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The Super-MoneyMaker
Pump from KickStart.
This section provides links to various practical technologies
and approaches that will help to bootstrap developing
economies. (See the editorial
on productivity and developing countries.)
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- KickStart
- Human
Powered Radios, Flashlights, etc. - windup
mechanisms eliminate the need for batteries.
- Hippo
Water Roller - barrel with a simple push lawnmower
type handle allowing a person to move much larger
amounts of water than with a jug.
- Kenya
Ceramic Jiko - low cost, high efficiency stove
- Low power white LED lighting
- Manna
Energy
- The
Multifunctional Platform for Poverty Alleviation
- diesel motor on a platform with optional accessories,
e.g. a grinder for peanuts, provides low cost ways
to vastly increase production for small villages.
- Nepal
Ghatta Project - transform simple water mills
into battery charging stations
- Refrigeration
- Roundabout
Outdoor
- Playpump
- kids push and ride roundabout for fun and pump
water at same time
- Lifestraw
- easy to use water purifier
- SODIS
- simple, low cost water disinfection with solar heating.
- Solar Ovens
- SUDEA
- Society for Urban Development in East Africa
- Windbelt
- Waste Management
- XAccess
(Xtracycle Access Foundation) -
- Extrabike
- low cost cargo carrier for bicycles
- Agriculture & Biotech
- Other Sites
- Low Cost Housing
- Articles
- Space and Developing Countries
- SpaceForTheBenefitOfHumanity
- weblog devoted to the benefits of space for
developing countries.
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LAUNCH - - initiative that includes
NASA that seeks "to identify and support
the innovative work poised to contribute to a
sustainable future and accelerate solutions to
meet urgent challenges facing our society"
- SATELLIFE
- a non-profit group that provides telecommunications
services to developing countries.
- Remote
Sensing - RS imagery and data offer important
benefits to poor countries in many ways such as
in the monitoring of resources - water distribution,
forest cover, land use, etc. They've even been
used to monitor insect infestations and conditions
conducive to diseases such as sleeping sickness
spread by the tsetse fly .
- Science
Center at Education World - links to websites
dealing with science education in developing countries.
- Nigeria:
- India
Core: Information on Indian Infrastructure &
Core Sectors
- Articles
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