Puri: Charity: Water Used Real-Time IoT Flow Meters To Drive Fundraising
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Shaan Puri explains the innovation behind Charity: Water's donor transparency model using connected IoT hardware.
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“He literally installed like little Google donated these like IOT devices, these flow meters so that you can see that the well you helped build, you can go in the app, and you can literally see how much water is flowing through that well right now, and so he did a lot of experiments like that to, like, change the feeling people get when they give, where they actually get to feel the impact, because his belief was, if people could see how much good it does, they would do more, and he was totally right. That's why Charity Water has raised so much money.”
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