World Solve

Develop authentication and procurement systems for components used in aviation, energy, water, rail, and medical equipment where failure can be catastrophic.

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

Develop housing, credentialing, counseling, employer partnerships, legal support, and anti-stigma systems that prevent repeated exclusion.

Design participation processes that use visual, oral, local-language, and offline methods instead of relying on written notices and digital portals.

Identify and counter structural barriers such as violence, unpaid care work, party gatekeeping, financing, and tokenization in local political participation.

Develop rigorous methods to distinguish symbolic consultation from processes that genuinely alter budgets, policy, service delivery, and power relations.

Develop public budgeting tools that reveal spending, contracts, service outcomes, and tradeoffs in ways ordinary residents can meaningfully use.

Develop affordable lab equipment, experimental protocols, and digital interfaces that enable meaningful participation in science education for disabled learners.

Create low-cost alternatives to high-emission cement, steel, and fired bricks while meeting structural safety, financing, and local labor constraints.

Develop modular panels, controllers, batteries, training, spare-parts supply, and warranties so off-grid solar systems remain functional beyond initial installation.

Design repair financing, local spare-parts networks, remote diagnostics, and accountability models that keep water points functional after initial projects end.

Develop accurate sensors and interventions for biomass smoke, kerosene, mold, and particulate exposure in low-income homes without assuming reliable internet or grid power.

Design clinically reliable decision-support tools using basic vitals, history, and low-cost tests to identify high-risk pregnancies before preventable postpartum hemorrhage occurs.

Current approaches to education systems that prepare citizens for active participation in democratic climate governance either underperform under variable field conditions or generate externalities that undermine long-term sustainability and equity. Closing the gap requires coordinated advances in science, systems design and enabling institutions.

Hospitals, schools, and water systems in seismically active parts of Morocco were largely built before modern earthquake codes, and retrofitting remains unfunded at scale.

Postpartum hemorrhage remains a leading cause of maternal death in Indonesia because low-resource facilities often lack rapid blood-typing, stored blood products, and trained staff to intervene within the critical first hour after delivery.

Achieving interventions that close the gender gap in STEM participation in low-income settings at meaningful scale demands simultaneous progress in fundamental research, engineering integration and socio-technical systems that work for low- and middle-income settings. Existing efforts remain fragmented relative to the magnitude of the challenge.

A persistent gap exists in realizing practical, scalable solutions for smallholder-accessible soil carbon measurement for market participation. Scientific understanding, engineering readiness and institutional capacity remain insufficient to translate promising concepts into durable impact under real-world constraints of cost, skills and governance.

Despite recognition of its importance, reliable methods for participatory budgeting designs resistant to elite and algorithmic capture are still lacking. Progress is hindered by incomplete mechanistic knowledge, high capital and operational barriers, and the absence of deployment models suited to the contexts of greatest need.

The absence of robust, context-adapted solutions for participatory sensing networks for air quality in rapidly industrializing cities creates cascading risks across interconnected human and natural systems. Key missing elements include durable performance, low lifetime cost, and governance arrangements capable of sustaining impact beyond pilot stages.