World Solve

Create testing, accountability, and escalation standards for systems that perform poorly for accents, dialects, code-switching, and minority languages.

Develop childcare, eldercare, water, transport, health, and social-protection systems that reduce the hidden labor limiting women's education and income.

Develop earlier warning, transparent restructuring, and social-protection mechanisms that reduce the impact of debt crises on essential public services.

Develop humanitarian, service-delivery, accountability, and peacebuilding approaches where official institutions have limited territorial authority.

Create valuation, exemptions, tenure recognition, and appeal mechanisms that finance services without displacing low-income households.

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.

Design toilets, containment, emptying, transport, and treatment systems that function during floods without exposing residents or sanitation workers to waste.

Design cooperative, rental, robotic, or service-based machinery systems suitable for farms too small to justify individual equipment ownership.

Survivors of gender-based violence in Ukraine frequently avoid reporting due to social stigma, distrust of law enforcement, and lack of confidential support services in their communities.

Peri-urban areas surrounding major cities in United States have inconsistent internet access, limiting residents' access to remote work, telehealth, and digital financial services.

Schools in South Africa rarely have counselors trained to screen for depression, and stigma around mental illness discourages families from seeking care even where services technically exist.

Women in rural areas of Haiti often travel long distances for reproductive healthcare, and the shortage of trained providers leaves many without access to family planning or maternal care services.

Citizens of Ethiopia generate growing volumes of personal data through digital services, but existing legal frameworks lack enforcement mechanisms to hold companies accountable for misuse.

A significant unbanked population in Romania lacks verifiable digital identity credentials, which blocks access to formal banking, government benefits, and mobile money services.

A persistent gap exists in realizing practical, scalable solutions for design principles for digital public services that remain inclusive of low-literacy users. 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.