Pub Date : 2013-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713721
B. Nielsen, A. L. Santos
There is a clear increase in the frequency, complexity and length of humanitarian crises. This trend has driven the attention of donor governments to the private sector in search of more cost effective solutions for the provision of aid. While the challenges that emerge when humanitarian values meet business interests in the humanitarian market have been explored, little is known about the perspective of enterprises from the private sector and how they approach the humanitarian aid context. This study aimed at exploring how characteristics, specific to humanitarian aid affect product development activities. In fact, mismatches between business and humanitarian systems go beyond the creation of logistical systems and extend to product development activities and adjacent servicing. We consider the findings a contribution to the definition of priorities for the future collaborative development of products and services by private sector and humanitarian aid stakeholders.
{"title":"Key challenges of product development for humanitarian markets","authors":"B. Nielsen, A. L. Santos","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713721","url":null,"abstract":"There is a clear increase in the frequency, complexity and length of humanitarian crises. This trend has driven the attention of donor governments to the private sector in search of more cost effective solutions for the provision of aid. While the challenges that emerge when humanitarian values meet business interests in the humanitarian market have been explored, little is known about the perspective of enterprises from the private sector and how they approach the humanitarian aid context. This study aimed at exploring how characteristics, specific to humanitarian aid affect product development activities. In fact, mismatches between business and humanitarian systems go beyond the creation of logistical systems and extend to product development activities and adjacent servicing. We consider the findings a contribution to the definition of priorities for the future collaborative development of products and services by private sector and humanitarian aid stakeholders.","PeriodicalId":168082,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115148749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713694
Mannyeon Kim, Ju-Hun Kim, S. Hong
Cambodia took green growth as their national strategy. In relation to that, the country has adopted several legal plans for the development of green growth. In this vein, we found out that conducting a pilot project of inventing and applying a grain dryer, which is environmentally friendly and tailored to the specific local needs, can be recognized as one of the green growth bottom-up elements. This pilot project was implemented during the year of 2012 funded by the ASEM SMEs Eco-Innovation Center (ASEIC), in collaboration with the Global Green Growth Institute and Cambodian government. Facilities to dry cereal crops were adapted from the incineration facilities developed in 2011 by using the heat generated from incineration to heat up the floor. The drying facilities are divided into two types depending on use. An open-type green house is used for drying large quantities and a closed-type with a solar collector (brick) used for cereals that can dry without sunshine.
{"title":"Improved grain dryer based on the principle of an ‘Ondol’: Application to Cambodian rural areas","authors":"Mannyeon Kim, Ju-Hun Kim, S. Hong","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713694","url":null,"abstract":"Cambodia took green growth as their national strategy. In relation to that, the country has adopted several legal plans for the development of green growth. In this vein, we found out that conducting a pilot project of inventing and applying a grain dryer, which is environmentally friendly and tailored to the specific local needs, can be recognized as one of the green growth bottom-up elements. This pilot project was implemented during the year of 2012 funded by the ASEM SMEs Eco-Innovation Center (ASEIC), in collaboration with the Global Green Growth Institute and Cambodian government. Facilities to dry cereal crops were adapted from the incineration facilities developed in 2011 by using the heat generated from incineration to heat up the floor. The drying facilities are divided into two types depending on use. An open-type green house is used for drying large quantities and a closed-type with a solar collector (brick) used for cereals that can dry without sunshine.","PeriodicalId":168082,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120946482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713665
Daniel J. Olsher
International emergency response involves billions of dollars in expenditure, deeply impacting those involved. Perception creates reality, and intervenors must be able to predict which actions will be perceived as responsive to local needs, mores, and values, across dimensions including capability, effectiveness, correctness, values alignment, solidarity, and legitimacy. If responses are seen as culturally-insensitive they may be rejected on this basis alone, or cooperation may be withheld. This paper demonstrates a method and software package for modeling the culture-and worldview- grounded perception of interventions during emergency response missions. Grounded in the `energy-based' INTELNET/COGVIEW knowledge representation and cultural modeling formalisms, the paper presents detailed examples of cultural model networks and demonstrates how they may be employed to simulate opinion formation during emergency interventions.
