A new charitable giving platform vets Indian nonprofits to g...
It’s easy to forgive indecision when it comes to donating to a worthy cause in India. A bird’s eye...
Engineering for Change
Interest: Sanitation
About one in three people worldwide don’t have access to improved sanitation, but managing waste could solve a lot of the world’s health problems. For all of its importance, the issue still gets little attention. We have the solutions. Good, low-cost latrines have been built worldwide, latrines that do not require an expensive sewage system because they compost waste to convert it into safe fertilizer. The toilets of the world’s future might look reminiscent of the toilets of the past, and that’s a testament to user-centered design.
Interest: Sanitation
Why technology alone will never provide sanitation for the p...
The word “still” carries a subtle indictment. We see it in the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme’s 2015 report on global progress in sanitation, which reminds us that “2.4 billion...
Charitable Foundations Have a Unique Opportunity to Change t...
With a few changes, charitable foundations have the potential to make deep improvements in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector in developing countries. Financially, foundations contribute little to the...
Promising Prototypes to Watch in 2017
Prototypes are pushing the field of global development technology forward as they evolve in workshops, universities, laboratories and even garages. We asked our international network of experts in engineering...
Meet Yi Wei, ‘Sexy Loo Designer & One of More tha...
Yi Wei, Director of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene at iDE is one of more than 200 volunteers who has dedicated her time by sharing her expertise with our community. See...
How mobile tech improves global sanitation: Research brief o...
The mobile phone boom of the last decade has given rise to the often-repeated fact that more people worldwide have access to a phone than to a toilet. The...
The best of Siemens Stiftung EPA: A wearable hypothermia mon...
A wearable thermometer for newborns, a medical insurance scheme for trash collectors, a hydro-powered water pump and a stove that burns biomass took the top prizes at Siemens Stiftung’s...
Featured Sanitation Solution
Untreated Wastewater: A Growing Crisis and Its Solutions
Aerial photos reveal a plume of brown fecal sludge drifting off the coast at Lavender Hill in Accra, Ghana....
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Coconuts for compost and bicycling recycling: Two new solutions to waste management
Two organizations are taking two very different approaches to managing the growing mountain of waste generated in the developing...
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Patently Wrong International Development
Scaling patented, secretive technologies in healthcare is a risky business. We witnessed an example of the problem recently in...
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Five Questions with Shashi Buluswar and Subarna Mitra, Institute for Transformative Technologies
Two years ago, a small team from the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in Berkeley, Calif. released an enormous volume...
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Hardware start-ups get an upgrade from cardboard cutouts to digital 3D modelling
Hardware startups go through dozens or even hundreds of design changes before a product hits a shelf. Making those...
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Welcome to E4C’s Fellows
We are pleased to welcome 11 fellows into our new Research Fellowship program. To introduce our fellows, we asked...
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The iShow in Kenya According to Twitter
In photos, sketches, facts and less than 140 characters of commentary, tweeters documented the Kenya leg of iShow by...
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Humanitarian Engineering Principle Two: Relate, Listen, Ask, Cooperate, Empower
This is the second in a series on principles based on the textbook Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Technologies that Help People, by Kevin...
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How to use mobile data collection tools to improve global development work
Mobile communications networks have surged in developing countries and so has the availability of smartphones and tablets....
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A Plumber Without Borders: Five Questions with Fred Schilling
Fred Schilling installed a toilet with a closing flap in a home in Haiti and instantly changed a family’s...
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