WEDEW won Cooper Hewitt’s National Design Award for Climate Action!
The National Design Awards were established as a project of the White House Millennium Council in 2000.
The Climate Action Award recognizes a design project for its significant contributions to addressing the urgency of the global climate crisis.
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WEDEW was selected as one of the Best Inventions of 2020 by TIME.
TIME’s 100 Best Inventions are making the world better, smarter and even a bit more fun and we are so proud and excited to be a part of it!
For 2020’s list, TIME solicited nominations both from its editors and correspondents around the world and through an online application process and evaluated them on factors including originality, effectiveness, ambition and impact.
Read the full article here.
Finalist, Fast Co. World Changing Ideas General Excellence and Developing World Technology categories.
Fast Company‘s third annual World Changing Ideas Awards drew nearly 2,000 submissions across 17 categories. Fast Company editors and reporters created lists of honorable mentions and finalists, and then our panel of judges picked winners in each category.
Skysource/WEDEW was selected as a finalist in two categories: General Excellence and Developing-World Technology.
Read more about the Fast Company‘s World Changing Ideas Awards HERE.
Winner of WTN World Technology Award in Social Entrepreneurship, David Hertz elected WTN Fellow.
The World Technology Network (WTN) is a curated awards community comprised of the world's most innovative individuals and organizations in science, technology, and related fields. The WTN and its honorees – those creating the 21st century – are focused on exploring what is imminent, possible, and important in and around emerging technologies.
In 2018, Skysource won the ”SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP” award.
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Grand Prize Winner of the Water Abundance XPRIZE.
Skysource was announced as the grand prize winner of the $1.75M Water Abundance XPRIZE, a two-year competition aimed at alleviating the global water crisis with energy-efficient technologies that harvest fresh water from thin air.
The Water Abundance XPRIZE, powered by the Tata Group and Australian Aid, was launched in 2016 and Skysource received a grand prize for developing an easily deployable high-volume water generator that can be used in any climate, meeting the competition parameters of extracting a minimum of 2,000 liters of water per day from the atmosphere using 100 percent renewable energy, at a cost of no more than two cents per liter.
Read more about the Water Abundance XPRIZE here.
