Kurs:Engineering for BoP Markets

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Titel	Abstract	Bewertung
Engineering a Difference	Engineering a Difference" follows three teams of engineering students and professional engineers as they work with communities in Ghana, Kenya, and Nicaragua to build critical infrastructure. Together they develop a clean water supply, electricity, and a bridge to help these isolated communities thrive. Here are colorful, compelling stories of how engineers make the world a better place.	579 views
Designing with the base of the pyramid	Technically trained people often overestimate their capacity to solve problems in developing regions, and underestimate the resources at hand. In this webinar, Saul Garlick, a social entrepreneur and CEO of ThinkImpact, will take you on a journey to unleash local potential and sustainable solution development. Learning about the target population's preferences, skills and resources first increases the chance for long-term success. However, this process shouldn't be viewed as a research assignment to inform what the designer, often the outsider, will ultimately create, but a need to engage directly with the local population to develop ideas. Solutions that work come from the local environment, utilize local resources, and flourish locally. In this presentation Saul will provide specific cases and tools that will help you change the world.	19 views
Product Development for the Other 90%: Lessons Learned	Peter Haas, director of AIDG, shares lessons learned from his experience designing products for people in developing countries in this IEEE Humanitarian Technology Webinar. This webinar is a presentation by Peter Haas, executive director of AIDG, which helps small and medium sized companies providing infrastructure related products and services for emerging markets. From 2004 to 2010 AIDG ran an R&D division working with universities and other engineering groups on developing new products for the other 90%. Results of this work got featured in Discover, NPR, wired and other news outlets	331 views
OneBeep's radio education program	"Helping Communities: Sending educational data via radiowaves." This E4C Webinar introduces the work of OneBeep. OneBeep has developed a way to send educational data over radio waves to impoverished communities. The team is made up of four final year undergraduates of the University of Auckland, who are studying Computer Systems and Electrical Engineering.	184 views
Mobile Web Technologies for the Developing World	From the IEEE Humanitarian Technology Webinar Series: Although more than half of the world population has a mobile phone, only a tiny fraction use browser-based mobile internet services. The rest, most of whom are in developing countries, aren't able to benefit from the huge potential of the Web. This presentation explains why and how the problem could be solved with current technology. This Webinar is presented by Max Froumentin, Program Manager of the World Wide Web Foundation. Max joined the Web Foundation in June 2010. Prior to joining the Foundation, Max worked as Web technology specialist for Browser-maker Opera and video startup Joost. Previously, Max spent 6 years at the World Wide Web Consortium, leading activities such as Voice and Multimodal and managing Working Groups such as MathML, XSL and Device Independence. Before joining W3C, Max worked asa computer science research associate at the University of Bath, UK. He holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Lille, France.	424 views
Internet Access in Rural Africa	This IEEE humanitarian technology webinar explains the lessons learned from an initiative to bring connectivity to rural Zambia, using a collaborative approach. In particular, it focuses on engineering Internet services that have been implemented in rural Macha, located in the Southern Province of Zambia. The village is connected to the Internet and integrated engineering within a holistic and respectful vision based upon developing the potential of the local community, whom plays the leading role towards sustainable progress.	453 views
How ICT business models help reduce poverty	Information and Communication Technology can provide access to education, healthcare, agro-services or financial services to the billions of people living on less than a few dollars per day. In this free webinar, Marc van den Homberg, head of the ICT4D market team at TNO offers recommendations for how to leverage ICT business models to help the poor. Based on a review of 280 initiatives in developing countries, Marc shares insights into 15 ground-breaking, market-based business models with a proven results on the ground. You will learn how ICT can improve the living standards of the people living at the so-called bottom of the pyramid. The session will, however, also show that ICT is no silver bullet to development. Marc van den Homberg is the co-founder and leader of the ICT for Development (ICT4D) market team at TNO. Together with strategic Western and Southern partners, we develop and apply pro-poor ICT innovations in developing countries following a market based approach. This approach enables stakeholders to empower beneficiaries as resilient and creative entrepreneurs as well as value-demanding consumers who can contribute to sustainable social and economical development. TNO has unique expertise in the area of: Open data (in combination with earth observation data) and User empowerment, Business models for the BoP, Inclusive Innovation and Co-creation, and Cross-boundary cooperation.	319 views
Infrastructure delivery in developing countries	The long-term success of infrastructure projects in developing countries depends on how they are delivered. Matt Sisul, lead structural engineer at YCF Group in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, shares lessons from his experience in carrying out projects that have a lasting impact. In this presentation in E4C's Webinar Series, Sisul explains the impact of external interventions and a framework for guiding decisions made during the planning, design, and implementation phases to promote sustainable, local infrastructure service delivery. To illustrate his points, he shares interesting case studies of current projects in Haiti and Kenya.	147 views
Rio + 20: Sustainable Energy for All	In this E4C Webinar, Drew Corbyn will discuss the role of energy in human development and challenging poverty; presenting Practical Action's recently launched Poor People's Energy Outlook 2012, which supports the 2030 goal of universal energy access by helping to better define the dimensions of energy poverty, and the range of solutions needed in order to combat it. Evan Thomas will present how Manna Energy leverages carbon finance to allow larger scale distributions of energy technologies and creating opportunities for entrepreneurs and development practitioners in the process of developing sustainable energy projects. Furthermore, Evan will touch on the monitoring of those programs in a more accountable way through his work at PSU with the SWEETLab	252 views