{"title":"Cognitive-cultural simulationof local and host government perceptions in international emergencies","authors":"Daniel J. Olsher","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713665","url":null,"abstract":"International emergency response involves billions of dollars in expenditure, deeply impacting those involved. Perception creates reality, and intervenors must be able to predict which actions will be perceived as responsive to local needs, mores, and values, across dimensions including capability, effectiveness, correctness, values alignment, solidarity, and legitimacy. If responses are seen as culturally-insensitive they may be rejected on this basis alone, or cooperation may be withheld. This paper demonstrates a method and software package for modeling the culture-and worldview- grounded perception of interventions during emergency response missions. Grounded in the `energy-based' INTELNET/COGVIEW knowledge representation and cultural modeling formalisms, the paper presents detailed examples of cultural model networks and demonstrates how they may be employed to simulate opinion formation during emergency interventions.","PeriodicalId":168082,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116106069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713695
C. Agus
Tropical bio-geo-resource has a high biomass productivity but still less in economic values. Integrated Bio-cycle Farming System (IBFS) is an alternative system which harmoniously combines agricultural sectors, and non-agricultural aspects, on landscape ecological management. The cycle of energy, organic matter and carbon, water, nutrient, production, crop, money was managed through 7R (reuse, reduce, recycle, refill, replace, repair, replant) to obtain optimal benefits for the farmer, community, agriculture and global environment.The system has multifunction and multi-product (Food, Feed, Fuel, Fiber, Fertilizer, Pharmacy, Edutainment, Eco-tourism). They will meet the expected basic need for daily-, monthly-, yearly- and decade's income at short-, medium- and long- term periods. IBFS was expected to provide additional benefits for farmers with small, medium and big capital, through the recycling of organic waste into renewable resources to produce high-value production, such as organic fertilizer (liquid and solid), animal feed, and sources of bio-gas energy. IBFS has a good prospect for sustainable economic, environment and socio-culture aspect.
{"title":"Management of tropical bio-geo-resources through Integrated Bio-cycle Farming System for healthy food and renewable energy sovereignty","authors":"C. Agus","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713695","url":null,"abstract":"Tropical bio-geo-resource has a high biomass productivity but still less in economic values. Integrated Bio-cycle Farming System (IBFS) is an alternative system which harmoniously combines agricultural sectors, and non-agricultural aspects, on landscape ecological management. The cycle of energy, organic matter and carbon, water, nutrient, production, crop, money was managed through 7R (reuse, reduce, recycle, refill, replace, repair, replant) to obtain optimal benefits for the farmer, community, agriculture and global environment.The system has multifunction and multi-product (Food, Feed, Fuel, Fiber, Fertilizer, Pharmacy, Edutainment, Eco-tourism). They will meet the expected basic need for daily-, monthly-, yearly- and decade's income at short-, medium- and long- term periods. IBFS was expected to provide additional benefits for farmers with small, medium and big capital, through the recycling of organic waste into renewable resources to produce high-value production, such as organic fertilizer (liquid and solid), animal feed, and sources of bio-gas energy. IBFS has a good prospect for sustainable economic, environment and socio-culture aspect.","PeriodicalId":168082,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"131 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120995668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713733
Mark N. Jeunnette, G. Soh
This paper details the design and fabrication of a disrupting test rig for measuring the energy required to separate the fuze from the casing of unexploded ordnance (UXO), also called disrupting the device. Preliminary tests were conducted using an explosive disrupting tool, and the energy for disruption relative to input kinetic energy was estimated and used to design a test rig with suitable energy to ensure disruption. The disrupting test rig operates on the same principle as a Charpy Notch testing machine, and can deliver up to 3kJ of kinetic energy with its 3m long and up to 137kg mass pendulum arm. A sliding casing fixture mechanism provides kinematic constraints to allow the fuze body to be pulled out of the casing by the projectile, simulating disruption from an explosive de-armer. Measurements taken with the disrupting test rig show that disruption can be achieved with as little as 1.7kJ of kinetic energy. The test rig is not intended for use on live UXOs, but rather the work will inform further development of a non-explosive tool to replace existing explosive disrupting tools.
