Effectron offers technology to African countries to manufacture solar lighting products

Effectron is an independent organization under private sector, having in-house R&D and product design centre for Solar Lighting products. They have licensed designs to an Indian Company to manufacture and market them in India. All products have found acceptance in Indian market. They now offer, to transfer  technology to manufacture Solar Lighting products in African country, using locally available materials and resources. All designed products are meant for people living at the “Bottom of Pyramid” and where grid connectivity is poor. Since these products have been designed and developed from concept in house, the firm  can transfer all the relevant knowledge to produce locally, and train technicians and engineer. 
contact: Gopal Darbari, MD, Gopal Darbari

Mulago Foundation- funding scalable social enterprises

Mulago is a private foundation designed and built to carry on the life work of Rainer Arnhold.Rainer, a San Francisco pediatrician, taught medicine at Mulago Hospital in Uganda, and he named his own under-the-radar charitable foundation after the hospital that he loved. After Rainer’s untimely death in 1993, his brother Henry Arnhold established the Foundation in its current form.

Low cost infant warmer Embrace is one of the projects supported by the foundation. In 2007Jane Chen, Linus Liang, Rahul Panicker, and Nag Murty, all graduate design and business students at Stanford University, developed the Embrace infant warmer, which uses an innovative phase-change material to regulate a baby’s temperature and costs less than $100 to make. It requires no electricity, has no moving parts, is portable, and is safe and intuitive to use. After graduating from Stanford, Jane, Linus, Rahul and Nag co-founded Embrace and in 2010 they launched a modified version of the infant warmer product in India. 

D-Rev: Design for the other 90%

D-Rev (Design Revolution) is a non-profit technology incubator in Bay area aimed at deigning  and delivering world-class market-driven products for BOP market.Through a collaboration with the Jaipur Foot Organization (BMVSS) in India and Stanford University, Re:Motion team has designed and tested the Jaipur Knee joint prototype.Recognized by TIME Magazine as a Top 50 Invention of 2009, the JaipurKnee technology leverages (i) easily manufactured plastic parts and (ii) a proven polycentric kinematic mechanism to achieve significantly increased stability and gait efficiency when compared with other low-cost alternatives.D-Rev recently announced that Phoenix Medical Systems in India will run the marketing and distribution of D-Rev's Brilliance product, a neo-natal phototherapy device used to treat infants with the brain-damaging disease, jaundice, and which comes at a price tag of $400 instead of the usual $3,000. Other projects in pipeline are: Global scope for rural clinics, cold pasteurization of milk, Solar concentrator etc.

Identify a start-up and can win $3000 cash award from ennovent

Great opportunity to mentors. Select one of yr start-up addressing some of India's critical needs like energy, education , health, food, water and nominate them to ennovent.  Customers of the enterprise should be poor Indians with earning of $3 per day. U can win $3,000 and enterprise can get investment upto$500,000. Details:  ennovent

CK Prahalad's India 75 vision

World has come to know of Indian Innovations due to Prof CK Prahalad's pioneering work on Innovations for BOP Market. See his papers under `6 big opportunities for India'. We all miss him.

Manipal University to host International BoP Summit 2009 at Manipal

A two day International Base of Pyramid Summit (BoP) 2009 will be organised by Manipal University from December 17 & 18, 2009 at Chaitya Hall, Fortune Inn Valley View, Manipal involving partners of BoP in the areas of Innovation, Incubation and investment. For more information contact:
Prof. Harish Chandra Hebbar – 9880504014
(BOP – Chair)
Mr. Manjunath Maiya - 9845822443
(Philips- Project Manager)