Coconuts for compost and bicycling recycling: Two new soluti...
Two organizations are taking two very different approaches to managing the growing mountain of waste generated in the developing...
Engineering for Change
Interest: Sanitation
About one in three people worldwide don’t have access to improved sanitation, but managing waste could solve a lot of the world’s health problems. For all of its importance, the issue still gets little attention. We have the solutions. Good, low-cost latrines have been built worldwide, latrines that do not require an expensive sewage system because they compost waste to convert it into safe fertilizer. The toilets of the world’s future might look reminiscent of the toilets of the past, and that’s a testament to user-centered design.
Interest: Sanitation
Patently Wrong International Development
Scaling patented, secretive technologies in healthcare is a risky business. We witnessed an example of the problem recently in the Theranos debacle with Walgreens. A new blood-testing device called Edison was...
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...
Hardware start-ups get an upgrade from cardboard cutouts to ...
Hardware startups go through dozens or even hundreds of design changes before a product hits a shelf. Making those changes on a screen rather than to foamcore or some...
Welcome to E4Cs Fellows
We are pleased to welcome 11 fellows into our new Research Fellowship program. To introduce our fellows, we asked them to tell us one thing that has surprised them...
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 the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Here are a few...
Humanitarian Engineering Principle Two: Relate, Listen, Ask,...
This is the second in a series on principles based on the textbook Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Technologies that Help People, by Kevin Passino. This series is adapted by the author for Engineering for...
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Untreated Wastewater: A Growing Crisis and Its Solutions
Aerial photos reveal a plume of brown fecal sludge drifting off the coast at Lavender Hill in Accra, Ghana....
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Coconuts for compost and bicycling recycling: Two new solutions to waste management
Two organizations are taking two very different approaches to managing the growing mountain of waste generated in the developing...
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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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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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Hardware start-ups get an upgrade from cardboard cutouts to digital 3D modelling
Hardware startups go through dozens or even hundreds of design changes before a product hits a shelf. Making those...
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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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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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Humanitarian Engineering Principle Two: Relate, Listen, Ask, Cooperate, Empower
This is the second in a series on principles based on the textbook Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Technologies that Help People, by Kevin...
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How to use mobile data collection tools to improve global development work
Mobile communications networks have surged in developing countries and so has the availability of smartphones and tablets. These tools offer...
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A Plumber Without Borders: Five Questions with Fred Schilling
Fred Schilling installed a toilet with a closing flap in a home in Haiti and instantly changed a family’s...
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