iwash

Sharing Knowledge and Practical Solutions Online

Making Knowledge Accessible

To promote better hygiene practices at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic a DIY methodology on handwashing station designs was created and hosted as an open access platform (iwash.org). This initiative has grown into a mature knowledge sharing platform for open water technologies for WASH officers around the world. The core idea is to provide designs, blueprints, and instructions on how to create and implement certain water technologies and to inspire and empower others to create or implement these ideas. We believe the solutions for many people lacking access to sanitation lies in self-empowerment and making knowledge accessible. iwash provides sanitation agencies, companies, but also end-users, with understandable designs that can be made from local materials. We call this approach “open-technologies’’.

Local Approach

Local sanitation partners and university research institutes in Ghana support and expand the knowledge sharing and provide contextual research. Projects are developed and tested locally before being hosted on the iwash platform to ensure the technologies and ideas can actually be implemented.