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Although Uganda is a prosperous agricultural country, most agrarian communities still do not have access to a water supply but continue to rely on wells for their daily water use. Problems associated with pumping the well water pose a threat to people’s livelihood. Local residents are supposed to collect monthly fees from each household and prepare enough fund for rehabilitating broken pumps, as a direction of Government of Uganda. However, in many cases, the money is not collected and the…

Tokyo-based Triple W is tackling a universal problem that is a source of deep sense of shame for a half billion people around the world every day, especially for the elderly and the handicapped, incontinence or not knowing when to go to the bathroom. “My grandfather was an entrepreneur and I always wanted my own business,” says CEO Atsushi Nakanishi. He studied business in college, worked for a consulting firm, looked for business ideas in the Philippines and went to…