- AMD Personal Internet Communicator
- Bamboo Treadle Pump
- Big Boda load-carrying bicycle
- Ceramic Water Filter
- Domed Pit Latrine Slab kit
- Drip Irrigation System
- Internet Village Motoman Network
- Jaipur foot and below-knee prosthesis
- Kenya Ceramic Jiko
- Kinkajou Microfilm Projector and Portable Library
- LifeStraw
- One Laptop per Child
- MoneyMaker Block Press
- MoneyMaker Hip Pump
- Pot-in-Pot cooler
- PermaNet
- Q Drum
- Solar Home Lighting System
- Solar Aid
- StarSight
- Sugarcane charcoal
- Super MoneyMaker Pump
- Water Storage System
- WorldBike prototype
TRANSPORT
Transport moves people and goods; and provides access to clinics, schools, markets, and financial opportunities. While motorized vehicles are more efficient, they are too costly for the poorest communities. Non-motorized modes of transportation, such as bicycles, tricycles, rickshaws, handcarts, and wheelbarrows, serve a critical role for those living in on the peripheries of cities and in remote rural locations.
Engineers, designers, and small nonprofit organizations are engaging manufacturers in producing low-cost improvements in the transport of goods, food, water, and people. They are establishing local workshops with metal workers to retrofit bicycles; working with local potters to produce cooling pots; challenging manufacturers of bicycles in India and China to serve a burgeoning market for affordable cargo bikes in Africa; and devising low-cost cooling systems or a method to easily transport water.
