Our friend Vinay Gupta from Hexayurt fame gives this amazing talk about using open design to save lives. Great stuff.

From Vinay

I gave this talk – about how appropriate technology can save billions of people from the worst effects of poverty – in Reykjavik earlier this year. Here are the slides from the talk and a link to a discussion thread on Global Swadeshi, a poverty alleviation / appropriate technology social network. (gv link)

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