Very cool!

Fantastic idea!

Congratulations! A very successful and well executed solution. Great work!

Really interesting project! Like Long, I'm wondering about pricing of the service and how you plan to maintain the support of the service technicians over time. How are they compensated, and who are they employed by? It seems to me that the ability to sustain maintenance and support for the service will be key to long-term adoption and success.

Very interesting. And inspiring. Whilst there are some many high tech innovations happening these examples of participatory community based initiatives that deal with basic human rights are essential. Sadly my bandwidth in Harare is making it difficult to view the video so I went to the ghanasan blog and had a read. I really liked the lessons learned/tips section and also the illustrations about how to used the toilets.

In Zimbabwe public toilets were built at numerous shopping/trading centers. However these have all been shut down (padlocked closed) largely because the local authority hasn't been able to provide water to service the toilets. So instead of becoming a health hazard, access has been denied, but no alternatives have been put forward. This leaves the large vendor communities that trade near commercial shopping areas without toilet facilities. I'm hoping that links between the private sector and local government will see the introduction of water deliveries so that people can use these toilets again.

But this example in Ghana provides good food for thought.

Very creative product. Want to learn more how much does people have to pay per month? And the installment fee? In Cambodia, less than 40% of households have toilet. This product may be a good solution for Cambodian as it doesn't need large space.

Awesome!

Great Project!

This is great to see, I remember writing everything and participating in the collaboration of this challenge. Good work and keep up the follow-up!

you just reinvented the Pail Closet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pail_closet - a very good idea, circa 19th century.

Congrats to everyone from the local Kumasi community, Clean Team, Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, WSUP, Unilever, IDEO, OpenIDEO, Cranfield University, and everyone else that was involved in getting to this promising point! Excited about the trial progress and the potential 2012 launch for this social enterprise =).

It is nice to see how all aspects of the product interaction cycle benefits the community. It integrates nicely with rural economies creating employment and providing a low cost fertilizer source.

It's these impact stories that make us all proud - congrats to Unilever and the whole community