AWARD YEAR
2015
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Affordable & Clean Energy
KEYWORDS
energy conservation, interactive coin jar, donation
COUNTRY
Taiwan
DESIGNED BY
Hsiang-Lin Yang, Arun Mota and Yashodeep Gholap.
WEBSITE
http://www.hsianglinyang.com/portfolio/light-up/
LightUp – Change For Good
An energy redistribution service allows you saving money and donating to deprived areas in parallel.
Energy is clearly the fuel that drives progress of any place in the world. While the developed areas constantly dwell on how to optimise the resources better everyday, reality is there are still many inhabited places that yet do not have even basic access to the most critical energy resources like electricity.
As for Public communities, personal donations play a huge role in raising the needed funds for projects that help to bridge this gap. Often such donors do not see where and how they exactly made a difference. There is no visible feedback to their valuable contribution. That’s where interaction makes a difference.
LightUp is an interactive fundraising coin jar that firstly encourages personal savings and then also allows people to contribute a part of their savings towards the cause. The system allows them to track in real-time exactly how many units of electricity they helped generate. Another visible reward is the jar lights up for 10 minutes each time they drop a coin.