Category:Base of the Pyramid (BoP)

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About two third of the world’s population of 6 billion people earns less than three dollars per day. These individuals spend their lives searching for food and shelter, fighting for physical survival, and fearing for the future. This does not go unnoticed. Global poverty, its extent and distribution, is of daily news screaming for attention of all world citizens. The world’s poor die at a young age and the poorest have a lower life expectancy than the privileged. The challenge at world level is enormous. In Africa alone, poverty and hunger, unemployment, disease, malnutrition, lack of shelter, gender inequity and environmental deterioration are some of the main challenges in addressing poverty.

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Millennium Development Goals

These developments in the last century have attracted the attention of world leaders. At the Millennium Summit in September 2000 the largest gathering of world leaders in history adopted the UN Millennium Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of time-bound targets, with a deadline of 2015 that have become known as the UN Millennium Development Goals.

Challenges for Industrial Designers

These developments have also helped in exposing the dire human needs. Being an expert in designing products and services to meet human needs, some of these needs are addressable by the expertise available at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology. A few examples of existing needs are in the areas of education, health care, food and nutrition, water, energy, housing, materials, connectivity, designing and tools, and entrepreneurship.

BoP site of Delft University of Technology

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