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.
8 Ways Of Making Urban Development Compatible With Sustainable Development http://t.co/ONpsVtIstc
— Practical Action (@PracticalAction) June 12, 2014
Practical Action lives up to its name with a tweet about an article calling for more local development, gardens and public transportation to improve the quality of life in the city.
Drones armed with chili pepper scare African animals away from #poacher s http://t.co/BV821T3bHZ
— Engineering 4 Change (@engineer4change) June 11, 2014
We’ve seen drones in rescue and aid missions, drones as satellites delivering the Internet to rural regions and now this, drones deploying pepper spray to save wild animals from poachers. Are drones the most magical new thing in global development? Let’s just give that a hard “maybe.”
A9: I think it’s come out strongly already but listen to #bop to design the best possible products and services for them #nobrainer #bfpexpo
— SolarAid (@SolarAid) June 10, 2014
Solar Aid tweeted a practical but often overlooked tip for design for global development: talk to the people who will use the products to find out what they want and need. This was one of the points made at Business Fights Poverty’s expo shared on Twitter.
Rather than find a use for a new product, use technology to develop a product that meets the requirements. @IHTC2014
— Alec Hay (@resilientDIALOG) June 1, 2014
Alec Hay, an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Resilience of Critical Infrastructure, tweeted this tip from IEEE Canada’s International Humanitarian Technology Conference in Montreal.
Great practical guide to using ICTs in community programs w tools for participatory #ICT4D http://t.co/0kGv88PJPl
— Linda Raftree (@meowtree) June 5, 2014
#FF @DukeGHI_Career for global health jobs and internships near and far. Hands-down the best aggregator in the field!
— Jordan Schermerhorn (@jordanschermer) June 6, 2014
Two useful links from two of E4C’s contributing editors, Linda Raftree and Jordan Schermerhorn.
