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2012 IEEE Global Humanitarian
Technology Conference
Technology for the Benefit of Humanity
October 21 - 24, 2012
Renaissance Seattle Hotel
Seattle, Washington USA
Table of Contents
Welcome Message from Conference Chair and Vice-Chair................................ 3
Welcome Message from Technical Program Co-Chairs...................................... 4
Conference Steering Committee .......................................................................... 5
Technical Paper Reviewers.................................................................................. 6
Students Competition Judges............................................................................... 7
Hoover Medal Award Ceremony......................................................................... 8
Sponsors, Patrons, and Exhibitors...................................................................... 11
Live Event Blogs ............................................................................................... 15
Tutorials............................................................................................................. 16
Welcome Reception........................................................................................... 26
GOLD (Graduates Of the Last Decade) Session................................................ 26
Monday Opening Plenary .................................................................................. 28
Monday Dinner Reception................................................................................. 28
Tuesday Plenary................................................................................................. 31
Wednesday Plenary............................................................................................ 33
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Closing Plenary.................................................................................................. 33
Panel Sessions.................................................................................................... 36
Water and Agriculture................................................................................... 37
US Army Corps of Engineers........................................................................ 42
Societal Impacts and Benefits ....................................................................... 45
Publishing Outlets for Social Entrepreneurship ............................................ 49
Social Venture Entrepreneurial ..................................................................... 53
What Works, What Doesn’t .......................................................................... 55
Designing for Sustainability.......................................................................... 57
Connectivity and Communication................................................................. 61
Business for the Bottom of the Pyramid: Dream or Reality? ........................ 64
Transitioning from the For-Profit to the Non-Profit World .......................... 66
MIT International Development Design Summit (IDDS)............................. 69
EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service).................................. 71
X-Tracks ............................................................................................................ 73
Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) Working Group................................ 73
Demonstration – TNO Connect.Teaching..................................................... 73
Robotics and Automation for Humanitarian Activities................................. 74
Technical Paper Sessions (Monday) .................................................................. 76
Energy Session A .......................................................................................... 77
Disaster ......................................................................................................... 78
Humanitarian Challenges and Opportunities ................................................ 79
Water and Agriculture................................................................................... 80
ISCRAM Special Papers............................................................................... 81
Technical Paper Sessions (Tuesday).................................................................. 82
Energy Session B .......................................................................................... 83
Connectivity and Communication................................................................. 84
Energy Session C .......................................................................................... 85
Student Posters Competition ......................................................................... 86
Humanitarian Applications ........................................................................... 87
Student Papers Competition.......................................................................... 88
Technical Paper Sessions (Wednesday)............................................................. 89
Energy Session D .......................................................................................... 90
Health Session A........................................................................................... 91
Education Session A ..................................................................................... 92
Energy Session E .......................................................................................... 93
Health Session B ........................................................................................... 94
Education Session B...................................................................................... 95
Interviews .......................................................................................................... 96
Conference Floor Plan ....................................................................................... 97
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Welcome Message from
Conference Chair and Vice-Chair
Paul Kostek
Chair 2012 GHTC
p.kostek@ieee.org
It’s my pleasure to welcome you to the 2 nd IEEE
Global Humanitarian Technology Conference.
Welcome back to those of you who were with us last
year, we’re glad to have you with us. For those joining
us for the first time I think you’ll find this to be a rewarding 3 days. At
this event we bring together engineers, scientists, and other technical
people with attendees from NGO’s, funders, academe, industry and
government. Over the next few days you’ll have the opportunity to learn
about projects, new technologies, share your work with other attendees
and find new project partners. We’ve added an extra day to the
program, increasing the time for sharing and networking. This year we’ll
also be including student paper and poster competitions. And we are
honored to host the presentation of the Hoover Award to Mr. N. Murthy.
Thanks again for joining us, enjoy the Conference and Seattle.
Keith Moore
Vice-Chair 2012 GHTC
Keith.moore@ieee.org
Hello and welcome to the 2nd Anniversary of the
IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference,
GHTC 2012! We are looking forward to this second
year of the conference with a full agenda of
presentations, speakers, and exhibitors that will stir the humanitarian
community and provide great opportunities for discourse and cooperation
within your areas of effort. The conference staff and volunteers wish
you a wonderful and productive time in Seattle!"
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Welcome Message from
Technical Program Co-Chairs
Welcome from the Technical Program Committee
The Technical Program Committee welcomes you to Seattle and to the 2012
IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference. We have worked hard to
develop a truly international program featuring keynote speakers, panelists,
papers and posters from across the spectrum of humanitarian engineering and
technology.
This year we received over one hundred full paper submissions from authors
affiliated with NGOs, corporations, and universities. Over sixty reviewers
participated in the peer-review process. The final program contains sessions
focused on health; energy; education; water and agriculture; disaster response
and preparation; communication and connectivity; and other specialized topics.
We hope that you find the conference beneficial to you and your organization’s
mission in the humanitarian technology space. Finally, we encourage you to
become involved in next year’s conference. Please consider submitting a paper,
serving as a reviewer or becoming involved in the organizing committee.
Dr. Mark Henderson
Arizona State University
Technical Program Co-Chairs
Dr. Henry Louie
Seattle University
program.ghtc@ieee.org
Dr. Ted Weiler
University of
Washington

Conference Chair: Paul Kostek
Conference Vice-Chair: Keith Moore
Conference Steering Committee
Technical Program Co-Chair: Dr. Ted Weiler
Technical Program Co-Chair: Dr. Henry Louie
Technical Program Co-Chair: Dr. Mark Henderson
Tutorials Co-Chair: Jim Miller
Tutorials Co-Chair: Shrikant Palkar
Registration Chair: Richard Wilkins
Publicity Chair: Gim Soon Wan
Publication Chair: Joe Decuir
Finance Chair: Larry Hamerman
Local Arrangement Chair: Dave Butcher
Webmaster and Public Relation: Inessa Pearce
Sponsorship: Paul Kostek
Exhibition: Colonel Mason
Student Paper Contest: Elizabeth Johnston
Student Poster Contest: Ramesh Nair
Young Professional Projects: Don McPhail
Advisory Committee: Ed Perkins
Michael Andrews
Dr. Lewis Terman
Dr. Jay Pearlman
Dr. Tony Marjoram
Publicity Committee: Verona Wong
Rob Vice
Uri Moskowicz
Nicole Skarake
GHTC-South Asia Satellite Conference: Satish Babu
Wah Garris
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Azmath Ali
Ananth Aravamudan
Akm Azad
Narendra Babu
Thomas Baginski
Guru Balasubramanian
Vijayalakshmi Balasubramanian
Dhrubes Biswas
Linda Branagan
Randy Britto
Sunil Chowdhary
Gary Conkol
Jon Cummings
Kristen Destigter
Keyur Dhaky
Roger Dzwonczyk
Fatma El-Mehelmy
Mark Fleury
Song Gao
Dan Harrison
Mark Henderson
Iem Heng
Justin Henriques
Hui-Mei Hsu
Jenny Hu
Assad Iqbal
Serhan Iskiman
Headley Jacobus
Mark Jeunnette
Walter Karlen
Daniel Koch
DeerghaRao Korrai
Madiha Kotb
Rajashekhar L.
Luni Libes
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Technical Paper Reviewers
Henry Louie
Paul Lusina
Narayana Mandaleeka
Micki Marshall
Sasi Meethal
Rajesh Megalingam
Khanjan Mehta
Gita Mody
S.C. Mok
Sabatini Monatesti
Anand Narayan
Venkat Natarajan
Catherine Nelson
Bill Nott
Julian O'shea
Yaser Qudaih
Mahima Rathore
Chris Rhia
Guiseppe Ruello
Sreevas Sahasranamam
Kevin Schneider
Eric Seibel
Bulbul Sen
Ikbal Sencan
Kendra Sharp
Awatef Shehabeldeen
Bradley Striebig
Aynampudi Subbarao
Lew Terman
M. Rita Thissen
Soon Wan
Ted Weiler
David Wright
Ali Zalzala
Danielle Zurovcik

Students Competition Judges
Student Posters Competition (Poster Displays at 3 rd Floor):
Preliminary Round Judges
Sunil Kumar Chowdhary
Roger Dzwonczyk
Dan Harrison
Iem Heng
Pramod Kumar
Rajesh Kannan Megalingam
S C Mok
Catherine Nelson
Final Round Judges
�� Dr Lewis Terman
�� Rob Vice
�� Amarnath Raja
Student Papers Competition Judges:
�� Ruben Barrera-Michel
�� Jeffrey Handal
�� Augusto Herrera
�� Elizabeth Johnston
�� Mikey McLaughlin
S L Rajasekha
Dr A S Rao
Mahima Rathore
Chris Riha
Guiseppe Ruello
Dr Lewis Terman
Ali Zalzalar
�� Mohamed Osman
�� Joshua Shank
�� Ljiljana Trajkovic
�� Jan Verveckken
�� Aisha Yousuf
Winners award presentation at Closing Plenary:
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
4:00pm – 5:30pm
Madison Ballroom, 2nd Floor
Awards will be presented by Fred Mintzer, 2012 Vice President, IEEE
Technical Activities.
