PUKAR is a research collective and knowledge production centre that serves as a convener for global debates and discussions on urbanism. URBZ supports PUKAR’s projects, while PUKAR trains local researchers to investigate their environments and publish their geographically referenced research on URBZ.

www.pukar.org.in

Nomades is an Information & Communication Technology training centre and consultancy, which has been in operation since 1989. Nomades provides technical and strategic support to URBZ. Nomades will help organize an URBZ workshop and seminar for all partners, clients and investors in Geneva, April 2009. Such workshops can also be organized for specific clients at their request.

www.nomades.ch
www.natiw.ch

MindTouch, recognized the world over for innovation beyond open source wiki collaboration and content management, delivers a leading edge application, integration and development platform.

MindTouch provides support for the development of dharavi.org. It is a natural technical partner in the development of URBZ, as it shares the same open source philosophy and mashup strategy.

www.mindtouch.com