# Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference, Keynote source; Keynote file timestamps July 2008)

> One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [238]. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/<id>.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages.

## Where this source sits

- Source: document (Slides), 2008-07 (from the career record), https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Reykjavik_Digital_Freedoms_Conference/. Text: document text
- On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the start (Hexayurt, 2002), before the money step (Global Village Development Bank, 2009).
- How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Maps each way to die to open household hardware: the life-support kit Harappa scales up.
- Career works it belongs to:
  - Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (2008): Talk: half of all deaths are deaths from poverty, and open technology built household by household can...
  - Avoiding Capitalism for the Next Four Billion (2009): Lecture at the Temporary School of Thought: poverty means dying of being poor, the death-toll arithmetic... (suggested by machine)
  - Hope for the World (2009): Talk at an emergency housing workshop in Sweden: disaster relief and development aid are one problem, and... (suggested by machine)
- Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of:
  - RMI to spiral: Resource economics, from the Rocky Mountain Institute to the spiral economy.
  - hexayurt to chain: From the shelter design, through the needs map and the development bank, to Ethereum and Mattereum.
- Topics: Rural poverty & development infrastructure (33%); SCIM / Six Ways To Die — layered critical-infrastructure mapping (33%); Capitalism, consumption & resources (17%)
- Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: too cold (4 here; 40 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 7 undated); drinking water (2 here; 22 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 2 undated); SODIS (1 here; 6 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 2 undated); Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (1 here; 6 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 1 undated); toilets (3 here; 44 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 5 undated); self-reliance (1 here; 8 sources in all, earliest dated 2006); solar cooking (1 here; 8 sources in all, earliest dated 2008); Appropedia (2 here; 34 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 3 undated); Akvo (1 here; 11 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 3 undated); open hardware (1 here; 15 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 1 undated)
- The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): too cold; Ending Poverty With Open Hardware
- Importance: core-text score 0.44 (1.00 is the top), number 141 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation
- Related sources:
  - [58] [Blog Action Day: Poverty – Ending Poverty with Open... (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/58.md): same career work: Ending Poverty With Open Hardware
  - [341] [Vinay Gupta - Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference -... (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/341.md): same career work: Ending Poverty With Open Hardware
- On the same works, just before: [33] [Soft Development Paths (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/33.md); [70] [The systemic risks model for survival | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/70.md); [196] Mark Charmer on Open Source Water and Sanitation... (2008)
- On the same works, just after: [67] [Rough video from my talk in Iceland | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/67.md); [63] [Health insurance for $10 per year using the network |... (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/63.md); [369] [Hexayurt Project - Six Ways To Die (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/369.md)

## Reading it

Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it.

Cite as: Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference, Keynote source; Keynote file timestamps July 2008), document, 2008-07, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Reykjavik_Digital_Freedoms_Conference/; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [238], https://guptaoption.com/texts/238.md.

## Passages
[slide 1](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Reykjavik_Digital_Freedoms_Conference/) The world is a very big place. We share it with 3bn poor. Open design can help. Vinay Gupta Hexayurt Project [email removed] - contact me http://Hexayurt.com - shelter http://Vinay.HowToLiveWiki.com - blog http://LiveUnplugged.org - vision http://GuptaOption.com/ - policy http://GlobalSwadeshi.net - social network Ending Poverty With Open Hardware pic via http://flickr.com/photos/63138333@N00/2162447668/ thank you for sharing your work Absolute poverty means dying from being poor Half Of All Death Is Death From Poverty 30 million people a year Real Numbers 60 million people die every year (WHO) All causes, all countries, not just the poor Two ways to see numbers absolute cause, and contributory effect http://www.who.int/whr/2004/annex/topic/en/annex_2_en.pdf Hunger Data About 1 million people die directly from lack of proper food (WHO) However, FAO says hunger contributes to 36 million deaths each year Some die directly, but masses are affected This repeats for diseased drinking water, indoor air pollution and so on http://www.who.int/whr/2004/annex/topic/en/annex_2_en.pdf http://www.wantedinrome.com/articles/complete_articles.php?id_art=850 Poverty Death from poverty comes in many forms Lack of good food, disease from bad toilets and drinking water, breathing smoke from cooking fires, lack of vaccinations and so it goes - people die of many contributory causes This is the poverty cluster open technology can reduce poverty cluster deaths to zero* *or at least damn near it Half Of All Global Death Is Preventable 30 million people a year can be saved with simple technology being poor does not have to mean dying from being poor any more than it means not being able to afford an operating system Solutions Londoners were dying of cholera in 1854 Infrastructure to protect public health more-or-less defines the developed world But there’s a problem you need stability to borrow money to pay for things like water treatment plants that is hard to come by in poor places Local Infrastructure Gather power on each roof (sun, wind) Purify water in each kitchen (SODIS) Dispose of human waste in each back yard Stability and a higher standard of living without massive borrowing to finance centralized infrastructure systems http://smallisprofitable.org/ Population If 1 in 5 (20%) die before they are adults 90% odds of two adults needs 3 children 99% odds of two adults needs 5 children This is why the poor have large families But reducing infant mortality quickly reduces family size! Charles Waldman, private correspondance Open Appropriate Technology Systems Solar and clean-burning wood stoves (5m) Purify water in each kitchen (5m combined) Dispose of sewage in back yards Farming education to double food (30m?) Generate power in each household (education, connectivity) http://www.aprovecho.org/ http://solarcookers.org/ http://www.worldtoilet.org/ http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=5936

