• DocumentCode
    2613180
  • Title

    Humanitarian Engineering - Emerging Technologies and Humanitarian Efforts

  • Author

    Conkol, Gary K.

  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    21-24 Oct. 2012
  • Firstpage
    253
  • Lastpage
    258
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GHTC.2012.41
  • Filename
    6387057