Sustainable Electrification Solutions for Developing Countries	From the IEEE Humanitarian Technology Webinar Series, a webinar by Chris Hopper of e.quinox. The International Energy Agency estimates that by 2030 still over 1.2 billion people worldwide will not have access to electricity. The vast majority lives in rural areas in developing countries, where the extension of the national grid is often not feasible. Consequently there is often no plan in place to give the rural population access to electricity, which is fundamental to an acceptable quality of life. e.quinox, a student led charitable organization at Imperial College London, has spent the last years developing and testing sustainable electrification solutions for these areas. e.quinox's model is based around central energy generation in an Energy Kiosk and decentralized distribution through Battery Boxes. Currently e.quinox is operating three Energy Kiosks in rural Rwanda, providing 400 households with access to electricity	381 views
Village Energy, a Systems-Based Approach: HOMER Energy	Over three billion people live in the rural areas of low- and middle-income countries. Often rural households have many unmet energy needs, including cooking, lighting, heating, transportation, and telecommunication. But how are these needs identified? How is the problem defined? And by what methods and metrics should energy options be compared? Answering these questions requires an understanding of the human, natural, and engineered systems that drive village energy dynamics. Nathan Johnson, a mechanical engineer at HOMER Energy, LLC, explains complex energy system dynamics using the technical, human, and environmental factors that drive energy flow in society. The first half of this webinar presents the results of a novel study of energy supply and use over a one-year period in an isolated rural village of 770 people in Mali. Quantitative data and narrative descriptions from this study portray village energy supply and use. Wood and electricity provide six vital functions that meet basic human needs, yet do so in very different ways. The second half of the webinar uses the Hybrid Optimization Model for Electric Renewables (HOMER) to investigate options to meet the power needs of off-grid rural villages similar to the village described in Mali. Originally developed through the Village Power Program at the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, HOMER has over 70,000users throughout the world.	491 views
Engineering for Human Rights	Engineers tend to contribute in practical ways to development, but not often work specifically within the framework of human rights. This recording of a webinar delivered June 13, 2012, explores the meaning of a human rights-based approach to engineering, including the engineers' role in designing and implementing projects, and the opportunities they have to contribute to human rights through research and teaching. It also mentions the risks that engineering and technology can pose to human rights, and how to manage them. Jessica Wyndham, Associate Director of the Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights, and Law Program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), leads the talk.	182 views
Tea bag water filters - IEEE Humanitarian Tech Webinar	A combination of antimicrobial nanofibers and activated carbon were produced and evaluated in a portable point-of-use filter system. The antimicrobial nanofibers were fabricated by incorporating a biocide in a poly(vinyl) alcohol solution and electrospun onto tea sachet material. Eugene Cloete, Stellenbosch University, presents.	408 views
Navigating cross-cultural differences on international development projects	E4C's Webinar Series at www.engineeringforchange-webinars.org presents Emily Braucher, founder of ReFresh. Technology developers tend to prioritize outcomes and problem solving. Developing solutions with communities in developing nations requires that the engineer establish relationships before working through technical issues. The emphasis on forming trusting relationships reflects a cultural value, as does the emphasis on problem solving. When these clashing value sets meet it can result in frustration, confusion, agitation, wasted time, inefficient use of resources, and yes, project failure. So what can you do about it? In this webinar, we will examine this issue from multiple angles, asking what can we do to help smooth the communication process between very different cultures? How can we better hear the voices of all the stakeholders? By looking at our personal expectations, values and judgments, we will shed light on why innumerable international development projects have failed due to communication issues. Most importantly, the content will equip you with skills to help you and your team steer clear of predictable pitfalls. This knowledge is the key to being efficient, effective and successful on your next international project.	156 views
Engineering World Health: Building technical capacity in resource-poor hospitals	Julien Benchetrit at Engineering World Health leads this E4C Webinar in how to train people to meet healthcare needs in hospitals in emerging economies. The majority of developing country hospitals lack the infrastructure and funds to manage their healthcare technology. This problem is intensified by the fact that medical technology developed and used in rich countries is often difficult or impossible to use in resource-poor settings for lack of specialized human resources, inappropriate design, lack of consumables and spare parts, to mention a few factors. Consequently, billions of people around the world are unable to receive even the most basic healthcare. Engineering World Health (EWH) is a non-profit organization that mobilizes the science and engineering communities to improve the quality of healthcare in hospitals and clinics that serve resource-poor communities. With this professional expertise, EWH installs donated and newly-designed medical equipment, carries out repairs and builds local capacity to manage and maintain the equipment. This webinar will cover some of the issues that surround healthcare technology in resource-poor settings with an emphasis on the negative impact of inappropriate donations, continue with how EWH's work attempts to fight these issues and finally how you can get involved.	4 views