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: For Neonatal Jaundice, a New Option in Resource-Poor Nations
by Nicholas Bakalar on September 26, 2011
Neonatal jaundice, a condition caused by excess bilirubin in the blood, affects most babies in the first few days of life when their livers are just beginning to function. It gives the skin a yellowish tint, but normally it goes away after a week or two without treatment, and the condition has no lasting consequences...

: PopTech Presents 2011 Class of Social Innovation Fellows
September 21, 2011
PopTech, the global social innovation incubator and thought leadership network, today announced its 2011 class of Social Innovation Fellows. The Fellows program equips changemakers and innovators with the tools, insights, visibility and social networks to help them scale their work and achieve greater impact. This year’s class is working to address social, economic and environmental challenges...

: Charging for Product: Why Price Matters, Even For Non-Profits
by Karen Zeller on August 10, 2011
Let’s say you create a new innovative product for the masses, which will change the way people live and change the world. That doesn’t sound strange for most of us working in technology here in Silicon Valley; that’s the ambition of many around here. What if your ambition is to help the four billion people in the world who get no stock options, free snacks, let alone health insurance....

: Jaipur Foot: One of the Most Technologically-Advanced Social Enterprises in the World
by Rahim Kanani on August 8, 2011
Their $45 ultramodern prosthetic is simply unmatched when compared to a similar $12,000 limb produced in the United States. The beauty of the Jaipur Foot is its lightness and mobility, as those who wear it can run, climb trees and pedal bicycles. Their knee replacement developed in cooperation with Stanford University...

: D-Rev Applies Silicon Valley Design (and Business) Thinking to the Developing World
by Wade Roush on July 14, 2011
“One of the things that makes us a little out of the ordinary, and one of the things that makes us really successful, is that our methods are 95 percent business methods,” says John Dawson, chairman of the board at D-Rev (the name stands for Design Revolution). “It’s not like we are taking just a little bit of Silicon Valley and shoving it into a non-profit. Most of this organization operates like a startup.""...

: Stepping into the future an easier feat
by Ben Doherty on June 18, 2011
Prasad concentrates fiercely on every step, one foot in front of the other, staring at the wall ahead as he learns how to walk again. At the end of his careful parade, he's asked how he feels with his new limb, a prosthetic foot built from rubber and wood, and a new knee made of nylon and a handful of bolts. For the first time in a decade he is able to stand unaided, hands on hips and back straight....

: Arunima may walk again, thanks to a Jaipur Knee
by Rahim Kanani on April 16, 2011
Volleyball player Sonu Sinha (Arunima), who lost her leg after she was thrown off from a moving train by hoodlums trying to rob her, can take heart. If all goes well, she will be able to walk again, thanks to the Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) here — the world's largest manufacturer of artificial limbs...

: Brilliance in India: New Deal Allows Bay Area Firm to Fight Jaundice
by Jenara Nerenberg on December 22, 2010
The Bay Area-based non-profit technology design firm D-Rev has inked its largest distribution deal since launching in 2007. D-Rev--co-founded by Paul Polak--announced today that Phoenix Medical Systems in India will run the marketing and distribution...

: Take the Challenge: Design for the Other 90 Percent
by Teri Whitcraft and Anna Maria Barry-Jester on December 17, 2010
Patell is teaching a new generation of entrepreneurs at Stanford Business School how to design and sell innovative, affordable products for the world's poor that can not only save lives but make money -- for the inventors as well as their partners in the developing world...

: Extreme Affordability: Why We Must Wear the User's Shoes
by Neil Seeman and Kenneth Lam on August 23, 2010
Henry Ford’s vision for the Model T was that it would “meet the wants of the multitude.” In 1908, that vision changed the automotive industry forever, with ripple effects cascading throughout all of manufacturing...

