DUBAI – On World Cities Day, and as Expo 2020 kicks off Urban and Rural Development Week, we take a look at the Expo Live Global Innovators who are already making our living environments more resilient and sustainable.
From energy-efficient cooking stoves to sustainable transportation, Global Innovators from Expo Live’s Innovation Impact Grant Programme will be discussing their creative ideas throughout Urban and Rural Development Week, with the a series of Expo Live Impact Series sessions taking place at The Hub at The Good Place, the Expo Live Pavilion.
Amal Work (Palestine) – Amal Work aims to bridge the gap between contractors and workers, with a platform that provides cross-examinations of worker/contractor profiles, offering multiple filters, including reviews. Both parties can track progress and receive reports, alongside other features and services. Amal Work aims to help sustain workers’ access to suitable employment opportunities, and ensure that their safety and dignity is preserved.
Bambu Pallet (Costa Rica) – Bambu Pallet had the idea that pallets used for the transportation of goods could be made using bamboo as the main raw material, rather than wood. It now builds pallets with zero deforestation, lower energy consumption and a higher rate of oxygen regeneration.
Compost Baladi (Lebanon) – Compost Baladi is a Lebanese social enterprise that develops solutions for households, municipalities and development agencies to convert biowaste into bioresources, such as CubeX – a decentralised home-scale solid and liquid biowaste treatment device.
Ethis Crowd (Indonesia) – Ethis Crowd develops and operates an Islamic real-estate crowdfunding platform that allows its global community of 25,000 crowd investors to pledge money to affordable housing projects in Indonesia.
Fundefir (Venezuela/Colombia) – Founded in Venezuela in 1996, non-profit Fundefir provides investment and financial education opportunities to poor communities. Fundefir pioneered the ‘Bankomunal’ business model, which enables these communities to fund small private economic projects locally.
JaanPak (Pakistan) – JaanPak provides clean, fuel-saving cooking solutions in low-income communities, reducing respiratory illnesses and significantly slowing the rate of deforestation.
Liter of Light (Philippines) – Liter of Light is a global, grassroots movement committed to providing affordable, sustainable solar light to people with limited or no access to electricity. Liter of Light’s open source technology has been recognised by the UN and adopted for use in some United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) camps.
Mobility for Africa (Zimbabwe) – Mobility for Africa looks to build community-based, off-the-grid renewable electric transport solutions that are affordable, efficient and environmentally-friendly. It provides electric tricycles, and uses a local-distribution network that empowers rural women to be entrepreneurs.
SOIL (Haiti) – Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) is a Haiti-based, non-profit research and development organisation that designs, tests and implements social business models for the provision of safe, dignified sanitation, producing rich, organic compost as a natural resource for agriculture The compost assists Haiti's badly-depleted soils and simultaneously creates economic opportunities in some of the world's most under-resourced communities. Founded in 2006, it currently helps more than 6,000 urban residents in Haiti.
Suyo (Colombia) – Suyo unlocks the social and economic value of formalised property for low-income families through its technology-enabled services.
Transport for Cairo (Egypt) – Transport for Cairo leverages technology to improve public transportation by gathering data about Cairo’s streets and traffic, producing well-functioning maps and routing applications.
Expo Live is Expo 2020 Dubai’s global innovation and partnership programme, supporting 140 grantees from 76 countries, from the Middle East and Africa to Asia and South America.
To interview any of our Expo Live Global Innovators, please contact press.office@expo2020.ae.
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