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IIoT Technology with Human Potential By Jennifer Davis, Head of Public Affairs, Arch Systems F
rom its earliest days, Silicon Valley has pro- duced some of the most transformative com- panies and technologies in modern history,
from Intel’s microprocessors and Apple’s iPhones to the software and data mind of Google. More re- cently, some of the most interesting developments have come at the intersection of a Silicon Val- ley experience mixed with a very non-Silicon Valley experience, as its innovators set out to solve some of the world’s oldest problems.
Accessing Clean Water Tim Burke graduated from Rice University
after studying physics and math and was work- ing as a volunteer in Nicaragua when a courier pulled up alongside him and hand-delivered an invitation from the Peace Corps. He spent the next three years working with the Peace Corps in Panama building and fixing infrastructure to address clean water needs. By the time he en- rolled as a materials science Ph.D. student at Stanford, he was committed to addressing the inequality of access to basic resources, such as clean water, around the world. That same year, University of Florida
graduate Andrew Scheuermann also enrolled in the materials science Ph.D. program at Stanford. On their first day, Scheuermann and Burke struck up a conversation, quickly be-
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coming fast friends and later roommates, sharing the basement of a Los Altos house. While at Stanford, Scheuermann joined and
helped lead a student group that became StartX, now a top startup accelerator based just off cam- pus. Burke volunteered with, and ultimately
helped lead, WellDone International, a 501(c)3 aimed at bringing clean water to rural villages. Both found success in their academic studies. Scheuermann accomplished a world record in sili- con photoanode efficiency, publishing more than 15 papers, and Burke developed a complete theory of organic solar cell operation with follow-up work and citations by more than 1,000 re- searchers worldwide. Meanwhile, Burke maintained his focus
on work in Africa. He traveled around east Africa with WellDone, seeing many villages with broken wells. It had become all too com- mon for volunteer organizations to arrive in remote locations intending to dig new wells, only to discover that there were already bro- ken wells dug by previous organizations. Without effective ongoing maintenance,
the goal of improving access to clean water was not being achieved. Studies showed that 40 percent of wells across sub-Saharan Africa were broken, with a failure rate in some areas as high as 80 percent. Wells intended to last 10 years often worked for only one.
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