: The 50 Top Inventions of 2009
January 2010
Tens of thousands of amputees in the developing world wear an inexpensive prosthetic called the Jaipur Foot. But poor patients who lose a knee joint have few options: a titanium replacement can cost $10,000, and crude models don't work very well. Now a team of Stanford engineering students has designed a knee...

: Boyd Matson interviews Krista Donaldson on National Geographic Weekend
Nov 26, 2011
"And the best is when you can look at a product that's been around forever and people just sort of accept it and think that's the way it was and always will be but no, not necessarily. Krista Donaldson works for D-Rev (Design Revolution) and they are not only trying to revolutionize the design but revolutionize the lives of the users..."

: 40 Under 40: Krista Donaldson
Nov 28, 2011
As CEO of D-Rev, Donaldson, 38, manages a global nonprofit tech incubator that partners with major organizations like Stanford Medical School and the All Indian Institute of Medicine to create products to improve the lives of people in developing countries. For example, out of Palo Alto-based D-Rev came the ReMotion Jaipur Knee, which has helped 3,200 amputees in six countries. Donaldson is well-versed with the needs of the developing world...

: D-Rev's Design Sense: Connecting World-Class Products With World Needs
by Kevin Martin on Nov 17, 2011
To say Krista Donaldson, the CEO of Design Revolution, has a multi-disciplinary background would be something of an understatement. She previously served as a diplomacy fellow at the U.S. State Department where she worked on economic policy and the reconstruction of the country's electricity sector...

: Fifteen Innovators Championing Global Development
September 22, 2011
In a world of incessant iPhone updates, it can be difficult to remember that most of the world struggles to access basic energy and technology needs. Brilliant agents of social, economic, and political change work across the globe to address big problems, but they sometimes lack the tools necessary to move forward. The annual PopTech Social Innovation Fellows actively work around the globe to address these needs. PopTech selects 10 to 20 innovators...

: PopTech Presents 2011 Class of Social Innovation Fellows
September 21, 2011
PopTech, the global social innovation incubator and thought leadership network, today announced its 2011 class of Social Innovation Fellows. The Fellows program equips changemakers and innovators with the tools, insights, visibility and social networks to help them scale their work and achieve greater impact. This year’s class is working to address social, economic and environmental challenges...

: Charging for Product: Why Price Matters, Even For Non-Profits
by Karen Zeller on August 10, 2011
Let’s say you create a new innovative product for the masses, which will change the way people live and change the world. That doesn’t sound strange for most of us working in technology here in Silicon Valley; that’s the ambition of many around here. What if your ambition is to help the four billion people in the world who get no stock options, free snacks, let alone health insurance....

: D-Rev Applies Silicon Valley Design (and Business) Thinking to the Developing World
by Wade Roush on July 14, 2011
“One of the things that makes us a little out of the ordinary, and one of the things that makes us really successful, is that our methods are 95 percent business methods,” says John Dawson, chairman of the board at D-Rev (the name stands for Design Revolution). “It’s not like we are taking just a little bit of Silicon Valley and shoving it into a non-profit. Most of this organization operates like a startup.""...

: Take the Challenge: Design for the Other 90 Percent
by Teri Whitcraft and Anna Maria Barry-Jester on December 17, 2010
Patell is teaching a new generation of entrepreneurs at Stanford Business School how to design and sell innovative, affordable products for the world's poor that can not only save lives but make money -- for the inventors as well as their partners in the developing world...

: [How To] Design for (Real) Impact
by Jacob Donnelly on September 10, 2010
What do Kickstart, Bridge International Academies, and the One Acre Fund have in common? First, they are all extremely high performance organizations that have grown substantially since launching. However, and more interesting to this conversation, is that all three have been specifically designed to maximize impact...

: Extreme Affordability: Why We Must Wear the User's Shoes
by Neil Seeman and Kenneth Lam on August 23, 2010
Henry Ford’s vision for the Model T was that it would “meet the wants of the multitude.” In 1908, that vision changed the automotive industry forever, with ripple effects cascading throughout all of manufacturing...