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Hoover Medal Award Ceremony
Tuesday, October 22, 2012
6:30pm – 9:00pm
Columbia Tower Club
701 Fifth Avenue
Columbia Center 76 th Floor
Seattle, WA 98104

2012 HOOVER MEDAL RECIPIENT
N.R. NARAYANA MURTHY
“For establishing a foundation that forges outstanding improvements in
healthcare, social rehabilitation, rural uplift and education following his
formation of Infosys, an innovative company that provides business
consulting, technology, and engineering services in over 30 countries.”
The Hoover Medal was established in 1929 to recognize great, unselfish, nontechnical
services by engineers to humanity. This medal commemorates the
civic and humanitarian achievements of engineers. It is conferred upon an
engineer whose professional achievements and personal endeavors have
advanced the well-being of humankind.
The 2012 Hoover Medal recipient is N.R. Narayana Murthy,
an engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist who has used
his business success to “give back” to his native India. One
of the world’s most admired business leaders, Murthy
founded Infosys in 1981. The Global Delivery Model
pioneered and designed by Murthy has become the
cornerstone of India’s success in information technology
outsourcing. Infosys was the first listed Indian IT services
company to reach revenues of 1 billion mark, but more
important than the money, Murthy has made is what the success of Infosys has
meant to India as a country. Infosys incorporates a strong values system,
promotes fairness to its employees and emphasizes merit, innovation and
excellence across its operations. Through Infosys, Murthy has instilled
throughout India the hope that even people from humble backgrounds can create
a successful company by applying vision, passion and hard work.
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Using his own wealth and through the Infosys Foundation and other company
programs, Murthy has created opportunity for India’s rural areas and
underprivileged population. The Infosys Foundation was established in 1996 to
improve healthcare, social rehabilitation, education, art and culture in India.
Among the Foundation’s many notable accomplishments, it has set up a hospital
that serves poor patients, has provided medicine to elderly patients suffering
from cancer and other diseases and has distributed funding to ensure that
underprivileged patients can continue to receive needed treatment. The
Foundation has provided occupational training for destitute women and has
provided relief efforts for those affected by natural disasters. Other important
contributions include donating books, building libraries and refurbishing school
facilities as part of one of the largest rural education programs in India.
The Infosys Science Foundation was created in 2009 to promote science
research in India. Murthy believes such research is needed to address the
country’s developmental problems. The Infosys Science Award will be awarded
to honor outstanding researchers who will make a difference to India’s future.
Other examples of Murthy’s commitment to engineering excellence include
training programs for teachers throughout India, Infosys Fellowships that fund
doctorate programs at many Indian universities and exposing students to realworld
projects at Infosys.
Among his many achievements, “The Economist” ranked
Murthy among the 10 most-admired global business leaders
in 2005, and he topped the “The Economic Times” list of
India’s most powerful CEOs for three consecutive years
(2004 to 2006). His many awards include CNBC Asia
Pacific Lifetime Achievement Award (2011), IEEE
Honorary Membership (2010), the Padma Vibhushan from
the government of India (2008), the Legion d’honneur from
the government of France (2008), Honorary Commander of
the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire from the Queen of England
(2007). He received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the
University of Mysore, India, and master of technology from the Indian Institute
of Technology, Kanpur. Murthy is currently the chairman emeritus at Infosys
Limited, Bangalore, India.
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Sponsors, Patrons, and Exhibitors
Organized and Sponsored by
IEEE Region 6
IEEE Seattle Section
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Proud Patrons
Platinum Patrons
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
IEEE Foundation
IEEE Life Members Committee
IEEE AdHoc Committee on Humanitarian Activities
Student Competition Patron
IEEE Technical Activities Board

Support of 2012 GHTC come
from you and …..
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Exhibitors
Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc
www.esri.com
380 New York Street
Redlands, CA 92373-8100
(909) 793-2853
The APP Collective
www.earthquakebuddy.com
72 Grace Avenue
Frenchs Forest, NSW 2086
AUSTRALIA
http://brl.ee.washington.edu
Biorobotics Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
Box 352500
Seattle, WA 98195-2500
(206) 221-5161
Windstream Power LLC
www.windstreampower.com
445 Long Point Road
N. Ferrisburg, VT 05473-7089
(802) 425-3435
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The world’s largest professional association
dedicated to advancing technological innovation and
excellence for the benefit of humanity.
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Live Event Blogs
http://ieeeghtc.wordpress.com
Bloggers
Verona Wong (Lead)
Miho Kitagawa
Rob Vice
Peijung Tsai
Gigi Lau
Willow Brugh
Soon Wan
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Tutorials
Sunday, October 21, 2012
South and East Room, 3 rd Floor
12:00pm - 3:15pm
1A. Village energy systems: Understanding the problem and comparing
rural energy options
South Room, 2 nd Floor
�� Nathan Johnson, HOMER Energy
1B. Innovation process for the Base of the Pyramid
East Room, 2 nd Floor
�� Jenny de Boer, TNO
�� Marc van den Homberg, TNO
3:30pm - 6:45pm
2A. Building affordable wireless networks for research, education and
humanitarian use
South Room, 2 nd Floor
�� Marco Zennaro and Ermanno Pietrosemoli, International Center for
Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
�� Sebastian Buettrich and Dale Smith, Network Startup Resource
Center (NSRC)
�� Emmanuel Togo, University of Ghana-Legon
2B. (ICT) Business models for the Base of the Pyramid
East Room, 2 nd Floor
�� Adrian Pais, TNO
�� Pieter Verhagen, TNO

Tutorial #1A:
Sunday, October 20, 2012 (12:00pm – 3:15pm)
South Room, 2 nd Floor
Village energy systems: Understanding the problem and
comparing rural energy options
�� Nathan Johnson, HOMER Energy
Abstract:
Unmet energy needs inhibit the well-being and economic development of over
three billion people living in rural villages. Often centered on the household,
limited access to energy and energy technologies is common for cooking,
lighting, heating, transportation, and telecommunication. Many energy options
have been proposed and implemented. Yet today the pursuit of low-cost and
sustainable energy solutions for the rural poor remains a pressing issue.
This tutorial will introduce participants to systems-based thinking for
understanding village energy needs and demonstrate tools for comparing rural
energy options. Before implementing improved cooking stoves, building a
micro-hydro plant, or installing solar panels, a development program must
obtain data and answer questions during the initial phases of engineering design
to identify options with the greatest potential impact to a village. Dr. Nathan
Johnson offers advice and examples from his two years spent living and working
in eight foreign countries. Methods will be introduced for comparing cooking
technologies and a demo will be given of the HOMER Energy software used for
comparing power options in off-grid and grid-connected projects. He will also
describe the process for obtaining and maintaining the HOMER software.
This tutorial will introduce participants to engineering decision tools that should
be known by anyone doing research or having interaction with heat projects and
power projects in isolated villages. This tutorial will explain why HOMER
should be in the kit of tools for anyone doing remote area research and having
interaction with isolated villages.
Methods will be introduced for comparing cooking technologies and a demo
will be given of the HOMER Energy software used for comparing power
options in off-grid and grid-connected projects.
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Biography:
Nathan Johnson’s work describes energy flow in society and
how it is influenced by dynamic human, natural, and
technical systems. This integrated perspective is applied in
the development of tools for assessing, modeling, designing,
and controlling micro-grid power systems and heat systems.
Linking concept to construction, his work provides new
depth to understanding complex energy system dynamics.
This understanding is used in the design of reliable and
sustainable energy systems around the world. Nathan has
spent two years spent living and working in eight foreign countries.
Nathan is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Nation Science Foundation
(NSF) and the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). His
research in micro-grid power system modeling and decision making is being
completed at HOMER Energy LLC. He received his bachelors in Mechanical
Engineering, master’s in Mechanical Engineering, master’s in International
Development, and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University.
