1. Building STI Capacity: A Designer’s Perspective 13 February, 2007
Amy Smith
Senior Lecturer, MIT
Good morning, it’s a pleasure to be here. I’m Amy Smith, and I’m an instructor at MIT, where I teach classes about technologies for international development, in a program called D-Lab. The D stands for many things, development, design, dialogue
dissemination, and I think it’s very important to note that the technologies can’t be isolated from these other things
I’d like to start by talking about two extremely simple technologies.
One is based on this, the other on this…
And between them, they have the potential of saving literally millions of lives every year.
I think that one of the things that is hard for many Americans is to truly understand the context in which more than half the world’s population lives. And so when we shape policy, we have to be cognizant of this context, and create an environment where we are aware of who the real beneficiaries are.
So I’ll start with the context for

2. Innovations in Design
Scale
Evolutionary
Revolutionary

3. Empowering Local Innovation
“Transparent” technology
Access to supply chain
materials
manufacturing
marketing
Financing

4. Co-creation

5. Problem Solution The Design Process Idea Generation
Testing & Evaluation
Concept Evaluation
Fabrication
Detail Design

6. Consultation vs Co-Creation
Community Involvement
Community Involvement
Problem
Solution
Community Involvement
Idea Generation
Testing & Evaluation
Concept Evaluation
Fabrication
Detail Design

7. Chlorination System in Honduras

10. Building STI Capacity: An Educator’s Perspective 13 February, 2007
Amy Smith
Senior Lecturer, MIT
Good morning, it’s a pleasure to be here. I’m Amy Smith, and I’m an instructor at MIT, where I teach classes about technologies for international development, in a program called D-Lab. The D stands for many things, development, design, dialogue
dissemination, and I think it’s very important to note that the technologies can’t be isolated from these other things
I’d like to start by talking about two extremely simple technologies.
One is based on this, the other on this…
And between them, they have the potential of saving literally millions of lives every year.
I think that one of the things that is hard for many Americans is to truly understand the context in which more than half the world’s population lives. And so when we shape policy, we have to be cognizant of this context, and create an environment where we are aware of who the real beneficiaries are.
So I’ll start with the context for

12. D-Lab Structure SP.721 Fall class (development)
January field trip (dialogue, discussion, demonstration)
SP.722 Spring studio (design)
SP.723 Spring seminar (dissemination)
Summer field trip (delivery, deployment)
SP.724 Continuing projects (dedication)

13. January 2006: Ghana

14. January 2006: D-Lab China India Ghana Zambia Brazil Lesotho Projects:
-charcoal
-drip irrigation
-water quality testing
-peanut sheller
-solar water disinfection
-improved nutrition
-entrepreneurship class
-IT tools
Projects:
-biogas
-community radio
-water quality testing
-e-commerce
-improved cookstoves
Projects:
-solar snow melter
-drip irrigation
-composting toilets
-water quality testing
-solar water disinfection
China
India
Projects:
-water quality testing
-cassava grating
-community computer
center
-building technology
-evaporative cooling
-charcoal
Ghana
Zambia
Projects:
-solar lighting
-peanut sheller
-after school programs
-library initiative
-crop protection
-water testing
-water safety training
Brazil
Projects:
-water testing
-grain milling
-parabolic solar trough
-community wireless link
Lesotho

15. Engineering Change, Changing Engineering
Expand boundaries of traditional engineering examples
Real projects, real partners
Opportunities for follow-up
Opportunities for employment