Technologies for development : from innovation to social impact / Silvia Hostettler, Samira Najih Besson, Jean-Claude Bolay, editors.
2018
HC79.E5
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Title
Technologies for development : from innovation to social impact / Silvia Hostettler, Samira Najih Besson, Jean-Claude Bolay, editors.
ISBN
9783319910680 (electronic book)
331991068X (electronic book)
9783319910673
3319910671
331991068X (electronic book)
9783319910673
3319910671
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxiii, 225 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-91068-0 doi
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HC79.E5
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.9/27
Summary
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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Includes bibliographical references.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 21, 2018).
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Hostettler, Silvia, editor.
Najih Besson, Samira, editor.
Bolay, Jean-Claude, 1954- editor.
Najih Besson, Samira, editor.
Bolay, Jean-Claude, 1954- editor.
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Table of Contents
Part I: Introduction
Part II: Humanitarian Technologies
Part III: Medical Technologies
Part IV: Renewable Energies
Part V: Sustainable Habitat
Part VI: Disaster Risk Reduction.
Part II: Humanitarian Technologies
Part III: Medical Technologies
Part IV: Renewable Energies
Part V: Sustainable Habitat
Part VI: Disaster Risk Reduction.