Foresight Institute Prize for improving RepRap

Of the many technological advances that I'm excited about, the RepRap ranks very highly. The prospect of having a machine that can duplicate itself cheaply is awesome. Now, they're trying to make it even cheaper -- the Foresight Institute has announced the Kartik M. Gada prize for improving RepRap. Here's an extract:

An industrial infrastructure to provide the products and employment that elevates illiterate and semi-literate people in emerging economies to an intermediate level of human development can take decades to build. With the success of China in assimilating so much of the global economy’s low-cost manufacturing output, many of the world’s poorest nations have no opportunity to construct and secure their own manufacturing sector. Hence, this stage of human upliftment has become a chasm that many nations are finding difficult to cross.

But if manufacturing itself can be brought to the scale that cottage industries operate in, then the scale of Chinese mass-manufacturing is no longer a requirement to be cost competitive. A technology that removes the fixed costs and volume necessities associated with heavy manufacturing can reduce the barriers to entry for the manufacturing of many commodity goods, and drive costs to unprecedented lows

I wonder what our SSI people are doing?