: Boyd Matson interviews Krista Donaldson on National Geographic Weekend
Nov 26, 2011
"And the best is when you can look at a product that's been around forever and people just sort of accept it and think that's the way it was and always will be but no, not necessarily. Krista Donaldson works for D-Rev (Design Revolution) and they are not only trying to revolutionize the design but revolutionize the lives of the users..."

: For Neonatal Jaundice, a New Option in Resource-Poor Nations
by Nicholas Bakalar on September 26, 2011
Neonatal jaundice, a condition caused by excess bilirubin in the blood, affects most babies in the first few days of life when their livers are just beginning to function. It gives the skin a yellowish tint, but normally it goes away after a week or two without treatment, and the condition has no lasting consequences...

: PopTech Presents 2011 Class of Social Innovation Fellows
September 21, 2011
PopTech, the global social innovation incubator and thought leadership network, today announced its 2011 class of Social Innovation Fellows. The Fellows program equips changemakers and innovators with the tools, insights, visibility and social networks to help them scale their work and achieve greater impact. This year’s class is working to address social, economic and environmental challenges...

: Jaipur Foot: One of the Most Technologically-Advanced Social Enterprises in the World
by Rahim Kanani on August 8, 2011
Their $45 ultramodern prosthetic is simply unmatched when compared to a similar $12,000 limb produced in the United States. The beauty of the Jaipur Foot is its lightness and mobility, as those who wear it can run, climb trees and pedal bicycles. Their knee replacement developed in cooperation with Stanford University...

: D-Rev Applies Silicon Valley Design (and Business) Thinking to the Developing World
by Wade Roush on July 14, 2011
“One of the things that makes us a little out of the ordinary, and one of the things that makes us really successful, is that our methods are 95 percent business methods,” says John Dawson, chairman of the board at D-Rev (the name stands for Design Revolution). “It’s not like we are taking just a little bit of Silicon Valley and shoving it into a non-profit. Most of this organization operates like a startup.""...

: Stepping into the future an easier feat
by Ben Doherty on June 18, 2011
Prasad concentrates fiercely on every step, one foot in front of the other, staring at the wall ahead as he learns how to walk again. At the end of his careful parade, he's asked how he feels with his new limb, a prosthetic foot built from rubber and wood, and a new knee made of nylon and a handful of bolts. For the first time in a decade he is able to stand unaided, hands on hips and back straight....

: Arunima may walk again, thanks to a Jaipur Knee
by Rahim Kanani on April 16, 2011
Volleyball player Sonu Sinha (Arunima), who lost her leg after she was thrown off from a moving train by hoodlums trying to rob her, can take heart. If all goes well, she will be able to walk again, thanks to the Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) here — the world's largest manufacturer of artificial limbs...

: Brilliance in India: New Deal Allows Bay Area Firm to Fight Jaundice
by Jenara Nerenberg on December 22, 2010
The Bay Area-based non-profit technology design firm D-Rev has inked its largest distribution deal since launching in 2007. D-Rev--co-founded by Paul Polak--announced today that Phoenix Medical Systems in India will run the marketing and distribution...

: Take the Challenge: Design for the Other 90 Percent
by Teri Whitcraft and Anna Maria Barry-Jester on December 17, 2010
Patell is teaching a new generation of entrepreneurs at Stanford Business School how to design and sell innovative, affordable products for the world's poor that can not only save lives but make money -- for the inventors as well as their partners in the developing world...

: Extreme Affordability: Why We Must Wear the User’s Shoes
by Neil Seeman and Kenneth Lam on August 23, 2010
Henry Ford’s vision for the Model T was that it would “meet the wants of the multitude.” In 1908, that vision changed the automotive industry forever, with ripple effects cascading throughout all of manufacturing...

: The 50 Top Inventions of 2009
January 2010
Tens of thousands of amputees in the developing world wear an inexpensive prosthetic called the Jaipur Foot. But poor patients who lose a knee joint have few options: a titanium replacement can cost $10,000, and crude models don't work very well. Now a team of Stanford engineering students has designed a knee...

