Technologies for Development: From Innovation to Social Impact
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 technol...
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| author | Silvia Hostettler Jean-Claude Bolay Samira Najih Besson |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-605552024-04-11T20:34:22Z Technologies for Development: From Innovation to Social Impact Silvia Hostettler Jean-Claude Bolay Samira Najih Besson TD1-1066 Development Engineering Innovation for Humanitarian Action Technologies for Development Developing Countries Emerging Countries Tech4Dev thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology 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. 2021-02-12T05:23:42Z 2021-02-12T05:23:42Z 2018-07-20 16:20:27 2018 book 27334 0 9783319910680 9783319910673 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/60555 eng image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319910673?wt_mc=ThirdParty.SpringerLink.3.EPR653.About_eBook#otherversion=9783319910680 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-91068-0 Springer Nature https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91068-0 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91068-0 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a d89a9e0d-5eb4-4a53-baf9-dceace05ed98 9783319910680 9783319910673 225 Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (SNF) open access |
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