Title :
Humanitarian Engineering - Emerging Technologies and Humanitarian Efforts
Abstract :
The level of appropriate technology for a community has been advancing due to rapidly emerging techniques and developments thereby turning possible applications into practical ones. This publication is one is a series that cross references emerging technologies and needs in the three main humanitarian project categories of developing communities, disaster recovery, and redevelopment. It presents a framework for leveraging research and development work to mutual benefit of developing and mature communities, business and traditional help organizations in government and non-government organizations (NGO).
Keywords :
Communities; Convergence; Helium; Humans; Manufacturing; Organizations; Research and development; developing communities; development; disaster recovery; emerging technology; humanitarian; research; sustainability; technology;
Conference_Titel :
Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-3016-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4849-4
DOI :
10.1109/GHTC.2012.41