World Solve

Develop practical methods to map water, sewer, power, gas, and telecom networks where records are incomplete and excavation is dangerous.

Assess when and how neglected rail lines can be rehabilitated for low-carbon freight, regional development, and resilient transport.

Develop collection, design, incentives, maintenance, and community-governance solutions that prevent drains from becoming chronic flood and disease hazards.

Develop affordable inspection tools and retrofit guidance for millions of older homes vulnerable to earthquakes, floods, corrosion, and progressive failure.

Create systems to track quality, environmental impact, labor conditions, and price integrity for sand, cement, steel, timber, and aggregates.

Create traceability and enforcement systems that stop unusable textile waste from being labeled as reusable goods and exported to vulnerable communities.

Develop practical alternatives to diesel for small trucks, boats, and last-mile vehicles serving dispersed rural communities.

Build convenient, safe, financially viable collection and repair channels for phones, chargers, cables, and small devices that otherwise enter household waste.

Develop systems that reduce child labor, conflict finance, and environmental harm while allowing artisanal miners to participate in formal markets.

Develop wheelchairs, prosthetics, hearing aids, and mobility devices that withstand heat, humidity, dust, rough roads, and limited repair networks.

Develop fair consultation, compensation, benefit-sharing, ecological assessment, and appeals systems for large solar, wind, and transmission projects.

Create safety, legal, financial, and networked support systems for local actors who challenge falsehoods in polarized or authoritarian environments.

Design affordable resilient school infrastructure, continuity plans, safe routes, and learning systems for children facing repeated climate disruptions.

Develop methods to quantify livelihoods, health, culture, land, and social losses caused by drought, salinization, erosion, and chronic heat.

Create water, waste, energy, land-use, and visitor-management systems that support residents as climate stress and seasonal tourism intensify.

Create trusted local communication systems that counter false evacuation, health, aid, and weather claims before they cause physical harm.

Design water-allocation and enforcement systems that reduce consumption among high users without shifting disproportionate burdens onto low-income residents.

Combine local wastewater control, fisheries governance, restoration science, and heat-stress response to preserve reefs under repeated marine heatwaves.

Develop durable, low-cost road, bridge, drainage, and maintenance approaches for areas facing increasingly erratic rainfall and flooding.

Develop species selection, watering, soil protection, maintenance financing, and monitoring systems that allow urban tree canopies to survive rapid development.