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Remote Assessment of Battery Degradation-Related Service Interruptions in an Energy Kiosk 能源亭电池退化相关服务中断的远程评估

2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) Pub Date : 2020-10-29 DOI: 10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342919

Lane D. Smith, H. Louie, S. Szablya, D. Goldsmith

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Internet and Happiness in West Africa: The Next Billion Users are Not a Single Entity 西非的互联网与幸福:下一个十亿用户不是一个单一的实体

2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) Pub Date : 2020-10-29 DOI: 10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342901

Wai Ching Ng, C. Burke

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Remote Design of Spare Parts for Local Manufacturing in Rural Kenya 肯尼亚农村本地生产备件的远程设计

2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) Pub Date : 2020-10-29 DOI: 10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342926

Magdalia Campobasso, J. Gershenson

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Mushroom Mycelium Regeneration in Tropical Environments 热带环境下蘑菇菌丝再生

2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) Pub Date : 2020-10-29 DOI: 10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342848

Belle Sullivan, Marc Rubin, David Tauman, Asgar Ali, Khanjan Mehta

{"title":"Mushroom Mycelium Regeneration in Tropical Environments","authors":"Belle Sullivan, Marc Rubin, David Tauman, Asgar Ali, Khanjan Mehta","doi":"10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342848","url":null,"abstract":"Mushrooms thrive in tropical environments. Unlike crops, they do not require arable land, special light, or large amounts of water. Mushrooms grow quickly, the typical life cycle being 3-4 weeks. Mushrooms can be grown year-round and be produced off the waste (e.g. rice husk) of other agricultural products. Commercial production of mushrooms bolsters food security and creates new opportunities for farmers as it is not only lucrative and sustainable, but mushrooms contain important micronutrients and they can be easily integrated into people's diets. A fundamental challenge to commercial mushroom production in low-resource settings is acquiring the fungus mycelium and keeping it alive to use for continuous production. It is difficult to keep mycelium alive without lab-like conditions for sterility and electricity for refrigeration. This paper illustrates a novel way to produce mycelium consistently and inexpensively without the use of advanced technology or electricity. This method of propagating spawn by producing second generation grain spawn has been validated in both lab and production environments in the US as well as production environments in Sierra Leone. The ability to grow second-generation spawn is an important breakthrough as it enables commercial mushroom production and circular agricultural economies in low-resource settings.","PeriodicalId":314837,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124978642","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}

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GHTC 2020 Programme GHTC 2020计划

2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) Pub Date : 2020-10-29 DOI: 10.1109/ghtc46280.2020.9342882

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Experiments on the Smart Village Testbed 智慧村试验台上的实验

2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) Pub Date : 2020-10-29 DOI: 10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342909

Shultz Augustus Hartgrove, Sakshi Ranjan, A. Mickelson

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Whole systems assessment of current and future wind speed and energy trends in rural Peru 秘鲁农村地区当前和未来风速和能源趋势的全系统评估

2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) Pub Date : 2020-10-29 DOI: 10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342931

Cristina Benzo, Pritpal Singh, Iain Hunt, Alfonso Ortega

{"title":"Whole systems assessment of current and future wind speed and energy trends in rural Peru","authors":"Cristina Benzo, Pritpal Singh, Iain Hunt, Alfonso Ortega","doi":"10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342931","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change poses a great threat to wind energy availability, especially to small scale, remote users who depend on it. Several studies demonstrate Earth’s warming as an ominous sign for changing wind speed variability around the world, resulting in a possible significant changes in wind energy production.This research assesses current surface level wind speed and energy availability using weather station and reanalysis datasets, and evaluates future wind speeds by analyzing global climate models (GCM) from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 5 (CMIP5) climate change scenarios to investigate important global warming impacts on wind speeds in a small, Andean community in Peru. El Chorro, an agricultural community of interest for WindAid, an organization that builds micro-turbines in remote communities, lies in the Andes mountains, a precarious area already affected by climate change induced droughts and high temperatures.This study demonstrates lower average wind speeds from surrounding weather stations, and more favorable energy generation from a 160W solar panel than a 500 W wind turbine. The prognostic study shows little agreement among the models regarding what change can be expected, yet the results highlight the importance of delving deeper into future scenarios to model regional and local circulations. A holistic social, economic, and political analysis expresses the unique impact of climate change on different stakeholders from micro-turbine systems as well. This research concludes with recommendations for improved prognostic wind speed and energy studies and modifications among the stakeholder interactions.","PeriodicalId":314837,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127568009","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}

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Laying the Foundations for a Digital Literacy Program in the Galapagos Islands 为加拉帕戈斯群岛的数字扫盲计划奠定基础

2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) Pub Date : 2020-10-29 DOI: 10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342878

