LEADER 04848nam 22008415 450 001 9910299607103321 005 20251230065540.0 010 $a3-319-16247-0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-16247-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000412188 035 $a(EBL)2094509 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001501760 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11814880 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001501760 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11447484 035 $a(PQKB)11281022 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-16247-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2094509 035 $a(PPN)186026129 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000412188 100 $a20150504d2015 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTechnologies for Development $eWhat is Essential? /$fedited by Silvia Hostettler, Eileen Hazboun, Jean-Claude Bolay 205 $a1st ed. 2015. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (223 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a3-319-16246-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. 327 $aTechnologies for Development: What Really Matters? -- Commercial Channels for Sustainable Technology Deployment in Developing Countries -- A Pilot of 3D Printing of Medical Devices in Haiti -- Innovating for the Bottom of the Pyramid: Case Studies in Healthcare from India -- Solar Water Heating System Co-Design and Do-It-Yourself Approach for Appropriate Technology Diffusion: The MédinaCase Study (Dakar, Senegal) -- Medical Devices and Information Communication Technologies for the Base of the Pyramid -- Designing Suitable Assistive Technology for the Population with Motor Disabilities in Colombia -- Tools to Measure the Development Impact of Innovations -- Comparing Cookstove Usage Measured with Sensors versus Cell Phone-Based Surveys in Darfur, Sudan. 330 $aThe book presents case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America addressing global development issues in the fields of health, energy, ICT and urbanism in an interdisciplinary way. The book illustrates key issues at the interface of technology, human, social, and economic development. Bringing together the best papers of the 2014 EPFL-UNESCO Conference on Technologies for Development, this book explores innovative technologies in the global South. It will be a valuable reference for researchers from engineering, natural sciences, information management, quantitative social sciences, and business faculties, as well as for development practitioners and policy makers. It shows the development potential of technologies, and discusses successful processes to develop and deploy them, as well how to evaluate their impact. The introduction to the book begins with a reflection on key issues regarding technologies for development. The following four sections focus on; (i) Innovative Technologies for Development, (ii) Open Source-Open Access-Open Innovation, (iii) Medical Technologies for the Global South, and (iv) Impact Assessment of Technologies for Development. Individual chapters explore issues such as a need for solid standards for newly developed technologies, how to successfully up-scale technology to a larger region, and how to involve private industry in the development of a technology. 606 $aEnergy policy 606 $aEnergy and state 606 $aElectric power production 606 $aDevelopment economics 606 $aSustainability 606 $aBiomaterials 606 $aEnergy Policy, Economics and Management 606 $aElectrical Power Engineering 606 $aMechanical Power Engineering 606 $aDevelopment Economics 606 $aSustainability 606 $aBiomaterials 615 0$aEnergy policy. 615 0$aEnergy and state. 615 0$aElectric power production. 615 0$aDevelopment economics. 615 0$aSustainability. 615 0$aBiomaterials. 615 14$aEnergy Policy, Economics and Management. 615 24$aElectrical Power Engineering. 615 24$aMechanical Power Engineering. 615 24$aDevelopment Economics. 615 24$aSustainability. 615 24$aBiomaterials. 676 $a333.79 676 $a338.9 676 $a338.926 676 $a338.927 676 $a502.85 676 $a620.11 676 $a621.042 702 $aHostettler$b Silvia$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aHazboun$b Eileen$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aBolay$b Jean-Claude$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910299607103321 996 $aTechnologies for Development$91998374 997 $aUNINA