{"id":29879,"date":"2018-02-23T11:37:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T16:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/creator\/creator\/?p=29879"},"modified":"2020-02-26T14:32:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T19:32:49","slug":"low-tech-low-cost-solution-can-restore-eyesight-billions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/community-stories\/member-spotlight\/low-tech-low-cost-solution-can-restore-eyesight-billions","title":{"rendered":"How a low-cost, low-tech solution can restore eyesight to billions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Late one night at his kitchen table, J. Kevin White visualized a solution to a problem he had grappled with for years. He needed a device that would let people diagnose their own vision problems, without an optometrist. Fiddling with a pair of bifocals, he imagined stretching out the the full spectrum of vision adjustments across a single lens, each prescription a different curvature. He grabbed a yellow legal pad and started sketching. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI designed it in total from that epiphany moment,\u201d says White, 50, who leads the nonprofit <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/gv2020.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global Vision 2020<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Five years later, he can hold the finished product in his hand: USee, a low-tech, low-cost tool for diagnosing vision problems and prescribing glasses without an eye doctor.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In areas of the developing world, eye doctors can be as rare as one in 1 million. The USee reduces the educational and technological barriers keeping an estimated 2.5 billion people around the world from getting the glasses they need to learn, work, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-29867 size-medium\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/02\/UN-January-31-2018-Global-Vision-2020-USee-J-Kevin-White-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29867\"\/><figcaption>J. Kevin White of Global Vision 2020 demonstrates the USee at the UN&#8217;s Sustainable Development Goals Zone on Jan. 31, 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A $72,000 prize from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/creator\/news\/at-creator-awards-women-entrepreneurs-take-home-top-prizes\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">D.C. Creator Awards<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a WeWork-sponsored <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/creatorawards.wework.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">competition<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for innovators, brought White closer to that target by allowing him to produce the USee for the first time, using 3D printed frames and computer-cut lenses. So far, Global Vision 2020 has distributed 6,000 pairs of eyeglasses using their kits, which include the USee diagnostic tool, snap-in lenses, and frames. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the last year, Global Vision 2020\u2019s efforts have been concentrated in Mozambique, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">where White estimates 5.6 million people have no or limited access to eyeglasses.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In 2016 and 2017, the organization conducted field trials at four of the country\u2019s high schools, using teachers as the screeners and getting glasses to all students who needed them.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-29886 size-medium\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/02\/Global-Vision-2020-Mozambique-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"Global Vision 2020 Completed Filed Trials in Mozambique in 2017\" class=\"wp-image-29886\"\/><figcaption>A student in Mozambique finds his prescription using the USee.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The USee system helps lower the cost per pair of glasses to $4. But White\u2019s goal is to cut that figure in half, a target he may reach this year thanks to his most recent funding boost. In January, Global Vision 2020 made it to the Creator Awards <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/creator\/cities\/united-states\/new-york-city\/win-global-finalists-win-funding-creator-awards\/?mc_cid=3d7c381d33&amp;mc_eid=[UNIQID]\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global Finals<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in New York City, and White wound up a $1 million winner, standing stunned on stage alongside his two sons, Oliver and Owen. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This will allow us to produce thousands of the device, instead of tens and twenties,\u201d he says. \u201cThis is a large capital investment that the $1 million more than covers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2  id=\"eye-opening-realization\"class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Eye-opening realization<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">White first noticed the challenge of delivering inexpensive eyeglasses to developing nations during his 20-year career in the U.S. Marine Corps. As the director of humanitarian civic assistance\u2014which he calls the \u201ccoolest job I ever had\u201d\u2014he allocated part of his $16 million budget to giving away eyeglasses in parts of Africa and Eastern Europe. \u201cThat opened my eyes to the fact that lots of people can\u2019t get the glasses they need,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When White was jotting down ideas in his kitchen in 2014, he had been dwelling on two major issues: cost and coolness. Before the USee, the nonprofit, founded in 2009, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gave out bulky, adjustable eyeglasses that were $22 a pop. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/josh_silver_demos_adjustable_liquid_filled_eyeglasses\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">innovative at the time<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, young people didn\u2019t want to wear the odd-looking specs. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now Global Vision 2020 sends out the USee device with each kit, along with a stockpile of standard frames and snap-in lenses. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First tested on White\u2019s youngest son Oliver, who\u2019s now 13, the USee uses a lens bar ranging from negative six to positive six, the standard range for vision checks. Each prescription is stated in easy-to-understand color and number combinations. If a user sees most clearly at Red 2, they can then snap corresponding lenses into a new set of frames and walk out the door with new glasses in 10 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2  id=\"looking-for-partners\"class=\"wp-block-heading\">Looking for partners<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first prototype of the USee lens was developed in 2014 with the help of Oxford University researcher <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icoph.org\/connections\/user_profile\/003A000000bwVUwIAM\/David-Crosby.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. David Crosby<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, one of White\u2019s connections from his military career. White says few others in the world could have brought his sketch to life. This happens many times over in White\u2019s quest to bring eyesight to the masses: experts in their fields willing to lend a hand for a worthy cause.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most recent instance came in 2016 at Johns Hopkins University, where White is currently pursuing an MBA. Finding himself at the doorstep of world-class medical research facilities, White connected with the Wilmer Eye Institute\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/profiles\/results\/directory\/profile\/0009093\/david-friedman\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. David <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Friedman<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who was willing to conduct trials using the prototype developed by Crosby. The trials were completed in 2017, and just this month, peer-reviewed journal Plos <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0192055\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the results.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I look back on my life and it\u2019s just coincidence after coincidence<\/span><\/p><cite>J. Kevin White<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Reflecting on his lucky breaks, White thinks back to his days at the Naval Academy, when a family who hosted him on weekends told him, \u201cCoincidences are the Lord\u2019s way of remaining anonymous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/02\/J-Kevin-White-Global-Vision-2020-portait-WeWork-42nd-Street-by-Emanuel-Hahn-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Emanuel Hahn\" class=\"wp-image-29897\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI look back on my life and it\u2019s just coincidence after coincidence,\u201d White says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking to the future, White wants to create more government-level partnerships in countries like Mozambique, where he continues to build relationships with education officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur goal,\u201d he says, \u201cis for someone to say, \u2018Hey, we want 2,000 kits,\u2019 and we say, \u2018Great, give us three weeks.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USee is a next-gen technology that identifies vision problems and prescribes glasses <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":902,"featured_media":29896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43903,43911],"tags":[30177],"class_list":["post-29879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-stories","category-member-spotlight","tag-creator"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.4 (Yoast SEO v25.3.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How a low-cost, low-tech solution can restore eyesight to billions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"J. 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