World Solve

Create safe, economically viable collection, sorting, repair, reuse, and material-recovery systems suited to decentralized local markets. The challenge is especially acute in informal settlements, where existing solutions often assume stable institutions, high incomes, continuous connectivity, or centralized service delivery.

Develop enforceable, worker-centered protections for safety, pay, benefits, bargaining, and grievance resolution outside conventional employment. The challenge is especially acute in informal settlements, where existing solutions often assume stable institutions, high incomes, continuous connectivity, or centralized service delivery.

Build affordable monitoring and response systems that identify local environmental threats before they become chronic public-health crises. The challenge is especially acute in informal settlements, where existing solutions often assume stable institutions, high incomes, continuous connectivity, or centralized service delivery.

Create accountable methods for prioritizing limited water, housing, health, energy, and social-protection resources without reinforcing local inequality. The challenge is especially acute in informal settlements, where existing solutions often assume stable institutions, high incomes, continuous connectivity, or centralized service delivery.

Develop local skills, spare-parts access, inspection methods, and financing so public infrastructure continues functioning after installation. The challenge is especially acute in informal settlements, where existing solutions often assume stable institutions, high incomes, continuous connectivity, or centralized service delivery.

Create transparent financial mechanisms that help households and local institutions prepare for recurrent shocks before emergency aid is needed. The challenge is especially acute in informal settlements, where existing solutions often assume stable institutions, high incomes, continuous connectivity, or centralized service delivery.

Develop offline-capable, multilingual, trusted systems for issuing alerts, gathering local conditions, and coordinating response when normal communications fail. The challenge is especially acute in informal settlements, where existing solutions often assume stable institutions, high incomes, continuous connectivity, or centralized service delivery.

Create standards, repositories, incentives, training, and connectivity solutions that allow scientists outside elite institutions to access and contribute reproducible data.

Build usable security, governance, maintenance, and incident-response practices for community-owned networks operated with limited technical staff.

Secure identity, transaction authorization, audit trails, public verification, and dispute mechanisms for land registries targeted by organized fraud.

Develop shared services, workforce pathways, procurement support, tabletop exercises, and affordable tooling for municipalities responsible for essential services.

Create interoperable authentication systems for disaster alerts delivered through mobile networks, radio, social platforms, and public displays.

Develop early intervention, platform accountability, youth support, and research methods that reduce recruitment without criminalizing vulnerable communities.

Develop systems that preserve chain of custody, privacy, authenticity, and access in jurisdictions with uneven digital capacity and public trust.

Create verification, dependency management, secure update, open-source support, and contracting standards for software bought by public institutions.

Create practical inventories, cryptographic transition plans, testing frameworks, and procurement standards for government systems vulnerable to future quantum attacks.

Develop approaches for safeguarding wildlife, rangers, local communities, and habitats where conflict undermines governance and fuels extraction.

Develop standards, sensing, urban design, and public awareness interventions to reduce disruption of insects, birds, turtles, and nocturnal ecosystems.

Develop lawful anti-poaching technologies and intelligence systems that protect wildlife without militarizing conservation or harming local communities.

Develop enforceable systems that ensure indigenous peoples and local communities share in benefits from commercial use of biological resources and knowledge.