Pub Date : 2015-12-03DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2015.7343966
Vishnu S. Pendyala, S. Figueira
Economy grows as more and more people join its core echelons. People are the most important economic resources at all times. The Web, being humanity's largest source of information and interaction, probably has the most technological potential to get people into mainstream. It can serve as a conduit of humanitarian services to the underprivileged and presents a huge opportunity to meet humanitarian challenges. In this paper, we discuss the role that a truthful World Wide Web can play in achieving humanitarian goals. We survey what is currently available and discuss some of our own ideas on making the Web more robust and truthful in order to meet the humanitarian challenge.
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Pub Date : 2015-12-03DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2015.7343961
Paul M. Cunningham, M. Cunningham, L. Ekenberg
Due to a significant investment in digital infrastructure and a pro-innovation policy and regulatory framework, the Innovation Ecosystems in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Kampala have considerably expanded over the last five years, incorporating new national and international Innovation Stakeholders. This is important in the context of realising the objectives of National Development Plans, and addressing high levels of youth and graduate unemployment. This paper presents a sub-set of results from a comprehensive baseline analysis of Innovation Ecosystems in these cities with a focus on assessing the current level of ICT-related Collaboration, Innovation Absorption capacity and challenges to be addressed. In order to benefit from these developments, it is recommended that the public sector take a leadership role in establishing necessary mechanisms that will stimulate multi-stakeholder collaboration amongst existing Innovation Actors to foster a sustainable Collaborative Open Innovation and Entrepreneurial culture.
{"title":"Assessment of potential ICT-related collaboration and innovation capacity in east Africa","authors":"Paul M. Cunningham, M. Cunningham, L. Ekenberg","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2015.7343961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2015.7343961","url":null,"abstract":"Due to a significant investment in digital infrastructure and a pro-innovation policy and regulatory framework, the Innovation Ecosystems in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Kampala have considerably expanded over the last five years, incorporating new national and international Innovation Stakeholders. This is important in the context of realising the objectives of National Development Plans, and addressing high levels of youth and graduate unemployment. This paper presents a sub-set of results from a comprehensive baseline analysis of Innovation Ecosystems in these cities with a focus on assessing the current level of ICT-related Collaboration, Innovation Absorption capacity and challenges to be addressed. In order to benefit from these developments, it is recommended that the public sector take a leadership role in establishing necessary mechanisms that will stimulate multi-stakeholder collaboration amongst existing Innovation Actors to foster a sustainable Collaborative Open Innovation and Entrepreneurial culture.","PeriodicalId":193664,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134618035","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 : 2015-12-03DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2015.7343980
Derek Huling, S. Miles
Community disaster resilience is commonly conceptualized as the capacity to reduce post-event loss and facilitate effective recovery. Technologies, such as data systems, computer models, and visualization tools, are more common and well developed for understanding immediate (and static) loss than for understanding dynamic processes of recovery. Most available technology for understanding post-disaster dynamics is specific to short-term emergency or crisis processes. As a result, development of simulation models of recovery is necessary to enable technology-supported decision making for realizing community disaster resilience. We present a proof of concept design for a home reconstruction discrete-event simulation (DES) to evaluate its potential for simulating disaster recovery in general. The design is implemented as a prototype using the SimPy discrete-event simulation Python library. Preliminary outputs from the prototype simulation suggest that DES is appropriate and promising for modeling home reconstruction. The ability to alter the quantities of shared resource stocks, event durations, and access qualifications can likely facilitate modeling of other types of recovery processes, as well as a variety of post-disaster scenarios. As such, DES appears to be a novel technological approach that can be developed to support pre-and post-disaster decision making for improved community disaster resilience.
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Pub Date : 2015-12-03DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2015.7343962
C. Scharff, K. Ndiaye, Meghan Jordan, A. N. Diene, F. Drame
Mobile phone call details records (CDR) are particularly useful to study human mobility and support decisions related to public health, transportation and resource management. We used the 2013 mobile dataset released by the Orange mobile operator to model human mobility before, during and after one of the most attended religious festivals in Senegal called the Magal of Touba. We observed interesting structures in the human mobility patterns showing that this festival involves massive movements of population from different parts of Senegal. Our analysis also presents the main routes used by the pilgrims and their travels' times. These findings are worthwhile for numerous structures, including the ministries of Health, Transport, and Hydraulic, as well as other stakeholders planning religious festivals. They have important health implications ranging from awareness campaigns to resource management and service allocation before, during and after religious festivals in Senegal.
移动电话详细记录(CDR)对于研究人员流动和支持与公共卫生、交通和资源管理有关的决策特别有用。我们使用Orange移动运营商发布的2013年移动数据集来模拟塞内加尔最受欢迎的宗教节日之一——图巴马加尔节(Magal of Touba)之前、期间和之后的人类流动性。我们在人类流动模式中观察到有趣的结构，表明这个节日涉及来自塞内加尔不同地区的大规模人口流动。我们的分析还展示了朝圣者使用的主要路线和他们的旅行时间。这些发现对许多机构，包括卫生部、交通部和水利部，以及计划宗教节日的其他利益攸关方都是有价值的。它们具有重要的健康影响，从提高认识运动到塞内加尔宗教节日之前、期间和之后的资源管理和服务分配。
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Pub Date : 2015-12-03DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2015.7343949
M. Hijjo, Philipp Bauer, Felix Felgner, Georg Frey
This paper presents the general system of energy management in Al-Shifa' Hospital, as the largest medical complex in Gaza-strip, and the existing challenges to supply the critical facilities in that hospital which is seriously affected by the frequent power outages. Additionally, the presented work highlights the problem of power outage in Gaza-Strip as an example of the regions which are in dire need of humanitarian actions. It encounters serious electrification problems and frequent power failures. In order to propose an encouraging and realistic solution, the major challenges in performing an effective energy management program in such sensitive environments like hospitals are surveyed. As a contribution to the development projects of hospitals, this paper presents a PV/storage system as an alternative power supply to the conventional diesel generators. System design and associated costs of its utilization are illustrated. Despite of the necessity and vital role of the critical loads in hospitals which cannot be compromised with the costs, conventional cash-flow indicates that utilizing PV systems (instead of diesel generators) for typical critical loads in Gaza's hospitals is promising and more sustainable. Such a design can be transferred to other areas which suffer from frequent power failures and depend on conventional backup systems for long periods.
