Aisa Mijeno, the Filipino co-founder of the popular Sustainable Alternative Lighting (SALT), made international headlines after she was featured in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Summit on Wednesday as a great example of a young entrepreneur using technology to solve everyday problems.
The engineer and environmental advocate of SALT was involved in a panel discussion which involved the President o the United States and the billionaire founder of Alibaba Group, Jack Ma.
During the panel discussion, the Filipina entrepreneur revealed that she thought of making the saltwater-powered lamps after living with natives of the Butbut tribe in Kalinga who relied only on kerosene lamps and moonlight to do evening chores.
The main inspiration to come up with this lighting application was when she learned that because of scarce transportation in this community, people had to walk down the mountain six hours every other day just to get kerosene for their lamps.
President Obama was so impressed with the invention of SALT and noted during the panel discussion the possibility of the Alibaba founder Jack Ma in helping the Filipino invention on their dream of mass producing their project.
SALT is a company that makes innovative lamps powered by saltwater, the company was thrust into the global limelight at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Summit on Wednesday as a great example of a young entrepreneur using technology to solve everyday problems.