Honduras based Proyecto Mirador is working with TACT to leverage Salesforce and PULSE to manage its stove building operations and performance metrics in rural Honduras. A single stove can solve more than just respiratory problems for a household.
What does success look like to Proyecto Mirador?
- Efficient monitoring and evaluation system for carbon certification
- Technology to improve efficiency and provide a system to scale stove building operations in Honduras
Impact:
- What is the lifetime value of healthy lungs?
- >18,000 stoves built since inception in 2004
- Each stove reduces up to 2.73 metric tons of C02 emissions each year
- Forest, plant and animal habitat loss reduced
- New jobs and businesses created to support stove building and management
- Free time created or income made available from reduced firewood expenses
- Shared cost means valued stove
Tech:
- TACT: Implementation, customization and ongoing support via phone, email and skype
- Salesforce Foundation Donation program: Proyecto Mirador took advantage of the Saleforce Foundation licencese donation and discount program
- iPhone in the jungle: Thanks Steve Jobs…. iPhones are used by technicians to capture basic household information and manage stove builds
- Salesforce Mobile: It works great on iPhones with on and offline capability
- PULSE: For impact management
- Lenovo Laptops with internal Gobi cards for GPS & 3G
- DigitalGlobe: Check out their new cloud solution – Global Basemap. When Google maps and Bing are not good enough…
- Dual language system
- Ongoing support via phone, email and skype
Link to Proyecto Mirador
Posted on October 21, 2011 by Stevan
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