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OpenLotus is a global non-profit venture that aims to engage the 2.0 billion Internet users to volunteer their effort and collaborate massively to co-create affordable products that respond to the unmet needs of low-income people at the base of the pyramid.

4 billion low-income people - the majority of the world's population - live in relative poverty with an annual income below $3,000 and have significant needs resulting from, or impacting, climate change, the digital divide, malnutrition, hunger, health, poor sanitation or access to water. Today's individualistic approach is collectively inefficient and, together with the dependency on donations, leaves the base of the pyramid fallow.

Wikipedia demonstrated that Internet users are willing to volunteer their efforts to collaborate massively and co-create products collectively. It is a highly scalable model: in just five years, 75,000 unpaid contributors have written a free online encyclopedia as accurate as Encyclopedia Britannica (first published in 1768).

OpenLotus aims to extend Wikipedia's success to physical products and to transpose it to serve the unmet needs of low-income people at the base of the pyramid.