Remember meeting Mr G in New Delhi while I was working for an organisation his foundation has so far provided more than $1.2Billion to.<p>Now I'm working on creating transparency with open data so that others can find out where these and $23Billion more went.<p>See the project at <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-data-for-transparency-in-development-aid" rel="nofollow">http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-data-for-transparency...</a>
"Last year our foundation sponsored a “re-invent the toilet” fair where 14 universities submitted innovative answers to that problem."<p>The toilet designs provided in the link are interesting. It looks like nothing can actually replace water usage for sanitation completely.
Here's what I don't get: India has about one hundred nuclear weapons. Yet they can't invest in a sensible sanitation infrastructure?<p>I know at some level this is nonsensical. The question really is more about whether this is a problem of priorities rather than capability or finances.<p>The average income in India is reported at somewhere around USD $100 per month. How many people and resources do you need to construct the required infrastructure? How much would it cost?<p>I don't know the cost of a typical nuclear weapon and the required support infrastructure. It can't be cheap. A billion dollars would put a million people to work for ten months. Is it a matter of misplaced priorities?