: Boyd Matson interviews Krista Donaldson on National Geographic Weekend
Nov 26, 2011
"And the best is when you can look at a product that's been around forever and people just sort of accept it and think that's the way it was and always will be but no, not necessarily. Krista Donaldson works for D-Rev (Design Revolution) and they are not only trying to revolutionize the design but revolutionize the lives of the users..."

: 40 Under 40: Krista Donaldson
Nov 28, 2011
As CEO of D-Rev, Donaldson, 38, manages a global nonprofit tech incubator that partners with major organizations like Stanford Medical School and the All Indian Institute of Medicine to create products to improve the lives of people in developing countries. For example, out of Palo Alto-based D-Rev came the ReMotion Jaipur Knee, which has helped 3,200 amputees in six countries. Donaldson is well-versed with the needs of the developing world...

: Jaipur Foot nominated for World Design Impact
Nov 22, 2011
The famed Jaipur foot, Jaipur knee and Jaipur limb have been nominated as one of the seven finalists for the prestigious international 'World Design Impact Prize' of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID), a global organization of the industrial designers...

: D-Rev's Design Sense: Connecting World-Class Products With World Needs
by Kevin Martin on Nov 17, 2011
To say Krista Donaldson, the CEO of Design Revolution, has a multi-disciplinary background would be something of an understatement. She previously served as a diplomacy fellow at the U.S. State Department where she worked on economic policy and the reconstruction of the country's electricity sector...

: Second Jaipur Foot Artificial Limb Fitment Camp Organized in Sri Lanka
Oct 5, 2011
BMVSS has so far conducted such camps in nearly twenty five countries and in all, nearly 20,000 people in these countries have benefitted from the Jaipur Foot or the Jaipur knee. So far, a total of over 1.2 million people have been provided with artificial limbs and calipers by BMVSS, in India and elsewhere...

: For Neonatal Jaundice, a New Option in Resource-Poor Nations
by Nicholas Bakalar on September 26, 2011
Neonatal jaundice, a condition caused by excess bilirubin in the blood, affects most babies in the first few days of life when their livers are just beginning to function. It gives the skin a yellowish tint, but normally it goes away after a week or two without treatment, and the condition has no lasting consequences...

: Fifteen Innovators Championing Global Development
September 22, 2011
In a world of incessant iPhone updates, it can be difficult to remember that most of the world struggles to access basic energy and technology needs. Brilliant agents of social, economic, and political change work across the globe to address big problems, but they sometimes lack the tools necessary to move forward. The annual PopTech Social Innovation Fellows actively work around the globe to address these needs. PopTech selects 10 to 20 innovators...

: PopTech Presents 2011 Class of Social Innovation Fellows
September 21, 2011
PopTech, the global social innovation incubator and thought leadership network, today announced its 2011 class of Social Innovation Fellows. The Fellows program equips changemakers and innovators with the tools, insights, visibility and social networks to help them scale their work and achieve greater impact. This year’s class is working to address social, economic and environmental challenges...

: Jaipur Foot travels to Jaffna again
by Sunny Sebastian on August 31, 2011
"The Jaipur Knee, named by the Stanford University, was rated as one of the world's 50 best innovations by the prestigious TIME magazine of the US. This limb costs $20, while a similar limb in the US costs $10,000,” informed Mr. Mehta. The Jaipur Knee has been fitted to more than 3,000 physically challenged people.

: Charging for Product: Why Price Matters, Even For Non-Profits
by Karen Zeller on August 10, 2011
Let’s say you create a new innovative product for the masses, which will change the way people live and change the world. That doesn’t sound strange for most of us working in technology here in Silicon Valley; that’s the ambition of many around here. What if your ambition is to help the four billion people in the world who get no stock options, free snacks, let alone health insurance....

