At COP29, IBM and Sustainable Energy for All SEforALL announced a new, publicly available artificial intelligence AI-powered solution to inform more sustainable urban development for cities and communities around the world, enabling decision-makers and policymakers to map urbanisation and identify energy and infrastructure needs for communities in developing regions.
Collaborating with SEforALL through our IBM Sustainability Accelerator programme helped us unlock innovation and work more closely in communities to tackle some of our biggest challenges, especially around energy and sustainable urban development, said John Matogo, corporate social responsibility leader for Africa and the Middle East at IBM.
Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO and special representative of the UN Secretary-General for SEforALL, and co-chair of UN-Energy, said We believe that integrating AI in the energy sector planning and evidence, especially for developing countries, will go a long way in designing comprehensive solutions for many of the developmental challenges currently facing the Global South and its people. The Open Building Insights Tool, which SEforALL has developed in collaboration with IBM, will help energy planners overcome critical data gap challenges to inform energy access and energy transition interventions and better deliver results for those most in need.
Open Building Insights
Open Building Insights OBI is an interactive online platform running on IBM Cloud. OBI visually consolidates data in a map, providing information related to buildings in countries addressing urban planning challenges such as building location, height, footprint area and usage type. This visual consolidation makes AI models output easy to understand for non-technical users and empowers stakeholders to make informed decisions about sustainable urban development.
