…charge mobile phones. Announced last October, the Panasonic Solar Lanternhas already won awards from the International Association for Universal Design (IAUD) and the Japan Institute of Design Promotion for its…
© Andres Bifani/Lighting Africa 2012. Lighting Africa organized a stakeholder’s meeting in May 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya to explore the role of women in the modern solar lighting market. The…
…its peers, which guides the work of product designers and drives innovation. With relief aid transitioning toward development, it is imperative to consider how interventions influence markets. Deployment of cheaper,…
…I examining “Ingress Protection” while Part 2 examines “Drip Loops and Design”. Part 1 of this series on Ingress Protection (IP) describes industry standard test methods for dust and water…
This brochure provides a brief overview of the Lighting Africa program, including its approach and history. It replaces a previous version of the brochure published in 2015 to reflect new…
…or in perpetuity in the case of energy service business models. If payments are not made in time, the system has internal circuitry to prevent its use, enforcing the loan…
The Lighting Global Quality Assurance team held a webinar featuring its new guide to compliance and the consumer-facing information requirements in the Lighting Global Standards on 11 April 2019.This session…
…industry is currently providing energy to over 100 million people around the world, with sales of 4.4 million off-grid solar lighting products and 460,000 appliances in the last six months…
Lighting Global has contributed to a new Shell Corporation publication which looks at energy choices for displaced people. The report estimates that in 2018, refugees and host communities spent roughly…
…operational questions is at the center of managing agent networks,including: (i) how should companies allocate their agents to the market? (ii) how should companies compensate their salesforce? (iii) how should…
