Introduction to Development Engineering
A Framework with Applications from the Field
(Sprache: Englisch)
This open access textbook introduces the emerging field of Development Engineering and its constituent theories, methods, and applications. It is both a teaching text for students and a resource for researchers and practitioners engaged in the design and...
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This open access textbook introduces the emerging field of Development Engineering and its constituent theories, methods, and applications. It is both a teaching text for students and a resource for researchers and practitioners engaged in the design and scaling of technologies for low-resource communities. The scope is broad, ranging from the development of mobile applications for low-literacy users to hardware and software solutions for providing electricity and water in remote settings. It is also highly interdisciplinary, drawing on methods and theory from the social sciences as well as engineering and the natural sciences.The opening section reviews the history of "technology-for-development" research, and presents a framework that formalizes this body of work and begins its transformation into an academic discipline. It identifies common challenges in development and explains the book's iterative approach of "innovation, implementation, evaluation, adaptation." Each ofthe next six thematic sections focuses on a different sector: energy and environment; market performance; education and labor; water, sanitation and health; digital governance; and connectivity. These thematic sections contain case studies from landmark research that directly integrates engineering innovation with technically rigorous methods from the social sciences. Each case study describes the design, evaluation, and/or scaling of a technology in the field and follows a single form, with common elements and discussion questions, to create continuity and pedagogical consistency. Together, they highlight successful solutions to development challenges, while also analyzing the rarely discussed failures. The book concludes by reiterating the core principles of development engineering illustrated in the case studies, highlighting common challenges that engineers and scientists will face in designing technology interventions that sustainably accelerate economic
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Development Engineering provides, for the first time, a coherent intellectual framework for attacking the challenges of poverty and global climate change through the design of better technologies. It offers the rigorous discipline needed to channel the energy of a new generation of scientists and engineers toward advancing social justice and improved living conditions in low-resource communities around the world.
Development Engineering provides, for the first time, a coherent intellectual framework for attacking the challenges of poverty and global climate change through the design of better technologies. It offers the rigorous discipline needed to channel the energy of a new generation of scientists and engineers toward advancing social justice and improved living conditions in low-resource communities around the world.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Introduction to Development Engineering “
Part I: A New Discipline: Development Engineering.- Chapter 1: The Role Of Technology In Development.- Chapter 2: The Development Engineering Framework: Innovate, Evaluate, Scale.- Chapter 3: Asking the Right Questions.- Part II: Water, Sanitation and Health.- Chapter 4: Advances In Water and Health Technologies.- Chapter 5: Case Study: Electrochemical Arsenic Remediation, India (Innovation).- Chapter 6: Case Study: Information For Intermittent Water Supply, India (Evaluation).- Chapter 7: Case Study: Mobile Phone Diagnostic Microscopy, Vietnam/Cameroon (Innovation, Scale).- Part III: Governance.- Chapter 8: Technologies for Governance And Accountability.- Chapter 9: Case Study: Sensors For Aid Accountability, Rwanda (Evaluation, Scale).- Chapter 10: Case Study: High Resolution Development Indicators, Afghanistan (Evaluation, Scale).- Chapter 11: Case Study: Monitoring For Elections And Public Service Delivery, Kenya (Evaluation, Scale).- Part IV: Energy and Resources.- Chapter 12:Advances in Energy & Environmental Technologies.- Chapter 13: Case Study: Economic Impacts Of Rural Electrification, Kenya (Evaluation, Scale).- Chapter 14: Case Study: Cool Joule: Flexible Energy Loads, Nicaragua (Innovation, Evaluation).- Chapter 15: Case Study: Cookstove Monitoring and Use In East Africa (Innovation, Evaluation).- Part V: Information.- Chapter 16: Information and Communications Technology For Development.- Chapter 17: Case Study: Community Cellular Networks, Philippines (Innovation, Evaluation).- Chapter 18: Case Study: ICT Solutions To Bring Telemedicine To Rural India (Innovation).- Chapter 19: Case Study: Platforms For Development Data (ODK/Mezuri) (Innovation, Scale).- PART VI: Markets (Incorporates Agriculture).- Chapter 20: Technologies To Improve Market Performance.- Chapter 21: Case Study: Ag Market Information Platforms, India (Innovation, Evaluation, Scale).- Chapter 22: Case Study: Agricultural Trading Platforms, Uganda (Innovation, Evaluation).- Chapter
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23: Case Study: Inventory And Supply Chain Tracking, Sri Lanka (Evaluation).- PART VII: Human Capital (Incorporates Labor).- Chapter 24: Increasing the Productivity of Human Capital.- Chapter 25: Case Study: Electronic Job Search Platforms, India (Evaluation, Scale).- Chapter 26: Case Study: Customized E-Learning Innovations, India (Evaluation).- Chapter 27: Case Study: TBD (Evaluation).- PART VIII: Conclusion.- Chapter 28: Promising Directions in Development Engineering.
