World Solve

Develop practical data collection, modeling, public deliberation, and evaluation tools for decisions currently made with incomplete or inaccessible evidence. The challenge is especially acute in informal settlements, where existing solutions often assume stable institutions, high incomes, continuous connectivity, or centralized service delivery.

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 scientific and economic models that overcome the lack of commercial incentives for new antibiotics while ensuring equitable global access.

Create validated organoid, organ-on-chip, computational, and regulatory approaches that better predict human outcomes while reducing animal use.

Develop standards and low-cost protections for irrigation controllers, sensors, drones, and farm equipment that may become attack vectors.

Develop mechanisms that address mine-level income, safety, child labor, local consent, and environmental damage rather than relying only on paperwork audits.

Create sustainable community care, pensions, housing, health, mobility, and digital-access systems for countries aging before becoming high-income.

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

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.

Build feedback systems between schools, training centers, employers, and informal workers so vocational programs teach skills that lead to real income.

Create scalable curricula that teach adolescents how to interpret uncertainty, correlation, evidence quality, charts, and causal claims in real-world contexts.

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