Tutorial #1B:
Sunday, October 20, 2012 (12:00pm – 3:15pm)
East Room, 2 nd Floor
Innovation Process for the Base of the Pyramid
�� Jenny de Boer, TNO
�� Marc van den Homberg, TNO
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek or
TNO (Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research) is a nonprofit
organization of approximately 5,400 employees in the Netherlands that focuses
on applied science. TNO, http://www.tno.nl/, is a knowledge organization for
companies, government bodies and public organizations.
TNO was established by law in 1932 to support companies and governments
with innovative, practicable knowledge. As a statutory organization, TNO has
an independent position that allows it to give objective, scientifically founded
judgments. It is similar to the German Fraunhofer Society and, to a lesser
degree, CSIRO in Australia. It is headquartered in Delft; other locations include:
The Hague, Rijswijk, Leiden, Groningen, Apeldoorn, Helmond, Hoofddorp,
Soesterberg, Utrecht, Den Helder, Zeist, Enschede and Eindhov.
“Innovation4Development”, is a corporate program within TNO with the
mission to facilitates pro-poor innovations, using a demand-driven, marketbased
research approach, in co-creation with stakeholders.”
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Abstract:
Base-of-the-Pyramid (BoP) innovation projects aim to design, produce and
market products and services for large and relatively poor market segments in
developing countries, e.g. for people who have less than a few dollars to spend
per day. BoP projects are “normal” innovation projects in that they have goals,
deliverables, budgets and timelines. In addition, many BoP projects are
“special” in that they combine commercial entrepreneurship and commercial
goals with social entrepreneurship and social goals. In other words, a BoP
innovation project needs to be organized and managed as any “normal”
innovation project and in addition it requires “extra” attention for several
specific elements that are related to this combination of commercial and social
perspectives.
In this tutorial Jenny and Mark focus on these “extra” aspects of innovation in a
BoP context, such as co-creation, social embeddedness, capability development
and multi-disciplinary approach. We illustrate the theory on these aspects with a
hands-on process that can be implemented in the field and with two case studies
conducted by TNO.
Goal of the tutorial is to enable participants to integrate the innovation process
for the BoP in the daily practice of their humanitarian technology projects.
Biographies:
Jenny de Boer has been working as a Design Consultant
for TNO since April 2007. In her professional work she
focuses on conceptualizing and improving innovative
products and services for various (groups of) end-users.
After her internship in Mumbai, India, she became
fascinated with developing products and services for the
BoP target group. She feels it is a tremendous challenge to
design and develop products and services that fit user needs,
as well as create market value to ensure sustainable solution that can improve
people’s lives. Although she has worked on other continents, India is her
favorite country to go back to.
Her focus and role in projects is on creating ownership by end-users through
participatory methods in the innovation process. She uses participatory design
techniques from her education as an industrial designer at the University of
Technology in Delft to constantly translate (latent) needs into possible service or
product concepts that fit user needs. Last year Jenny was awarded a scholarship
as female alumni of the TU Delft. She will spend her scholarship in extending
her knowledge in the area of Cultural Anthropology.
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Marc van den Homberg is the co-founder and leader of the
ICT4D market team at TNO. Marc initiates and sets up
projects in two domains: ICT in post-conflict reconstruction
and disaster recovery, and inclusive innovation using ICT.
In both domains Marc aims at market- and communitybased
pro-poor innovations to reach social (poverty
reduction) and economic impact (enhanced
entrepreneurship). Marc presents regularly for example on
inclusive innovation using ICT in Vietnam, innovative
business models for mobile services addressing the BoP or voice-based
community-centric mobile services for social development.
In relation to his duties at TNO, Marc is a reserve officer of the Integrated
Development of Entrepreneurial Activities network in the civil-military battalion
that executes economic reconstruction tasks in fragile states, for example by the
UN/ILO Start and Improve Your Business program. Here his focus is on how
entrepreneurship in (post)-conflict areas can be stimulated in close cooperation
with NGOs and IOs.
Marc holds an MBA degree from Rotterdam School of Management (where he
wrote his thesis on the fuzzy front end of new product development and
commercialization processes) and a Ph.D. in physics from Delft University of
Technology.
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Tutorial #2A:
Sunday, October 20, 2012 (3:30pm – 6:45pm)
South Room, 2 nd Floor
Building Affordable Wireless Networks for Research,
Education and Humanitarian Use
�� Marco Zennaro and Ermanno Pietrosemoli, International Center for
Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
�� Sebastian Buettrich and Dale Smith, Network Startup Resource Center
(NSRC)
�� Emmanuel Togo, University of Ghana-Legon
Abstract:
CTP and NSRC personnel teach numerous courses around the world each year
to spread knowledge and best practices about wireless networking – and assist
organizations with installing long distance backbone links and integration of
wireless into the campus (or village) LAN.
This tutorial focuses on building wireless networks in universities, schools,
villages, and other communities of interest to provide Internet access using
wireless network technologies, with an emphasis on affordability and scalability.
Based on field experiences working in dozens of programs around the world to
build wireless infrastructure and train network developers, the program will
outline strategies and techniques for planning, deploying and managing wireless
networks for research, education and humanitarian use. The tutorial highlights
systems-based design, emphasizing participatory development to optimize the
best outcome for the local user community.
The audience for this tutorial is network developers, service providers,
university system administrators, and program managers with NGOs seeking to
build wireless networks.
Biographies:
�� Marco Zennaro holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical
Engineering from Universita di Trieste and a Ph.D. from
the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm,
Sweden. As a researcher in the International Centre for
Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, he has focused on
the use of ICT for development, particularly for
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and scientific
applications.
He is one of the authors of three books: Wireless Networking in the
Developing World, Science Dissemination using Open Access, and Mobile
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Science and Learning. Marco has taught courses about wireless technologies
for many years in numerous countries and is the main editor of the WSN
blog at http://www.wsnblog.com/.
�� Ermanno Pietrosemoli is currently a researcher at the
Telecommunications/ICT for Development Lab of the
International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste,
Italy, and president of Fundación Escuela
Latinoamericana de Redes “EsLaRed”, a non-profit
organization that promotes ICT in Latin America
through training and development projects, with funding
and logistic support from NSRC (Network Startup
Resource Center).
After 30 years of teaching Telecommunications at Universidad de los Andes
in Venezuela, Ermanno has focused on the planning and deployment of
wireless data communication networks with low-cost technology in
Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Italy, Lesotho, Malawi, Mexico, Morocco,
Nicaragua, Peru, Trinidad, Spain, U.S.A. and Venezuela. He has presented in
many conferences and published several papers related to wireless data
communication and is co-author and technical reviewer of the book,
“Wireless Networking for the Developing World” – which is freely available
from http://wndw.net/.
�� Sebastian Buettrich works with (low-cost) wireless
technology, open source software and solar energy to
build networks, systems, skills and capacity — as a
manager, developer, architect, consultant and teacher.
This work is focused on (but not limited to) developing
countries and communities, especially in Asia and
Africa. One current focus is to help develop campus
networks for research and education, with emphasis on
global integration and sustainability.
His current affiliations are:
http://www.itu.dk – the IT University of Copenhagen, where he runs the
Research Lab http://www.nsrc.org – the Network Startup Resource Center
http://wire.less.dk – NGO and company co-founded with Tomas Krag
http://wirelessU.org – a group of dedicated professionals working towards a
world-wide, people-centered, inclusive Information Society http://wndw.net/
– Co-author of the Wireless Networking in the Developing World book.
Sebastian holds a Ph.D. in quantum physics from the Technical University of
Berlin in Germany, with a focus on optics, radio spectroscopy, photovoltaic
systems and scientific programming. He loves and plays music, is fascinated
and engaged with text, language and poetry in many forms.
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�� Dale Smith is the International Networking Coordinator
at the University of Oregon’s Network Startup Resource
Center. Dale is a Principal Investigator for the U.S.
National Science Foundation working to develop
international research network connections, and he also
chairs the Emerging NREN group for Internet2, a
national research and education network in the USA.
Prior to working as the International Networking
Coordinator, Dale was the Director of Networking and
Telecommunications Services at the University of Oregon where he worked
for over 30 years to develop networking facilities for the University of
Oregon and the Pacific Northwest region.
He has authored a number of papers on leveraging networking technology
and teaches throughout Africa and Asia about designing networks to support
research and education.
