We present our twice-monthly snapshot of interesting tweets in the technology for global development space. For up-to-the-minute updates from E4C on Twitter, please follow us at @Engineer4Change.
A new ram pump is 1 of the new designs featured at @Emp_Ppl_Award http://t.co/WlJhtlxv08 pic.twitter.com/hg7JhEgidn
— Engineering 4 Change (@engineer4change) December 30, 2014
The Siemens-Stiftung Empowering People Network has a vast and growing collection of technologies that meet basic needs in developing countries, and this is one of the latest that they have featured.
The 7 best smartphone apps for #engineers: http://t.co/4kBPz9cdvb pic.twitter.com/Doub6D0c5d
— ASME.org (@asmetweet) December 29, 2014
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (one of E4C’s founding organizations) has rounded up a useful set of apps for engineers.
.@dlab_mit Students assemble resistors by candlelight as a lesson in lack of energy access / @OutofPoverty http://t.co/km9nYtobod
— Engineering 4 Change (@engineer4change) December 29, 2014
Paul Polak and his team first tweeted this note about MIT’s D-Lab and their immersion education tactics.
Interesting: Prototyping is a tool for getting closer to a product’s users http://t.co/ogAo1cRvMS
— Engineering 4 Change (@engineer4change) December 27, 2014
This stands out as a different understanding of why we build prototypes. It really puts people first, as the truism goes.
Achieving ICT4D Project Success by Altering Context, Not Technology http://t.co/kgcalgAOIE
— Engineering 4 Change (@engineer4change) December 16, 2014
The journal article presents four ways that designers can improve their designs to fit more smoothly into the context in which they’re used.
The future of buildings: Jim Hallock’s Bioneers keynote on earthen construction http://t.co/BADmwEW4xK
— Engineering 4 Change (@engineer4change) December 16, 2014
One of the leading experts on building with compressed earth blocks delivers a keynote to share his deep thoughts on what might be the construction material of the future.
“I want to become an engineer so I can help rebuild #Gaza” Shahd, 14 via @UNICEFpalestine pic.twitter.com/TLKHUjaF4L
— UNICEF (@UNICEF) December 13, 2014
Wow.
The LFC wheelchair is making the jump from appropriate tech for developing countries to the developed world http://t.co/mv2JXdt2P3
— Engineering 4 Change (@engineer4change) December 12, 2014
This is a recognized invention in the world of design for global development, but now it’s crossing over to the main stream for production in developed countries as an off-road vehicle for wheelchair users.
