Fundación Chile chose Alfredo Zolezzi as part of the first generation of ‘Chileans without Borders’. This nomination distinguishes people who have innovated from their own disciplines, motivated by the construction of a better country.
Alfredo was invited to talk about Innovation with Purpose, which has achieved that advanced technology and social problems work together. He introduces analyzing the current context, in which he reveals the contradictions between technological development and the expansion of poverty. Given this scenario, he proposes a route to address humanitarian problems in a different way: effective collaboration.
Since 2011, Alfredo Zolezzi, his family and a multidisciplinary team of professionals embarked on the challenge to demonstrate that it is possible to connect advanced science and technology with poverty.
In 2012, Reuters.com published the first steps of the Plasma Water Sanitation System prototype, installed in the San José de Cerrillos Settlement, in Chile. This technology was conceived to connect advanced science and innovation with social issues.
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