�� Emmanuel Togo is from Abutiakope-Keta, Ghana, and
earned his first degree in Computer Science and Physics
from University of Ghana in 1999. He currently works as
the Head of the Networking Unit of the University of
Ghana’s Computing Systems (UGCS). He is also a
founding member of the Ghanaian Academic and
Research Network’s (GARNET) technical team working
to build the national research and education network in
Ghana. Emmanuel’s current focus is designing and
deploying an affordable, large-scale campus-wide WiFi network in Ghana.
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Tutorial #2B:
Sunday, October 20, 2012 (3:30pm – 6:45pm)
East Room, 2 nd Floor
(ICT) Business models for the Base of the Pyramid
�� Adrian Pais, TNO
�� Pieter Verhagen, TNO
Abstract:
In this tutorial we focus on designing successful business models for BoP (ICT)
projects. ICT offers a tremendous opportunity to underserved communities by
providing access to essential services, such as education, healthcare, agroservices
and financial services. However, many ICT services that are being
designed and piloted for the BoP fail to reach commercial scale. One of the
major factors of this “pilotitis” is a lack of sufficient focus on finding and finetuning
a viable business model early-on in the project. In a highly interactive
workshop, we provide theory and practical guidelines on business model
thinking, and illustrate this with many practical examples and best practices
from the field. Further, we will put theory to practice in a hands-on workshop
session where several practical business models are created, discussed and
developed.
The goal is to enable participants to design viable business models in the daily
practice of their social innovation projects, by providing practical tools as well
as best practices and inspirational examples. This will help them as they seek
long-term sustainability and scalability of solutions they develop.
Biographies: Adrian Pais is a project leader and consultant working for
TNO in Delft, Netherlands. In TNO’s ICT for development
(ICT4D) program he provides technical and business
consultancy services towards the goal of extending ICT
access to the underprivileged. He is presently active in
Conn@ct.Now, a consortium involving TNO, War Child,
Free Press Unlimited, Child Helpline International, and
other NGOs, working towards the goal of empowering
children affected by war via innovative uses of technology.
In this work Adrian provides consultancy advice and runs practical workshops
on innovation. Adrian has previously volunteered for LinkNet (Macha Works), a
grassroots organization that brings Internet access to rural areas of Zambia,
recently featured in the BBC Click program and The Guardian newspaper.
Adrian is also an active IEEE volunteer. Since 2010, he has been serving as a
Director on the IEEE Foundation (the philanthropic arm of the IEEE) and is Past
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Chair of IEEE Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD), the young professionals’
arm of the IEEE comprising approximately 50,000 members worldwide. His
most recent project was the development of the IEEE humanitarian technology
webinar series, which attracts on average 100 participants worldwide per
webinar. He established the IEEE Zambia Section in 2008 as a vehicle to inspire
progress in the country by engaging technical professionals to work toward the
vision of the IEEE.
Adrian has a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) and PhD from The University of
Auckland in New Zealand. Additionally he successfully completed the INSEAD
Social Entrepreneurship executive program in 2009.
Pieter Verhagen is a business consultant at TNO
(www.tno.nl), specializing in business modeling and
business analysis for innovations for low-income
customers. He has a track record in business modeling for
the telecom, energy and mobility sector in the Netherlands
and EU. Since 2010, he focuses his efforts on
“Innovation4Development”, a corporate program within
TNO with the mission to facilitates pro-poor innovations,
using a demand-driven, market-based research approach, in
co-creation with stakeholders.
Pieter Verhagen manages both product development and R&D projects in
energy, food/agro and ICT innovations in Africa and Asia, with a focus on
sustainable business models for (technical) innovations. In terms of product
development, he is currently involved in developing an innovative electricity
generator for biogas households in Rwanda and Bangladesh, an improved solar
cooker in Madagascar, and a novel process to create food ingredients from the
waste of the Ghanaian pineapple industry. Pieter’s research efforts are focused
in the FP7 Voices project, in which sustainable voice based ICT services for the
Sahel region are developed (www.mvoices.eu).
Pieter holds a MScBA in Innovation Management with Rotterdam School of
Management in the Netherlands and has completed a Master’s program in
Marketing Management at Umea University in Sweden. Pieter works part time
for the BoP Innovation Center (www.bopinc.org), setting up a funding facility
for inclusive innovation projects.
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Welcome Reception
Sunday, October 21, 2012
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Madison Ballroom, 2 nd Floor
GOLD (Graduates Of the Last Decade)
Session
Sunday, October 21, 2012
7:30pm – 9:30pm
Visions Lounge at 28th Floor
- Keynote Speaker:
Byron Reese, Chief Innovation Officer, Demand Media
- Social and Networking with Ice Cream

GOLD Session
Sunday, October 21, 2012
7:30pm to 9:30pm
Visions Lounge, 28 th Floor
Big Data and the Coming Golden Age of Humanity
Byron Reese, Chief Innovation Officer, Demand Media
We are entering an age where more data will be collected every minute than has
been collected in the whole of human history. "Today we are connecting people
digitally, and we are also beginning to connect the data their lives generate as
well. The universe is full of non-obvious causal relationships invisible to both
the eye and intuition. For example, why do Academy Award winners live longer
than the other nominees, and first basemen outlive other players on the team?
Why do children in schools with fluorescent lighting get fewer cavities than
those in incandescent-lit schools? How might a sophisticated computational
answer engine of the future help us find these relationships and thereby cure
disease, end poverty, and usher in a new golden age for humanity? Moore's Law,
big data, and cheap sensors will bring about this great new future. Now, why
does this matter to companies today? Because it is actionable today. We start by
looking at new kinds of data in behavioral targeting, how we can roll in new
data sources such as real-time weather, concepts trending in Twitter, etc. In
other words, think of accessible data sources that might not have traditionally
been used before. Everything is connected to everything else in the world of
information, we just have to figure out the relationships.
Byron Reese
Chief Innovation Officer, Demand Media
Byron Reese employs his profound understanding of
technical data to illuminate how the technology of today can
solve many global challenges. Byron started his first
business as an undergraduate at Rice University. He later
founded and sold two companies: Hot Data, ultimately to
Pitney Bowes; and PageWise, the parent company of
ExpertVillage.com, to Demand Media. He currently serves
as Chief Innovation Officer for Demand Media. The
company holds and has filed numerous patents on Reese's
work in disciplines including crowdsourcing, content creation, and
psychographics. Byron has just completed the forthcoming book Golden Age
2.0: How The Internet Will End Ignorance, Disease, Hunger, Poverty, And War.
An entrepreneur, inventor, technologist, public speaker and historian, Byron
speaks and writes about the intersection of history, technology and philosophy.
Visit Byron's website at www.byronreese.com.
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Monday Opening Plenary
Monday, October 22, 2012
8:00am – 10:00am
Madison Ballroom, 2 nd Floor
Keynote Speakers:
�� Dr Gordon Day, 2012 IEEE President
�� Gretchen Kalonji, Assistant Director General for National
Sciences, UNESCO
�� Knut Aanstad, Advisor, UN Sustainable Energy for All
Monday Dinner Reception
Monday, October 22, 2012
6:30pm – 9:30pm
Courtyard Ballroom, B Level
- Engineers Without Border (EWB) Display
- Photo and Short Video Contest Awards Presentation
(Judges: Mike North from ReAllocate, Kasmore Rhedrick from
Engineering For Change, Inessa Pearce from GHTC)
Keynote Speaker:
�� Robert A. Freling
Executive Director, Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF)

Opening Plenary Keynotes
Monday, October 22, 2012 (8:00am – 10:00am)
Madison Ballroom, 2 nd Floor
Dr Gordon Day
2012 IEEE President
Gordon Day spent most of his career in research and
management at the National Institute of Standards and
Technology, where he founded and led the NIST
Optoelectronics Division. His personal research ranged
from fundamental optical measurements to the development
of standards for optical fiber and new concepts in
instrumentation. More recently, he served as science
advisor to Senator Jay Rockefeller and Director of
Government Relations for the Optoelectronics Industry
Development Association. He has been a Professor Adjoint at the University of
Colorado and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton (UK), and has
served on many industry, government, and academic advisory groups. He is a
past President of the IEEE Photonics Society and of IEEE-USA, and is a Fellow
of IEEE, AAAS, the Optical Society of America, and the Institute of Physics
(UK). He received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from
the University of Illinois.