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Pub Date : 2015-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2015.7343976
Chengyang Yao, Alexander Sun, D. Hall
A tremendous opportunity currently exists to enable practical and portable mHealth tools by taking advantage of the ubiquity of mobile phones across the world. To this end, we describe the design of a circuit to efficiently harvest energy from the standard audio jack of a mobile phone to power mHealth peripherals, lowering cost, reducing size, and improving the practicality of portable medical devices. This design not only obviates the need to charge or change an extra battery but also is universally compatible with all phones. The audio output channels of several popular phones were characterized in order to determine the range of design parameters. Using these data, different power harvesting topologies are presented, simulated, and compared. A PCB implementation was used to measure and confirm the performance. Compared with prior art, which have achieved 21% and 47% efficiency, this design is able to achieve greater than 77% efficiency by using a tunable impedance matching network.
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Pub Date : 2015-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2015.7344005
I. Zualkernan
Traditionally it has been assumed that female students in primary and secondary schools do not perform as well as their male counterparts in mathematics. However, recent research shows that females tend to do just as well or better in mathematics. While technology-based educational interventions have been used in developing countries to improve numeracy outcomes, little data is available on how and if females respond differently to these interventions than males. This is especially important because, unlike teachers, content and pedagogies used in such interventions often do not take into account gender differences. This paper presents a detailed analysis of one year technology-enabled educational interventions in public schools of a developing country to explore if there were any differences in how female students responded. The results are that despite the fact that the content and pedagogical design did not explicitly incorporate gender differences, no significant differences in learning gains or variability were found between males and females for grade II or grade V children with or without the technology-intervention. Teachers' gender, however, resulted in medium learning effects.
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Pub Date : 2015-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2015.7343970
R. Pillutla, N. Mandaleeka
Among the many aspects that effect populations is unemployability leading to poverty. This is likely to become a rapidly growing bubble that may burst, if not addressed appropriately. As a consequence of this, humanitarian crises may set in effecting people. Education has an important role to play ensuring employability which will lead to reduction of poverty as employability and poverty (or the lack of it) are related. For the purpose of this paper, employability may be considered as the capability to get into a gainful occupation, maintain it and change into new occupation if required. `Poverty would cover the entire range of constraints that restrict peoples freedom to live in society' - which may mean lack of food, poor education and living conditions, conflicts and so on [1]. High population growth is one of the major reasons in developing countries for poverty and a cause of low per capita income. Availability of jobs and the ability to be employable are therefore ways to alleviate this poverty. India with its large number of engineering colleges churns out 5-5.5 million graduates every year and has only 20-24% employability today [2]. The need for a strong connect between the needs of the industry and the development of suitable competency building pedagogy are both seen as critical to this problem solutioning. This paper discusses the development of a Skill building program that is aimed at improving the employability of tier 3 and 4 engineering colleges, where the need for employable skills is high. This program code named as SEP was initially implemented in a sizeable scale in a controlled environment and was found very successful and effective. Effectiveness was measured on the Kirkpatrick's scale at levels 3 and 4 [3]. Subsequently, a Student Skilling Program, known as Pre-Internship Program (PIP) was launched on 5 engineering colleges based on this experience. This paper discusses an approach and Pedagogy to build employable skills in them. The details of the deployment in controlled environment and its scaling up to address the social problem of poor employability in the lower tier engineering college students is discussed.
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Pub Date : 2015-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2015.7343985
Katherine Mason, Carol Place, David Plotner
A significant challenge in supporting international surveys is to ensure that the survey is efficiently and accurately translated into foreign languages for presentation to respondents who do not speak English. Major issues include fonts, oral languages being converted to written, dialects and other nuances, and challenges with native translators. This paper will discuss issues and lessons learned during the development of a standard automated translation template, and a process for importing those translations.
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Pub Date : 2015-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2015.7343994
David Xu, N. Powers, W. Sae-Kok
This paper presents the solutions provided by ABB Station Service Voltage Transformer (SSVT) as a power source that more effectively enables the rural community to access electricity from the high voltage transmission grid. Typical community electrification applications consist of construction of electrical network infrastructures requiring higher investment, more space, and longer duration. An alternative solution developed by ABB is to apply the SSVT product to serve as a mini-substation, stepping down the power supply directly from the high voltage transmission line to low voltage or medium voltage output in one step to provide power source to small residential areas without the large investment. Rough estimations indicate using SSVT for rural electrification can reduce cost by as much as 80% over a traditional substation. ABB has continuously developed new and different technological solutions on global humanitarian challenges for access to electricity. One recent project that ABB Power Systems and ABB High Voltage Power Products coordinated on is delivering 7 units of 230kV SSVT to supply power to 7 rural villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) on a project funded by the World Bank. The project is focused on changing people's lives in these villages and help them fight poverty.
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