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Technologies for Development - What is Essential? (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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Technologies for Development - What is Essential? (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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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.
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