1. Bring a new product to market (+)
Sponsor a project already in progress
or
engage us to develop a new product with a local partner of your choosing.
engage us to develop a new product with a local partner of your choosing.
2. Hire us (+)
Gain an understanding of BoP
markets and stakeholders. We'll help you identify your BoP
customer and stakeholder needs and refine your existing product or service
for local emerging and BoP markets.
We'll help you design unique products
and services for the BoP.
and services for the BoP.
3. BoP companies (+)
Work with us to build your design capacity. Collaborate with us to refine your existing product for your local BoP markets.Join our Collaborative Innovation Network.
Bao Design Lab focuses on building capacity in communities where people survive on roughly $2 a day. As a non-profit incubator, we use Design to address challenges at the base of the world’s economic pyramid, and aim to improve the well-being of people in areas where resources are scarce. We use ethnographic research, insight analysis, prototyping, and strategic planning to frame and solve problems in developing countries. Bao Design Lab is unique in its goal to co-create relevant products and services based entirely on the local context, with input from local experts. [next 100 words...]
Bao Design Lab has received an Ideas that Matter grant from Sappi Fine Paper North America for Project Dose. This design project addresses the health risks to sick children in developing countries who are often improperly medicated once they leave the hospital. Our design, developed with Ugandan partners T4T, provides a simple system that enables pharmacists, nurses and parents to safely and reliably divide & repackage adult tablets into smaller doses for children. [keep reading...]
COINs Conference, 2009
This paper by Bao Design Lab’s Linda Pulik describes how geographically and culturally scattered innovation networks are transforming the product and service development for BoP markets [more publications...]
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