Kopernik

Kopernik can accept Bank Transfer or Paypal for the repayment from the tech seekers.  Our bank details for incoming transfers are: BANK: Chase BRANCH: Brooklyn Trust 28, 177 Montague street, New York, 11201 USA ACCOUNT: Checking Account ACCOUNT NUMBER: 839226248 ACCOUNT NAME: Kopernik Solutions ABA: 021000021 Paypal account: Kopernik@thekopernik.org  

In rare instances, a technology seeker may fail to submit their feedback progress report for the project they have had funded at Kopernik. In this instance, all donors will be notified by Kopernik and the organization will be excluded from future use of the Site. Donors are also encouraged to rate the quality and timeliness of the report by the technology seekers through the Kopernik website.

1. Kopernik will deploy Kopernik Fellows to work with you and conduct impact assessment of the project.
2. In some cases, Kopernik will also send a university partner to conduct evaluation of the project

Yes, project proposal guidelines can be downloaded here.   

If the product is faulty, please refer to the maintenance and warranty provisions (above). However, if the product is functioning but just doesn’t work as well as you expected, or is not appropriate to your context, we want to hear about it. Each tech seeker is required to rate, and provide feedback on the usefulness and functionality of the technology. This feedback will be made public so that other tech seekers can see how the product is received. Kopernik will only feature those technologies that truly work in a developing context and your feedback is critical to making this happen.

Kopernik generally will not support those proposals from tech seekers that simply give products away for free. We encourage all tech seekers to devise a system of distribution, which could include the following:

1. Selling the products at a locally appropriate price, with locally appropriate payment scheme.
2. Renting the products.
3. Developing a lease to buy system.

This is not an exhaustive list and we look forward to more creative ways of sustainable use of the technologies.

The proposal budget can contain the cost of the products featured on the Kopernik website, international shipping costs, custom clearance, credit card processing fee and Kopernik’s 10% fee for due diligence.

As the technologies are sold at a locally determined price, there will be sales revenue. Using the proposal template, you can propose to cover awareness raising and distribution costs, using up to 30% of the sales revenue. This is covered in the ‘Part II: Technology Distribution and Repayment’ section of the proposal.

Once you have completed the proposal you can submit the draft to Kopernik and we will calculate the shipping costs for you.

At this stage we are accepting proposals up to USD 5,000 (for product cost). 

Technology seekers interested in becoming part of Kopernik can do so by filling out the registration and proposal form downloadable here.  Once submitted, Kopernik will review the application and conduct due diligence to determine whether the organization meets the requirements of Kopernik. If your organization is accepted, we will let you know.