: Jaipur Foot: One of the Most Technologically-Advanced Social Enterprises in the World
by Rahim Kanani on August 8, 2011
Their $45 ultramodern prosthetic is simply unmatched when compared to a similar $12,000 limb produced in the United States. The beauty of the Jaipur Foot is its lightness and mobility, as those who wear it can run, climb trees and pedal bicycles. Their knee replacement developed in cooperation with Stanford University...

: LEDs Used to Help Babies with Severe Jaundice
by Jeff Kart on August 7, 2011
Light-emitting diodes not only use less energy, they give off better light than those compact fluorescents, without using mercury. Add to the list: LEDs also are being used to help babies born with severe jaundice, which can lead to brain damage and death...

: Stanford projects selected as 2011 Saving Lives at Birth Challenge finalists
by Eva Valenti on July 26, 2011
Two Stanford-developed projects aimed at curbing preventable deaths in newborn babies have been selected as finalists in a contest hosted by Saving Lives at Birth. The contest rewards innovative and cost-effective ideas with the funding needed to realize them; the Stanford projects, which have ties to the Center for Innovation in Global Health, are two of 77 finalists chosen from the contest’s initial 600 applicants...

: D-Rev Applies Silicon Valley Design (and Business) Thinking to the Developing World
by Wade Roush on July 14, 2011
“One of the things that makes us a little out of the ordinary, and one of the things that makes us really successful, is that our methods are 95 percent business methods,” says John Dawson, chairman of the board at D-Rev (the name stands for Design Revolution). “It’s not like we are taking just a little bit of Silicon Valley and shoving it into a non-profit. Most of this organization operates like a startup.""...

: D-Rev Blue Star Jaundice Treatment
by William Underhill on June 23, 2010
For the poorest families, jaundice can be a terrifying complaint. Every year the disease afflicts 23 million newborn babies, 90 per cent of them in the developing world. Without prompt medical attention it may cause brain damage or death. Yet the most effective treatment — simply shining high-intensity light on a baby’s skin — is rarely available outside Western hospitals...

: Stepping into the future an easier feat
by Ben Doherty on June 18, 2011
Prasad concentrates fiercely on every step, one foot in front of the other, staring at the wall ahead as he learns how to walk again. At the end of his careful parade, he's asked how he feels with his new limb, a prosthetic foot built from rubber and wood, and a new knee made of nylon and a handful of bolts. For the first time in a decade he is able to stand unaided, hands on hips and back straight....

: What Counts as Innovation?
by Steven Gale in June/July 2011
More than ever before, innovation is critical to reaching the billion or so people today who still live on less than $1.25 a day—with close to 380 million living in sub-Saharan Africa alone. Organizations like USAID want to be hotbeds of innovation themselves, but increasingly they also want to leverage the largest set of thinkers possible to tackle a problem—an approach called “open innovation.”...

: Designing Solutions to Improve Health for All
by Trisha Comsti on May 10, 2011
The success of projects like OneBreath and the JaipurKnee has helped launch the Stanford Global Health Consortium for Innovation, Design, Evaluation and Action (C-IDEA), a new initiative of Stanford University that will integrate the efforts of four of Stanford's global health programs...

: Arunima may walk again, thanks to a Jaipur Knee
by Rahim Kanani on April 16, 2011
Volleyball player Sonu Sinha (Arunima), who lost her leg after she was thrown off from a moving train by hoodlums trying to rob her, can take heart. If all goes well, she will be able to walk again, thanks to the Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) here — the world's largest manufacturer of artificial limbs...

: 2011 Echoing Green Finalists
March 29, 2011
We are excited to announce the thirty-eight bold 2011 Echoing Green Fellowship Finalists (representing twenty-six organizations), from nine countries. The entire Echoing Green team and our 387 evaluators remain deeply inspired by the 2,854 applications we received this year, and we thank each of you for your aspirations and big visions...

