{"id":13340,"date":"2015-05-19T19:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/?p=13340"},"modified":"2015-05-28T14:25:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T05:25:02","slug":"kopernik-growing-rapidly-to-help-poor-people-in-sustainable-manner-19th-may-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/archives\/13340","title":{"rendered":"KOPERNIK Growing Rapidly to Help Poor People in Sustainable Manner (19th May 2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u3000Mr. Toshihiro Nakamura, Co-founder and CEO of the KOPERNIK and his staff met with Professor Sukehiro Hasegawa and explained how the KOPERNIK works by sourcing, connecting &#038; reinvesting in simple technology for poor people. According to Mr. Nakamura, the value of KOPERNIK technology transfer to poor people has been growing at a rapid rate of 45 per cent a year since the Kopernik was established 5 years ago, Among staff of 80 people, five Australian volunteers are contributing a great deal to the planning and management of Kopernik operations. Please click <u><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kopernik.ngo\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/u> to access the KOPERNIK homepage.<\/p>\n<p>\u3000The main source of KOPERNIK income comes from corporate donor contributions from Daiwa Securities, Japan Airlines, Exxon Mobile, J.P. Morgan, Panasonic\u3001Philips as well as Rockefeller and other foundations. Kopernik has also recently received support from the aid agencies, such as USAID, Department of Foreign Affairs of Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u3000In addition to Kopernik\u2019s main role to distribute innovative technologies to the last mile, Kopernik has also been helping corporations to develop simple technologies that could empower the poor communities in the developing world. To date, Kopernik supported the development of water filtration product, health related product and fish dryer to name a few.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/150519_01.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[13340]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/150519_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13341\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-13340 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/archives\/13340\/150519_02'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/150519_02-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/archives\/13340\/150519_03'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/150519_03-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u3000Mr. Toshihiro Nakamura, Co-founder and CEO of the KOPERNIK and his staff met with Professor Sukehiro Hasegawa and explained how the KOPERNIK works by sourcing, connecting &#038; reinvesting in simple technology for poor people. According to Mr. Nakamura, the value of KOPERNIK technology transfer to poor people has been growing at a rapid rate of 45 per cent a year since the Kopernik was established 5 years ago, Among staff of 80 people, five Australian volunteers are contributing a great deal to the planning and management of Kopernik operations. Please click <u><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kopernik.ngo\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/u> to access the KOPERNIK homepage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13346,"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13340\/revisions\/13346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shasegawa.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}