Dont toss it… Fix it! How to find the information you ...
By Janet Gunter Co-Founder of The Restart Project Electronic waste is one of the fastest growing waste streams around...
Engineering for Change
Interest: ICT
The boom in mobile phone ownership has been one of the unanticipated success stories of global development. And with all of that computing power in the hands of so many people, software engineers are at the leading edge of the work to improve lives. Other electronic hardware is also gaining momentum, with innovations like e-readers, drones and 3D printers. These tools are how communities can leapfrog over phases of development to catch up with the pack.
Interest: ICT
3D Printing with E-Waste: Five Questions for Roy Ombatti
Roy Ombatti turns sobering e-waste statistics around by using the waste to build salable 3D printers. The world generates more than 40 million metric tons of e-waste each year according...
TMI! How Knowledge Platforms Tame the Information Overload a...
Despite the ubiquity of online information, and arguably because of it, finding reliable data to inform decisions about technology for global development remains a challenge. Three collaborators, Engineering for...
Applications of Big Data for Development
Big data for development has many definitions, but one that is used most often refers to the analysis of millions of data sets to help policy makers make smart...
How to use big data to make sure that financial inclusion is...
InVenture is a data science company that builds financial identities for people who previously had none. Using over 10,000 unique data points from our customers’ mobile phones, we create...
Five Questions with Shashi Buluswar and Subarna Mitra, Insti...
Two years ago, a small team from the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in Berkeley, Calif. released an enormous volume of research highlighting 50 potentially game changing interventions for the...
How the Internet of Things Is Improving Lives and Livelihood...
Wirelessly connected sensors, actuators and other hardware have already changed global development work, and signs point to bigger changes to come. A new report by the UN International Telecommunication...
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Putting the world’s impoverished communities online: Five questions for Bob Marsh
Bob Marsh is a household name and the subject of dinner party conversations in a certain kind of household and...
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Don’t toss it… Fix it! How to find the information you need to repair electronics and appliances
By Janet Gunter Co-Founder of The Restart Project Electronic waste is one of the fastest growing waste streams around...
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3D Printing with E-Waste: Five Questions for Roy Ombatti
Roy Ombatti turns sobering e-waste statistics around by using the waste to build salable 3D printers. The world generates...
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TMI! How Knowledge Platforms Tame the Information Overload and Advance Global Development Through Technology
Despite the ubiquity of online information, and arguably because of it, finding reliable data to inform decisions about technology...
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Applications of Big Data for Development
Big data for development has many definitions, but one that is used most often refers to the analysis of...
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How to use big data to make sure that financial inclusion is inclusive
InVenture is a data science company that builds financial identities for people who previously had none. Using over 10,000...
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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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Humanitarian Engineering Principle Three: Understand Social and Physical Context
This is the third in a series on principles based on the textbook Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Technologies that Help People, by Kevin...
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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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