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  • Heather Fleming

    Launching Engineering for Change, A Design Tool Whose Time Has Come

    Few tools exist that bridge the knowledge gap between the realities on-the-ground and development professionals. Enter Engineering for Change (E4C). Equal parts catalog, database, research and collaboration tool - with the accessibility of the Internet worldwide - E4C is what the design and development sector has needed for decades.

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  • Josh Weinstein

    Energy for the BoP Made ’Simple’

    Simpa Networks manufactures a solar household system that, unlike some others, is off-the-shelf, and easy to install and maintain. Inspired by mobile phone prepayment systems, the big innovation is Simpa’s unique "Progressive Purchase" pricing model, a micropayment system specifically designed to fit the unpredictable incomes of the poor.

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    Base of the Pyramid, microfinance
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