Great Humanitarian Challenge - Global Vaccine Logistics

The initial idea: portable makerspace.

Updated idea: portable makerspace that doubles down as logistics centre, that is able to store vaccines in freezing temperatures.

Update based on the news about vaccines 😇

World Economic Forum
I participated in the live stream, here is a 2m07s snippet featuring Henrietta H. Fore, Executive Director of UNICEF: https://youtu.be/_Cz44HhKGgQ

Currently UNICEF procures and delivers around 2 billion vaccine doses per year

To be fair, I did not realize the scale of the problem.



Key Focus Areas

 * Safe Water and Sanitation
 * Energy
 * Life-Saving Information
 * Health Supplies and Services

In the form, there was an option to choose only one. In fact, it can cover all four.

How to ensure freezing temperatures in an off-grid environment? Subject to R&D that will be founded by the grant money.

Inspiration from an existing project
https://www.offgridbox.com - it looks pretty nice on the pictures. Pretty sure it can be repurposed / extended to provide a base for vaccine distribution center.



Why makersspace?
https://www.thersa.org/blog/2016/05/how-i-came-to-co-found-a-makerspace-in-ghana


 * "giving inventive people access to the tools, knowledge, and resources to build their own solutions to the challenges they see around them"
 * "creating the conditions that will allow these innovators to turn their inventions into sustainable businesses, creating impact for society, the environment, and the local economy"

Inspiration

 * https://www.opensourceecology.org/
 * https://www.burnerswithoutborders.org/projects/mru

"After a successful preview in Black Rock City, the tools from the MRU traveled to Kathmandu, Nepal for the world’s first humanitarian maker faire where they were then donated to Nepal Communitere‘s new Maker Space to continue helping the community recover from the 2015 earthquake devastation."

Multiple benefits

 * Efficient use of recources
 * Community aspect
 * Increasing technical ability / employability

Zaatari
https://www.dezeen.com/2015/11/23/refugee-camps-cities-of-tomorrow-killian-kleinschmidt-interview-humanitarian-aid-expert/

''"These are the cities of tomorrow," said Kleinschmidt of Europe's rapidly expanding refugee camps. "The average stay today in a camp is 17 years. That's a generation."''

https://3dprint.com/115908/refugee-open-ware-makerspace/

'' Refugee Open Ware (ROW) is a Jordanian startup that is hoping the principles of makerspaces can help alleviate the strain, improve conditions in refugee camps all over the world and give refugees valuable skills that they can take back with them when they are eventually able to return home. The concept is to bring popup FabLabs to active war and refugee zones and teach locals to ‘hack’ what supplies and materials they have on hand and turn them into the materials and tools that they need.''

They also want to open up a FabLab inside of the Zaatari camp itself, but are currently working out the details with the Jordanian government.



Very recently
This happens everywhere all the time. It just happened to pop into my consciousness.

2020-11-19: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/start-here/2020/11/19/whats-happening-in-ethiopia-start-here/

2020-11-20: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/20/un-says-planning-for-200000-ethiopian-refugees-in-sudan

"The UN agencies are seeking $50m in immediate funding which will go towards providing food and setting up new camps."



Great Humanitarian Challenge

 * https://www.grandchallenges.ca/
 * https://humanitariangrandchallenge.org/rfps/
 * Rules: https://humanitariangrandchallenge.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/HGC-RFP_Round3-OCT2020-EN-FINAL-1.pdf
 * Challenge submission: [[File:Grand Challenges Canada Fluxx Portal Grands Défis Canada Portail Fluxx.pdf]]