Gretchen Kalonji
Assistant Director General for National Sciences, UNESCO
Gretchen Kalonji assumed the position of Assistant Director
General for Natural Sciences at UNESCO effective July 1,
2010. Prior to joining UNESCO, starting in 2005, Kalonji
served in various leadership roles at the University of
California, including as Director of International Strategy
Development at the UC Office of the President, where her
responsibility was to lead in the design and implementation
of the first coordinated and comprehensive international
strategy for the ten-campus UC system, and as Director of
Systemwide Research Development. Kalonji came to the UC from the
University of Washington, where she served as Kyocera Professor of Materials
Science from 1990 - 2005. Prior to joining UW, Kalonji served as Assistant and
Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at
MIT, where she earned her B.Sc. degree in 1980 and her Ph.D in 1982.
Professor Kalonji’s areas of materials science expertise include symmetry
constraints on the structure and properties of crystalline defects, phase
transformations and microstructural evolution. Kalonji also has extensive
experience in innovations in science and engineering education, as well as in
new models for international research collaboration. Her work, both in
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materials science and in research and educational innovation, has been
recognized with multiple honors and awards. She holds or has held visiting
faculty appointments at the Max Planck Institute (Stuttgart), the University of
Paris, Tohoku University, Sichuan University, Tsinghua University and the
newly established Peking University Graduate School in Shenzhen.
Knut Aanstad
Advisor, UN Sustainable Energy for All
Knut M. Aanstad is an employee of Norwegian energy
company Statoil. He is currently seconded to the United
Nations to work on the Sustainable Energy for All initiative.
Within the Sustainable Energy for All initiative, Mr.
Aanstad is part of a team with the United Nations that is
working to mobilize commitments from the private sector
toward reaching the three goals of universal access to
modern energy services, doubling the rate of improvement
in energy efficiency and double the share of renewable
energy in the global energy mix.
Dinner Reception Keynote
Monday, October 22, 2012 (6:30pm – 8:30pm)
Courtyard Ballroom, B Level
Robert A. Freling
Executive Director, Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF)
Robert Freling is Executive Director of the Solar Electric
Light Fund (SELF), a Washington, DC-based nonprofit
organization that has been on the cutting edge of delivering
solar solutions to rural villages since 1990. Under Freling’s
leadership, SELF has pioneered the use of solar power for a
wide range of applications including household lighting,
water pumping, school electrification, drip irrigation and
wireless Internet access. SELF has completed projects in 20
countries, making it a leader among non-governmental
organizations in providing practical and cost-effective renewable energy
alternatives for the developing world.
Fluent in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and Indonesian, Mr.
Freling holds a B.A. in Russian Studies from Yale University, and an M.A. in
Communications Management from the Annenberg School of Communications
at the Uni. of Southern California. Mr. Freling is the recipient of the 2008 King
Hussein Leadership Prize.
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Tuesday Plenary
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
8:00am – 10:00am
Madison Ballroom, 2 nd Floor
Is technology the solution to the world's major social
challenges? Observations from rural Zambia.
Keynote Speaker:
�� Gertjan Van Stam
CEO, LinkNet Zambia
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Gertjan van Stam
CEO, LinkNet Zambia
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Gertjan van Stam (Rotterdam, 1965) studied wireless
technologies at Hogeschool Utrecht, Netherlands, and
worked in Swaziland in 1987. After achieving his degree in
telecommunications he took on tasks in various capacities at
the incumbent telecommunications operator of the
Netherlands. There he participated in practice and strategies
for broadcast technologies, standardization platforms,
telecommunications network and service operations
including mobile networks (paging and GSM).
Since 2000 Gertjan and his family live in rural Africa. First in Zimbabwe and,
from 2003, in Zambia. He works with 'local talent' to engender transdiciplinary
practices and holistic theory building. The goal is to identify and inspire local
talent and introduce appropriate technologies in order to build the necessary
capacity and intent for community-led activities to yield sustainable human
development outcomes. His quest is for a logical framework understanding
dynamics of change in rural African communities and engendering leadership
capable of inspiring, initiating, implementing, operating, and scaling up of
sustainable progress in the local community.
Gertjan's activities in Zambia were featured in IEEE “The Institute”, and his
carrier was documented in an award winning IEEE video at 'tryEngineering”.
The activities in Zambia were featured worldwide though BBC Clicks. He is
part of IEEE's Ad Hoc Committee for Humanitarian Activities, and University
of Zambia's Education Projects for Africa team. Further he authored the book
Placemark, and publishesarticles.
References:
G. van Stam, Placemark. Macha, 2011.
BBC Clicks, BBC Clicks - Macha Works. BBC, 2011.
IEEE TV, Tryengineering “Careers with Impact”: van Stam. IEEE TV, 2010.
G. Van Stam, “An Inclusive World,” IEEE GOLDRush, p. 4, 2008.

Wednesday Plenary
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
8:00am – 10:00am
Madison Ballroom, 2 nd Floor
Technology Application in the Developing World: Think
Local
Keynote Speaker:
�� Krista Bauer
Director of Global Programs for GE Company, GE Foundation
Closing Plenary
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
4:00pm – 5:30pm
Madison Ballroom, 2 nd Floor
Keynote Speakers:
�� Jim Fruchterman
Social Entrepreneur and CEO, Benetech
�� Peter Staecker
2012 IEEE President-Elect
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Wednesday Plenary Keynote
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 (8:00am - 10:00am)
Madison Ballroom, 2 nd Floor
Krista Bauer
Director of Global Programs for GE Company, GE Foundation
Krista Bauer is the Director of Global Programs for GE
Company, based in Fairfield, CT. Her responsibilities
include GE’s philanthropic programs related to health, the
environment, non-US education, public policy and
humanitarian relief, and she manages the Company’s
product donation investments worldwide. Krista is
responsible for GE’s disaster relief actions, as well as other
Citizenship efforts related to product and service
development targeting the needs of underserved populations across the
developing world.
Krista oversees GE’s signature health programs – Developing Health and
Developing Health Globally – that aim to improve access to quality healthcare
for underserved communities in the US and across the developing world through
a combination of product-based donation, financial support and skill-based
employee engagement.
Krista joined GE in 1996, and her background includes Six Sigma,
product/process design and marketing. Prior to her current role, she held
leadership roles in GE Capital, driving businesses reengineering, marketing and
product development. Krista began her career as a process engineer with Lord
Corporation, focusing on product development and process research in waterbased
adhesive technologies.
Krista holds a BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from Case Western Reserve
University, and earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at
Northwestern University.
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Closing Plenary Keynote
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 (4:00pm - 5:30pm)
Madison Ballroom, 2 nd Floor
Jim Fruchterman, Benetech
MacArthur Fellow, Technology and Social Entrepreneur
Jim Fruchterman is social entrepreneur and CEO of
Benetech, a nonprofit technology company based in Palo
Alto, California. A technology entrepreneur and engineer,
Fruchterman has been a rocket scientist, founded two of the
foremost optical character recognition companies, and
created numerous technology social enterprises.
Fruchterman cofounded Calera Recognition Systems and
RAF Technology, Inc. both of which were based on optical
character recognition technology. In 1989, Fruchterman
founded Benetech as a nonprofit social enterprise, to produce reading machines,
based on the Calera technology, for people who are blind.
Benetech expanded its focus in 2000 and began creating new technology for
people with disabilities as well as the human rights and environmental
movements. Benetech’s programs include Bookshare, the world’s largest
accessible online library for people with print disabilities, Martus, software for
tracking human rights violations and Miradi, project management tools for
conservationists. Fruchterman received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2006 in
recognition of his work as a pioneering social entrepreneur. He believes that
technology is the ultimate leveler, allowing disadvantaged people to achieve
more equality in society.
Dr. Peter Staecker
2012 IEEE President-Elect
Peter Staecker holds BS and EE degrees from MIT, and MS
and PhD degrees from Polytechnic University. His
professional career started in 1972 at MIT Lincoln
Laboratory, where he developed microwave design and test
techniques for satellite communications. In 1986 he joined
M/A-COM, where he led program, product and process
development, then helped the company’s transition from
defense to commercial markets. During this period he also
established strong ties with US and European universities and with research
organizations. He retired from M/A-COM as Director of Research &
Development. Staecker served industry and government on manufacturing and
advisory panels, and is consulting editor to Microwave Journal. Staecker is Past-
President and Honorary Life Member of the MTT Society, and is an IEEE Life
Fellow. His 28-year service to IEEE includes leadership roles in Finance,
Strategic Planning, Publications, and Membership. He has served on the IEEE
Board of Directors for five years.
