Understanding the ecosystem and behaviours around access to sanitation in Kampong Chhnang, Cambodia
About Zeroth Labs
We are a mission-driven research and innovation lab that works on complex adaptive systems. We tackle “wicked problems” by supporting countries and cities at varying stages of development to make sense of the messy underlying dynamics that make their complex policy challenges the way they are.
We believe that the messiness and magnitude of these challenges require us to better understand a system before we intervene in it. We also believe that the difficulty of these issues warrants methods that meet them. For this reason, we use (and continue to be lifelong students of) multiple disciplines and approaches: anthropology, behavioural science, system dynamics, statistics, network theory and other forms of computational and applied mathematical approaches that help us get at the nature — of nature — and to bring clarity to complexity.
Our backstory: We are a spin-off from a youth development NGO in Singapore to enable young people for greater social impact. That mission led us to discover the interconnections across multiple social issues, and a realisation we now cannot unsee — systems is everything (everywhere, all at once).
Since then, we have brought this lens of complexity science and complex adaptive systems into everything we do: with multilaterals, federal governments, city municipalities, and future-oriented companies to tackle challenges in healthcare, rapid urbanisation, youth unemployment, and others.
