Thanks to map magazine I came across this awesome story about bringing sight to the worlds poor. The full article explains the project better than I can but I like the way this project solves the problem of a lack of experts. This is why good design is so important. From the article:
Silver calls his flash of insight a “tremendous glimpse of the obvious” – namely that opticians weren’t necessary to provide glasses. This is a crucial factor in the developing world where trained specialists are desperately in demand: in Britain there is one optometrist for every 4,500 people, in sub-Saharan Africa the ratio is 1:1,000,000.
Read the full article: Inventor’s 2020 vision: to help 1bn of the world’s poorest see better
