Built over time. Built with purpose.
FORUS did not begin as a single product. It grew from years of exploring a much bigger question: how can digital infrastructure connect more people to economic participation and shared opportunity?
What would digital infrastructure look like if more people and organisations could participate in the value it creates?
That question has shaped years of research, development, partnerships and real-world experimentation across identity, payments, commerce, institutional infrastructure and connected economic systems. Today, those ideas have become a growing technology and infrastructure ecosystem.
From a question to an ecosystem.
Verified milestones only. Earlier chapters are added as they are confirmed.
A question about participation
FORUS begins with a founding idea: infrastructure that lets more people and organisations take part in the value an economy creates. Years of research, development and real-world experimentation across identity, payments, commerce and institutional infrastructure follow.
Fintech Innovation of the Year
The Eastern Cape Transport Tertiary Co-operative, for which WOW Connect was developed, is named Fintech Innovation of the Year at Africa Tech Festival 2024.
Connect with a Coop
On the International Day of Cooperatives, FORUS-Grow, Unati / UAMMCL and The Dream sign a Memorandum of Understanding to build a cooperative-led digital finance, farmer and community impact ecosystem linking Africa and India.
Read the announcementPartnerships for the cooperative economy
FORUS signs a Strategic Partnership Agreement with DotCooperation, becoming its Strategic Promotional and Implementation Partner for Africa, and announces a strategic collaboration with the World Agriculture Forum on the TerraNexus ecosystem.
Read the announcementA growing ecosystem
FORUS Digital is the group behind a growing infrastructure ecosystem, with FORUS.coop as its cooperative implementation and new partnerships across sectors and regions.
The next chapter is written with partners.
FORUS works with organisations that bring sector knowledge, institutional capability, distribution, technology and trusted relationships.