WE Make Island Communities Resilient.

Our research and consulting work helps island communities thrive through innovation. We develop strategies for island regions to become independent from tourism, build digital solutions, and attract investment opportunities.

TurtlCo is a lead consulting partner on the Digital Islands project, an Interreg project funded with 2,3 million €.

We support island policy makers in these fields.

Tourism-based economies are not sustainable for islands. They are resource-intensive, seasonal, and exploitative. We help island governments develop alternative economic models that leverage technology to improve the existing economic sectors, as well as create new and innovative economic opportunities.

Small islands do not have access to the same infrastructure as the mainland. We help island decision-makers to improve public mobility, health, and care services through technology.

Instead of depleting the local quality of life through extractive tourism practices, we help replenish the local environment and make the island more resilient against climate change.

A Digital Island Action Plan. To make your island more sustainable and resilient.

We help island policy makers turn their sustainability, resilience, and digitalization ambition into action.

We’ve worked with 20+ island regions on 3 continents, and the biggest problem in making the island more sustainable and resilient is always the same:

How do we translate goals and strategies into concrete action?

TurtlCo is a boutique consulting firm, specialized and experienced in working with island communities.

We help islands turn their ambition and targets into concrete, reachable action plans, that enable them to get to work, or apply for funding.

Our approach

To create your action plan, we:

Review your current sustainability & digitalization goals.

1) We connect with local stakeholders to identify gaps.

2) We provide a gap report that shows local hurdles and challenges towards your goals.

3) We provide an action plan with insights from our network of hundreds of island decision makers and best practices.

Our Digital Island Action Plan Services start at €7,000.
Our methodology

The Digital ARchipelago™

Identify Goals

Identify Barriers

Identify Best practices

step-by-step-action plan

Identify investment potentials

Guide project execution

Success STories.

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