Social Enterprise Solutions Servicing Rural Communities and Sustainable Tourism Development in Indonesia

Local start-up Sumba Sustainable Solutions are partnering with rural women to reduce their domestic workload using solar-powered corn and rice mills in remote villages in Sumba, Indonesia. The mills are coupled with household Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) solar light and phone charger systems in a sustainable social business model currently servicing 2500 customers.

Zoltan Bartalis

Zoltan is an Earth Observation Application Engineer in the Earth Observation Directorate of the European Space Agency (ESA), based in Italy. His work focuses on growing the prospects of satellite Earth Observation (EO) data and applications being used coherently and sustainably in the day-to-day activities of various user groups, organizations, and industry sectors. The projects he oversees as a technical officer are typically anchored in real-world user requirements, trying to demonstrate the impact of EO and establish sectorial best practices for its use.