Welcome to our hub for sharing challenge-related updates as well as stories of implementation and impact. We hope you’ll check back to hear the latest from our challenge sponsors, the OpenIDEO Team and our amazing community of OpenIDEATORS – which reminds us: Have you been inspired to bring any ideas from the challenge to life? Let folks know by hitting the Add Your Story button on the left after grabbing tips on crafting your Impact Story post.
122 contributions
68 ideas
22 final ideas
Announced!
Ongoing
8 contributions
Sorted by Newest
Contribution list
Low cost Sanitation Technologies for Fecal Sludge Management
We construct low cost toilets that solve challenges of high water table, collapsible soils, and then empty pits in congested areas.
300+ Clean Team Toilets Delivered to Ghana
This January, the first container load of 384 Uniloo toilets arrived in Kumasi, Ghana. Clean Team aims to service 1,000 households in 2013 and 10,000 households in 2014.
Clean Team Customer Feedback
While one of our students was out in Ghana he made us a great video about the trial. Hear from our first customers what they feel about how the project is going.
Week 4: First toilet, first family, first day
Week 4 of the trial set-up
Week 3: Shipping containers and setting up for first loo delivery
Week 3 of the trial set-up in Ghana
Week 2: Contracts and waste containers
Week 2 of trial set up
Uniloo Start-Up Blog:
Team blog from the field
Ghanasan's Design Deliverable
The Ghanansan team at IDEO has been hard at work — taking everything we learned during our OpenIDEO Sanitation Challenge and prototyping various sanitation solutions out in the field. But their work hasn’t stopped there!