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How can we improve sanitation and better manage human waste in low-income urban communities?
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Thank you to everyone who contributed to the challenge and a massive congratulations to the winners below. This is a really special challenge for OpenIDEO and we're proud that the winning ideas and more will become part of a project deliverable that will help to move the concepts forward.
There's some nice overlap in the ideas that the IDEO team created in parallel, but perhaps the most valuable addition to the project is how the OpenIDEO community generated ideas that expanded the scope of the larger issue of low cost sanitation needs. Ideas that addressed issues like community awareness and funding help to make the team's product and service concepts more robust and realistic.
Check out the final report from the IDEO Ghanasan team: New Opportunities for Urban Sanitation
There's some nice overlap in the ideas that the IDEO team created in parallel, but perhaps the most valuable addition to the project is how the OpenIDEO community generated ideas that expanded the scope of the larger issue of low cost sanitation needs. Ideas that addressed issues like community awareness and funding help to make the team's product and service concepts more robust and realistic.
PIPIBOL*: for a more fragrant and clean city!
For thousands of years homo sapiens (particularly males) looked for tire o seeking a rock or a tree to pee. We could even call it "homo peepens" ... It would will be a REALLY good idea try to get him to change that pesky habit?
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Alessandro Ortega Amaral
January 01, 2011
09:58PM |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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