# Blog Action Day: Poverty – Ending Poverty with Open Hardware | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [58]. 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/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: document (Text), 2008-10-15 (from the career record), http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/blog-action-day-poverty-ending-poverty-with-open-hardware-1070. 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): Pointer to the open-hardware life-support talk. - 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... - Saving the World on the Cheap (2007): Essay on a new way for charities and governments to fund lifesaving engineering. (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) - Enabling humanitarian innovation (TEDxEWB) (2010): Talk for Engineers Without Borders: poverty is a permanent disaster that kills about 20 million a year,... (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: Hexayurt shelter design & project — hexayurt, hexayurt project, project (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Global Swadeshi (1 here; 5 sources in all, earliest dated 2008); Reykjavik (1 here; 10 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 2 undated); Hexayurt Project (1 here; 70 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 4 undated) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): Reykjavik - Importance: core-text score 0.24 (1.00 is the top), number 317 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [238] [Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (Reykjavik Digital... (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/238.md): same career work: Ending Poverty With Open Hardware - [61] [Ending Poverty With Open Hardware | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/61.md): same career work: Ending Poverty With Open Hardware - On the same works, just before: [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) - On the same works, just after: [27] [Index of /hope_for_the_world (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/27.md); [64] [Hope for the World – my talk from the Emergency Housing... (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/64.md); [226] [Can we build a world with open source? | Victor Keegan |... (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/226.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: Blog Action Day: Poverty – Ending Poverty with Open Hardware | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution, document, 2008-10-15, http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/blog-action-day-poverty-ending-poverty-with-open-hardware-1070; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [58], https://guptaoption.com/texts/58.md. ## Passages [passage 1](http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/blog-action-day-poverty-ending-poverty-with-open-hardware-1070) I gave this talk – about how appropriate technology can save billions of people from the worst effects of poverty – in Reykjavik earlier this year. Here are the slides from the talk and a link to a discussion thread on Global Swadeshi, a poverty alleviation / appropriate technology social network. (gv link) If you’re new to the site, check out The Hexayurt Project – our open source disaster relief sheltering system. --- End of [58] Blog Action Day: Poverty – Ending Poverty with Open Hardware | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [27](https://guptaoption.com/texts/27.md) Index of /hope_for_the_world (2009); the most closely related, [238](https://guptaoption.com/texts/238.md) Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (Reykjavik Digital... (2008); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.