We present our twice-monthly snapshot of interesting tweets in the technology for global development space. For up-to-the-minute updates from E4C on Twitter, please follow us at @Engineer4Change.
Good Q from @mitra “Under sub-par conditions, how easily does ferrocement go from optimum to unsafe?” https://www.engineeringforchange.org/news/2014/08/11/thin_shell_roofs_ferrocement_and_latex_tops_earthquake_resistant_architecture_in_haiti.html#comment1408925736582 …
— Engineering 4 Change (@engineer4change) August 27, 2014
Mitra Ardron at Lumeter Networks delivered another of his insightful comments to E4C News in the last week.
Floating ocean greenhouses bring fresh food closer to megacities. http://f-st.co/whRM0mq
— Co.Exist (@FastCoExist) August 27, 2014
Floating greenhouses might not be an appropriate technology for every coastal community, but it’s an interesting idea for some.
RT @GlobalGreenGame: use case via @UNICEF & @MSF_USA UAV prototypes for delivery of medicines during disaster
— Engineering 4 Change (@engineer4change) August 26, 2014
UAVs in humanitarian missions have been a hot topic at E4C since Patrick Meier gave his webinar. http://engineeringforchange-webinars.org/
Balkan floods displaced live, land mines up to 15 miles. Quadcopters were used to map out mine locations #E4Cwebinars
— Engineering 4 Change (@engineer4change) August 19, 2014
More from the latest in our #E4CWebinars.
This US farmer has a slick hydroponic barley fodder system using 5 gal buckets http://fb.me/1ofaNLXJk / @shambashapeup #farming
— Engineering 4 Change (@engineer4change) August 26, 2014
Shamba Shape-Up turns reality TV into an educational proposition by overhauling troubled farms in struggling communities.
Huge lineup of speakers going to #socap14 MT @SOCAPmarkets: We can’t wait for these passionate speakers http://ow.ly/As9Dr
— Engineering 4 Change (@engineer4change) August 24, 2014
This kind of sensing technology is changing how development projects work.
Water for People CEO & past TEDxMH speaker @NedBreslin featured in @theguardian on achieving clean water long-term: http://bit.ly/1t0AriI
— Engineering 4 Change (@engineer4change) August 23, 2014
Ned Breslin has become one of the prominent voices in water issues.
‘When you’re looking at wind turbines, you’re looking at freedom’ – read @caitlinmoran in the Times today. Beautiful.
— Ashden (@AshdenAwards) August 23, 2014
Deviating from the “turbines are eyesores” line.
NYTimes on Shyam Gollakota ACM Doc Diss 2012 winner, for building better battery for devices http://nyti.ms/1j69nd1
— Official ACM (@TheOfficialACM) February 3, 2014
One of MIT Technology Review’s 35 innovators under age 35 has a profile in NYT.
engineers should be adept at designing for an unfamiliar market. the ability to think across borders is a critical investment #admif2014
— iana (@iana_aranda) August 21, 2014
E4C tweeted highlights from two sessions with five experts in engineering for global development at ASME’s Advanced Design and Manufacturing Impact Forum 2014 in Bufalo, NY.
Mattson: some student projects have impact. Advice: personal dev is important- ask who am I now that I wasn’t before semester? #ADMIF2014
— Noha El-Ghobashy (@ghobashy) August 21, 2014
@samner Just called himself a recovering academic. Academia needs to build capacity incountry #ADMIF2014 @d_rev_org
— Noha El-Ghobashy (@ghobashy) August 21, 2014
Mattson succinctly captures a key lesson in engineering for #globaldev#ADMIF2014
— iana (@iana_randa) August 21, 2014
It’s just so easy to fail in engineering for the developing world & failure is usually unrelated to engineering – Mattson #admif2014
— Engineering 4 Change (@engineer4change) August 21, 2014
More from #ADMIF2014.
Great story on @littledevices by @jonathonkeats on how we use Legos for medical tech http://bit.ly/1lgWNEz http://ow.ly/i/6pKyw
— Jose Gomez-Marquez (@jfgm) August 1, 2014
