Open Source Engineering

Open handed, freely sharing, publishing rather than patenting, empowering rather than controlling.

Based on the discovery that the technologies for cleaning water have been locked up and unavailable to those who needed the technologies most.

Learning from the GNU model for software and adapting that open source model for engineering hardware.

With the hope that by opening the gates of knowledge fewer communities will resort to building untested technologies that all to often become the white elephants that litter the landscape in the Global South.