The VitaGoat is a food processing system for developing countries. It serves as a principal vehicle for micro-enterprises, while providing local communities or social institutions with high-quality nutrition. Operating without the need for any ...
The portable Volcano Stove collapses down to 5" and makes use of passive ventilation for highly efficient cooking. Although too heavy for backpacking, it is highly portable for car camping or travel. It can be powered by three different cooking ...
Solution Purpose: Vula connects remote primary health care workers directly to on-call medical specialists using mobile technology. It is a secure medical chat & referral app that puts primary health workers in direct contact with medical ...
The W100 is an integrated solar light. It has a range of uses from indoor work-area lighting, to outdoor community lighting, and it is fully submersible for night fishing or other marine applications. The W100 has four stainless steel mounting ...
As of 2013, more than 780 million people lack access to safe and clean drinking water. Many of them are children and women living in rural areas of developing countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa, Asia or Latin America. Contaminated water ...
WAFFCO (Waste-Fuel Free Combustion) is a universal solid biogenic fuel-fired furnace with closed combustion chamber. It is constructed mainly of clay and metal, and designed to replace open-fire stoves.
WAFFCO is a closed biomass burning ...
WAPI stands for Water Purification Indicator. WAPIs are small, handmade devices that tell you when water has reached 146 degrees F, the minimum temperature required for pasteurization. Once pasteurized, water is microbe-free and safe to drink ...
The WATA technology, developed by Antenna, uses a simple, manageable process of electrolysis to convert a measure of salt and water into into active chlorine with a concentration of 6g/L. The resulting solution can be used to treat drinking ...
The WATERisLIFE Straw is a small, portable filtration device that provides pure, clean drinking water whenever it is immersed into a water source (just like a normal straw).
When used, the WATERisLIFE Straw filters out waterborne diseases ...
The WakaWaka Light is an efficient solar lamp, providing 16 hrs of safe light on a single day of sunlight.
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EOS International’s water purification technology is a low-cost, low-maintenance solution that attaches to any rural community’s water tank and inactivates pathogens in water systems by releasing a controlled dosage of chlorine. One system can ...
Water Quality Field Test Kits enable cost-effective and immediate assessment of contaminates levels in water. The main objectives of the WTK are to create mass awareness among students, NGOs and the public and to provide a low-cost water ...
The Ecosan Latrine features a built-in system ensuring separate storage of feces, urine and cleaning water. This technology includes two separate chambers for urine and feces, allowing them to compost into plant nutrients and fertilizer ...
The capacity, depth and ease of operation of conventional manual lift pumps have improved little since introduced. Fetching water in developing countries is very time-consuming, especially if much water is needed. Using conventional pumps, an ...
Waterboxx is an inexpensive integrated planting technology that allows for the planting of trees in degraded farmland and rangelands. Consisting mainly of a 20-liter box, Waterboxx is placed around a young seedling at the transplanting stage ...
The WATERCONE is a solar powered water desalinator that generates fresh water from salty or brackish water. It is easy to use, lightweight and mobile. The technology is simple in design and use and is described by simple pictograms. With up to ...
Wecyclers solves the urban waste challenge for households and recyclers. Wecyclers uses a fleet of low-cost cargo bicycles to offer convenient household recycling service in densely populated low-income neighborhoods. We motivate families to ...
Wello Water has developed a wide range of concepts and designs in collaboration with the WaterWheel’s intended users, and identified the features that were most important to them. The resulting prototype is the WaterWheel 2.0.
Women spend ...
WikiHouse is an open source construction set that can be used to build homes and shelters. The website allows anyone to design, download, and print CNC-milled houses and components. Once printed, the units can be assembled with minimal skill ...
Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal ...
The Wonderbag is a heat-retention cooking bag.
A Wonderbag is an insulated bag in which people can cook anything from meaty stews and vegetable curries to simple rice and soups. You kick-start the cooking process by heating your pot of food on ...
Present state-of-art design of wood fired bakery consists of a newly designed efficient biomass combustor and a baking unit.
The combustor has 26.46 % thermal efficiency at wood burning rate of 4kg / hour with low level of harmful ...
The Wood Mold is a mold used to make concrete BioSand filters and is a low-cost alternative to traditional steel molds. Each Wood Mold can produce 50-60 filters depending on the type of wood used and assuming proper care and maintenance. Other ...
World Health Partners combines existing social and economic infrastructure with communication, diagnostics, and medical technology to deliver health and reproductive health services to rural, marginalized communities in the developing world. ...
Worldreader’s mission is to make digital books available to all in the developing world, enabling millions of people to improve their lives. Digital technology is sharply reducing the cost and complexity of delivering reading material ...
Evaptainers are electricity-free mobile refrigeration units which run at a low cost. Utilizing the phenomenon of evaporative cooling, rather than more energy-intensive vapor compression refrigeration, the Evaptainer is ideal for use in ...
The 'Zero Emission Fridge for Rural Africa' (ZEFRA) is a seed storage silo made from local materials. It supports subsistence farmers in Northern Mozambique to sustain food security through reduction of post-harvest losses. Furthermore, the ...
The Zambulance is a low cost way to comfortably transport patients for medical treatment. It contains a mattress and is completely covered by cloth with a side flap for access. The Zambulance can be pulled by any bicycle. It can be used in ...
Zamcart Is a versatile, low-cost trailer meant to be attached to a bicycle. It is primarily meant for agricultural use but customizations for many purposes can be requested by the customer. The cart has large wheels for rough terrain and can ...
The Zeer Pot was designed as an alternative to electric refrigeration. This makes it ideal for areas that do not have access to the electric grid.
Evaporation cooling technology is the idea behind the Zeer Pot, which uses two earthenware pots ...
Adding chlorine (tablets/drops) to drinking water in the right proportion eliminates the harmful disease causing pathogens. However adding the right quantity of chlorine to flowing water is a challenge when the flow rate is inconsistent or ...
ZipFlat is a building system designed to produce sturdy buildings quickly with lightweight materials. Building panels are constructed from foldout plastic sheets which are filled with expanding foam or locally obtained materials. The panels ...
bob® is a domestic rainwater collection bag. Capable of holding up to 1400 liters of clean rainwater, bob® only weighs 3.6kg when empty, and can fold into the size of a large briefcase. bob® is up to 58% less expensive than competing products. ...
crowdSOS is a services, analytics, and advisory firm that utilizes mobile technologies to collect data and help enterprises and individuals in high-risk, developing countries make better decisions about their safety.
crowdSOS gathers and ...