APS111H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Frugal Innovation, Netrin, Health Technology
9 Dec 2015
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Aps111 lecture 36 global engineering: design a better world. Addresses needs and challenges of resource constrained regions of the world. Appropriate technology: matches local cultural and social norms, available maintenance skill levels, and infrastructure. Integrated innovation: innovation design to incorporate business, social and technical considerations. Appropriate technology: technology must be appropriate for, local cultural and social norms, available maintenance skill levels, local conditions/infrastructure grid electricity, water supply, road, conditions, etc. Africa is littered with broken down windmills, water pumps, generators. The recipient communities lack the organizational skills, tools, spare parts and the cash needed to maintain or fuel this equipment. When these machines break down, they are rarely repaired or replaced. Equipment survey of 33 hospitals by ewh 2007. Easier to get aid money to buy a new oxygenator than to spend to repair a. Found 973 pieces of broken equipment broken one. The medical research council in the gambia manages and maintains 27 concentrator.
