Technologies for Development: From Innovation to Social Impact
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Technologies for Development: From Innovation to Social Impact

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Technologies for Development: From Innovation to Social Impact

About this book

Development Engineering; Technologies for Development; Innovation for Humanitarian Action; Emerging Countries; Developing Countries; Tech4Dev

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Yes, you can access Technologies for Development: From Innovation to Social Impact by Jean-Claude Bolay, Samira Najih Besson, Silvia Hostettler in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Ciencias biológicas & Ciencia medioambiental. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Foreword
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Contents
  4. Editors and Contributors
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 From Innovation to Social Impact
  7. Humanitarian Technologies
  8. 2 Do No Digital Harm: Mitigating Technology Risks in Humanitarian Contexts
  9. 3 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Environmental Monitoring, Ecological Conservation, and Disaster Management
  10. 4 Higher Education Spaces and Protracted Displacement: How Learner-Centered Pedagogies and Human-Centered Design Can Unleash Refugee Innovation
  11. 5 Healthsites.io: The Global Healthsites Mapping Project
  12. 6 The Faceless Mobile Youth of Africa Drive Change
  13. Medical Technologies
  14. 7 Barriers to Point of Care Testing in India and South Africa
  15. 8 Health Hackathons Drive Affordable Medical Technology Innovation Through Community Engagement
  16. 9 Developing a Low-Cost, Ultraportable, Modular Device Platform to Improve Access to Safe Surgery
  17. Renewable Energies
  18. 10 Rural Electrification and Livelihood Generation for Women Enterprises in Rural India: Experience of Implementing Two-Stage Biomass Gasifiers
  19. Sustainable Habitat
  20. 11 MiraMap: A Collective Awareness Platform to Support Open Policy-Making and the Integration of the Citizens’ Perspective in Urban Planning and Governance
  21. 12 Reaching the Last Mile—Technology Solutions and Models for Service Delivery
  22. 13 Megaprojects as an Instrument of Urban Planning and Development: Example of Belgrade Waterfront
  23. 14 What Can the South Learn from the North Regarding the Implementation of IoT Solutions in Cities? The Case of Seoul-Born Smart Transportation Card Implementation in Bogota
  24. Disaster Risk Reduction
  25. 15 Putting 200 Million People “on the Map”: Evolving Methods and Tools
  26. 16 Highlights and Lessons from the Implementation of an Early Warning System for Glacier Lake Outburst Floods in Carhuaz, Peru
  27. 17 Enhancing Frontline Resilience: Transborder Community-Based Flood Early Warning System in India and Nepal
  28. 18 Bridging the Information Gap: Mapping Data Sets on Information Needs in the Preparedness and Response Phase