World Solve

Create shared infrastructure, sanitation, deposit, tracking, and business models that make reuse work across fragmented retailers and delivery systems.

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

Create affordable respite care, training, financial support, medical navigation, and community networks as dementia care increasingly occurs at home.

Develop interoperable standards, open contracting, data portability, and technical capacity so public agencies retain control over essential digital systems.

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

Build risk-based grid maintenance, vegetation management, shutoff policies, and backup systems that prevent sparks without leaving communities vulnerable.

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

Create transition plans for towns dependent on coal jobs, tax revenue, rail infrastructure, and related industries as plants and mines close.

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

Develop storage approaches that shift renewable energy across weeks or months rather than only across hours, without prohibitive material or infrastructure costs.

Create transparent testing, household behavior, public infrastructure, and maintenance strategies so families consistently access safe water rather than reverting to contaminated sources.

The absence of robust, context-adapted solutions for institutional designs that make long-term infrastructure investment politically durable 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.

Achieving systems ensuring the safety and reliability of AI systems used in critical infrastructure control 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.

Manufacturers in Poland largely dispose of byproducts that could be inputs for other industries, but there is no matchmaking infrastructure connecting waste streams to potential users.

The absence of robust, context-adapted solutions for autonomous microgravity assembly of large habitats and infrastructure 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.

Utilities and hospitals in Democratic Republic of Congo increasingly face ransomware attacks, but many operate on legacy systems without the budget or expertise to implement modern cybersecurity defenses.

Current approaches to methods for assessing the resilience of critical infrastructure to compound climate and cyber risks 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.

Electronic waste volumes in Colombia are rising rapidly, but formal recycling capacity remains minimal, pushing most e-waste into informal, hazardous dismantling operations.

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

Small-scale fishers in Bangladesh often operate without formal recognition or access to credit, insurance, or market infrastructure, leaving them economically vulnerable and undercounted in fisheries policy.