Samsung Electronics announced that it has successfully completed a prototype toilet development project for the world’s poorest communities with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The South Korean tech giant held a “closing ceremony” for the toilet reinvention project it has participated in for the past three years at the Samsung Higher Institute of Technology, its research and development arm in Suwon, south of Seoul. Yonhap News Agency reported at the foundation’s request.
“The Institute recently completed the development of basic toilet technologies and developed a prototype for home use,” the company said, adding that the toilet “saves energy and has the capacity to treat wastewater.”
The foundation’s website states that the toilet reinvention challenge began in 2011 through the Gates Foundation’s Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Program “to create innovative solutions that can protect people and communities from pathogens sent by human waste and enable governments to truly deliver toilets and health care. .” comprehensive sanitation services.” reach the poorest communities.
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Lee Jae-young, vice president of Samsung Electronics, shared the results of the project with Bill Gates, who visited Seoul last month, Yonhap News Agency reported.
At the meeting, Lee pledged to continue using Samsung’s technologies to “help overcome the challenges facing humanity.”
Samsung announced that it plans to license project patents to developing countries during the commercialization phase without demanding intellectual property fees.
Samsung said that Lee and Gates will be in close contact to keep each other informed about the project.
The foundation states that more than 3.5 billion people worldwide live “with inadequate sanitation, which caused more than half a million deaths from diarrhea in 2016.”
Source: Yonhap
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