: Rise Solar Selected as a Finalist for Hub Ventures
March 14, 2011
Supported by Good Capital, Village Capital, SOCAP, and the Hub Bay Area, Hub Ventures is a 12-week program that provides funding and resources to a community of 16 entrepreneurs building for-profit solutions for a better world. Upon completion of the program, 3-4 ventures will receive seed funding. Additionally, participants will pitch to top Bay Area impact investors at SOCAP Investor Day in June...

: A Low-Cost Prosthetic Gives Legs to Amputees in the Developing World
by Rob Goodier on March 6, 2011
Prosthetic limb design is pushing the bounds of technological prowess with advances like shape-changing materials, robotics and bone grafting. But for most of the world’s amputees, however, live in developing countries, and that kind of technology is unattainable...

: Young Inventors Set Out to Improve Lives
by Andrzej Zwaniecki on February 22, 2011
In 1993, Englishman Trevor Baylis designed a windup radio that does not need electricity. He hoped his invention would help spread information about AIDS prevention and treatment in Africa’s rural areas. But when he approached manufacturers, they rejected his invention...

: Cheaper, Greener Blue Light: A Better Phototherapy Device for Jaundice Treatment
by Rob Goodier on February 4, 2011
A design group has made a cheaper, greener blue light for treating jaundice. All it took was new bulbs and meticulous attention to details. Jaundice afflicts at least 13 million babies every year, 9 million of whom are in developing countries. That number could be much higher...

: Brilliance in India: New Deal Allows Bay Area Firm to Fight Jaundice
by Jenara Nerenberg on December 22, 2010
The Bay Area-based non-profit technology design firm D-Rev has inked its largest distribution deal since launching in 2007. D-Rev--co-founded by Paul Polak--announced today that Phoenix Medical Systems in India will run the marketing and distribution...

: Take the Challenge: Design for the Other 90 Percent
by Teri Whitcraft and Anna Maria Barry-Jester on December 17, 2010
Patell is teaching a new generation of entrepreneurs at Stanford Business School how to design and sell innovative, affordable products for the world's poor that can not only save lives but make money -- for the inventors as well as their partners in the developing world...

: [How To] Design for (Real) Impact
by Jacob Donnelly on September 10, 2010
What do Kickstart, Bridge International Academies, and the One Acre Fund have in common? First, they are all extremely high performance organizations that have grown substantially since launching. However, and more interesting to this conversation, is that all three have been specifically designed to maximize impact...

: Neonatal Jaundice Initiative
September 2010
D-Rev has developed Brilliance—a phototherapy device that uses strategically-located, high-intensity blue LEDs to break down bilirubin, a bile pigment that is formed when red blood cells breakdown, into non-toxic, soluble components that the neonatal liver can process and eliminate...

: Extreme Affordability: Why We Must Wear the User’s Shoes
by Neil Seeman and Kenneth Lam on August 23, 2010
Henry Ford’s vision for the Model T was that it would “meet the wants of the multitude.” In 1908, that vision changed the automotive industry forever, with ripple effects cascading throughout all of manufacturing...

: The 50 Top Inventions of 2009
January 2010
Tens of thousands of amputees in the developing world wear an inexpensive prosthetic called the Jaipur Foot. But poor patients who lose a knee joint have few options: a titanium replacement can cost $10,000, and crude models don't work very well. Now a team of Stanford engineering students has designed a knee...

: 5 Myths About Microcredit
by Kentaro Toyama on February 10, 2011
Microfinance was once a darling of international economics. Small loans between $50 and $500 to low-income individuals and small businesses were believed by many to offer a ladder out of poverty. But recently, microcredit has come under heat, often for inaccurate reasons. Here are five myths we need to overcome...

: The Real Cost of Free
by Krista Donaldson on June 17, 2010
Consider this dilemma: a poor farmer in Tanzania has a small, dusty plot of land where she struggles to grow mchicha (think spinach) and tomatoes. She and her kids lug water from a nearby well. She cannot afford fertilizer. She cannot afford a treadle pump to bring more water to her crops or a drip irrigation kit to more efficiently use her water...

