Master Graduation – September 2017 In Central America, the migrant crisis has grown more complicated over past years. It is estimated that about 500,000 migrants cross Mexican border every year. Most of the population is escaping…
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Solar Cooling in West-Africa_Emergi
Master Graduation September 2017 – One of the major challenges that low income countries have been facing for decades is to attain food security. The project covered in this report investigates how solar adsorption refrigeration technology…
New paper online: Comparing Performance of Biomass Gasifier Stoves: Influence of a Multi-Context Approach
Our latest paper on CVD and Clean Cooking has been published in the Journal Sustainability and is open-access available online. Comparing Performance of Biomass Gasifier Stoves: Influence of a Multi-Context Approach Abstract Millions of people…
New Paper: Systems-oriented design for complex societal contexts
Form Akademisk – Research Journal of Design and Design Education – published our Journal paper on Systems-oriented design for complex societal contexts. It can be downloaded for free (open access). Introducing systems-oriented design for complex societal…
We won the Delft Global Initiative Seed Fund for Smart Malaria Diagnostics
With our consortium existing of Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) Parasitology and E-health, Delft University of Technology Faculty 3ME & IDE, and University of Ibadan in Nigeria we won one of the DGI Seed Funds for…
New paper: Understanding the Present and the Future Electricity Needs for Off-Grid Rural Electrification
At the Domestic Use of Energy Conference conference in Cape Town we presented two papers on Energy in Low-Resource Settings. One about how Solar Home Systems (SHSs) can fulfil the basic energy needs of the…
Start of our LeNSin course at Stellenbosch in South Africa: SignSupport
The coming two weeks we are running a LeNSin course on Sustainable Product Service Systems and Distributed Information at the Department fo Visual Design Communication of Stellenbosch University, South Africa. The students will be working on…
Our new paper on Context Variation by Design online
Our paper “Influence of context variation on quality of solutions: experiences with gasifier stoves“, which we presented in Stellenbosch last year, is now available online at Procedia Manufacturing. In this paper, we present our Context…
Final Design of Excelscope for smart malaria diagnostics
The work of JMP team Excelsior resulted in the Excelscope. It is a low-cost device that uses the abilities of a smartphone to operate as a smart microscope. It is designed to be locally produced…
New paper: Exploring an Affordable Solar Home System Design
Our paper, Developing for developing nations: Exploring an affordable solar home system design, written in collaboration with our colleagues of EWI is on line! Developing technological solutions for the developing nations is more than simply re-sizing…
Healthcare for Low-Resource Settings Pressure Cooker
Last week we did organise the Delft Global Initiative Health Pressure Cooker. It was a rich creative and multidisciplinary setting with health academics from LUMC, Erasmus, TU Delft and NGOs. Did have the luck to…
JMP-BoP mini symposium: eight cases product-service innovation project in low-resource settings
During the last five months eight JMP teams have been working on new innovative sustainable products and services for low-resources settings in Africa and Asia. On Friday morning 3 February they will share, during a…
Our paper on access to fever diagnostics & design thinking
Our paper titled “Considerations for an Access-Centered Design of the Fever Thermometer in Low-Resource Settings: A Literature Review” is available as open access online in JMIR Human Factors. The paper discusses the current barriers to…
Explorative study after fever & malaria diagnostics in Uganda
In collaboration with Healthy Entrepreneurs one of our Joint Master Project student teams, teams SunShine, is exploring the opportunity to develop an app to support the diagnosis of malaria in rural Uganda. In their blog…
Delft Global Initiative Fellowship with CiTG and Aqysta
Maurits Ertsen, Aqysta and I, just have learned that we won one of the Delf Global Initiative Fellowships. We will be working the coming four years on the following exciting challenge: Developing agriculture and renewable…
Smart Health Diagnostics for Uganda
As part of our exploration after smart health diagnostics for low-resource setting two JMP teams are working on different concepts. Underneath movie explains the concept under development of team Excelsior which they are currently testing…