Design for the Unwealthiest 90 Percent
Posted on April 30, 2007 Comments (0)
Design for the unwealthiest 90 percent by Alice Rawsthorn:
Many humanitarian designers focus on helping the needy to enhance their earning potential by setting up new businesses, or running existing ones more efficiently. The Bamboo Treadle Pump enables poor farmers in countries like Bangladesh, Cambodia and India to pump up groundwater during the dry season. The Big Boda Load-Carrying Bicycle provides cheap transport in Kenya and Uganda to carry hundreds of pounds of cargo or two passengers using pedal-power. And thanks to the KickStart MoneyMaker Block Press, eight workers can produce up to 800 building blocks a day from soil and a small quantity of cement.
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Categories: Engineering, Products, Students
Tags: appropriate technology, economy, Engineering
Categories: Engineering, Products, Students
Tags: appropriate technology, economy, Engineering
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