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Panel Sessions
Monday, October 22, 2012
10:30am Water and Agriculture (East, 3 rd Floor)
1:30pm US Army Corps of Engineers (East, 3 rd Floor)
4:00pm Publishing Outlets for Social Entrepreneurship (South, 3 rd Floor)
4:00pm Societal Impacts and Benefits (East, 3 rd Floor)
5:00pm Social Venture Entrepreneurial (South, 3 rd Floor)
5:00pm What Works, What Doesn’t (East, 3 rd Floor)
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
10:30am Designing for Sustainability (East, 3 rd Floor)
1:30pm Connectivity and Communication (East, 3 rd Floor)
4:00pm From Profit to Non-Profit (South, 3 rd Floor)
4:00pm Business Plans for BoP – Dream or Reality? (East, 3 rd Floor)
5:00pm MIT International Development Design Summit (South, 3 rd Floor)
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
10:30am Engineering Projects in Community Service, EPICS (East, 3 rd Floor)

Monday, October 22, 2012
10:30am – 12:30pm
East Room, 3 rd Floor
Panel:
Water and Agriculture
Abstract:
Two major issues for society are food security and water security. These
challenges increase due to factors such as population growth and climate
change. While solutions are needed on a global scale, many times the problems
need to be addressed at the local level. The panel will thus address water and
agriculture as both local and international issues and relate their experience and
thoughts about improving long-term access to food and water.
Moderator:
Jay Pearlman, Ph.D., Fellow IEEE
Chair, IEEE Committee on Earth Observation 2007-9
Telephone: +1 206 713 7991 (mobile)
Email: jay.pearlman@ieee.org
Panelists
�� Juliet Christian-Smith, Pacific
Institute, Ph.D.
�� Ms Gretchen Kalonji, UNESCO
�� Dr. Christine Lee, NASA
�� Mr. Terence Newby, NEOSS South
Africa
�� Ms. Chilka Sharma, Banasthali
University
Panelist Contact Information
Juliet Christian-Smith, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate
Pacific Institute
Email: juliet@pacinst.org
Christine M. Lee, Ph.D.
AAAS Science & Technology Policy
Fellow
NASA HQ / Earth Science Division
Applied Sciences Program
Email: christine.m.lee@nasa.gov
Terry Newby
Program Manager: Earth Observation
ARC- Institute for Soil, Climate &
Water
Agricultural Research Council
Email: tnewby@csir.co.za
Ms. Chilka Sharma
Assistant Professor
Department of Remote Sensing
Banasthali University, Banasthali,
Tonk, Rajasthan - India
Email: chilkasharma@gmail.com
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Panel: Water and Agriculture
Monday, October 22, 2012 (10:30am – 12:30pm)
East Room, 3 rd Floor
Presentation Abstracts:
Reflecting on the evolution of my perspective of water quality and public
health problems in the developing world
- Christine Lee
The need for an integrated approach to addressing access to clean water is
undeniable. Christine will reflect on both the technological and societal
challenges related to water and health sanitation issues and how her view of
these challenges was drastically shifted by her experiences abroad, specifically
in Bangladesh and Tanzania. The pilot projects she was a part of provided a
window into the complexity of global water access issues, strongly influence
Christine’s current interest in the intersection of science and policy as a AAAS
fellow, and underline the need for greater synergies between science and
technology research and international development strategies.
Remote sensing technologies for water and agriculture in emerging
economies
– Terry Newby
Remote Sensing data can play a significant role in providing decision support
information to rural communities and small-scale rural farmers in developing
countries. However a number of challenges need to be overcome. These include
access to image data, processing capability, human capacity and skill,
appreciation of the data by decision makers and operational applications. These
challenges will be highlighted through examples from southern Africa and the
possible societal benefit of the use of remote sensing will be discussed.
Smart Rain Water Harvesting and Multiple Uses For Human Welfare,
Environmental Sustainability and Adoption to Climate Change - Impacts
in Semi-Arid Regions
- Chilka Sharma
Water is most essential to sustain life and overall development in semi-arid areas
as the livelihoods of people are fully dependent on the limited quantity of rains,
mostly occurring during monsoon season. Hence, conservation and management
of available water resource is fundamental to sustain livelihoods. Village
ecosystems are complex in nature having inter-linkages between available
natural resources, particularly water and the livelihoods of village communities
in semi-arid regions.
This paper is based on the study on the cluster of villages in semi-arid area of
Indian desert on socio economic profile of the villages; natural resources, status
and prospect for development through smart rain water harvesting (SRWH), a
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pilot project implemented and carried during last two crop seasons in Melva
village in the area.
SRWH aims for harvesting 8-10% runoff from the farm itself to meet the water
needs .The amount of water availability and the optimal use based on the review
of literature and practical practice is described in the paper. EO data and
technology supported to study the present scenario and to analyze it for future
management and predictions. Recommendations for infield water management,
cistern design, crop selection are made based on farm size, location and social
setup and dissemination methods using digital display is the major strength of
this literature.
The study has generated extensive baseline information that will serve as a
benchmark for planning in subsequent years various developmental activities.
This may find utility mainly amongst the village communities and Village /
panchayat level planners in the area, to assist them in decision-making and
adoption of smart rainwater harvesting on their farmlands. These may also be of
great use to development departments, rural banks, policy-makers and decisionmakers
at regional, state and national levels to design strategies and policies in
semi-arid areas.
Panel Speakers:
Sciences.
Dr. Juliet Christian-Smith is a Senior Research Associate
with the Pacific Institute's Water Program. Her interests
include agricultural water uses, comparative analyses of
water governance structures, water reuse, and climate
change. Dr. Christian-Smith is a recipient of the
Environmental Protection Agency’s Award for Outstanding
Achievement and serves on the Executive Board of the
Agricultural Water Management Council. She is also a
Frontiers of Science Fellow for the National Academy of
Prior to coming to the Pacific Institute, Dr. Christian-Smith was in Portugal on a
Fulbright Fellowship studying the implementation of the European Union Water
Framework Directive and examining agricultural water usage in the Alentejo
region. During graduate school, she worked on several water policy projects in
California through the University of California Cooperative Extension,
managing the fieldwork and data collection for an empirical study of agricultural
water demand in California.
Dr. Christian-Smith holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy and
Management from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in Biology from Smith College.
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Gretchen Kalonji, Assistant Director General for National
Sciences, UNESCO
An American materials scientist, she has developed strong
international links in science, in particular in China, India
and the Pacific Region. She is strongly committed to
promoting science in Africa and has worked with several
African universities. Her work in educational
transformation has taken her to university positions in
France, Japan and China.
Gretchen Kalonji assumed the position of Assistant Director General for Natural
Sciences at UNESCO effective July 1, 2010. Prior to joining UNESCO, starting
in 2005, Kalonji served in various leadership roles at the University of
California, including as Director of International Strategy Development at the
UC Office of the President, where her responsibility was to lead in the design
and implementation of the first coordinated and comprehensive international
strategy for the ten-campus UC system, and as Director of System wide
Research Development. Kalonji came to the UC from the University of
Washington, where she served as Kyocera Professor of Materials Science from
1990 - 2005.
Prior to joining UW, Kalonji served as Assistant and Associate Professor in the
Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, where she earned her
B.Sc. degree in 1980 and her Ph.D in 1982. Professor Kalonji’s areas of
materials science expertise include symmetry constraints on the structure and
properties of crystalline defects, phase transformations and microstructural
evolution. Kalonji also has extensive experience in innovations in science and
engineering education, as well as in new models for international research
collaboration. Her work, both in materials science and in research and
educational innovation, has been recognized with multiple honors and awards.
She holds or has held visiting faculty appointments at the Max Planck Institute
(Stuttgart), the University of Paris, Tohoku University, Sichuan University,
Tsinghua University and the newly established Peking University Graduate
School in Shenzhen.
Dr. Christine Lee has extensive research experience in
rapid, field-portable detection methods for assessing
pathogen surrogates in the context of water quality and
pollution as well as bioterrorism and sterilization efficacy.
Her postdoctoral work at JPL also includes understanding
microbial communities in extreme environments such as
those in Mt. Kilimanjaro glaciers and Antarctic Dry Valley
soil towards astrobiology goals. She has conducted
fieldwork in Bangladesh, Tanzania, Mexico, and Antarctica.
Christine actively participated in the UCLA Chapter of Engineers without
Borders for five years during which she was part of a project to donate a

technology center to a children’s community group in Guatemala. She became a
Switzer Fellow in 2008-09 and co-authored a funded proposal for the EPA
People, Planet, and Prosperity Student Design Competition in 2009-10.
