Technologies for development : what is essential? /

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Imprint:Cham : Springer, 2015.
Description:1 online resource (xviii, 221 pages) : color illustrations
Language:English
Series:Online access with purchase: Springer (t)
Subject:Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries.
Economic development -- Developing countries.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Economic development.
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects.
Developing countries.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11093706
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Other authors / contributors:Hostettler, Silvia, editor.
Hazboun, Eileen, editor.
Bolay, Jean-Claude, 1954- editor.
ISBN:9783319162478
3319162470
3319162462
9783319162461
9783319162461
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 13, 2015).
Summary:The book presents case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America addressing global development issues in the fields of health, energy, ICT and urbanism in an interdisciplinary way. The book illustrates key issues at the interface of technology, human, social, and economic development. Bringing together the best papers of the 2014 EPFL-UNESCO Conference on Technologies for Development, this book explores innovative technologies in the global South. It will be a valuable reference for researchers from engineering, natural sciences, information management, quantitative social sciences, and business faculties, as well as for development practitioners and policy makers. It shows the development potential of technologies, and discusses successful processes to develop and deploy them, as well how to evaluate their impact. The introduction to the book begins with a reflection on key issues regarding technologies for development. The following four sections focus on; (i) Innovative Technologies for Development, (ii) Open Source-Open Access-Open Innovation, (iii) Medical Technologies for the Global South, and (iv) Impact Assessment of Technologies for Development. Individual chapters explore issues such as a need for solid standards for newly developed technologies, how to successfully up-scale technology to a larger region, and how to involve private industry in the development of a technology.
Other form:Printed edition: 9783319162461
Standard no.:10.1007/978-3-319-16247-8