The WHCC Affordable Health Innovations Exhibit and Awards Program is pleased to announce the participation of Kopernik, a new venture 
launched on January 25. Kopernik is an online platform that allows the most progressive technologies to reach poor people in developing countries. The goal is to accelerate development through ‘leapfrogging’ or skipping inferior, less-efficient technologies and practices and moving directly to more advanced ones. Kopernik show-cases innovative products (such as solar powered products and water purification devices) and thereby provides a menu of options accessible to local organizations in developing countries. The organizations then develop short proposals explaining how they can utilize the products to overcome development challenges and impediments to growth. The public in turn funds the most promising proposals in order to make them a reality.
Some of the innovative projects Kopernik is working with include a solar-powered hearing aid, sef-adjusting eye glasses, and a straw that works as a water filter. Please visit the Kopernik Web site to learn more about this exciting new organization. We hope you can join them at the 7th Annual World Health Care Congress.
