Crowdsourced challenges can spur unprecedented innovation leaps at stalled industries. However, these challenges must be quickly inscribed into a believable road to market path to bring to life commercially viable products. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation faced a similar challenge when it tried to revolutionize sanitation in the emerging world by reinventing the toilet with open innovation mechanisms.
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How climate change is jeopardising access to basic sanitation facilities for 2.5 billion people
While developed world countries are largely responsible for the behaviours that bring about climate change, the effects can be felt most severely in the developing world