Javier Urquizo, Pritpal Singh, D. Lansdale, Nathaly Sánchez, Karen Bermudez, Tyler Easlick, C. Lawrence, Nolan Wacker, Kellimarie Cooper, Chang Hoon Choi, M. Huhmann, Jack Sullivan, Jimmy Córdova, César Martin

{"title":"Laying the Foundations for a Digital Literacy Program in the Galapagos Islands","authors":"Javier Urquizo, Pritpal Singh, D. Lansdale, Nathaly Sánchez, Karen Bermudez, Tyler Easlick, C. Lawrence, Nolan Wacker, Kellimarie Cooper, Chang Hoon Choi, M. Huhmann, Jack Sullivan, Jimmy Córdova, César Martin","doi":"10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342878","url":null,"abstract":"Digital Literacy is an enabler that allows individuals and communities the ability to create, access, and share knowledge through digital means. These skills could be leveraged to produce economic growth through new employment and career opportunities. Ultimately this Digital Literacy knowledge can leading to enhanced quality of life for the community members. The main challenges to implementing Digital Literacy programs include teachers’ competencies, skills, and motivation to use digital technologies as well as their access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) infrastructure. This paper presents a group of initiatives focused on providing digital technologies as well as capacity building for teachers to improve the quality of education they deliver to their students. These efforts serve to prepare the foundations of a Digital Literacy program for the Galapagos Islands. We have established a community Intranet with educational resources loaded on servers that are shared between schools. We have delivered a number of workshops to teachers and students on Digital Literacy topics. An overview of the different projects, experiences, and future work will be presented.","PeriodicalId":314837,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131927178","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}

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A market assessment for modern cooking in Malawi 马拉维现代烹饪的市场评估

2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) Pub Date : 2020-10-29 DOI: 10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342930

Will Coley, A. Eales, D. Frame, S. Galloway, L. Archer

{"title":"A market assessment for modern cooking in Malawi","authors":"Will Coley, A. Eales, D. Frame, S. Galloway, L. Archer","doi":"10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342930","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the findings from a study which used household surveys and expert interviews to investigate cooking practices and understand the barriers and opportunities to the growth of the modern cooking sector in Malawi. The findings from expert interviews highlight barriers to electric and LPG cooking around the weakness of existing infrastructure, lack of consumer willingness and ability to pay and resistance to the adoption of modern cooking devices. The greatest opportunity for electric cooking is in urban areas and on mini-grids, while LPG is also most viable in urban areas, however knowledge and infrastructure gaps need to be narrowed to facilitate growth. An analysis of household surveys in urban, peri-urban and rural areas, using data from \"indicative cooking diaries\", demonstrates the diversity of cooking practices in Malawian households by showing what, how, and with what, dishes are cooked. It is demonstrated that there is a latent demand for modern cooking in Malawi. Targeted research is needed to test modern cooking devices’ ability to cook Malawian dishes in ways which are acceptable to Malawian people, in order to effectively accelerate a transition towards modern cooking in Malawi and address the negative health and environmental impacts of biomass cooking.","PeriodicalId":314837,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121860218","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}

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A Novel E-Junction Lateral Flow Immunoassay for Widespread Sickle Cell Screening in Low and Middle-Income Countries 在低收入和中等收入国家广泛的镰状细胞筛查的新型e结横向流动免疫测定

2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) Pub Date : 2020-10-29 DOI: 10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342918

M. Lancia, Tiffany Pang, Ashleigh Crawford, Jannah Wing, Khanjan Mehta, Xuanhong Cheng

{"title":"A Novel E-Junction Lateral Flow Immunoassay for Widespread Sickle Cell Screening in Low and Middle-Income Countries","authors":"M. Lancia, Tiffany Pang, Ashleigh Crawford, Jannah Wing, Khanjan Mehta, Xuanhong Cheng","doi":"10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342918","url":null,"abstract":"Sickle cell disease (SCD) affects more than 250 million people globally. The life-threatening, inherited blood disorder results in sickled red blood cells, which can become trapped in blood vessels, causing anemia, pain, organ damage, increased risk for infection and reduced life expectancy. SCD is especially common in sub-Saharan Africa where the mortality rate among children is estimated to be 50-90%. However, universal screening paired with early intervention programs have proven to be effective in reducing the mortality rate of SCD in high-income countries. Diagnostic methods utilized in high-income countries are expensive and resource heavy, inhibiting widespread implementation in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). In order to address this need, a low-cost, point-of-care lateral flow device, designed to be implemented in LMICs has been developed. Recent efforts have been focused on the optimization of the biofunctionalization of the lateral flow device and determining the device’s dynamic range. The device consists of a direct binding immunoassay that can function with a single drop of whole blood and is able to diagnose healthy blood, SCD, and sickle cell trait (SCT) individuals. The novel E-junction device design meets the affordability, usability, and reliability demands of a sickle cell screening device for implementation in LMICs.","PeriodicalId":314837,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125207779","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}

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