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Our story
The Humanitarian Technology Trust is focused on advancing open-source humanitarian technology through local manufacturing. We believe that empowering local manufacturers is the best way to ensure life-saving technologies reach the communities that need them most.
Our first major project is supporting the OpenFlexure Microscope—a laboratory grade, digital, robotic microscope. Recently recommended by the World Health Organisation as an innovative health technology for low-resource settings, the microscope has demonstrated its potential to revolutionise diagnosis of conditions such as malaria and cancer in low resource areas.
Why we're raising money
Before a microscope can be used in a clinic to perform life saving diagnostics, the microscope manufacturing must pass a certification process. We are working with manufacturers in Tanzania and Cameroon to enable them to reach regulatory approval in their country. We are also collecting evidence of the microscopes performance in collaboration with health institutes in the UK, USA, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Brazil.
Any technology we design is openly available for anyone in the world to use. Your donation will allow us to improve the microscope design, improve the documentation so it is easier to build in country, improve the microscopes software so it is easier for clinicians to use, and to work with organisations around the world to ensure that microscopy is available for all.
Where Can You Find Us?
The best place to find out more about the OpenFlexure Microscope project is on:
https://openflexure.org.
You can talk to us on our forum:
https://openflexure.discourse.group
You could even build yourself a microscope!
https://openflexure.org/projects/microscope/
Our story
The Humanitarian Technology Trust is focused on advancing open-source humanitarian technology through local manufacturing. We believe that empowering local manufacturers is the best way to ensure life-saving technologies reach the communities that need them most.
Our first major project is supporting the OpenFlexure Microscope—a laboratory grade, digital, robotic microscope. Recently recommended by the World Health Organisation as an innovative health technology for low-resource settings, the microscope has demonstrated its potential to revolutionise diagnosis of conditions such as malaria and cancer in low resource areas.
Why we're raising money
Before a microscope can be used in a clinic to perform life saving diagnostics, the microscope manufacturing must pass a certification process. We are working with manufacturers in Tanzania and Cameroon to enable them to reach regulatory approval in their country. We are also collecting evidence of the microscopes performance in collaboration with health institutes in the UK, USA, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Brazil.
Any technology we design is openly available for anyone in the world to use. Your donation will allow us to improve the microscope design, improve the documentation so it is easier to build in country, improve the microscopes software so it is easier for clinicians to use, and to work with organisations around the world to ensure that microscopy is available for all.
Where Can You Find Us?
The best place to find out more about the OpenFlexure Microscope project is on:
https://openflexure.org.
You can talk to us on our forum:
https://openflexure.discourse.group
You could even build yourself a microscope!
https://openflexure.org/projects/microscope/
