Robert Klapisch, president of the Foundation, invites you to view Bill Gates’s interview by Charlie Rose. The discussed issues converge with the interests and topics of our organisation. Bill Gates – interview by Charlie Rose, 22 February 2016  Read More

What is the biggest opportunity for crowdsourcing data in African cities? Cellphone use is rapidly expanding in African cities and produces one of the biggest opportunities to collect critical data. In Nairobi, almost every adult has a phone, increasingly smartphones. Citizens can collect data in two main ways. First, the phone’s “digital exhaust” phone –...Read More

Solving the world’s sanitation crisis is a complicated problem that requires expertise from a huge range of disciplines. Here is a paper that I have collaborated on recently that illustrate this in journal “Fuel” and describes experiments to combust human waste. The findings will assist in the development of technologies to thermally process human waste,...Read More

With every flush, this toilet creates water and electric power for those who need it most. The “Nano Membrane Toilet,” developed by a group at Britain’s Cranfield University, received a grant during the second round of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Reinvent the Toilet Challenge. This self-contained waterless commode doesn’t require power, and with...Read More