Shh.. Dont Tell Kids but Playing with Soap Actually Prevents...
Don’t tell the kids, but the colored mess they’re making with their hands is probably good for them. Soapen...
Engineering for Change
Interest: Health
Technology is essential to good health worldwide. Product designers are revealing its potential with devices such as paper-based rapid disease diagnostics, accurate male circumcision tools that can reduce the rate of HIV infection, and suites of telemedicine tools that put doctors on screens right in a patient’s home. Medical devices are the link between good design and good health.
Interest: Health
Assistive Devices in Low-Income Countries: Adaptability and ...
The elderly and people with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries remain underserved with poor access to assistive technology. The lack of access to wheelchairs, prosthetic limbs and other...
ISO Standards for Clean Cookstoves Update
Diversity in clean cookstove design has climbed sharply as startups, mom and pops, multinationals and even students try to solve a humanitarian conundrum. They are also taking a shot...
What to Do When FDA Approval Doesnt Mean a Medical Device Is...
Does United States FDA regulatory approval mean a medical device is safe and effective in low-resource settings? The short answer is no. In developing countries, up to 95% of...
Tackling Indoor Air Pollution in Northern Cambodia with Impr...
Traditional cooking practices in the developing world contribute to poor health, environmental degradation, and poverty. Today, about three billion people around the world cook using simple stoves (often three...
Manual wheelchair design and production in low-resource sett...
Complex challenges await designers developing wheelchairs for low-resource settings, but the result could be life-changing for the people who use the chairs. To help designers create sustainable chairs that...
Sanitary pads for underserved populations – two common app...
Without access to affordable napkins, girls and women in developing countries might miss up to 50 days of school or work every year. Over the years, many initiatives have...
Featured Health Solution
Why companies should not sell or give technology intended for individual and household use to NGOs
When I worked at CARE, I used to get these calls about once a month. “Hi, I’m Bob! I...
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Volunteer cartographers create open source maps to guide malarial mosquito eradication
Spraying insecticide indoors remains one of the most effective weapons against malarial mosquitoes, the World Health Organization says, but...
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From Baby Monitors to Fishing Fleets: Ten Upgrades with Remote Sensors
The cost of electronic sensors and mobile technology has dropped low enough to network hardware and infrastructure even in...
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How to Make Hard Decisions in Sustainable Development
This methodology can guide ethical decision-making in the practice of sustainable global development. Syringe design presents a surprisingly complicated...
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Promising Prototypes to Watch in 2017
Prototypes are pushing the field of global development technology forward as they evolve in workshops, universities, laboratories and even...
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The case for open-source design in low-cost medical patient transport
People who need medical care in rural developing countries can be stranded by long distances to clinics, a lack...
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Our Most Popular Webinars of the Year, from Behavior Change to 3D Printing in Disasters
In a year that started with a webinar on Food Security and ended with Electronic Medical Records in Low-Resource Settings, we have seen...
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10 mThings Changing Lives in Developing Countries
Mobile applications are transforming the livelihoods of millions of people around the world, including in low-income settings and rural...
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The best of Siemens Stiftung EPA: A wearable hypothermia monitor, trash-funded healthcare and an irrigation pump
A wearable thermometer for newborns, a medical insurance scheme for trash collectors, a hydro-powered water pump and a stove...
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Lean Manufacturing of Disease Screening Strips: How a Stamp Simplifies the Process
Using paper, a couple of assays and a simple foam stamp, a new manufacturing technique can make disease screening strips more affordable....
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