: Why to be Wary of Design for Developing Countries
by Krista Donaldson in Spring 2008
I’m not a fan of using the word “developing” to describe people. What makes a society developed? Wealth? Mass consumerism? Stability? Equality? There are several projects that attempt to measure happiness—and few correlate it with gross domestic product or per capita income. And “developing country” seems like a summation of two misnomers considering...

: For Neonatal Jaundice, a New Option in Resource-Poor Nations
by Nicholas Bakalar on September 26, 2011
Neonatal jaundice, a condition caused by excess bilirubin in the blood, affects most babies in the first few days of life when their livers are just beginning to function. It gives the skin a yellowish tint, but normally it goes away after a week or two without treatment, and the condition has no lasting consequences...

: LEDs Used to Help Babies with Severe Jaundice
by Jeff Kart on August 7, 2011
Light-emitting diodes not only use less energy, they give off better light than those compact fluorescents, without using mercury. Add to the list: LEDs also are being used to help babies born with severe jaundice, which can lead to brain damage and death...

: Stanford projects selected as 2011 Saving Lives at Birth Challenge finalists
by Eva Valenti on July 26, 2011
Two Stanford-developed projects aimed at curbing preventable deaths in newborn babies have been selected as finalists in a contest hosted by Saving Lives at Birth. The contest rewards innovative and cost-effective ideas with the funding needed to realize them; the Stanford projects, which have ties to the Center for Innovation in Global Health, are two of 77 finalists chosen from the contest’s initial 600 applicants...

: What Counts as Innovation?
by Steven Gale in June/July 2011
More than ever before, innovation is critical to reaching the billion or so people today who still live on less than $1.25 a day—with close to 380 million living in sub-Saharan Africa alone. Organizations like USAID want to be hotbeds of innovation themselves, but increasingly they also want to leverage the largest set of thinkers possible to tackle a problem—an approach called “open innovation.”...

: Cheaper, Greener Blue Light: A Better Phototherapy Device for Jaundice Treatment
by Rob Goodier on February 4, 2011
A design group has made a cheaper, greener blue light for treating jaundice. All it took was new bulbs and meticulous attention to details. Jaundice afflicts at least 13 million babies every year, 9 million of whom are in developing countries. That number could be much higher...

: Brilliance in India: New Deal Allows Bay Area Firm to Fight Jaundice
by Jenara Nerenberg on December 22, 2010
The Bay Area-based non-profit technology design firm D-Rev has inked its largest distribution deal since launching in 2007. D-Rev--co-founded by Paul Polak--announced today that Phoenix Medical Systems in India will run the marketing and distribution...

: Neonatal Jaundice Initiative
September 2010
D-Rev has developed Brilliance—a phototherapy device that uses strategically-located, high-intensity blue LEDs to break down bilirubin, a bile pigment that is formed when red blood cells breakdown, into non-toxic, soluble components that the neonatal liver can process and eliminate...

: D-Rev Blue Star Jaundice Treatment
by William Underhill on June 23, 2010
For the poorest families, jaundice can be a terrifying complaint. Every year the disease afflicts 23 million newborn babies, 90 per cent of them in the developing world. Without prompt medical attention it may cause brain damage or death. Yet the most effective treatment — simply shining high-intensity light on a baby’s skin — is rarely available outside Western hospitals...

: Jaipur Foot nominated for World Design Impact
Nov 22, 2011
The famed Jaipur foot, Jaipur knee and Jaipur limb have been nominated as one of the seven finalists for the prestigious international 'World Design Impact Prize' of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID), a global organization of the industrial designers...

