Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is a non-profit organisation that donates money to fight diseases and poverty. It was founded by Bill Gates, the founder and previous CEO of Microsoft and his wife Melinda Gates.
The money comes from the billions of dollars Bill Gates earned from Microsoft.[1]
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Media
- BMGF Echelman-0950.jpg
- B&M Gates Complex.jpg
Headquarters complex in Seattle as seen from the Space Needle
- Life expectancy in 1800, 1950, and 2015.png
Life expectancy in 1800, 1950 and 2015 – visualization by Our World in Data
- Selwyn College Cambridge Main Gate.jpg
- Sanitation Value Chain.jpg
The "sanitation value chain" used by the Gates Foundation to illustrate their approach to sanitation, showing collection, transport, treatment and reuse
- 2011 07-Internal ReinventTheToilet Animation.webm
The Gates Foundation created this video to advocate for increased innovation for toilets and everything they are connected to.
- The vision of a toilet that is small - and pleasant - enough to fit inside someone's home (prototype but not fully functional) (13359389583).jpg
Example for technology innovation: The off-grid Nano Membrane Toilet of Cranfield University – prototype on display at Reinvent the Toilet Fair in Delhi, India
- Earth auger toilet with squatting plate (13358958903).jpg
Example of low-tech toilet development being funded: A urine-diverting dry toilet called Earth Auger toilet from Ecuador/US
Microbial fuel cell stack that converts urine into electricity (research by the University of the West of England, UK)
References
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