AKFI (Actionable Knowledge Foundational Institute) was born in 2020 in the middle of the great uncertainty how to act when global disasters and pandemics strike. A vision of a world whereby 2022 together we overcome disasters and pandemics.
Back in 2020 was the time where the action got entangled in the search for a new normal. It was the time when knowledge struggled to convert into action. It also was the time when each scientific discipline proposed a different solution. Scientists, economists, business people, and politicians held different perspectives on current events.
When put together, the solutions could not produce a coherent, actionable plan to save lives and save economies alike.

Relentlessly learn from disasters and pandemics how to save lives and limit economic losses.

People, governments, and enterprises amplified pandemic waves:

• Ad-hoc emergency policies confused and confronted people worldwide. Excessive death, economic and psychological suffering resulted
• Rush for huge fiscal stimulus. Economic theories were discarded, supply lines disrupted, and widespread bankruptcies became the norm.
• Societies moved in-and-out of quarantines. The unmitigated impact of high unemployment coupled with the home-office disruption of family and social life. Layoffs in all major industries are still in progress.
• Delayed environmental policies locally, globally, and nationally
• Accelerated digital transformation and decelerated 5G deployment. Biotech innovation focused on COVID-19 vaccines, starved funding for public health research from Alzheimer’s to Zika.

• Lack of actionable knowledge local, national, and global levels.
• Examples include travel policies, isolation rules, and medical reporting of cases and deaths.

• Large unemployment, social and economic shock.
• Searching for vaccines and expecting miracles.
• Moving to uncharted ‘new normal’ in all areas including politics.

• Convene a forum focused on creating a body of actionable knowledge.
• Create processes to avoid a repeat of the ad-hoc response.
• Have the plans, and be ready to act