Kopernik in the Media
29 June 2010
Kopernik: bringing the future to the world’s developing communities
Ever wanted to change the world? Ewa Wojkowska, Australian co-founder of New York-based Kopernik is bringing innovative technologies to developing communities in East Timor, Africa and elsewhere.
18 June 2010
Bright Potential for Women’s Empowerment
An innovative distribution approach is being pursued by The Kopernik, an online store that connects individuals, companies, and local distributers. Companies post product descriptions, and on-the-ground distributors choose appropriate technologies to meet local needs from a "menu," articulating how they intend to use the technology in a short proposal that gets posted on Kopernik's website.
Issue 5, 2010
The Kopernik Revolution
Kopernik is a technology marketplace that connects life-changing innovations to the people who need them in the developing world. Co-Founder Ewa Wojkowska explains how and why it came about.
3 June 2010
Interview: Scott White, The Kopernik
The Kopernik is an online marketplace bringing together technology developers, donors and beneficiaries to provide basic necessities through technology to families in the developing world. I recently had a chance to connect with Scott White, the Business Development Specialist at Kopernik, to learn more.
June - August 2010 edition
Lifesavers: Kopernik connects inventors with the poor communities that desperately need their products
Access to basic necessities like clean water and electricity can be addressed effectively and Kopernik has found the solution.
2 May 2010
The Artistry of Inconspicuous Quality
If you would like to help humanitarian design projects to reach people who urgently need them, you can do so through a new Web site, www.thekopernik.org. Founded by a group of former United Nations workers, Kopernik, named after the Renaissance astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus, asks for donations (large and small) to contribute toward the cost of specific projects
30 April 2010
Kopernik Connects the Developing World with Appropriate Technology
Sometimes, utter frustration can lead to solutions – as it did when 30-somethings Ewa Wojkowska and Toshihiro Nakamura realized that the barriers of cost and distribution of innovative technological products that could improve the quality of life in developing countries kept them from getting to where they were most needed.
29 April 2010
NHK’s Project Wisdom
Toshi was interviewed on NHK’s ‘Project Wisdom‘. It’s a global debate program on African development. He was in good company with other panelists including Paul Collier (Oxford), Matt Flannery (Kiva) and Fred Swaniker (African leadership Academy).
23 April 2010
Tech store brings innovation to developing nations
One of the most challenging aspects of humanitarian aid is connecting those who generate innovative solutions with those who need them. That's where Kopernik comes in: a grassroots platform designed to help bring breakthrough technologies to developing nations.
21 April 2010
Leveraging New Technology for Women's Economic Empowerment: Understanding and Expanding Distribution Networks (Video)
This session was part of The ExxonMobil Women and Development Roundtable Series
World Health Congress,DC, April 2010. There are some interesting technologies featured here and a short piece about how Kopernik helps to distribute them.
23 March 2010
Kopernik Smooths the Path for Humanitarian Project Distribution
“A smart solution to get technology into the hands of those who need it.”
21 March 2010
Kopernik Brings Life Changing Tech to Developing Countries
“Ten years ago Ewa Wojkowska arrived in East Timor with her sleeves rolled up as an Australian volunteer for an NGO.”
11 March 2010
Kopernik Channels Copernicus, Crowd Sources for Social Good
“Copernicus changed the way people viewed the world. Kopernik is changing the approach to development. Social Venture Kopernik uses crowd sourcing and crowd funding to connect progressive technologies, poor communities and a global network of donors.”
7 March 2010
Sundays with Alan Brough
Alan Brough interviews Ewa Wojkowska, Co-Founder of Kopernik.
10 March 2010
Kopernik
“A new website follows the increasingly familiar model of funding socially progressive design and technology projects a few dollars at a time.”
9 March 2010
Amazing Gadgets for the Poor
“…breakthrough products, all of them invented in the last 5 o 10 years, are examples of what can be done when technology is designed for the poor.”
8 March 2010
Amazing Gadgets for the Poor
“We became bothered by the lack of innovation and new ideas in solving development challenges. It was the same people and the same projects being tried from place to place."
6 March 2010
Kopernik: New Social Enterprise Marketplace
That's where startup Kopernik comes in. Founded by two ex-UN staff members, Ewa Wojkowska and Toshi Nakamura, Kopernik is a marketplace for what the duo calls life-changing technology. Their site promotes matchmaking between NGOs and other social change organizations with specific needs and the makers and designers of products-for-good.”
5 March 2010
Kopernik; Connecting Technology Providers With Technology Seekers
“Take a look at this new Cause Integrated company, Kopenerik. Kopernik connects innovative technologies, poor communities & individual donors to help facilitate the transfer of these technologies to the communities that need them. “
3 March 2010
A Marketplace for BOP Products
“With so much ingenious technology being developed by social entrepreneurs around the world, one of the great remaining challenges is figuring out how to make it available to the people who need it—first by letting them know that it exists, and then by raising the money to pay for it.”
28 Feb 2010
NGO Kopernik Brings Innovative Ideas in Aid Work to Indonesia
“The main concept behind Kopernik is the realization that amazing, life-changing technologies are out there, but are not reaching those who really need them”
Feb 25, 2010
Kopernik: the third-world technology superstore
“The Kopernik is a next-gen online charity initiative that lets you choose exactly which projects and technologies you wish to put your money towards. It's also quite an amazing repository of emerging survival and sustainable living technology.”
Feb 25, 2010
Kopernik: Crowdfunding World-Changing Design
“The name, of course, comes from Copernicus, the Polish Renaissance astronomer who busted the geocentric model of the universe and completely changed the way people perceived the way around them — an aspirational metaphor for Kopernik’s ambition to revolutionize how people see and understand the biggest challenges the world faces today.”
Feb 24, 2010
Kopernik: High-Tech for High-Impact
“The Kopernik team wants people to see global problem solving through a different lens. Their goal: delivering innovation to a million people by 2012. We like their vision.”
Feb 24, 2010
There is 1 item in your worldchanging shopping cart
“Vintage copy of a Salinger novel? Ghosts in a jar? Nowadays, you can buy just about anything on the interwebs. That includes the coolest new gadgets – at least, for most of us. But what about high-tech goods for the developing world?”
Feb 21, 2010
Kopernik: on-line store of innovative technologies designed for the BOP
“Kopernik have just launched a new web platform connecting you with poor communities and technologies that might be needed there via an online store. I cannot emphasize enough that is this is long long overdue and that we should all be embarrassed that this hasn’t happened before.”
Feb 19, 2010
Kopernik Launches Today: New Online Store of Technology Designed for the Poor
“Kopernik is a group of former UN workers and today, Feb 19th, they are launching Kopernik—www.thekopernik.org—an online store of technology designed for the developing world.”
Feb 17, 2010
Kopernik Sells Technology To The Developing World
“Ewa Wojkowska wants to make an Amazon-like online store for technologies for the developing world.”