Low tech solutions for developing countries

I will make up for the lost blog posts - I promise.

Upon looking for examples of low tech solutions that have been developed for those surviving on a few dollars (if at all) a day, I came across Amy Smith, a lecturer at MIT.

She is actively involved in developing simple solutions for those in the third world. She is a co-founder of the IDEAS competition at MIT, where students are encouraged to come with a technological innovation to address the issues of our day. She founded the D-Lab at MIT presents the technological, social and economic problems that people who live below the poverty line face. She is also an organizer of the International Development Design Summit, which brings together people from around the world to come up with technological solutions to address these problems.

Some of the inventions that have come out of her efforts are a screenless hammermill, solar water disinfectant, low-cost water tester, phase-change incubator and sugarcane charcoal. I encourage you to take a look at the D-Lab project portfolio, which describes these solutions in more detail.

More later. Guaranteed :-).