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Project: Through the development of interfaces that allow any rotary device to be attached to a bicycle, Global Cycle Solutions is leveraging the bicycle as a vehicle of innovation. Profits from the sale of bicycle-powered devices will sustain Global Cycle Solutions; strategic partnerships ...
Project: Results from water quality tests performed with affordable and accessible kits will be compiled in a searchable database for access by policy makers and researchers. Financial sustainability will be achieved by selling test kits online and through regional distributors, and by ...
Team Members: Renaldo Webb, Eric Beecher, Nicholas Pennycooke, Nicholas Hong, and Jose Villalobos Geographic Focus: Iwokrama, Guyana Project: Phi Wave turbines will use river and tidal energy to power the car batteries on which off-grid Guyanan communities rely for electricity. To insure Phi ...
Team Members: Jukka Valimaki, Blandine Antoine, Rhonda Jordan, Mark Yen, Alla Jezmir, Benjamin Lambert and Emmanuel Cassimatis Geographic Focus: Tanzania Project: This battery swap business will serve low-income Tanzanians who lack access to electricity by allowing them to buy and recharge, ...
Team Members: Jessica Mazonson Geographic Focus: Piura and Lima, Peru Project: By scaling up its operations, this fair trade handicrafts cooperative will raise its profitability, and thus further improve the livelihoods of its exclusively female craftspeople. Developing strategic partnerships ...
Team Members: Saba Gul, Elani Orphanides Geographic Focus: Attcok, Pakistan Project: A customized "life skills" curriculum for Afghan refugees in Pakistan will encourage school attendance and cultivate useful real-world skills, including business skills garnered ...
Legatum lecturer, Thomas Barry is the founder and CEO of Zephyr Management. A global private equity and marketable securities firm, Zephry Management, L.P. manages specialized investment funds in both the developed and developing markets. Since 1994, Zephyr has ...
Inventor, LIFESAVER bottle Managing Director, Hydronic Solutions Ltd. Michael W. Pritchard M.W.M.Soc is a British inventor, entrepreneur and public speaker. Michael was born in Epsom, Surrey in 1967. He was educated at Gordonstoun School in Scotland and went to the ...
Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School Co-Leader, McKinsey & Company's Innovation Practice Bhaskar Chakravorti is a senior lecturer at the Harvard Business School, a faculty associate with the Harvard University Center for the Environment and a Partner of McKinsey & ...
Project: Development of a new micro-equity model for microfinance. Model aims to increase opportunities for business growth of low-income entrepreneurs in Mexico and align investor-entrepreneur incentives.
Project: Introduction of unique triple-phase biodigester. This innovative technology will provide a more efficient, environmentally-friendly, and affordable fuel solution for rural farmers.
President José Manuel Ramos-Horta, is the second President of East Timor since independence from Indonesia, taking office on 20 May 2007. He is a co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize for his work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East ...
Project: Creation of new, more efficient computer software for insurance companies in Kenya. This technology will allow insurance companies to operate more efficiently, thus lowering costs and improving opportunities for access to services.
Project: Development of affordable sanitary napkins for impoverished women in developing countries. SHE aims to develop female-led manufacturing cooperatives which will use local materials to produce the products and provide local women with income-generating sales ...
Project: Creation of unique solar cell modules that can be mounted onto auto rickshaws for the purpose of decreasing fuel consumption. Strives to address problems of air pollution in India
Project: Development of hand-held fuel quality and composition sensors made from inexpensive and locally accessible materials. Product intends to solve the problems of engine failures associated with poor fuel quality.
Project: Creation of sustainable micro-enterprise models focused on the emerging biofuel market in Malawi. Aims to innovate around issues of high energy costs and lack of access to electricity.
Project: Empowering children in India through photography. By putting cameras into the hands of India's most underprivileged children and sharing their photos with the rest of the world, Camera for Us hopes to inspire change by opening eyes to the realities of poverty
Project: Renewable energy project focused on the development of microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology. Will provide clean and low-cost electricity for basic lighting and cell phone battery charging in developing nations.
Project: Scientific exploration and analysis of Ecuador's unique biodiversity for useful functions such as antibiotic resistance and thermostability. Intellectual property from these findings will be commercialized.