mitra

I am inspired by people who can see a new solution, or adapt an existing one to solve a hard problem. This includes out of the box thinkers - like Buckminster Fuller for example, but also young innovators nobody has heard of.

We know how to solve many problems in the rich (western) countries and capital cities, that we don't know how to solve in resource constrained environments. We don't need a specific technology as much as we need good design thinking that a: designs around the willingness and ability to pay of the under-served population; and b: thinks at the scale of the problem; c: thinks about the whole system the tech is embedded in - maintenance; politics; gender; existing systems of power and privilige etc This means - thinking both more broadly than most engineers are trained, AND being willing to think outside the constraints of western engineering. For example a perfectly engineered, safe water treatment system, may be so unaffordable, or unmaintainable that the village goes back to drinking untreated river water.

Real world experience that bridges developing a wide range of technologies; building businesses; and a variety of developing countries, and a love of helping other people solve problems. I have, what you could call, the superpower of seeing the problems in your solution that other people either miss, ignore, or pretend isn't there while telling you what you want to hear.