Canurta Inc. Announces Strategic MOU with International Business University and IPTP to Advance Community-Led Energy and Digital Infrastructure Across the Americas
- Canurta
- Feb 5
- 3 min read
MISSISSAUGA, ON / TORONTO, ON — February 5, 2025 — Canurta Inc. (“Canurta”) today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with International Business University (“IBU”) and the Institute of Peoples, Territories, and Pedagogies for Peace (“IPTP”). The MOU creates a structured pathway for originating, developing, and commercializing community-led projects in sectors such as energy, digital infrastructure, agriculture, mining, adaptive ancestral medicine, environment and conservation, and ancestral knowledge systems across Afro-Colombian, Indigenous, rural and other historically marginalized communities in the Americas.
Effective January 19, 2026, the MOU establishes a five-year framework, intended to serve as the basis for long-term collaboration, for coordinated project development, applied academic programming, and commercial execution that respects collective rights, territorial governance, and locally driven decision-making. The collaboration is grounded in a decolonizing, community-first approach and a shared commitment to supporting economic sovereignty for under-represented groups.
Commercial Pathway: From Community Projects to Bankable Infrastructure
Under the MOU, Canurta and IPTP will jointly act as commercial and strategic coordinators for projects developed within this framework. Canurta’s mandate includes:
Evaluating technical and economic feasibility
Structuring commercialization pathways
Coordinating and helping to secure capital for viable projects
The Parties intend to prioritize community-based energy and productive infrastructure projects that integrate local resources with economically productive digital and industrial applications. As an initial focus, the MOU contemplates renewable energy infrastructure in the 5–20 MW range in Afro-descendant communities, designed to demonstrate a repeatable model for future project deployment across additional sectors and territories.
Through this collaboration, Canurta expects to gain:
A pipeline of community-originated projects screened through structured feasibility work
De-risked development roadmaps that can support third-party investment
Opportunities for downstream execution and revenue-sharing arrangements, to be defined in project-specific agreements
“This MOU reflects a shared commitment to building durable partnerships that can responsibly unlock real economic value in communities that have historically been excluded from mainstream development,” said Akeem Gardner, CEO and Founder of Canurta Inc. “For Canurta shareholders, it creates a strategic pathway to originate, structure, and participate in commercially viable infrastructure initiatives—starting with energy and digital systems—while aligning with community priorities and environmental stewardship.”
Integrated Academic Partnership to Support Execution
IBU will provide academic leadership through the co-design and delivery of applied graduate programming, such as project-based learning within its MBA offerings, along with supervised student participation and applied research linked directly to project development.
IPTP, based in Bogotá, Colombia, will serve as the primary institutional and community liaison, supporting culturally appropriate engagement, territorial governance alignment, and the design of benefit- and revenue-sharing frameworks that reflect ancestral knowledge and community priorities.
Non-Binding Framework
The Parties acknowledge that the MOU is non-binding. Any specific project, investment, or commercial activity will proceed only pursuant to separate written agreements that define roles, responsibilities, commercial terms, governance provisions, and other conditions.
About Canurta Inc.
Canurta Inc. is a Canadian innovation company focused on building and executing high-integrity, technically grounded, and commercially viable initiatives across emerging infrastructure and applied development domains. Canurta provides expertise in technical feasibility evaluation, project structuring, commercialization pathways, and the coordination of capital to support scalable, sustainable projects. Through long-term partnerships and disciplined execution, Canurta seeks to originate initiatives that align economic opportunity with environmental responsibility and durable stakeholder value.
About International Business University (IBU)
International Business University (IBU) is a Toronto-based post-secondary institution advancing business education through applied, industry-aligned learning. IBU contributes academic leadership through graduate program development, project-based learning integration (including MBA programming), and supervised student engagement in applied research and real-world initiatives, aligned with institutional and regulatory requirements.
About the Institute of Peoples, Territories, and Pedagogies for Peace (IPTP)
The Institute of Peoples, Territories, and Pedagogies for Peace (IPTP) is an organization operating in Bogotá, Colombia, supporting community-centered initiatives grounded in cultural integrity, collective rights frameworks, and territorial governance. IPTP acts as a key liaison between communities and institutional counterparts, facilitating culturally appropriate participation, identifying project opportunities, and leading the development of benefit-sharing and community-aligned governance frameworks for initiatives executed with partner organizations.
Forward-Looking Information
This news release may contain forward-looking statements including, but not limited to, statements regarding the objectives, expected outcomes, commercial potential, and future project development opportunities contemplated by the MOU. Forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations and assumptions and are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause actual results to differ materially. The MOU is non-binding and no project, investment, or commercial activity will proceed unless and until definitive agreements are executed between the Parties.