Christine is currently a AAAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow in the
NASA Applied Sciences Program in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Terence S Newby has been involved in the remote
sensing and earth observation community since 1980. He
holds a BSc degree in Forestry and an MSc in
Environmental Studies. He started his career in the Western
Cape (South Africa) managing mountain catchment areas.
From 1989 to 2011 he managed the Remote Sensing and
Earth Observation research program at the Agricultural
Research Councils - Institute for Soil Climate and Water
where the main focus was on developing agricultural
applications of earth observations. Over the years he was involved in national
land cover mapping, crop estimation, alien invader vegetation monitoring,
drought monitoring and many other agricultural applications of high, medium
and course resolution earth observation imagery as well as the development of
the ARCEagle multispectral airborne imaging system. Currently he manages the
National Earth Observation and Space Secretariat (NEOSS), a Department of
Science & Technology initiative hosted by the CSIR. NEOSS is the secretariat
for SA-GEO.
Ms. Chilka Sharma, currently working as Assistant
Professor at Department of Remote Sensing, Banasthali
University, Banasthali, Rajasthan India, the largest Women
University of India and teaching Remote Sensing, GIS and
computer programming to Masters of Technology students.
She obtained Masters of Science degree in Information
Technology from University of Rajasthan and further did
Post Graduation specialization in Remote Sensing from
Centre for Remote Sensing Applications, North Bengal
University and joined Regional Remote Sensing Centre – West, of ISRO as
Project Scientist and was involved in initial planning, documentation, data
analysis, data organization of India - Water Resources Information System and
also for the project website and version 1.0 of India-WRISWebGIS. Chilka
submitted her Ph.D. thesis to Department of Remote Sensing and
Geoinformatics, Maharishi Dayanada Saraswati University, India titled “Role
of geo-informatics in food security and sustainable livelihood in semi-arid
environment - A case study for cluster of villages in semi arid region of Jodhpur
and Barmer Districts.” The objective of the research work is to ensure food
security and sustainable livelihood in a low agriculture productive area of semiarid
environment through rainwater harvesting techniques and approaches using
advanced geospatial technologies in a changing climate. The Ph.D. work is
performed under the guidance and sponsorship of the IEEE Water for World
project being implemented in village Melva, Rajasthan, India.
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Monday, October 22, 2012
1:30pm – 3:30pm
East Room, 3 rd Floor
Panel:
US Army Corps of Engineers
USACE Technologies: Supporting Your Disaster Relief
Operations
Panel Abstract:
USACE engineers support both civil and military operations worldwide. Some
of those expertise and technologies lend themselves well to humanitarian
disaster relief. We have applied our expertise domestically & internationally
(e.g., Haiti). For the area of military base camps, a suite of technologies used in
of water, wastewater, and power management. Cutting edge research &
development affords us real time sampling and analysis for water supplies
ensuring sanitary quality for disaster scenario's use. Selective humanitarian
technologies developed - within the portfolio of - the Engineer Research and
Development Center (ERDC) will be reviewed. Working with other US
Government agencies, host countries and NGO's, most of these technologies can
be made available for non-military use.
Panel Speakers:
�� Mr. Hany Zaghloul
�� Dr. Donald Cropek
�� Mr. Whitney Wolf
Mr. Hany Zaghloul
hany.zaghloul@us.army.mil (217-373-3433)
Engineering Research and Development Center (CERL)
Champaign, IL
Hany Zaghloul is the Program Manager for both the
Environmental Compliance Technologies and Socio-cultural
research and development activities for U.S. Army Engineer
Research and Development Center / Construction
Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC/CERL). In this capacity, he overseas
and manages applied research, demonstration and validation programs, as well
as technology transfer efforts conducted in both domains. Between 1999 and
2010, Mr Zaghloul was the R&D Liaison for the Engineer Research and
Development Center (ERDC) to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the
Army for Installation, Energy and Environment (OASA-IE&E). Since 1989 as a
Principal Investigator with the US Army Construction Engineering Research
Laboratory (USACERL), Champaign, IL, Mr. Zaghloul has worked on Drought

Contingency Planning on Army Installations and Leak Detection Survey
Technologies. Mr. Zaghloul is a Technical Program Officer (TPO) for the
US\German Data Exchange Annex, where he plays an active role for the
exchange of technical data and personnel through on-going exchange
agreements. He has authored more than 30 papers and contributed to two books
on various environmental R&D applications and technologies feasibility. Prior
to that Mr. Zaghloul was working for USACERL since 1986 as an
Environmental Engineer on water, wastewater, and hazardous waste R&D
projects. He has a Civil Engineering BS, as well as two master degrees in
Environmental Engineering and Finance, both from the University of Illinois at
Urbana - Champaign. Mr. Zaghloul is also a registered Professional Engineer in
the State of Illinois.
Dr. Donald Cropek
Donald.cropek@us.army.mil (217-373-6737)
Engineering Research and Development Center (CERL)
Champaign, IL
Portable Environmental Sensing: From Bench to Field
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has invested resources
in research to develop robust, standalone, sensitive sensors
for rapid environmental assessment at friendly sites as well
as for quick screening applications at forward base locations under far more
challenging conditions. In this talk, I will provide a top down discussion of our
work in this arena from platform product development that utilizes polymer chip
components and chemistries designed for particular applications, to our basic
research in paper microfluidics. Biosensing using cell based constructs is a
major direction of our laboratory through our Water Toxicity program and
aspects of microfluidic design, fluid flow, channel interconnects, cell culture,
and miniaturized detection schemes that have grown from this program will be
covered.
Dr. Don Cropek is the Director of the Environmental Chemistry Laboratory at
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, ERDC-CERL, in Champaign, IL. He is also
initiating the growth of a Synthetic Biology Laboratory at CERL that takes
advantage of his group’s expertise in microbiology, molecular and cell biology,
and analytical chemistry. He received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from
the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Dr. Cropek is also
affiliated with the Chemistry Department at UIUC as well as with the Illinois
Natural History Survey. His experience began primarily to address short-term
environmental and compliance issues at military installations, but has steadily
moved to a focus on basic and applied research in sensing. His group comprises
molecular and cell biologists, tissue engineers, microbiologists, polymer and
analytical chemists, and civil engineers that study integrated microfluidic
systems, novel environmental sensor design, innovative selective molecular
beacons, and advanced oxidative treatment methods for contaminants.
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Mr. Whitney Wolf
whitney.k.wolf@usace.army.mil
816-389-3315
Kansas City District
Civil Works PM
Whitney Wolf is an Engineer Colonel in the Army Reserve
who has served recently as the Design Engineer for the
372 nd Engineer Brigade in Afghanistan responsible for
review and approval of all Regional Command-East (RC-E) Forward Operating
Base construction projects below the MILCON level. Previous assignments
include Deputy Chief of Staff, Engineer, 90 th Regional Support Command, Little
Rock, Arkansas, Detachment Commander, 600 th Engineer Facilities
Detachment, 416 th TEC, Des Moines, IA. In 2002 he served as the deputy base
engineer at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan and oversaw the construction and
management of numerous forward operating bases in the theater. He currently
serves as Emergency Preparedness Liaison Officer (EPLO) to FEMA Region
VII where his designated state of support is Nebraska.
As a civilian, he serves as a Civil Works Project Manager at the Kansas City
District in the US Army Corps of Engineers. His previous assignment has been
as Civil Designer and Cost Estimator with the Kansas City District and Energy
Engineer (Certified Energy Manager (CEM)) with Fort Leavenworth Directorate
of Public Works.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Missouri Western State University
at St. Joseph, Missouri and is an Army trained Operations Research/Systems
Analyst (ORSA) from the Army Logistic Management College, FT Lee, and
Virginia.

