Archive | Water RSS feed for this section

The Secret Power of Crowdsourcing

By on February 18, 2013 in Building a Social Venture, Design, Education, Social Entrepreneurship, Water

One of the most powerful but little talked about movements that has arisen in the last few years is that of crowdsourcing.  According to Wikipedia crowdsourcing “is a process that involves outsourcing tasks to a distributed group of people.”  With the explosion of the Internet, crowdsourcing is at last realizing its true potential as an [...]

Read full story · Comments are closed

You’re So Sleek, But I’m Not Interested

By on December 14, 2012 in Design, Energy / Enviornment, Poverty, Stories of Impact, Water, Women's Empowerment

In college, I was enamored by all the savvy products that were being created by first world designers for pressing world issues. Buzz words like humanitarian design and design for bottom of the pyramid began forming. Interdisciplinary design was becoming more experimental and addressing bigger problems. Incredibly imaginative solutions were being produced for basic needs [...]

Read full story · Comments are closed