1. Dr. June Madete Kenyatta University madete.june@ku.ac.ke
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No

2. Universita Di Pisa, Italy.
Kenyatta University
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
The Network
Universita Di Pisa, Italy.
Tartu Ulikool, Estonia
AgileWorks, Tallinn
Uganda Industrial Research Institute, Uganda
Universidad Politecnica De Madrid, Spain

3. How the network began

4. Technological needs
Medical devices need to be available, robust, of high quality and sensitivity
The challenge
to provide devices that are simple to use, to maintain and to repair
to provide for the medical needs of the continent at reasonable cost

5. Devices made for Africa
Devices that:
Do not rely heavily on computerised components that need a steady power source
Are made for the heat and dust of many African settings, nor do they tolerate sudden surges of power.
Have built in memory to store results, printer and USB ports and can be monitored remotely.
Are |In-expensive and more often than not only available from the countries in which they were manufactured
Are made to withstand difficult environments and unreliable power sources.
Devices that do not need specialised servicing and expensive spare parts.

6. How do we then overcome these needs and develop devices in Africa?

8. UBORA: ‘Excellence’ in Swahili
Open source co-design of new solutions to face the current and future healthcare challenges of Europe and Africa BY Exploiting networking, knowledge on rapid prototyping of new ideas and sharing of safety criteria and performance data THROUGH An EU-Africa e-Infrastructure, UBORA

9. An interactive Wikipedia for biomedical engineers
UBORA
Innovative design tool
Needs
Design projects
Project funding
Safety criteria
Prototyping
Marketing

10. Actions First design competition opening in Feb/March
Design school in Kenya in October 2017
Prototyping
Testing
Safety and efficacy assessment of winning deigns on UBORA
Second design competition opening in Feb 2018
Design school in Pisa in October 2018

11. BME Design Schools Build problem solving skills
Encourage interdisciplinary teams (medicine, engineering, business and others)
Stimulate creativity and ingenuity
Encourage entrepreneurial attitudes in youths
Inculcate the desire to seek information
Encourage students to think about the end-user (market)

12. BME Design schools
Enhance the technical and engineering skills of students (engineering training & demonstrations);
Build and stimulate the entrepreneurial competencies (training and hands-on business modelling and planning);
Encourage multidisciplinary and multinational strategic team building; and
Instill the skills needed to promote and market innovative ideas and businesses.

13. Outcome New methods in education Innovation Harmonisation
Healthcare improvements
New economies
Growth

14. Thank you Email: Madete.june@ku.ac.ke abec-africa.org
ubora-biomedical.org