jugaad companies in emerging & developed countries
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India: A 30$ beautiful solution fridge that uses NO electricity and keeps fruit & vegetable fresh for a week.
www.mitticool.in
An affordable and reliable car for the customer that previously only had access t o t w o w h e e l transportation.
www.tatanano.com
India: the most celebrated example of Jugaad in India.
Kenya: An alternative fi n a n c i a l s e r v i c e transforming payments with electronic money, leveraging both SMS technology and widely spread corner-shops.
www.mpesa.in
China: An inspiring Jugaad solution providing a type of mini sleeping bag as a baby incubator for 1% of the cost of traditional incubators, currently saving hundreds of lives every day.
http://embraceglobal.org
UK: A 30$ computer coming from one of Dr. Prabhu’s students in Cambridge. Its affordability allows each school in the UK to offer it to their students.
Thanks to this, students can fully understand how a computer is built, how it works and how to code. And if it breaks it’s alright – it’s part of the learning!
www.raspberrypi.org
A Jugaad approach that offers its users the possibility to learn a language for free, while simultaneously contributing to the translation of the world-wide-web.
www.duolingo.com
USA : One of my personal favorites.
USA : A Jugaad- l i ke a p p r o a c h t h a t t a k e s advantage of what’s already there - smartphones and texting - offering a solution leveraging other capabilities of current devices such as photos, address book, etc.
www.whatsapp.com
A Jugaad solut ion allowing users to be connected to the internet on mobile devices using SMS technology.
www.be-bound.com
USA : Another of my personal favorites.
France: A 20€ / year fee fi n a n c i a l s e r v i c e t h a t provides a bank account, without the need of a bank and with no additional hidden fees.
It includes a debit card and uses the “bureau de tabac” or “tobacco shops” as a hub for operations.
http://compte-nickel.fr
France: A revolutionary Jugaad way to provide computing-as-a-service data centers while simultaneously providing household heating.
www.qarnot-computing.com
An affordable and reliable car that is the r e s u l t o f f r u g a l engineering and juggad approaches between Renau l t t eams i n Japan, India & France.
France: among the most celebrated examples of Jugaad in the West.
https://www.renault.com.eg/cars/logan/home.html