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Pub Date : 2013-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713677
Agnelo R. Silva, M. Liu, M. Moghaddam
WSN-SA is a Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) framework that is been proposed to support rescue operations in collapsed structures, such as houses and buildings, after natural and human-made disasters. The sensors and actuators are deployed prior to the disaster and ideally such sensor network is a required infrastructure of any building. Such SA systems can help to indicate how to distribute the rescue resources and how to identify imminent risks for rescuers and survivors. So far, few situational awareness (SA) systems based on WSNs have been proposed and no long-term realization of such systems has been reported. The goal of this work is to provide the foundations to change this reality so it would be possible to see a SA system accompanying each existing fire system. To this end, a strong emphasis is given to a) the achievement of low total cost of ownership (TCO), b) reliability, c) and expandability for the adopted SA solution.
{"title":"WSN-SA: Design foundations for situational awareness systems based on sensor networks","authors":"Agnelo R. Silva, M. Liu, M. Moghaddam","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713677","url":null,"abstract":"WSN-SA is a Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) framework that is been proposed to support rescue operations in collapsed structures, such as houses and buildings, after natural and human-made disasters. The sensors and actuators are deployed prior to the disaster and ideally such sensor network is a required infrastructure of any building. Such SA systems can help to indicate how to distribute the rescue resources and how to identify imminent risks for rescuers and survivors. So far, few situational awareness (SA) systems based on WSNs have been proposed and no long-term realization of such systems has been reported. The goal of this work is to provide the foundations to change this reality so it would be possible to see a SA system accompanying each existing fire system. To this end, a strong emphasis is given to a) the achievement of low total cost of ownership (TCO), b) reliability, c) and expandability for the adopted SA solution.","PeriodicalId":168082,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128043293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713731
S. Ramesh, A. Usman, Adil Usman, B. Divakar
Municipal solid waste management (MSWM) is one of the major environmental problems of Indian cities. Solid waste is defined as the material, which arises from various human activities and which is normally discarded as useless and unwanted. Improper management of municipal solid waste (MSW) causes hazards to inhabitants. Various studies reveal that about 90% of MSW is disposed off unscientifically in open dumps and landfills, creating problems to public health and the environment. In the present paper a survey of case studies conducted on MSWM in few cities across India is reviewed to gain insight into solid waste management. Several data concerning SWM in Bangalore has been collected to understand the problems being faced by Bangaloreans. An exclusive survey is carried out within the campus of Reva Institute of Technology, Bangalore to quantify the waste generation and to come up with a feasible SWM solution which can be implemented within the campus.
{"title":"Municipal solid waste management in Bangalore and the concept of mini biogas plant in urban localities","authors":"S. Ramesh, A. Usman, Adil Usman, B. Divakar","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713731","url":null,"abstract":"Municipal solid waste management (MSWM) is one of the major environmental problems of Indian cities. Solid waste is defined as the material, which arises from various human activities and which is normally discarded as useless and unwanted. Improper management of municipal solid waste (MSW) causes hazards to inhabitants. Various studies reveal that about 90% of MSW is disposed off unscientifically in open dumps and landfills, creating problems to public health and the environment. In the present paper a survey of case studies conducted on MSWM in few cities across India is reviewed to gain insight into solid waste management. Several data concerning SWM in Bangalore has been collected to understand the problems being faced by Bangaloreans. An exclusive survey is carried out within the campus of Reva Institute of Technology, Bangalore to quantify the waste generation and to come up with a feasible SWM solution which can be implemented within the campus.","PeriodicalId":168082,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125692194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713709
David Espinoza, A. Mickelson, J. Leventhal, Christie Ritter, R. Quispe, Leopoldo Linan
This paper addresses the use of a VoIP communication service running on a Wi-Fi-based network in the Peruvian Rainforest to enable a cooperative network among producers, buyers and transporters of agricultural products. As a result, uncertainties in a geographically isolated imperfect agricultural market will be reduced, leading to a more efficient use of scarce resources, an increase of farmers' incomes, and more competitive prices of products in urban markets. This project involves enabling access to agricultural product information from buyers in urban areas to farmers in rural villages, as well as transporters and middlemen. The deployment of the Wi-Fi network began in 2007. This network, a 445 km long Wi-Fi Long Distance-based network, was deployed by the Rural Telecommunications Research Group and the Spanish-Americas Health Link (EHAS) Foundation to support telemedicine programs. The deployed network and excess bandwidth makes it possible to continue promoting development in this area by allowing coexistence with other services such as the proposed VoIP enabled cooperative network for commerce of agricultural products. To achieve this end, challenges include: 1) designing an appropriate framework to enable the cooperative network among participants, 2) designing appropriate friendly end-user technology for first-time technology users, and 3) designing an appropriate business model which ensures a sustainable growing service. Using the VoIP service as a tool to enable affordable communication for this agricultural initiative will allow interaction among producers, buyers and transporters located hundreds of kilometers apart and open unprecedented choices for them to offer and trade products, generating innovative practices tailored for the local conditions.
