From Baby Monitors to Fishing Fleets: Ten Upgrades with Remo...
The cost of electronic sensors and mobile technology has dropped low enough to network hardware and infrastructure even in...
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
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 problem. Marc Koska introduced this case study in a TED...
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 garages. We asked our international network of experts in engineering...
The case for open source design in low-cost medical patient ...
People who need medical care in rural developing countries can be stranded by long distances to clinics, a lack of vehicles and poor roads. Hardware designers have answered the problem with...
Our Most Popular Webinars of the Year, from Behavior Change ...
In a year that started with a webinar on Food Security and ended with Electronic Medical Records in Low-Resource Settings, we have seen presentations that were deeply informational and broad ranging. Experts shared their...
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 areas. These apps, SMS- and voice-based services are improving health, financial inclusion,...
The best of Siemens Stiftung EPA: A wearable hypothermia mon...
A wearable thermometer for newborns, a medical insurance scheme for trash collectors, a hydro-powered water pump and a stove that burns biomass took the top prizes at Siemens Stiftung’s...
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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Patently Wrong International Development
Scaling patented, secretive technologies in healthcare is a risky business. We witnessed an example of the problem recently in...
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A Hardware Entrepreneur in Delhi Turns Soot into Art with a Boost from E4C
The accolades mount for Arpit Dhupar, who has collected two awards in two months for his work developing soot scrubbers that...
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Five Questions with Shashi Buluswar and Subarna Mitra, Institute for Transformative Technologies
Two years ago, a small team from the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in Berkeley, Calif. released an enormous volume...
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How the Internet of Things Is Improving Lives and Livelihoods in Developing Countries
Wirelessly connected sensors, actuators and other hardware have already changed global development work, and signs point to bigger changes...
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Welcome to E4C’s Fellows
We are pleased to welcome 11 fellows into our new Research Fellowship program. To introduce our fellows, we asked...
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Tech4Dev: Bridging the field and the ivory tower
As relief agencies rallied shipments of supplies into disaster-struck Haiti in 2010, the question of what to do about...
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The iShow in Kenya According to Twitter
In photos, sketches, facts and less than 140 characters of commentary, tweeters documented the Kenya leg of iShow by...
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Three devices in development now could improve health in India
Health care and air quality in India and other emerging economies stand to improve in the near future with...
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Upgrading electronics with paper cards smooths the work to digitize medical records in rural Uganda
Mobile devices that replaced paper records in rural healthcare in Uganda have recently had a much-needed upgrade back to...
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