After the devastating Nepal earthquake, Oxfam used 3D printing to provide faster aid. This post explores that example as well as the other ways that 3D printing can revolutionize the supply chains of humanitarian organizations.
Non-Profit
Operation Love Serenade: Fighting corruption in Brazil with an open-source, Machine Learning-powered robot
Motivated to fight corruption in Brazil, tech-savvy citizens used crowdfunding to start a non-profit, open-source project that uses data science for the purpose of monitoring public spending.
Grand Challenges at Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
An example of Open Innovation applied to Non-Profit Organization and Beyond
StoryCorps: Crowdsourcing to Preserve Humanity’s Stories
StoryCorps drives product and content generation through physical and digital crowdsourcing of human stories
Saving Generation Jobless through digitization
Are you young and looking for a job? Join the other 71 million youth unemployed in the world and trust that digital solutions will save the day.
Only The Resourceful Will Survive
Have faith in us: with a little support, some of the biggest climate change solutions will come from those who have the least.
Sustainable Toilets: A Pleasant Solution to a Foul Problem
As climate change and resulting droughts threaten the world’s water supply, can we afford to keep flushing our problems away? Nonprofit RTI International has developed an incinerator toilet—entirely self-sustaining in energy efficiency—that will revolutionize water use in human waste disposal. http://abettertoilet.org/
Edesia: The Goddess of Food is Intervening to Fight Irreversible Damage in Africa
Climate change in Africa has led to widespread malnutrition across the continent. Edesia, a Rhode Island based non-for-profit with limited resources, looks to maximize its production of nutritional supplements in order to help alleviate the impact of this humanitarian crisis.
The Grass is NOT Greener on the Other Side, and It Looks Great!
Changing landscapes: how one non-profit is transforming the way we view the American front yard.
In-Q-Tel: How to Keep Your Spies In the Know
Even the CIA needs help with technology. In-Q-Tel is just the solution the spymasters of the world were looking for.