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• Coming in June

  Sustainable Solutions for Emerging Markets: Technology, Innovation & Livelihoods

  

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  Presented by: Radha Basu, Director, Frugal Innovation Lab, Santa Clara University

  Date: 5 June 2013

  Time: 11:00 a.m. New York, EST (convert to your time)

  About this Webinar:

  Developing adaptable, accessible, appropriate, and affordable products, technologies, and solutions for emerging markets is rapidly becoming a critical skill for professionals in all disciplines. Engineers, entrepreneurs, scientists, and policy-makers alike are facing a changing global landscape in which the GDP of the developing world will be surpassing that of the developed world (estimated 2016 - Economist). 76% of the world's 6 billion mobile phones are geographically in emerging markets (World Bank), and reverse innovation is increasingly becoming a normalized process for developing solutions for the western world.  

  Global trends demand sustainable solutions. In E4C’s June 5th webinar, Radha Basu will discuss from her uniquely credentialed perspective about how technology solutions can be fused with self-sustaining models for large, scalable, positive impact. Whether it is in mobile money, agriculture, livelihood development, medical devices, clean water, or sustainable energy, participants will discover that through a well-informed design innovation process coupled with mindful core competencies, sustainable solutions for emerging markets can be successfully pursued.

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  Radha Basu has had significant impact on the Indian software industry as well as the development of women in technology. In the mid-1980s, she set up HP's software center in Bangalore and the HP-TCS joint venture in Chennai. Radha has blazed a trail for other women executives, while also mentoring young girls in science and woman professionals in the technology industry.

  
  

  From July 1999 to May 2006, Radha held the position of Chairman & CEO of Nasdaq-listed company SupportSoft, leading it through its initial and secondary public offerings and building it into a worldwide market leader in support automation software. After retiring as CEO of SupportSoft, Radha and her husband Dipak created a global social enterprise, the Anudip Foundation. The goal of Anudip is to generate livelihoods for the unemployed and marginalized poor of India by developing entrepreneurs and empowering them with access to markets and capital. Today, Radha is both the Director of the Frugal Innovation Lab at Santa Clara University's School of Engineering, as well as the CEO of iMerit, a for-profit social enterprise branched from Anudip.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Engineering High-Performance, Low-Cost Technologies to Improve Health Care in Low-Resource Communities

  
  

  
  

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  Presented by: Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Stanley C. Moore Professor and Chair of Bioengineering, Rice University

  Date: 27 June 2013

  Time: 11:00 a.m. New York, EST (convert to your time)

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  Rebecca Richards-Kortum is the Stanley C. Moore Professor and chair of Bioengineering at Rice University.  Previously, she held the Cockrell Family Chair in Engineering #10 and was a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where she was also a Distinguished Teaching Professor.  After receiving a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1985, she continued her graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she received an MS in Physics in 1987 and a PhD in Medical Physics in 1990.  She joined the faculty at Rice University in 2005 and served as Chair of Bioengineering from 2005-2008. In 2006, she created Beyond Traditional Borders (BTB) at Rice, an undergraduate education initiative in global health technologies. BTB has been institutionalized as an undergraduate minor that has involved more than 10 percent of Rice’s student body in its classes since its inception.  BTB engages students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds in designing solutions to complex real-world global health challenges faced by health care providers working in developing countries. BTB has been recognized with the Science Prize for Inquiry Based Instruction and the National Academy of Engineering’s Prize for Real World Education. In 2007, Richards-Kortum founded Rice 360: Institute for Global Health Technologies, a university-wide institute to promote the design and dissemination of appropriate health technologies, with the goal of improving health and reducing poverty.

  
  

  Dr. Richards-Kortum is a pioneer in appropriate health technology research and education. Her research focuses on the development of low-cost, high-performance technologies to promote early disease detection at the point-of-care, with a focus on cancer, precancer, and infectious disease.  The optical imaging tools developed in her lab are based on quantitative imaging methods and integrate advances in nanotechnology and molecular imaging with microfabrication technologies to provide rapid and robust point-of-care diagnosis. The work has the potential to not only to improve health care in resource-poor settings, but also to decrease health care costs associated with technology adoption in the United States. Dr. Richards-Kortum’s research has led to the development of 26 patents and more than 220 refereed research papers, 11 book chapters, and the textbook Biomedical Engineering for Global Health. 

  
  

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  Presented by: Jack Sim, Founder, World Toilet Organization

  Date: 17 July 2013

  Time: 11:00 a.m. New York, EST (convert to your time)

  

  Presented by: Jackie Stenson, Co-founder, Essmart Global

  Date: 10 September 2013

  Time: 11:00 a.m. New York, EST (convert to your time)