Transparency
Every program publishes its budget, its method, and its results, including the outcomes that fell short. Funders and communities read the same report.
Konex Foundation / Nonprofit
Connecting knowledge to real impact.
Konex Foundation bridges research, technology, and communities to solve complex challenges.
01 About us
We move good research
into working practice.
Konex Foundation was built around a simple frustration. The knowledge needed to solve hard public problems already exists, yet it rarely reaches the people closest to those problems. We close that gap through technology transfer, putting proven tools and methods into the hands of clinics, classrooms, and local institutions that can use them immediately.
Knowledge only counts when it arrives, in the right hands, in the right language, at the moment a decision is made.
Our digital literacy work meets people where connectivity, devices, and confidence are limited, and our cross sector partnerships bring researchers, engineers, funders, and community organizers into the same room with a shared plan. We publish what we learn, including the parts that did not work, because open evidence is how the next team moves faster.
Technology transfer
Digital literacy
Cross sector partnerships
02 Core values
Three commitments
we can be held to.
Values are only useful when they change decisions. These three shape how we choose projects, publish results, and share credit.
Innovation
We prototype in the field rather than the boardroom. A tool earns its place only after the people who need it have broken it and told us why.
Collaboration
We rarely lead alone. Local partners hold the context, we bring capacity, and ownership of the work stays where the work continues.
03 Impact in numbers
The measure of the
work, as of 2026.
Figures below are drawn from our latest audited program reporting and refreshed each quarter.
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Countries
Active programs across four regions.
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Partners
Universities, clinics, and civic groups.
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Lives reached
People served through funded programs.
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Satisfaction
Partners who would work with us again.
Numbers open a conversation. The full methodology, sample sizes, and limitations sit in our annual report.
Read the 2026 report04 Programs
Three programs,
one throughline.
Each program answers a different part of the same question: how does useful knowledge actually travel?
01
Research & Insights
Field driven studies for policy makers. We design evidence with the people who will use it, then translate findings into briefs a committee can act on inside a single session.
Program detail
02
Digital Inclusion
Accessible tools for underserved regions. Low bandwidth software, offline first design, and training built for shared devices and intermittent power.
Program detail
03
Collaborative Networks
Connecting experts across borders. Working groups, fellowships, and shared infrastructure that let a solution proven in one city start faster in the next.
Program detail05 Leadership
The people
accountable for it.
A small leadership team, deliberately close to the field. Each of them still sits in program reviews every month.
Amara Okafor
Executive Director
James Whitfield
Head of Research
Elena Vasquez
Director of Technology
Partner voices
Community health
Program review
2026
Program review
2026
orking with Konex transformed our approach to community health. Their data driven insights and genuine partnership made all the difference.
06 Latest insights
Notes from
the work.
Announcements, reporting, and what we are learning in the open.
New partnership with TechBridge
A three year collaboration to bring low bandwidth learning tools into rural classrooms across four countries, with shared authorship on every evaluation we publish.
Read the note2026 Impact Report
Our full accounting of programs, spending, and outcomes, including the data behind every number we publish and the two pilots we chose to close.
Read the reportGlobal Summit 2026
Researchers, engineers, and community leaders met in Austin to design open tools for public health. Session recordings and working notes are now available.
See the recap07 Careers
Come build the bridge with us.
We hire people who are equally comfortable reading a regression table and sitting in a community meeting. Remote friendly, Texas based, and always open to a thoughtful introduction.
See open rolesResearch AssociateIrving, TX
Frontend EngineerRemote
Program CoordinatorIrving, TX
Partnerships LeadHybrid
08 Contact
Start a conversation
with the foundation.
Tell us about the problem you are working on. We answer every serious inquiry within two business days.
- Office
- 4615 Al Razi St
Irving, TX 75062-2606
United States