[slide 18](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Reykjavik_Digital_Freedoms_Conference/) Questions? Translation & literacy? Networks and devices? Why hasn’t this happened already? Political and economic indications? Effect on the global environment? Specific technologies? Source material? Mapping Infrastructure Six Ways To Die Blank Slate Industrial Infrastructure Apply Critical Technologies solar water pasteurization etc. (water) simple toilets (brick pits, composting) solar cooking and improved stoves (air) passive solar house construction (warm) improved organic agriculture (nitrogen) food preservation (zeer pots) Blank Slate How Can You Help Appropedia - classic wiki volunteer tasks PhD students - thesis direction Sci / Eng types - system testing and design Multilingual? Translate, translate! Keep the software (and hardware!) coming! Build bridges for the future Resources A word on Gandhi Refined the design for the spinning wheel that is his “machine-logo” Self-reliance (swadeshi) is the only hope for most of the world’s poor - at least for now Vertically and horizontally integrated morality http://globalswadeshi.net Open Appropriate Technology Projects http://Appropedia.org - the motherlode http://Aprovecho.org - stoves http://Akvo.org - water technology http://SolarCookers.org - cooking, water http://OpenFarmTech.org - open everything http://Hexayurt.com - whole systems, emergency housing

[passage 3](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Reykjavik_Digital_Freedoms_Conference/) too y r ju in ho t illness too cold 0.01% thi 0.1% rst 1% n u h r e g 10% annual mortality

[passage 4](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Reykjavik_Digital_Freedoms_Conference/) SUN wars LOCAL EN EGY wind communal violence PV panels EC DE O SI GN accidents illness S er sewage elt TOILE T ho t heating too cold trash wells in medical events dumps too y r ju sh H LOW-TEC E MEDICIN biomass STOVES clothes 0.01% dumps microhydro purification thi transport rst 1% 10% collection surface water WATE R TECH NOLO GY n u h annual mortality storage r e g 0.1% individual household rain town region world cooking food stores roads FARMING house& hold OOD food F farming E STORAG markets roads the coldness of space

[passage 5](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Reykjavik_Digital_Freedoms_Conference/) too y r ju in ho t illness too cold 0.01% thi r e g 0.1% rst 1% 10% n u h annual mortality individual household town region world

[passage 6](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Reykjavik_Digital_Freedoms_Conference/) e n e r g y energy markets wars d al efe e ns n o ati coal mines coal nuke infra. oil driling SUN nukes gas n fuel oil power plants g r i d s po lic in g communal violence hospitals accidents final dispoasal sewage collection treatment trash sewage illness storage fans heating too cold medical events er ho t elt in sh too y r ju air conditio ning clothes toilets 0.01% dumps greywater h warehouse cooking ports n w annual mortality airports p s a t o cars tap water household t public trans food markets t transport food stores e g r i d collection household farming rail storage food markets town farming region world oil supply r e r individual purification n rivers the sea un 1% 10% lakes rain rst a wells r e g r thi 0.1% the coldness of space t aquifers farming SUN

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End of [238] Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference, Keynote source; Keynote file timestamps July 2008). Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt.
Read next: next on the same works, [67](https://guptaoption.com/texts/67.md) Rough video from my talk in Iceland | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2008); the most closely related, [58](https://guptaoption.com/texts/58.md) Blog Action Day: Poverty – Ending Poverty with Open... (2008); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.