Technologies for Development

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Technologies for Development: What Really Matters?

      • Silvia Hostettler

      Pages 3-10

3. Innovative Technologies for Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Commercial Channels for Sustainable Technology Deployment in Developing Countries

      • Jennifer Brant

      Pages 13-17

   3. Low-Cost Wireless Sensor Networks for Dryland Irrigation Agriculture in Burkina Faso

      • Clémence Ranquet Bouleau, Theo Baracchini, Guillermo Barrenetxea, Alexandre Repetti, Jean-Claude Bolay

      Pages 19-31

   4. A Pilot of 3D Printing of Medical Devices in Haiti

      • A. Dara Dotz

      Pages 33-44

   5. Mobile Financial Services in Disaster Relief: Modeling Sustainability

      • David M. Garrity

      Pages 45-54

   6. Innovating for the Bottom of the Pyramid: Case Studies in Healthcare from India

      • Balaji Parthasarathy, Yuko Aoyama, Niveditha Menon

      Pages 55-69

4. Open Source-Open Access-Open Innovation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. Promises and Perils of Open Source Technologies for Development: Can the “Subaltern” Research and Innovate?

      • Sachiko Hirosue, Denisa Kera, Hermes Huang

      Pages 73-80

   3. Open Issues and a Proposal for Open-source Data Monitoring to Assure Quality, Reliability, and Safety in Health Care Devices Targeting Low- and Middle-income Countries

      • Kate Michi Ettinger

      Pages 81-90

   4. Solar Water Heating System Codesign and Do-It-Yourself Approach for Appropriate Technology Diffusion: The Médina Case Study (Dakar, Senegal)

      • Riccardo Mereu, Tomaso Amati, Lorenzo Mattarolo, Irene Bengo, Claudio di Benedetto, Ombretta Pin

      Pages 91-100

   5. Facilitating Adoption of a Private Sector Led Open Innovation Approach to Rural Sanitation Marketing in Bangladesh

      • F. Conor Riggs, Chetan Kaanadka

      Pages 101-110

5. Medical Technologies for the Global South

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. Medical Devices and Information Communication Technologies for the Base of the Pyramid

      • Zach Friedman, Walter Karlen

      Pages 113-118

   3. Challenges of Implementing mHealth Interventions for Lifestyle Modification in Prehypertensive Subjects in Argentina, Guatemala, and Peru

      • Andrea Beratarrechea, Rebecca Kanter, Francisco Diez-Canseco, Ariel Fernandez, Manuel Ramirez-Zea, Jaime Miranda et al.

      Pages 119-127

   4. Designing Suitable Assistive Technology for the Population with Motor Disabilities in Colombia

      • Ricardo Chavarriaga, Manuel Valencia, Maria Hurtado, Marcela Bolaños, Jaime Aguilar-Zambrano

      Pages 129-136

   5. ReMotion Knee: Scaling of an Affordable Prosthetic Knee for Developing Countries

      • Samuel Hamner, Vinesh Narayan, Nicole Rappin, Krista Donaldson

      Pages 137-151

   6. Scalable Ecosystem Solution to Screen and Treat Patients with Chronic Infections and Hearing Loss in Emerging Markets

      • Nicole Leeds, Ruchika Singhal, Jacob Paul, Ananth Annaswamy

      Pages 153-163

The 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.

• Base of the Pyramid (BoP)
• Development Engineering (DevEng)
• Development in the Global South
• EPFL-UNESCO Conference on Technologies for Development
• Energy
• Global Development Issues
• Health
• Impact of Technologies for Development
• Information & Communication Technologies (ICT)
• Innovative Technologies in the Global South
• Medical Devices
• Open Source Technologies for Development
• Reducing Poverty in the Global South
• Tech4Dev
• Urbanism

• Cooperation & Development Center (CODEV), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

  Silvia Hostettler, Eileen Hazboun, Jean-Claude Bolay

Silvia Hostettler studied Tropical Environmental Science at the University of Aberdeen followed by a postgraduate course on development studies with EPFL which took her to Burkina Faso for six months. Upon returning from Africa, she started working with IUCN – The World Conservation Union at IUCN headquarters in Gland. In 2001, she was recruited as Research Programme Coordinator at EPFL in the framework of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research North-South. At the same time, she fulfilled a mandate for backstopping regional workshops in Ethiopia, Kenya, Cuba, Bolivia, Nepal and Vietnam. In 2007, she obtained her PhD on land use change and international migration in western Mexico. From 2008 to 2012 she was based in Bangalore, India as Executive Director of swissnex, a Swiss House for Science facilitating research collaboration between Switzerland and India. Since September 2012 she is Deputy Director of the Cooperation and Development Center (CODEV) at EPFL where she is responsible for coordinating research activities and for the UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development Conference. She is also in charge of postgraduate education offered by CODEV and gives lectures in the field of cooperation and development. Her research interests include migration, livelihood strategies, development studies, watershed management, land use change and tropical forest ecology. She has written various articles and other scientific publications on these topics.

Eileen Hazboun is of Palestinian/Jordanian origin, born in the Sudan with extensive international exposure: living in Switzerland, Australia, the United States, countries of South East Asia (Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Philippines) and the South Pacific (Solomon Islands, Vanuatu). Eileen has experience in human resources working with Ernst & Young in Los Angeles; PR/Communications with the World Business Council of Sustainable Development at the time of the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in Brazil; fundraising and humanitarian aid with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the management of the global ticketing logistics and supply chain activities at the International Air Transport Association, prior to the implementation of electronic ticketing. Since January 2010, she has been working in CODEV as the Coordinator for the UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development as well as the CAS in Management of Development Projects and the CAS in Disaster Risk Reduction. Eileen holds a BA in Humanities from Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia and an MBA from the University of Geneva. Eileen is multi-lingual speaking English, French and Arabic.

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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