iLima – Royal HaskoningDHV Partnership Announcement

Johannesburg, South Africa, 3 July, 2024 – iLima, a SaaS AI PropTech company specializing in the construction of affordable housing, has signed a Mutual Co-operation Agreement with Royal HaskoningDHV South Africa, an independent engineering and project management consultancy, to accelerate the delivery of sustainable smart villages and affordable housing in South Africa and beyond.
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Industry Experts from the World of Community Development Banking and Technology Explore Innovation and Data to Scale Green Smart Villages

iLima Digital Foundary (iLima) had the unique opportunity to moderate one of the many presentations that took place at the 38th Annual Conference and AGM of the African Union for Housing Finance (AUHF) last week. The event was held in Egypt just one week after the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) where members renewed their commitment to reduce global warming through a number of initiatives. Furthermore, an agreement to provide assistance to African countries to lower green borrowing costs in order to build deeper, resilient, and sustainable financing to accelerate its post-Covid green recovery was introduced.
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African tech partner alliance will add more roofs over heads

Reson18, a targeted mobile customer acquisition and fintech platform, and iLima Digital Foundary have come together to form a strategic partner alliance that will link individuals to iLima’s African AI Construction Innovation Platform (ACIP). This  will open the door to consumers who have not had the opportunity to participate in the formal banking economy and will create new avenues of possibilities as well as access to the affordable housing market. Consumers will be connected through Africa’s mobile phone networks which will increase the reach and ensure the availability of the ACIP platform in under-developed and rural regions in Africa .
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Smart Data Social Housing Platform to improve standard of living for many living in Africa

T4H and iLima Digital Foundary have formed a strategic partnership to create the first Africa Smartdata Social Housing Platform, linking the cutting edge technology of the iLima ACIP AI Construction platform with the T4H tailor-made mobile platform, C-Phone. The collaboration brings together two important approaches that focus primarily on essential housing and financial services for people with moderate incomes in Africa The first joint-product “iLima-T4H Homebuilder” will be offered on the C-Phone in September 2022, but many additional joint developments are planned.
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New partnership: Africa headed for affordable housing revolution

iLima Digital Foundary has retained New York-based investment bank, Cambridge Wilkinson, to help spearhead the arrangement of capital for the transformation of affordable housing construction in Africa. Collectively, both companies have a wealth of knowledge and experience in new product development and innovation. The iLima AI-driven Construction Innovation Platform (ACIP) will be rolled out in South Africa and other parts of Africa making way for an ingenious concept that will benefit low-income individuals and project stakeholders around the world.
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iBUILD Global and iLima Digital Foundary announce a technology partnership accelerating the delivery of affordable housing for Africa

iBUILD and iLima have jointly launched their new partnership to make available innovative technologies for developers within the construction industry. Both companies are pioneering solutions for greater ecosystem collaboration and the use of technology to accelerate housing construction across Africa and realize that jointly, they can make a powerful difference within the construction sector toward that end.
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New Innovative Digital Platform Promises to Change the Future of Affordable Housing in Communities for Good

iLima Digital Foundary will officially launch the AI-driven Afrika Construction Innovation Platform (ACIP) at the 36th Annual AUHF Conference this week. The conference will focus on drawing in investors, developers, and professionals to discuss and debate market growth and opportunities in green development, infrastructure building, services, job and inclusive economic growth. The ACIP AI platform will be demonstrated for the first time in public and features an open digital platform offering many new alternative construction technologies to improve the lives of communities through efficient delivery of affordable housing to South Africa and Africa. The conference theme centers around “Investing in the SDGs – Finding a Market Opportunity in Affordable Housing”. ACIP addresses a number of the Sustainable Development Goals set for 2030 with the main focus on increasing resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies.
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Hundreds of Financiers and Developers gather online for Africa’s premier Affordable housing Conference

The 36th annual African Union for Housing Finance (AUHF) (www.AUHF.co.za) Virtual Conference & AGM (www.AUHFconference.com | 02-06 November 2020) will connect hundreds of senior African and international investors, financiers and developers online under the theme, “Investing in the SDGs: Finding a market opportunity in affordable housing, says its organiser and host Kecia Rust, of the AUHF Secretariat and the Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa.
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AUTODESK and ILIMA Digital Foundary (PTY) Ltd announce a new initiative accelerating the delivery of affordable housing for Africa​

Autodesk, the world’s leading design software company, is partnering with iLima Digital Foundary whose mission is to pioneer alternative technologies and alternative business models for affordable housing for Africa. This will be delivered through iLima’s new Africa Construction Innovation Platform (ACIP) and Smart Building Advisor (SBA) which will aim to accelerate the building of safe, high quality, sustainable, low cost homes for Africa.
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Disrupting the current process for building Affordable Housing in Africa

While most industries are well advanced in their digital transformation, the construction industry is still in its infancy. Current construction processes are not capable of addressing Africa’s booming construction needs of >500million homes and buildings in the next 30 years (this equates to >45 000 homes per day, Source Shelter Afrique). Traditional construction is known for its exorbitant costs, significantly high levels of waste (>35%), lengthy construction times, insufficient quality, and unsustainable materials.  Covid19 acts a key catalyst to accelerate change in construction in terms of technological investment and social distancing.
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iLima Digital Foundary and NEW STORY announce NEW TECHNOLOGY partnership

JOHANNESBURG, June 02, 2020 — iLima Digital Foundary, has partnered with US-based nonprofit New Story to bring Felix, a rapid data collection and analysis platform, to iLima’s Afrika Construction Innovation Platform (ACIP). Most recently, New Story teamed up with construction tech company ICON to build the world’s first 3D printed neighbourhood in Mexico as part of their mission to pioneer solutions to end global homelessness.
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Karsten Popp joins San Francisco State University Advisory Board for Certificate Program in Big Data

The board is comprised of diverse, innovative and extremely well-connected network of top-flight Silicon Valley executives. The program dives into the diverse potential of big data as well as the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for developing predictive and analytical models.
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