Handbook of Innovation & Appropriate Technologies for International Development

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This timely Handbook provides a conceptual discussion and an empirical review of new disruptive forms of innovation producing appropriate technologies, which address both the needs of low-income populations worldwide, and provides alternative solutions for sustainable development.

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This timely Handbook provides a conceptual discussion and a wide empirical presentation of new disruptive forms of innovation producing appropriate technologies, addressing the needs of low-income populations, and providing alternative solutions for sustainable development.The Handbook of Innovation & Appropriate Technologies for International Development expertly analyses and compares contributions of appropriate technologies in developing, emerging and industrialized economies, including China and India, and their global development impacts. Additionally, it covers the transversal role of new international communication technologies, open access, digital tools as well as entrepreneurship and innovation from within emerging economies and in industrialized nations. Using empirical analyses of cases and experiences in manufacturing sectors and services, it covers both the formal and informal economy, and provides an insightful focus on differences and similarities across borders and sectors.NGO and private sector practitioners, public sector officers as well as academics specialized in development economics, entrepreneurship and engineering or management studies will find this Handbook to be illuminating and very informative. Science and technology producers and entrepreneurs will appreciate the global look into more sustainable development as related to appropriate technologies, and how they can be used across all economic backgrounds.

Author Biography

Edited by Philippe Régnier, Professor and Dean (Research), School of Management Fribourg, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Daniel Frey, Professor, currently Head of the Design and Manufacturing Area within Mechanical Engineering, and formerly Research Faculty Director, D-Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, Samuel Pierre, Professor, Director of the Mobile Computing and Networking Research Laboratory (LARIM), Department of Computer and Software Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montreal, Canada, Koshy Varghese, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and currently Dean (Administration), Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, Chennai, India and Pascal Wild, Professor, School of Management Fribourg, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO)

Table of Contents

Contents:Introduction to the Handbook of Innovation & Appropriate Technologies forInternational Development xivDaniel Frey, Samuel Pierre, Philippe Régnier, Koshy Varghese and Pascal WildPART I APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY: ORIGINS ANDEVOLUTION OF A CONCEPT1 Revisiting the concept of "technology for the people": from Gandhi andSchumacher to 21st century new developments 2Philippe Régnier and Pascal Wild2 MIT D-Lab: designing for a more equitable world 7Amy Smith and Nancy Adams3 Solving problems and strengthening systems: how local innovation ofappropriate technology contributes to development 22Elizabeth Hoffecker and Boru DouthwaitePART II THE RISE OF EMERGING ECONOMIES AND NEW CONTRIBUTIONS4 The rise of emerging economies: implications on appropriatetechnology development in theory and practice 47Philippe Régnier and Pascal Wild5 Entrepreneurship, appropriate technologies and economic developmentin China 54Heini Shi6 Technological transformation in India: the debate between appropriateand frontier technologies 71Binod Khadria and Ratnam MishraPART III RECENT INNOVATIONS AND APPROPRIATETECHNOLOGIES IN TRANSFORMATION7 Technology evaluation for global development: exploring the efficiencyof comparative methods 87Daniel Frey and Bish Sanyal8 Mobilizing higher education and research toward engineering for globaldevelopment: the approach taken by the Centre for Global Engineering 103Ahmed Mahmoud, Amy Bilton, Morris Huang, Levente Diosady and Yu-Ling Cheng9 The participatory design spectrum: design for, with, and by 125Kendra Leith, Sher Vogel and Khanjan Mehta10 Frugal engineering 140Rao Balkrishna11 Financial technologies and rapid development growth in emerging economies 154Jane Khayesi12 Openness and new development perspectives 168Abdelhamid Benhmade13 How technologies can be used to reduce poverty and promotesustainable development in Haiti: the case of the PIGraN Project 187Samuel Pierre14 Ethical considerations for "Internet of Things" in research to advanceglobal development 207Daniel Sweeney, Amit Gandhi and Evan Thomas15 High-stake conditions to catalyse local sustainable developmentthrough Fablabs in Africa 222Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou16 The importance of local institutions: bottomup innovation in Uganda 240Joe Amick and Roy William Mayega17 How locally adapted information and communication technologies(ICTs) may contribute to the citizens' socio-economic conditions inemerging countries: case study in the DR Congo 259Musandji FuambaIndex

Review

'Handbook of Innovation & Appropriate Technologies for International Development is an outstanding contribution to bring out the progress of such innovations and appropriate technologies helpful for the development of people across the world. This book serves as a value pack for researchers, scholars and, in particular, practitioners working in the area of technology development and entrepreneurship for local community sustainable development impacts, and how they can be commercialised through various public–private inroads.' -- Raunak Gupta, The Journal of Entrepreneurship'The chapter authors take a comprehensive and eclectic approach to "global engineering" in all its aspects, from academic research and learning, to practical approaches by international organizations and NGOs, to the experience of practitioners and communities who experimented with appropriate technologies — or were experimented on with them. This compendium explains the origin stories of the pathbreaking practitioners and organizations, and provides both the traditional socio-economic and political frameworks for appropriate technologies as well as the new, somewhat controversial, decolonization narrative, with a range of LMIC examples. The human aspect gets attention, including the need for protection of subjects and participants, and the ethical dimensions, with the limitations university's institutional review processes may face about collection and analysis of data, use of AI and machine learning techniques to tease out insights and learning, to making these analyses available to the non-specialist as well as to the participants and other stakeholders. The scholar, the practitioner, the student, and the innovators will all find things to like and reflect on as we move from appropriate technologies to the broader intellectual and political context for applying what we learn to engage with the poor to improve their lives.' -- Paul M Cadario, University of Toronto, Canada

Review Quote

'The chapter authors take a comprehensive and eclectic approach to "global engineering" in all its aspects, from academic research and learning, to practical approaches by international organizations and NGOs, to the experience of practitioners and communities who experimented with appropriate technologies -- or were experimented on with them. This compendium explains the origin stories of the pathbreaking practitioners and organizations, and provides both the traditional socio-economic and political frameworks for appropriate technologies as well as the new, somewhat controversial, decolonization narrative, with a range of LMIC examples. The human aspect gets attention, including the need for protection of subjects and participants, and the ethical dimensions, with the limitations university's institutional review processes may face about collection and analysis of data, use of AI and machine learning techniques to tease out insights and learning, to making these analyses available to the non-specialist as well as to the participants and other stakeholders. The scholar, the practitioner, the student, and the innovators will all find things to like and reflect on as we move from appropriate technologies to the broader intellectual and political context for applying what we learn to engage with the poor to improve their lives.'

Details ISBN1800887817 Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1800887817 ISBN-13 9781800887817 Format Hardcover Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Cheltenham Country of Publication United Kingdom Author Philippe Régnier Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Pages 296 Publication Date 2022-10-25 UK Release Date 2022-10-25 AU Release Date 2022-10-25 NZ Release Date 2022-10-25 Series Innovation and Appropriate Technologies for International Development series Edited by Pascal Wild DEWEY 338.927 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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