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Technologies for Development

From Innovation to Social Impact

Editors:

  1. Silvia Hostettler

    1. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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  2. Samira Najih Besson

    1. Cooperation & Development Center, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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  3. Jean-Claude Bolay

    1. Cooperation & Development Center, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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  • Includes 19 selected papers from over 300 submitted to the 2016 UNESCO Chair Conference on Technologies for Development

  • Demonstrates the impact of new technology on humanitarian relief, medicine, renewable energy, sustainable urban development, and disaster risk reduction

  • Provides examples of humanitarian technologies such as unmanned aerial vehicles for disaster risk reduction, crowdsourcing humanitarian data, online education, and information and communication technology (ICT)-based medical technologies

Conference series link(s): UNESCO: UNESCO Chair Conference on Technologies for Development

Conference proceedings info: UNESCO 2016.

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Table of contents (18 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. From Innovation to Social Impact

      • Silvia Hostettler
      Pages 3-10Open Access

  3. Humanitarian Technologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    3. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Environmental Monitoring, Ecological Conservation, and Disaster Management

      • Raj Madhavan, Tatiana Silva, Flavia Farina, Rodrigo Wiebbelling, Leonardo Renner, Edson Prestes
      Pages 31-39Open Access

    5. Healthsites.io: The Global Healthsites Mapping Project

      • René Saameli, Dikolela Kalubi, Mark Herringer, Tim Sutton, Eric de Roodenbeke
      Pages 53-59Open Access

    6. The Faceless Mobile Youth of Africa Drive Change

      • Darelle van Greunen, Alida Veldsman
      Pages 61-71Open Access

  4. Medical Technologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. Barriers to Point of Care Testing in India and South Africa

      • Nora Engel, Vijayashree Yellappa, Malika Davids, Keertan Dheda, Nitika Pant Pai, Madhukar Pai
      Pages 75-85Open Access

    3. Health Hackathons Drive Affordable Medical Technology Innovation Through Community Engagement

      • Aikaterini Mantzavinou, Bryan J. Ranger, Smitha Gudapakkam, Katharine G. Broach Hutchins, Elizabeth Bailey, Kristian R. Olson
      Pages 87-95Open Access

    4. Developing a Low-Cost, Ultraportable, Modular Device Platform to Improve Access to Safe Surgery

      • Debbie L. Teodorescu, Dennis Nagle, Sashidhar Jonnalagedda, Sally Miller, Robert Smalley, David R. King
      Pages 97-109Open Access

  5. Renewable Energies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. Rural Electrification and Livelihood Generation for Women Enterprises in Rural India: Experience of Implementing Two-Stage Biomass Gasifiers

      • Sunil Dhingra, Barkha Tanvir, Ulrik Birk Henriksen, Pierre Jaboyedoff, Shirish Sinha, Daniel Ziegerer
      Pages 113-124Open Access

  6. Sustainable Habitat

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    3. Reaching the Last Mile—Technology Solutions and Models for Service Delivery

      • Sanghamitra Mishra, Koneru Vijaya Lakshmi
      Pages 141-152Open Access

    4. Megaprojects as an Instrument of Urban Planning and Development: Example of Belgrade Waterfront

      • Slavka Zeković, Tamara Maričić, Miodrag Vujošević
      Pages 153-164Open Access
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About this book

This open access book presents 18 case studies that explore current scientific and technological efforts to address global development issues, such as poverty, from a holistic and interdisciplinary point of view, putting actual impacts at the centre of its analysis. It illustrates the use of technologies for development in various fields of research, such as humanitarian action, medical and information and communication technology, disaster risk-reduction technologies, habitat and sustainable access to energy. The authors discuss how innovative technologies, such as unmanned aerial vehicles for disaster risk reduction, crowdsourcing humanitarian data, online education and ICT-based medical technologies can have significant social impact. The book brings together the best papers of the 2016 International Conference on Technologies for Development at EPFL, Switzerland. The book explores how the gap between innovation in the global South and actual social impact can be bridged. It fosters exchange between engineers, other scientists, practitioners and policy makers active at the interface of innovation and technology and human, social, and economic development.


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Keywords

  • Development Engineering
  • Technologies for Development
  • Innovation for Humanitarian Action
  • Emerging Countries
  • Developing Countries
  • Open Access book on technology for development
  • UNESCO Chair in technologies for development
  • 2016 Tech4Dev
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Silvia Hostettler

  • Cooperation & Development Center, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Samira Najih Besson, Jean-Claude Bolay

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About the editors

Silvia Hostettler is an environmental scientist and international development scholar with 20 years of experience in researching sustainable development challenges in the global South. Her particular interest focuses on the question how technological innovation can support poverty reduction and sustainable development. She studied at the University of Geneva, the University of Aberdeen (UK) and at EPFL, conducted research in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Mexico and was based in Bangalore for four years as Executive Director of swissnex India. She also worked at IUCN – The World Conservation Union on tropical cloud forest conservation. Since September 2012 she is Deputy Director of the Cooperation and Development Center (CODEV) at EPFL where she conducts researchin the fields of disaster risk reduction and renewable energy and directs the International Conference of the UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development. She is also in charge of postgraduate education offered by CODEV and gives lectures in the field of Development Engineering. Her research interests include technologies for development, sustainable access to renewable energy, disaster risk reduction and land use change. She has written various articles and other scientific publications on these topics.

Samira Najih Besson is a Geologist Engineering and holds a Master in Sciences Geology from Lausanne University. She studied at the University of Geneva and FSTG – Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakech. She has been engaged professionally with private and public sectors, UNOSAT, UNHCR and the IFRC where she conducted projects on geology, hydrogeology, GIS, information management, environmental study, natural hazard disaster management. Currently, she is project manager of the International Conference of the UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development at CODEV, EPFL.

Jean-Claude Bolay was appointed Director of Cooperation at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2001 and has headed what recently became the Cooperation & Development Center (CODEV) since 2005. A sociologist by training, he specialized in urban issues in Latin America, Asia and West Africa. He prepared his PhD in Political Sciences at El Colegio de Mexico, then at UC Berkeley, USA. Before joining EPFL in 1989, he worked for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) both in Switzerland and in Cameroon. He has carried out many international research projects in Vietnam and Latin American countries in particular, looking at social practices in urban societies, sustainable urban development and poverty reduction in developing countries. He was a scientific advisor and evaluator for the Swiss State Secretariat for Education and Research, the Belgian Universities’ Commission for Development and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, among other institutions. At EPFL, he has directed postgraduate courses on development in Africa and India. In parallel to his position as Director of CODEV, he was appointed Adjunct Professor in 2005 in the Laboratory of Urban Sociology of the Natural, Architectural and Built Environment School.
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Technologies for Development

  • Book Subtitle: From Innovation to Social Impact

  • Editors: Silvia Hostettler, Samira Najih Besson, Jean-Claude Bolay

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91068-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • License: CC BY

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91067-3Published: 16 June 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08169-0Published: 10 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91068-0Published: 15 June 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 225

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology, Health Policy

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