8 Awesome Tech Ideas That Changed Lives In 2012
#2 SMS Makes Rural Doctors Accountable
India is touted as the next big destination for medical tourism. This is in stark contrast to the reality in villages, where doctors prefer to be absent.
To make the officials and the doctors accountable, the Indo-Deutch Project Management society, an NGO, came up with an SMS system. All healthcare workers with a mobile phone come under this system, and it provides the higher officials with data on the regions having more doctor absenteeism.
#1 Accesses To Clean Water Using A Portable Faucet
On visits to your favorite roadside stall, you would have observed the cleaners using a common tub to soak and clean the plates. This would have made you cringe, given the fact that it is unhygienic and a source for pathogens.
Kim Chow and his classmates from the Art Centre College of Design came up with ‘Balde a Balde’, which roughly translates into Bucket to Bucket. It is basically a portable faucet which pumps water via an adjustable nozzle. Rubbermaid, which currently manufactures Chow’s faucet, aims to provide 780 million people around the world with clean water.
