Dona Catalina lives in a place called Gualjaina, situated on Argentina’s Patagonian plains, in a precariously built house many kilometers from any of her neighbors. She lives by raising sheep and a cow or two, and from the produce of her small farm, where,... »

Rickshaw Bank promotes human dignity and alleviates poverty through asset ownership. To do this, Rickshaw Bank has deployed user-centered rickshaw design, micro-credit, and novel business models to help transform rickshaw drivers into rickshaw owners on a growing scale throughout India. Download Rickshaw Bank: Empowering... »

So far, the effort to bring life-changing technologies to the poor has amounted to tinkering around the edges instead of operating at a scale commensurate with the global need. Drawing from his experience at International Development Enterprises, Paul Polak, together with co-authors Peggy Reid... »

Through the lens of his experience as founder of Design that Matters, Timothy Prestero argues that designing for the poor is not business as usual, but a problem-solving methodology that uses an empathic approach to identify and contextualize needs that guide the development of... »