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Autoren-Porträt
Temina Madon is on the Professional Faculty of the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business and a member of South Park Commons, where she advises early-stage startups. Previously she led business development at machine learning startup Atlas AI. Earlier, Madon was the founding executive director of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), a global research network focused on human and economic development, with headquarters at UC Berkeley. In this role, she managed the Development Impact Lab, a USAID-funded consortium of universities advancing the field of "development engineering". Madon worked with Ashok Gadgil to conceptualize a framework for this book and recruit contributors. Madon began her career in science and technology policy, working first in the U.S. Senate (as a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow) and later at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). She holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in computational neuroscience and a B.S. from MIT. Ashok Gadgil is a Faculty Senior Scientist and former Director of the Energy and Environmental Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and a Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. Since 2012, Gadgil is the Faculty Director a large multi-campus, multi-disciplinary USAID-funded project, Development Impact Lab, with headquarters at UC Berkeley. Since 2006 he has taught graduate courses at UC Berkeley on inventing, implementing, and scaling up technologies for development. His research and technology inventions have been recognized with several significant awards and honors. Along with Dr. Temina Madon, Gadgil led the conceptualizing this book, shaping its content, framework, and selection of chapter authors. Gadgil holds a Ph.D. in physics from UC Berkeley and an M.Sc. in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
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Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. His research interest is in Computing for the Developing World, with work spanning educational technology, mobile data management tools, global health information systems; and digital financial services. He has conducted research at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, the Indian Institute of Science, Microsoft Research, and PATH, a Seattle based NGO working on health technologies for low resource environments. He has been recognized with the NSF Presidential Young Investigator award the University of Washington College of Engineering Faculty Innovator for Teaching Award and the 2020 ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics. Previously, he worked in the theory and implementation of algorithms, including parallel algorithms, computational geometry, and scientific applications. He graduated with a B.A. in Mathematics from Reed College and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Lorenzo Casaburi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich. His main line of research focuses on agricultural markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, with an emphasis on market structure, behavioral insights, and agricultural finance. His research has received funding from the European Research Council, the Swiss National Foundation, the U.S. Agency for International Development, UK Aid, and others. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development, and a Research Affiliate at the International Growth Centre, Innovations for Poverty Action, and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Lorenzo holds a B.A. from the University of Bologna and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard. Before joining the University of Zurich, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University.
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Lorenzo Casaburi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich. His main line of research focuses on agricultural markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, with an emphasis on market structure, behavioral insights, and agricultural finance. His research has received funding from the European Research Council, the Swiss National Foundation, the U.S. Agency for International Development, UK Aid, and others. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development, and a Research Affiliate at the International Growth Centre, Innovations for Poverty Action, and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Lorenzo holds a B.A. from the University of Bologna and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard. Before joining the University of Zurich, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University.
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Bibliographische Angaben
- 2023, 1st ed. 2023, XXI, 652 Seiten, 118 farbige Abbildungen, Maße: 15,5 x 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Temina Madon, Ashok J. Gadgil, Richard Anderson, Lorenzo Casaburi, Kenneth Lee, Arman Rezaee
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3030860671
- ISBN-13: 9783030860677
Sprache:
Englisch
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