Archimedes Project Remote

What is the solution to cholera in Haiti?  Target slums and provide water treatment chlorine solution and water storage bags to individual households. 

We will recruit and train local community chlorinators, who will go door to door to teach households how to use our water treatment system.

The community chlorinator will go door to door and test chlorine residual levels at each household monthly to ensure proper use. The goal is to eventually empower each family to treat their own water supply, which will make this a sustainable solution. 

Team 5 wants to "gamify" education and information consolidation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbGeaEygQZM

Team 4 designed DADA (Development Agencies Data Analysis) Haiti: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-spbC2NmdGo

The key aspect is the community. If you have a product that is good, you have the community with you. If you have the community with you, it doesn't take that much to expand. It's the little things that you guys do that will make a big impact. Try to focus on small communities where you will have the most success and impact. The community backs us, and so we have never had to ask for funding from outside groups. Communities will move along things they believe in, which is what will create real impact. 

- Jean-Louis Patrick, Committee for the Advancement of Gressier -Haiti (CAGH)

Many of the active organizations go in for a one-time project and them come back without any lasting impact. They are going to have very little incentive to be rated. Aren't you just hoping that they will wait for your input before they go in? How would you help those groups who don't have access to your information and don't have an incentive to wait for it?

Do you worry that your model perpetuates the need for social welfare and inhibits economic development?

One of the major pushes of our idea is to make sure that we measure a health outcome from the activities of the organizations we evaluate.

Your ideas are both data-driven. How is your project going to change the way we are responding to cholera today?

Team 4: The Haitian government concentrated resources on certain urban areas. Now there are areas, because of a lack of funding, with no treatment centers at all. So, there is a wide range of mortality rates between areas of Haiti. Our 

Team 5: Because our model involves revenue, we can have an impact in those under-served areas. We are going to identify what is working now (cell phones) and use that to create a model to develop resources and knowledge to target those areas. 

Discussion of the team's pitches

Discussion of the team's final pitches