AIDG Product Development for the Other 90%

Humanitarian Technology Webinar

Presented by: Peter Haas, AIDG Executive Director

Date:Thursday, 15 December 2011

Time:10:00 a.m. New York, EST (convert to your time)

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Thursday December 15, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EST

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About this Webinar:

Peter Haas is the executive director of AIDG, which helps small and medium sized companies providing infrastructure related products and services for emerging markets. From 2004 to 2010 AIDG ran an R&D division working with universities and other engineering groups on developing new products for the other 90%. Results of this work got featured in Discover, NPR, wired and other news outlets This webinar will delve into product development for the poor, what works, what doesn't, and what are the common pitfalls?"

Peter Haas

Since founding AIDG, an NGO that supports small infrastructure companies in Haiti and Guatemala, in 2005, Peter has become an active voice for poverty issues, speaking at the World Bank, Harvard, MIT and other forums on technology, entrepreneurship and SME finance. His work with AIDG has been featured in Fast Company, Popular Mechanics, NPR and Forbes. He has served as a judge for the EPA’s People, Prosperity and the Planet competition. He was a 2006 Echoing Green Fellow, a 2008 Waldzell Institute Architect of the Future, and a 2010 TED Senior Fellow. His work in Haiti has been highlighted by the Clinton Global Initiative.

Before founding AIDG he worked both in the information technology field and on an organic farm and horse ranch doing infrastructure improvement work. Peter is also principal at Fifty Frogs a small invention firm. He tinkers in water systems, sanitation systems, renewable energy and sustainable building. He received a BA from Yale University in philosophy and psychology in 1998.

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IEEE GHTC 2011

IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) 2011

IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) was hosted on 30 October - 1 November 2011, in Seattle, Washington. The inaugural IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference provided the perfect venue for the crowd involved in humanitarian projects to join their peers. The audience for this conference included technologists, representatives from NGOs, governments, academia, funders and industry. The even was a perfect platform that provided an opportunity to share work, meet others involved in humanitarian technology, create new projects and meet with funders.
The event was driven by technologists who are dedicated in finding ways to use technology to help improve lives in developing countries. The meeting drew about 250 people from around the world.
There were plenary panel discussions on “Humanitarian Technology – Good and Bad,” “What works and what doesn’t,” “IEEE Humanitarian Technology Challenge (HTC) projects,” “The role of professional societies in humanitarian technology,” “Smart grid projects,” and “Entrepreneurial funding.” Also there were parallel sessions of contributed papers on nine more specific topics, as follows:

Health, Medical Technology and Telemedicine.
Disaster Warning and Response
Water Planning, Availability and Quality
Power for Off-Grid Users
Power Infrastructure / Renewable / Sustainable Energy
Connectivity and Communications Technologies for Remote Locations
Educational Technologies
Agricultural Technologies
Humanitarian Challenges and Opportunities

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