d.light design - lighting solutions for emerging markets

d.light design is a social enterprise dedicated to bringing modern lighting and power to underserved populations including 1.6B people currently without electricity globally.

The d.light series is a revolutionary product line of affordable and energy-efficient power and light solutions. Using cutting-edge technology from Silicon Valley and unlike anything else currently on the market, the d.light series provides an economical and high quality replacement for kerosene lanterns, candles, and emergency lanterns.

100% Customizable
We are able to customize our specifications to meet the needs of our distributors for high volume orders. Product color can also be customized.

Bright Light
Providing 10-20 times more light than a kerosene lantern.

Building big, starting small by Ethan Zuckerman

A radical new way for poor countries to get the phones, power, and roads they need

By Ethan Zuckerman | August 5, 2007

IN 1997, IN the midst of a vicious civil war that was tearing apart the Democratic Republic of Congo, entrepreneur Alieu Conteh decided it was time to build the country's first mobile-phone network.

The odds were stacked against him: He couldn't get equipment or loans. The handsets cost too much. He hired welders to build towers, one by one, out of scrap metal.

Now his phone network is the most important piece of infrastructure in the country, the only way most Congolese can communicate with their neighbors and with the wider world. Conteh's company, CWN, grew into Vodacom Congo, with 3 million mobile phone users and a market valuation of $1.6 billion.