Overview
Provides real answers to the development and technological needs of the Global South
Offers an innovative synergy of approaches and disciplines
Presents unhindered dialog between academics and nonacademics
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents(20 papers)
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Introduction
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Innovative Technologies for Development
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Open Source-Open Access-Open Innovation
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Medical Technologies for the Global South
Keywords
- 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
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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Cooperation & Development Center (CODEV), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Silvia Hostettler, Eileen Hazboun, Jean-Claude Bolay
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Technologies for Development
Book Subtitle: What is Essential?
Editors: Silvia Hostettler, Eileen Hazboun, Jean-Claude Bolay
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16247-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-16246-1Published: 18 May 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36749-1Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-16247-8Published: 04 May 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 221
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Energy Systems, Development Economics, Sustainable Development, Biomaterials, Health Informatics
Industry Sectors: Energy, Utilities & Environment, Engineering, Oil, Gas & Geosciences