viernes, 14 de abril de 2017

Social Entrepreneurship Assignment

Social Entrepreneurship Assignment

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Khanjan’s Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) program develops transformative social innovations using appropriate technology. Few of us have the opportunity to travel to resource-constrained communities to fully understand people’s needs. Fortunately, we do have a window into HESE’s world with a website called Engineering For Change (www.engineeringforchange.org). The E4C website was founded to help design and deploy creative technical solutions to improve quality of life in communities around the world. E4C helps develop affordable, locally appropriate and sustainable solutions to the most pressing humanitarian challenges.

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1. Go to www.engineeringforchange.org. Register (for free!) on the website to join the over 24,000 other problem solvers around the world.

2. After registering, come back to the home page, and click on one of the Areas of Interest across the top of the page: Water, Energy, Health, Structures, Agriculture, Sanitation, Info. Systems. Pick an area that interests you, or is a current challenge in your community or region or country.
3. For each Area of Interest, there are multiple topics and articles to help you better understand the topic from the E4C prospective. For a few minutes, click on topics under headers like
· Case Stud


Publications
· NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) Blogs
· E4C News
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4. Pick one “click” to set you on an “E4C exploration path”. Spend time reading the article or blog, viewing the links in the website, etc. Follow related links as much as you’d like.
For your submission, develop answers for these four bullets:
· What Area of Interest did you explore, and why you picked it.
· What article or blog or workspace did you select?
· List three insights or new knowledge you gained as you followed your “E4C exploration path”.
· E4C solutions generally are “earth-friendly”, so even though the E4C problem and solution are discussed in the context of a resource-constrained community, the whole world needs “earth-friendly” solutions. Could you see the topic or technology being used in your community or region or country? Explain.

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EeNGINEERING FOR CHANGE  NTEREST:

WATER

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Nearly 1 billion people don’t have access to clean water, and the consequences are fatal. Diarrhea is one of the leading killers of children under the age of five. Fortunately, the solutions needed to access clean water can be affordable and reliable. With informed design and management, drawing water, transporting and purifying it are all possible for everyone worldwide.

Promising Prototypes to Watch in 2017

Prototypes are pushing the field of global development technology forward as they evolve in workshops, universities, laboratories and even garages. We asked our international network of experts in engineering...

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Promising Prototypes to Watch in 2017

Prototypes are pushing the field of global development technology forward as they evolve in workshops, universities, laboratories and even garages. We asked our international network of experts in engineering for global development to recommend the innovations that they believe we should keep an eye on. This is a look at some of the newest hardware, software and services in development now. Each is designed to meet a basic need in the world’s underserved communities. And each has the potential to become a marketable product that can improve the quality of life. These are promising prototypes to watch in the year ahead.

SoaPen colored soaps for school children

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SoaPen has found a way to make handwashing interesting to children. The startup is developing colored bar and liquid soaps that act as paints or pens for drawing on children’s hands. The children then scrub the colored soap off in the sink, ending up with clean hands as a by-product of a fun activity.
“We have several working prototypes of the bar and liquid soaps in different colors and fragrances. At factory scale, we have got successful results from only the orange liquid SoaPen as of now. We are still working towards perfecting the bar soap,” Shubham Issar at SoaPen says.
The soap addresses a serious problem among children in developing countries. Diarrhea is one of the biggest killers of children under the age of five worldwide, and handwashing, together with clean drinking water, is key to reducing the spread of the disease. In five years, the SoaPen team would like to reduce diarrhea rates by at least half in the schools where the product will be distributed. Ms. Issar says.
So far, the startup has conducted trials in three schools in Mumbai, India, with positive results, Ms. Issar says. Now they are trying to figure out the best place to store the SoaPen in the classroom.
The team is outlining their business model and marketing strategy while product development is still underway. The plan is a “buy-one-give-one” strategy for sales, and they would like to partner with companies that already distribute soaps to the schools they plan to target. The cost of each SoaPen is not yet determined.
“Hoping to have SoaPens on the shelf early this year!” Ms. Issar says.
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