{"title":"A VoIP enabled cooperative network for agricultural commerce in Amazon Peru","authors":"David Espinoza, A. Mickelson, J. Leventhal, Christie Ritter, R. Quispe, Leopoldo Linan","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713709","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the use of a VoIP communication service running on a Wi-Fi-based network in the Peruvian Rainforest to enable a cooperative network among producers, buyers and transporters of agricultural products. As a result, uncertainties in a geographically isolated imperfect agricultural market will be reduced, leading to a more efficient use of scarce resources, an increase of farmers' incomes, and more competitive prices of products in urban markets. This project involves enabling access to agricultural product information from buyers in urban areas to farmers in rural villages, as well as transporters and middlemen. The deployment of the Wi-Fi network began in 2007. This network, a 445 km long Wi-Fi Long Distance-based network, was deployed by the Rural Telecommunications Research Group and the Spanish-Americas Health Link (EHAS) Foundation to support telemedicine programs. The deployed network and excess bandwidth makes it possible to continue promoting development in this area by allowing coexistence with other services such as the proposed VoIP enabled cooperative network for commerce of agricultural products. To achieve this end, challenges include: 1) designing an appropriate framework to enable the cooperative network among participants, 2) designing appropriate friendly end-user technology for first-time technology users, and 3) designing an appropriate business model which ensures a sustainable growing service. Using the VoIP service as a tool to enable affordable communication for this agricultural initiative will allow interaction among producers, buyers and transporters located hundreds of kilometers apart and open unprecedented choices for them to offer and trade products, generating innovative practices tailored for the local conditions.","PeriodicalId":168082,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132283189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713717
C. Köbel, Walter Baluja García, J. Habermann
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) offer a cost-effective possibility to enable wireless access in remote villages or cities. This work is a survey on WMN solutions in rural areas and developing countries. The authors intend to inform potential network planners about the specific advantages of WMN technology and its deployment. Positive effects range from enabling connectivity in remote zones, to a better accessibility to extended public services. Representative, state-of-the-art mesh setups, mostly situated in rural zones have been selected, considering humanitarian aspects. Both community-driven and commercially oriented projects are covered.
{"title":"A survey on Wireless Mesh Network applications in rural areas and emerging countries","authors":"C. Köbel, Walter Baluja García, J. Habermann","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713717","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) offer a cost-effective possibility to enable wireless access in remote villages or cities. This work is a survey on WMN solutions in rural areas and developing countries. The authors intend to inform potential network planners about the specific advantages of WMN technology and its deployment. Positive effects range from enabling connectivity in remote zones, to a better accessibility to extended public services. Representative, state-of-the-art mesh setups, mostly situated in rural zones have been selected, considering humanitarian aspects. Both community-driven and commercially oriented projects are covered.","PeriodicalId":168082,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132773712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2013.6713707
Somya Sharma, Jabal Raval, B. Jagyasi
The agriculture activities have a major role in determining the quality and quantity of the agriculture produce. In this paper, we propose a novel mobile sensing based framework which uses machine learning algorithms for the detection of agriculture activities. To collect the sensors data and ground truth an android based mobile application has also been developed and has been provided to the farmers. We investigate the performance of Naive Bayes, Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) classifiers to detect the activities like Harvesting, Bed Making, Stand-still and Walking. We also use the same classifiers to detect the placement of the mobile phone on the body which will hence provide a degree of freedom to the farmers in placing the mobile phone as per their convenience.
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