Khanjan Mehta - prezentacja z V edycji konferencji WUD Silesia. Katowice, 22.11.2014.

1. Human-Centered and
Context-Driven Design for
Developing Countries
Khanjan Mehta
Humanitarian Engineering and Social
Entrepreneurship Program
The Pennsylvania State University

2. How do we engage with developing communities to
co-create sustainable technology ventures that lead to
self-determined improvement in lives and livelihoods?

3. Global Developmental Challenges

4. Base of the Pyramid

5. Tata NanoReverse Innovation: Tata Nano

6. Reverse Innovation: Ushahidi

7. Globalized Interdependent World

8. HESE Academic Program
Certificate in HESE | Minor in Social Eship

9. Design
Affordable Greenhouses

10. Affordable Greenhouses

11. Mango Waste Briquettes

12. $250 Solar Food DryersNutritious Pizza | Food Carts

13. Pre-Primary Healthcare

14. Healthcare Crisis: Focus Africa
Source: www.dowusa.org
Global Health Challenges

15. Current employees
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Eunice Ann Salome Margaret Lillian Ann
Current Mashavu Social Franchisees

16. $10 Pulse Oximeter

17. 5c Test Strip: UTIs and Diabetes

18. $20 3D Printed Prosthetics

19. Design with Communities
Commercialize for Markets

20. 79 Publications; 23 Review; 40+ Prep
Research: Engaged ScholarshipImpact: Scholarship

21. Is it Affordable?

22. High-Tech or Low-Tech?

23. High-Tech or Low-Tech?

24. Is there a Business Model?

25. Individual or Community?

26. Environmentally Benign?How Much Simplification?

27. Is it Socially Acceptable?

28. Will Customers Use It?

29. Does it Meet Every Need?

30. Localize or Standardize?

31. Design
Is it Pretty?

32. Environmentally Benign?Human Labor or Automation?

33. Who will Manufacture it?

34. Who will Manufacture it?

35. Can you Compete?

36. Who Wins; Who Loses?

37. Who Wins; Who Loses?

38. Environmentally Benign?Will it Hurt the Environment?

39. Will it Reach the People?

40. Environmentally Benign?How Will You Educate Customers?

41. Environmentally Benign?How Will You Educate Customers?

42. Can YOU Scale It?

43. Technologically
Appropriate
Environmentally
Benign
Culturally
Acceptable
Economically
Sustainable
Sustainable & Scalable Solution

44. Marketing Distribution Consumption
Production Processing Storage
Food Value Chains
Why Do Ventures Fail?

45. Why Do Ventures Fail?
TIME
REVENUE
(Pilot)
Idea
Prototype
Launch
Reinvention
Obsolescence
Typical Venture Lifecycle
Design Implementation Maturity
120 Projects
500 FVC Actors
25 Experts

46. Why Do Ventures Fail?
45
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7
3
2
1

47. Why Do Ventures Fail?
1
5
6
7
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12 2
3
4

48. Why Do Ventures Fail?
45
6
7
3
2
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49. What are the problems for which we can
design and deliver sustainable solutions?
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50. Drying Bananas
Drying Fish
Design Ensembles and Systems2
Drying Tomatoes
Post-processing
-Verify Moisture
-Package slices
-Label
Solar
Dryer
Pre-processing
- Slice
- Salt bath
- Sulphur bath
  $

51. Design Ensembles and Systems2
Business
Model
Concept of
Operations
Product
Centrifuge?
Labor Needs?

52. Design Ensembles and Systems2

53. Greenhouse Ensemble3

54. Greenhouse Ensemble3

55. Focus on Execution3

56. Design Execution Strategy
TIME
REVENUE
(Pilot)
Idea
Prototype
Launch
Reinvention
Obsolescence
Typical Venture Lifecycle
Design Implementation Maturity
3

57. Design Execution Strategy3

58. Design Execution Strategy3

59. Practical Partnerships4

60. Reframe Research5

64. Curricular Innovation
www.youtube.com/hesepsu
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65. Curricular Innovation6

66. Curricular Innovation6

67. Knowledge
Base
Primary
Research
Facts &
Statistics
Best
Practices
Bollywood
Drama
Custom
Illustrations
Personal
Experiences
Community
Perspectives
Development
Concepts
Research: Engaged ScholarshipKochia Chronicles Mashup6

70. Okello’s Foray into Social Business
Traditions  Social Innovation
Meaning of Community

71. Mr. Jackson’s Secret to Success
The Orphanage Business
Donor Education

72. The Fisherman’s Sweet Fate

73. The Fisherman’s Sweet Fate
Resource-Driven Entrepreneurship
Lean & Inclusive Business Models

74. Mzungu Memories:
A Conversation over Busaa

75. Mzungu Memories:
A Conversation over Busaa

76. Learning Objectives
Get Stuff Done
Building Relationships
Social Innovation
How Things Work
Systems Thinking
Self Determination
Lean Business Models

78. `
Changing The Conversation7

79. Career Pathways7

80. Nature of “Jobs”
1. Professional, Independent and Innovative
2. Most went to Grad school
3. Balance of Fieldwork and Paperwork
4. Meaningful Extra-curricular Activities
5. STEM Education  Developing a Mindset
6. Circuitous Path to Current Position
7. Salary range: 30,000  300,000
8. Step up; Get Stuff Done; Take the Plunge!
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81. Execution; Partnerships;
Story Telling; Conversation

82. ECOSYSTEMS that foster
Multi-Million Smile Enterprises