Businesses have designs for the poor

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/biztech/12/20/digital.design/index.html

Results: Sanitary Facilities for HIDO

HIDO has chosen 3 designs which we wanted to share with you all.
From Left to Right:

1. :: Compliance Health Dignity was a Cooler Solutions project between Terence Woodside, engineer and Mike Loveless, industrial designer (Canada)
2. :: Half a Daisy-Toilet designed by Oana Blei (Romenia)
3. :: WWC (without water closet) designed by Mauro Mufatti (Italy)
For more info visit our website:
http://www.humanidesign.org/contesttoilets1.html

SANITARY FACILITIES?

:: CALL FOR ENTRIES
'Where do you go to the toilet?'

Due to free education in many developing countries, schools receive a lot more children. Organisations build new classrooms to respond to the request but there is one thing that many still forget, namely toilets. Let’s be creative and help them to find a solution to conquer this issue.
This can go from new concepts to a toilet as we know it, for rural areas out of low cost materials. MAKE A DIFFERENCE in the daily lives of million’s of children. Visit our website for more details.
http://www.humanidesign.org/contesttoilets.html

Submission deadline :: 22 October 2007
Announcement of the chosen idea(s) :: 12 November 2007

Result Awareness Project

The poster that will represent RENOCP's campaign, 'End Violence Against Girls and Women' is designed by Tomasz Ochotny. His subtle way of expressing how African women suffer in silence will hopefully invite girls and women to open up on gender-based-violence issues. May the future of these girls and women become brighter.


For more info visit:
www.humanidesign.org/winningposter.html
www.renocp.net

DESIGN for the other 90%

"A new breed of industrial designer is confronting Third World poverty with
innovtive products aimed at encouraging rural entrepreneurs. Unliek
foreign aid, they say, their stratgy fosters dignity, not dependence, and
ensures sustainabiltiy. Low cost water purifiers, crop preservers,
wireless lighting, drip irrigation and loda-carrying bicycles are among the
simple but ingenious products being mass-produced."

You can find more information on this exhibition at:
www.peoplesdesignaward.org/design_for_the_other_90

" Wheelchair design in developing countries'

According to the United States Agency for International Development, 20 million people in developing countries require wheelchairs, and the United Nations Development Programme estimates below 1% of their need is being met in Africa by local production. Wheelchair Design in Developing Countries (WDDC) will give students the chance to better the lives of others by improving wheelchairs and tricycles made in the developing world.

For more info visit:
http://web.mit.edu/sp.784/www/lectures.html