Technologies for Development What is Essential?
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, s
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Technologies for Development
Silvia Hostettler Eileen Hazboun Jean-Claude Bolay •
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Editors Silvia Hostettler Cooperation & Development Center (CODEV) Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne Switzerland
Jean-Claude Bolay Cooperation & Development Center (CODEV) Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne Switzerland
Eileen Hazboun Cooperation & Development Center (CODEV) Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne Switzerland
ISBN 978-3-319-16246-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-16247-8
ISBN 978-3-319-16247-8
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Preface
Since the dawn of the industrial age, innovative technologies have been viewed as instrumental in enhancing productivity, generating economic growth, and transforming living conditions for billions of people. These technologies are a priority for North–South development cooperation, empowerment, and poverty reduction. At the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), we believe that technological innovation can be a pathway to sustainable development. Indeed, innovative and well-adapted technologies are very powerful tools that can render development effective on a large scale for disadvantaged people. EPFL has been active in development cooperation for decades. This embodies the institution’s open approach to the world: An outlook where humanist values and a scientific spirit are combined to produce research that is guided by a sense of responsibility toward the major problems faced by people in the Global South. It reflects the long-established ties between Switzerla
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