VIDEOS/PODCASTS
Places to Learn About Crowd-Solving
1. Innocentive explainer video (1:45) - This short animated video explains what crowd-solving is and how open-innovation works
2. Podcast explaining Humanitarian Crowd-Solving (46:00) - The CEO of Wazoku/Innocentive talks with Harry Sangree about Humanitarian Crowd-Solving. Program notes for the episode are available HERE.
3. Podcast explaining Humanitarian Crowd-Solving at the International Rescue Committee from 2023-2025 (43:51) - The Program Manager at the IRC who led their crowd-solving project talks about their experience with humanitarian crowd-solving.
Overviews of Winning Solutions
1. Challenge explainer for the Habitat for Humanity - Philippines challenge titled "Affordable Retrofit of Homes with No Foundations for Improved Earthquake & Typhoon Resilience" (6:37) - This video explains the objective of the challenge, shows the comprehensive testing of the 3 finalists and reveals the winner of the challenge.
2. Solution Summary for the Habitat for Humanity - Mexico challenge titled "Affordable Water Harvesting for Low-Income Households in Urban Areas" (5:05) - This video provides a tour of one of the homes where the SABUC solution was pilot-tested. It explains the special design features of the winning solution.
3. Video created by the International Rescue Committee to recruit university students to further develop the design for challenge titled "Reducing Fossil Fuel Dependency of Syrian Irrigation Systems" (4:35) - This video interviews IRC staff, engineers from Engineering for Change and Harry Sangree about the work that was done during the summer of 2025 and the next steps for development of a working proof-of-concept for the project.
Other Short Project Videos
1. Prototype usage instructions from the World Vision challenge titled "Low-Cost Chlorine Monitoring for Rural Piped Water Systems" (8 separate videos of less than 1:00 each) - These videos explain how the prototype built by the winning solver works.
2. Interview with a family that received one of the test systems for the Habitat for Humanity challenge titled "Affordable Water Harvesting for Low-Income Households in Urban Areas" (3:20) - This video is in Spanish. It is an interview with a couple that received one of the test systems to allow them to harvest rain water for their home use.