This proposal recommends leveraging of mobile technology to share information about the availability of water and sanitation resources, make payments. The team recommends leveraging existing tools, business start-up packages, and current markets, lowering the cost of use per person as demand increases.
Increase Accessibility to Clean Water by Leveraging ICT to Develop Sustainable Local Markets
Challenges: Lack of Information, General Access, Community Involvement, Empowerment, and Buy-In, Access, Social, Cultural, and Political
Solutions: Partnership Building, Entrepreneuship Focused, Community Level Solution, External Industry and/or Sector Model , Household Level Solution, Communication (Information, Availability, Quality, Reporting), Awareness and/or Reporting, Economic and Commercial, Business-Led, Public-Private Partnership (Multiple Stakeholders), Social, Information Sharing, Payment, Technology, Mobile/SMS/GIS