Liz Ogbu

IDEO.org worked with the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves to identify opportunities to increase demand for clean cookstoves in Tanzania and beyond.

Part of an Innovation Forum for Autodesk University, this project is intended to crowdsource inspiration and ideas about how to improve healthcare access for the uninsured. It looks at large scale free health clinics as the opportunity area and ask how might the experience of these events be improved.

IDEO.org partnered with Unilever, Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) to design a scalable business in Kenya selling water alongside hygiene and nutrition products.

M-Farm is an open trading platform that allows farmers to know the prices of their commodities in specific markets around them and for everyone in the agri-business value chain to transact

This project aims to create a multi-step micro lending model that is specific to the needs of farmers with irregular cash flows. By incorporating both in-kind and monetary lending opportunities, we hope to draft a program that can reach and help even the lowest income brackets.

Using the HCD process to learn in what ways might we design a more effective way for individual farmers, consumers, buyers and NGO's to connect, exchange value and measure progress to aid conservation-based economic development initiatives.

STEM Fellows is focused on improving secondary school STEM educational achievement in the classroom and sparking student interest in STEM careers. By partnering with corporations to bring high-skilled, passionate employees to teach in the classroom for a full academic year, STEM fellows will broaden the pool of effective STEM teachers in schools while providing corporate employees the opportunity to teach in the classroom as a part of their corporate development.

Our project will use the Hear portion of HCD to delve deep into the challenges to food security in Nicaragua. Our research plans to back the school gardens project up and really do a deep dive to understand the context of these communities and how school gardens currently fit into their lives.  The main purpose of our Hear research about food security and gardens is about understanding and painting the lives of students and communities and understanding their conceptions of food security and the culture of food and nutrition in Nicaragua. By starting at the beginning, we rely on stories from the field to guide our research vision and direction.

This aim of project is to add value to the farm produce when it is with the farmers. We are exploring ways to reduce wastage and increase produce value with the help of local knowledge and technology.

The Pepper Eater is a simple tool that dramatically improves pepper processing by decreasing the negative health effects of traditional processing methods and increases income earning potential.

How can we prevent accidental burning on old electric stoves?

Groundwater is becoming quickly depleted in NW India, but management efforts are unlikely to be successful until we can measure this elusive finite resource. Our project aims to decrease water scarcity such that food security can exist for these subsidence-driven rural communities.

IDEO.org is working with d.light, an international social enterprise serving households without access to reliable electricity, to define future product opportunities for consumer solar energy in the off-grid context.