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How can we improve sanitation and better manage human waste in low-income urban communities?
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Get Paid For Your Poop
This concept is directly inspired by Alessandro’s call to “imagine that people would not have to pay anything to use the bathroom, but that these bathrooms were small factories that produce gas and fertilizer”, as well as by the many other OpenIDE...
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Vincent Cheng
December 19, 2010
07:22AM |
Celebrate Toilet Ownership
Building a toilet and taking responsibility for proper waste management is a big deal. It's good for a family and it's better for the community. Find some way to celebrate it.
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Jeff Chapin
January 04, 2011
03:03PM |
How can we support and encourage full community cooperation with sanitation plans?
Incentives and disincentives are both necessary parts of engaging community cooperation with sanitation plans. How can we use these tools to best serve the community in solving sanitation problems in Kumasi?
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Sabra Marcroft
December 25, 2010
08:54AM |
Tupac Crappers
Use famous stars to make toilets aspirational.
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Jeff Chapin
January 04, 2011
02:55PM |
Navigation System for "Flying Toilets"
Why let the dirty toilets "fly" about randomly? Why let them create disease? Why let waste be littered around? Why not have a navigation system that directs these to a place where they can be used effectively as resources?
This concept draws in...
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Saahil Juneja
December 22, 2010
02:21PM |
We'll trade you cell phone minutes for your sanitization transition!
Through the use of an exchange system citizens are given the option to increase their minutes/use time of their cell phones by signing up for a sanitization project. The sanitation project offers counseling, materials able to create a sanitized en...
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Christopher Spurgeon
December 15, 2010
05:49PM |
Bundling sanitizing products with toilets
Purchasing hygiene / sanitation products provides free access to the best latrines.
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Dominique Ng
December 23, 2010
07:19PM |
The One-Stop Shop
The place to go to get done what you need.
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Brady Hudkins
December 22, 2010
08:12PM |
Gold Medal Service
Reward consistency of good cleaning service, and help both the service provider and their customers communicate that their facilities are Gold Medal clean.
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Larry Cheng
December 21, 2010
10:34PM |
Point of Poo Pledge
When are people most likely to relate to others’ sanitation problems? When they’re feeling the urge to relieve themselves of course!
Imagine if awareness/action-raising stickers/posters were placed on the inside of public toilet stalls in the d...
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Vincent Cheng
December 25, 2010
01:54PM |
The Better Place Model
Get a bucket, use a bucket, get a new bucket. What if people are rewarded with a clean, shiny, new-looking bucket each time they bring a full bucket to collection?
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beth viner
December 23, 2010
12:22AM |
Creating a Network of Educated Mothers
Changing behavior, especially among adults, is a very tough thing to do. Given that, I suggest we think about how we can teach the youngest generations in areas like Kumasi to be responsible about their sanitation and waste disposal habits - after...
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Ashley Jablow
December 22, 2010
05:09AM |
Poop To Fuel Pellets
As the elderly population in Japan increases, companies there have developed technology that turns adult diapers (and child diapers) into sterile, odorless, concentrated, portable pellets that can be used for fuel and construction (http://news.cne...
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Vincent Cheng
December 19, 2010
06:15PM |
Adopt-A-Drain
Shifting drain cleanliness responsibility from the city to the residents
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Svava Maria Atladottir
December 23, 2010
09:18PM |
WOSUK: Women's Sanitation Union of Kumasi
The Women’s Sanitation Union of Kumasi is a neutral organization with a CHARTER signed by Unilever, the Kumasi government and the ‘population’ which will champion, promote and monitor healthy and safe sanitation solutions in Kumasi.
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niko herzeg
December 28, 2010
08:19AM |
Group buying toilets
In the same way that microfinance has leveraged group lending to ensure accountability and repayment, NGOs or even for-profit organizations can engage communities in "group buys" of toilets. Communities would pool together resources to apply for ...
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Dominique Ng
December 23, 2010
06:55PM |
Texting Toilets
This builds on the observations by the OpenIdeo Ghana Field Team that “in just about every home there [were] cell phones (one or two per family member)” and Andy’s remark that “there’s more cell phones than toilets in Africa”, as well as building ...
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Vincent Cheng
December 14, 2010
10:24AM |
Financing Around Cashflow Issues
Find a way to enable families to afford a latrine purchase even with their limited cash flow. Many are already spending some money on latrine usage ($0.10-0.20 per use). Leverage this existing expenditure to finance a latrine.
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Jeff Chapin
January 04, 2011
03:04PM |
PeePoo Version 2
The PeePoo is a brilliant project that addresses existing “flying toilet” behaviors through a single-use sanitizing toilet bag that improves hygiene and creates fertilizer. As the project has been field testing (well worth a look: http://www.peepo...
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Vincent Cheng
December 22, 2010
05:34PM |
Making Private Toilets Public
This concept is inspired by the following article “Toilets are being converted to bedrooms in Kumasi “ (http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=165948), as its direct commentary on the toilet situation in Kumasi (the regio...
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Vincent Cheng
December 16, 2010
09:42PM |
