Appropedia Foundation

Achievements in 2022 include: * Appropedia reached over 1.2M users from 231 countries. The platform rolled out features for accesibility including offline access, and improved its content generation tools. * Provided support to finalists of the Global Surgical Training Challenge, a USD 5M competition aimed at enable surgical training and access to simulators for low and middle-income countries. This competition was funded by Intuitive Foundation and supported by MIT Solve, Nesta Challenges, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and Appropedia Foundation.

* Appropedia Foundation is a member of the Internet of Producton Alliance (IoPA), a group focused on developing documentation standards and distributed manufacturing capabilities. In 2022, the Foundation established a fiscal sponsorship ageeement to administer funds provided by the Sloan Foundation to support the global operations of the IoPA.

* Facilitated capacity building to document and communicate open souce innovations, in collaboration with multiple global programs, such as Open Hardware Makers, Critical Making, and Open Climate. * Carried out a fundraising campaign to produce the book To Catch the Sun and translate to several languages. The book provides experiences and context for projects based off Appropedia content to build and deploy low-cost photovoltaic solutions. The campaign raised over USD 20,000 on Kickstarter through 440 supporters.