: Jaipur Foot travels to Jaffna again
by Sunny Sebastian on August 31, 2011
"The Jaipur Knee, named by the Stanford University, was rated as one of the world's 50 best innovations by the prestigious TIME magazine of the US. This limb costs $20, while a similar limb in the US costs $10,000,” informed Mr. Mehta. The Jaipur Knee has been fitted to more than 3,000 physically challenged people.

: Second Jaipur Foot Artificial Limb Fitment Camp Organized in Sri Lanka
Oct 5, 2011
BMVSS has so far conducted such camps in nearly twenty five countries and in all, nearly 20,000 people in these countries have benefitted from the Jaipur Foot or the Jaipur knee. So far, a total of over 1.2 million people have been provided with artificial limbs and calipers by BMVSS, in India and elsewhere...

: Jaipur Foot: One of the Most Technologically-Advanced Social Enterprises in the World
by Rahim Kanani on August 8, 2011
Their $45 ultramodern prosthetic is simply unmatched when compared to a similar $12,000 limb produced in the United States. The beauty of the Jaipur Foot is its lightness and mobility, as those who wear it can run, climb trees and pedal bicycles. Their knee replacement developed in cooperation with Stanford University...

: Stepping into the future an easier feat
by Ben Doherty on June 18, 2011
Prasad concentrates fiercely on every step, one foot in front of the other, staring at the wall ahead as he learns how to walk again. At the end of his careful parade, he's asked how he feels with his new limb, a prosthetic foot built from rubber and wood, and a new knee made of nylon and a handful of bolts. For the first time in a decade he is able to stand unaided, hands on hips and back straight....

: Designing Solutions to Improve Health for All
by Trisha Comsti on May 10, 2011
The success of projects like OneBreath and the JaipurKnee has helped launch the Stanford Global Health Consortium for Innovation, Design, Evaluation and Action (C-IDEA), a new initiative of Stanford University that will integrate the efforts of four of Stanford's global health programs...

: Arunima may walk again, thanks to a Jaipur Knee
by Rahim Kanani on April 16, 2011
Volleyball player Sonu Sinha (Arunima), who lost her leg after she was thrown off from a moving train by hoodlums trying to rob her, can take heart. If all goes well, she will be able to walk again, thanks to the Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) here — the world's largest manufacturer of artificial limbs...

: A Low-Cost Prosthetic Gives Legs to Amputees in the Developing World
by Rob Goodier on March 6, 2011
Prosthetic limb design is pushing the bounds of technological prowess with advances like shape-changing materials, robotics and bone grafting. But for most of the world’s amputees, however, live in developing countries, and that kind of technology is unattainable...

: Young Inventors Set Out to Improve Lives
by Andrzej Zwaniecki on February 22, 2011
In 1993, Englishman Trevor Baylis designed a windup radio that does not need electricity. He hoped his invention would help spread information about AIDS prevention and treatment in Africa’s rural areas. But when he approached manufacturers, they rejected his invention...

: The 50 Top Inventions of 2009
January 2010
Tens of thousands of amputees in the developing world wear an inexpensive prosthetic called the Jaipur Foot. But poor patients who lose a knee joint have few options: a titanium replacement can cost $10,000, and crude models don't work very well. Now a team of Stanford engineering students has designed a knee...

: 2011 Echoing Green Finalists
March 29, 2011
We are excited to announce the thirty-eight bold 2011 Echoing Green Fellowship Finalists (representing twenty-six organizations), from nine countries. The entire Echoing Green team and our 387 evaluators remain deeply inspired by the 2,854 applications we received this year, and we thank each of you for your aspirations and big visions...

: Rise Solar Selected as a Finalist for Hub Ventures
March 14, 2011
Supported by Good Capital, Village Capital, SOCAP, and the Hub Bay Area, Hub Ventures is a 12-week program that provides funding and resources to a community of 16 entrepreneurs building for-profit solutions for a better world. Upon completion of the program, 3-4 ventures will receive seed funding. Additionally, participants will pitch to top Bay Area impact investors at SOCAP Investor Day in June...