Ned Breslin
- Speaker PopTech 2010
- Lab Participant PopTech Climate Resilience Lab
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In PopTech's Edition III, measuring real impact
PopTech’s Edition III is now available online. This Edition explores the latest techniques to accurately measure the real impact of innovations designed to do social good.…
This week in PopTech: Musicals, awards and the democratizing of art
There’s always something brewing in the PopTech community. From the world-changing people, projects and ideas in our network, a handful of this week’s highlights follows.
Interview: Ned Breslin on World Water Day and long-term water solutions
To celebrate World Water Day, PopTech caught up with Water For People CEO and PopTech speaker Ned Breslin, who was awarded the 2011 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship by the Skoll Foundation this past week.
Water For People (WFP) helps people in developing countries improve quality of life by supporting the development of locally sustainable, …
Ned Breslin Rethinks Water Aid
Ned Breslin, CEO of Water for People, is a self-professed critic of most water and sanitation interventions worldwide — and has set out to challenge longheld assumptions about the role of foreign aid in these projects.
He doesn’t doubt their initial good intentions, but laments the enormous disconnect between these intentions and long-term change. Drilling a water …
This Week in PopTech: Sustainable Development, Aquaponics and Speaking Human
There’s always something brewing in the PopTech community. From the world-changing people, projects and ideas in our network, a handful of this week’s highlights follows.Read more »
Learning from the Water Crisis of Our Making
The world is facing a water and sanitation crisis, but not the one you think. True, nearly 900 million people lack clean water and 2.5 billion lack a safe toilet, but perhaps the greater tragedy is that decades of efforts by philanthropists and NGOs have been pursued in such a short-sighted way that today many of the poorest regions of the world are littered with broken hand pumps and failed …