Open Hardware Presentation
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The document discusses the WeCare Solar Suitcase project, which aims to provide reliable electricity to rural health clinics through a portable solar energy system. It describes the project's open hardware competition that invited engineering teams to improve the design of the Solar Suitcase to reduce costs and expand access. The competition aims to leverage crowd-sourcing and an open source model to develop shared solutions for providing off-grid energy access to improve maternal health outcomes in developing areas.
Open Hardware Presentation
- 1. PodCamp Toronto 2011 Open Hardware, Concept to Reality: WeCare Solar Suitcase Case Study Presentation Glenn McKnight IEEE HIC - Sat. Feb 26, 2011
- 3. Interesting times Open Source becoming the Hero in Action Flicks!
- 4. Our Approach Crowdsourcing it ain't
- 5. Background IEEE Humanitarian Technology Challenge formed from the cooperation between the IEEE Foundation and the UN Foundation
- 6. Three key focuses: Reliable Electricity, Data Connectivity and Individual Patient Records
- 7. IEEE HIC launched a student competition to create an Open Hardware version of the small scale solar suitcase
- 9. Lack of Electricity 1.6 billion people lack access to electricity
- 10. 2.4 billion lack access to fuels for cooking and heating
- 11. 300,000 health facilities are without electricity
- 12. Maternal Deaths 1/2 million deaths per year
- 13. 99% of deaths found in developing countries
- 14. For every death, 20 more women suffer severe complication from childbirth
- 15. Solar Suitcase WeCare Solar Suitcase being delivered at a Northern Nigerian health clinic
- 16. Challenge is modifying the design, components etc to reduce the size and cost of the unit
- 18. Open Hardware Competition Creation of student competition inviting engineering teams to create their own Open (Source) Hardware approach to improve the WSS design and subsequently improve access to for rural clinics in the poorest regions in the world to reliable electricity
- 19. Open Hardware model makes it possible for the founders of the platform, WE CARE Solar, to benefit by the new designs
- 21. Why Open Hardware? Shared solutions that are open and not limited by restrictive licencing
- 22. Build on the shared knowledge of six separate teams providing their own interpretation of the project
- 23. Reduce the cost of complete system
- 24. Leverage the existing student networks to promote solutions
- 25. Next Steps Incorporation of new designs into the current WeCare Solar specification
- 26. Adaption of the design based upon local supply of components
- 27. Local training initiatives to build kits
- 28. Spur local technical and humanitarian partnerships ie. HackLab-To and International Women's Groups
- 29. Engineering for Change http://www.youtube.com/user/engineeringforchange
- 30. IEEE HIC http://www.slideshare.net/gmcknight/ieee-canada-hic-presentation More info on HIC
- 31. IEEE Humanitarian Initiative Committee http://ieeecanadahic.oc.ieee.org/members-dashboard WeCare Solar . Http://www.wecaresolar.org
- 32. Links WECARE Solar. http://www.wecaresolar.com/mission HIC, IEEE Canada Humanitarian Initiatives Committee. http://ieee.ca/hic/ Laura Stachel: Solar Saves Lives, PopTech 2010 presentation. http://www.poptech.org/popcasts/laura_stachel_solar_saves_lives Debora Barnes-Josiah, Cynthia Myntti, Antoine Augustin, The 'three delays' as a framework for examining maternal mortality in Haiti, Social Science & Medicine, Volume 46, Issue 8, 15 April 1998, Pages 981-993. (accessed January, 2011) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VBF-3TT01W3-5/2/0a4382e6f6602a6424bce2c457fbfbcb