podcast Episode: Creating New Patterns For Learning and Leading with Jessica Kiessel of @repatterninglabs.org 🎙️

Listen via your favorite podcast platform or read the transcript here: buff.ly/CJiJMsz

#podcast #learning #leadership

Explore this interactive map from @postfuturear blending systems thinking, ANT & network analysis to rethink water in Barcelona.
A “sistémico-reticular” lens reveals co-managed flows of nature, tech & policy.
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#dataviz #futures #systems #WASH
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This earth day, take a look at Kumu projects making sense of and work out places for change in the complex adaptive systems connecting human behaviors and our planet's ecosystems. buff.ly/44bTUCk Use this link to search for earth day related themes we have listed there!
#earthday #dataviz

Letter to a Young Systems Thinker Don’t search for the answers.

What a beautiful post written by Jen Briselli. If you ever feel stuck and wonder why systems mapping feels so hard, it's because it's supposed to! Keep going 💡

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#systemsthinking #systemsmap #changemaker

Based on a video by @groundnews.bsky.social and @kurzgesagt.org, Kumu team member Michelle takes a systemic look at South Korea's looming demographic collapse. The presentation explores the complex factors—demographic, economic, social, and cultural—that are quietly reshaping South Korea’s future.

Project of the Week: Double Burden of Malnutrition in Peru
Through local workshops, researchers explore and visualize chronic undernutrition and rising obesity interact in Peru’s food system.
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Project Showcase!

This map shows Europe’s migration governance system today—co-created with experts and stakeholders to reflect real migrant experiences and key systemic challenges.

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#Systems #migration #policy #systemsmapping

Project of the Week!

Elissa Tokusato used Kumu to map the global value chain of alkaline electrolyzers—tech crucial for #greenhydrogen. Her systems-based analysis highlights environmental, social, and equity risks across the supply chain.

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#sustainability #greenenergy #systems

Tomorrow is #worldwaterday! Meltwater shifts are causing floods, droughts, and sea level rise. Members of our Kumunity tackle changes like these and use Kumu to visually communicate their work through systems and stakeholder maps. See examples in our latest blog post! buff.ly/3EafumH

It is so cool to see such a well-done behavioral systems mapping effort and the resulting model "out in the wild." ✨