During a hackathon last week at the San Francisco offices of design firm Ideo, there were laptops, whiteboards, pizza and beer. Oh, and photos of feces on the walls. The 40 software developers who attended the Hack Sanitation event were...
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Photograph courtesy of Ideo
Attendees of Ideo's sanitation hackathon collaborated on tools for highlighting Ghana's open defecation issues.
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When Bill Gates was at the helm of Microsoft, the fate of software products rested on his approval. The technology giant’s co-founder and former chief executive is now judging something completely different: toilets. With 1.5 million children a year dying...
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