Monday, October 22, 2012
4:00pm – 5:00pm
East Room, 3 rd Floor
Panel:
Societal Impacts and Benefits
Panel Abstract:
Many of us work very hard developing technologies and/or implementing them
where they can improve human livelihood. But what are the societal impacts of
this work? How can it be measured? This is not only an important subject at a
personal level, but is many times a requirement in planning large earth
monitoring programs and their effects on economic development. The challenge
is particularly hard when we are asked to document the societal impacts
quantitatively. This panel will look at the experience of measuring the
socioeconomic impacts and benefits of what we do. The panelists will tell of
their own experiences, and the audience participation will bring additional
experience and stories that we can all share looking for good solutions. A
community of practice will be introduced which is forming at an international
level to address socio-economic benefits - measuring and monitoring impacts
Moderator:
Jay Pearlman, Ph.D., Fellow IEEE
Chair, IEEE Committee on Earth Observation 2007-9
Telephone: +1 206 713 7991 (mobile)
Email: jay.pearlman@ieee.org
Panelists
�� Dr. Richard Bernknopf, Univeristy of New Mexico
�� Dr. Nancy Searby, NASA
�� Ms. Mary Ann Stewart, Mary Ann Stewart Engineering LLC
Panelist Contact Information
Richard Bernknopf
Research Professor
Department of Economics
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
rbern@unm.edu
Nancy D. Searby, Ph.D.
Capacity Building Program
Manager
NASA Applied Sciences Program
Earth Science Division
Science Mission Directorate
NASA Headquarters
Washington, DC 20546
Nancy.D.Searby@nasa.gov
Mary Ann Stewart
Mary Ann Stewart Engineering,
LLC
3514 Clinton Parkway
Lawrence, Kansas 66047
mastewart@sunflower.com
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Panel: Societal Impacts and Benefits
Monday, October 22, 2012 (4:00pm – 5:00pm)
East Room, 3 rd Floor
Presentation Abstracts:
Estimating the value of earth observation information for monitoring
agricultural land use activities and the geographically variable impacts of
nitrates on groundwater quality
- Richard Bernknopf
Does remote sensing information provide economic benefits to society and can
those benefits be valued? Can resource management and policy be better
informed by coupling past and present earth observations with groundwater
nitrate measurements?
Earth observation in the form moderate-resolution land imagery (MRLI) is
crucial to a more complete assessment of the cumulative, landscape-level effect
of agricultural land use and land cover on environmental quality. A general
framework is presented for bringing together earth science and economics
processes at meaningful scales to interpret the environmental implications of
MRLI applications. Earth observations identify crop planting patterns and
surface management activities that influence groundwater resources over a
regional landscape. The application is focused on maximizing the value of
agricultural production while avoiding nonpoint source groundwater pollution
hazards. The value of information for the MRLI for 35 counties in eastern Iowa
has a present value $38.1B ± $8.8B (2010 $) in perpetuity ($858M ± $197M
annualized).
Impacts of Earth Observations Serving Society – SERVIR As A Case Study
- Nancy Searby
SERVIR is a collaborative venture among the NASA Earth Science Division
Applied Sciences program, USAID, and worldwide partner institutions.
SERVIR, to serve in Spanish, is a regional visualization and monitoring system
that improves environmental management and climate change response by
helping governments and other stakeholders integrate Earth observation and
geospatial technologies into decision-making. SERVIR helps nations in
Mesoamerica, East Africa, and the Himalayan regions improve their ability to
monitor air quality, extreme weather, biodiversity, and changes in land cover,
and the system has been used over 50 times to respond to environmental threats
such as wildfires, floods, landslides, and harmful algal blooms.
To measure impact, the SERVIR team has developed a results framework,
identifying the goal, objective, intermediate results, and sub-intermediate results.
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Indicative activities and indicators were then defined. Example indicators
include the number of stakeholders receiving training, and the number of
institutions with improved capacity to address climate change as a result of the
SERVIR program. Additional impact is communicated through regular success
stories. Economic impacts of SERVIR are more difficult to assess. One
example is the ability to detect and predict red tides to enable El Salvadoran and
Guatemalan governments to alert their tourism and fishing industries, enabling
these countries to save millions of dollars for their industries. In-depth impact
evaluations are planned in next one to two years.
Improved Public Access to Water Quality Notices: Quantifying the Benefits
- Mary Ann Stewart
Two recent financial analyses of Canadian government projects lay a foundation
for quantification of public health benefits from information dissemination
projects enabled by geospatial technology. The challenge to benefits
quantification came in estimating the population receiving the new technology
and the financial and social benefit to the affected population. These projects
provided an extension to the GITA (Geospatial Information Technology
Association) Return on Investment methodology, with the analysis supported by
GeoConnections of Canada, original sponsor of the projects.
A reverse 911 (auto dialing) project in Ontario provides the population affected
by a water quality incident with significantly faster Boil Water Notification,
reducing the risk of water borne illness. In New Brunswick, analysis of a
situational awareness tool based on geotagged real-time data supplied by RSS
feeds shows the bulk of potential benefits could come from streamlining the
province’s Communications Office distribution of Boil Water Notices and
Public Health Notices. Metrics from Canadian studies of the cost of water borne
illness were leveraged for the analysis and the advantages of incorporating
external, well-documented metrics will be discussed.
Panel Speakers:
Richard L. Bernknopf is a Research Professor at the
University of New Mexico. Before joining the faculty at
UNM, Dr. Bernknopf was an economist with the USGS for
more than thirty-eight years. Dr. Bernknopf's research
focuses on the demonstration of the relevance (value to
society) of natural science information including earth
observation and the translation of that information into a
form compatible with decision-making processes. During
his tenure at USGS, he was a consulting professor and codirector
of the Center for Earth Science Information Research at Stanford
University, and co-director of the Spatial Integration Laboratory for Urban
Systems at the University of Pennsylvania. Currently he is associated with the
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Science Impact Laboratory for Policy and Economics at the University of New
Mexico and the Wharton Geospatial Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Nancy D. Searby, Ph. D., NASA
Nancy Searby is the Capacity Building Program Manager
for NASA’s Applied Sciences Program in the Earth Science
Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington DC. She is
leading the Program’s efforts to build skills in use of Earth
observations to make decisions in the US and developing
countries.
Nancy oversees four NASA Center-based offices - DEVELOP, SERVIR, Gulf
of Mexico Initiative, and Applied Remote Sensing Training – that aim to
improve the ability of local, regional, state, national, and multi-national
stakeholders to make decisions informed by earth science observations and
models. The Capacity Building Program helps stakeholder make decisions in
eight areas of societal benefit identified by the Group on Earth Observations,
including disasters, ecosystems, biodiversity, weather, water, climate, health,
and agriculture. Nancy is also leading efforts to develop alliances with nontraditional
partners.
Nancy has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University and
bachelors and masters degrees in aerospace engineering sciences from the
University of Colorado-Boulder. Past experience includes space flight hardware
development, space life sciences research, and Agency-level studies and
analyses.
Mary Ann Stewart, P.E.
Principal
Mary Ann Stewart Engineering LLC
Ms. Stewart provides business development, research and
analysis services to the geospatial community. Geospatial
research projects include the Geospatial Information
Technology Association’s ROI/Business Case project, the
Federal Geospatial Data Consortium’s CAP Grant projects to
the States, and ROI case studies of geospatial projects funded by
GeoConnections, a Canadian Federal organization. Other business activities
include consulting services in the area of data acquisition and conversion for
utilities, business development for small firms in the Federal marketplace, and
market research for the utility information technology market.

Monday, October 22, 2012
4:00pm – 5:00pm
South Room, 3 rd Floor
Panel:
Publishing Outlets for Social
Entrepreneurship
Publishing and Dissemination of Your Work in Global Humanitarian
Technology and Development
Abstract:
There has been significant discussion recently about where Global Humanitarian
Technology and Social Entrepreneurship fit in the academic world and it usually
centers around increasing the rigor and credibility of this field of work.
Publishing is a big part of creating and maintaining a field of research. This
panel is composed of editors and former editors of two journals and a magazine
in this field. Each editor will address the issue of research and publishing in this
area as a part of establishing its place in the combination of academic and
practitioner worlds. The panel will also discuss various available and future
venues and how they fit particular types of research, development and practice.
If you are publishing or if you are thinking of publishing, this panel will help
you find outlets for your work that you may not have realized.
Moderator:
Dr. Mark Henderson, Arizona State University
(Mark.henderson@asu.edu)
Mark Henderson is Professor of Engineering and
Associate Dean of the Barrett Honors College at Arizona
State University. He has a M.S. in Bioengineering and a
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, specifically in Computeraided
Design and Computer Graphics, both from Purdue.
His research area is in global teaming, global sustainable
technology development and social entrepreneurship. He is
a founding faculty member of the new Engineering Department at ASU’s
Polytechnic campus, which emphasizes problem-based learning, use-inspired
design and a flexible curriculum.
Panel Speakers:
�� Thomas H. Colledge, Pennsylvania State University
�� Joseph R. Herkert, Arizona State University
�� Julian O'Shea, Engineers Without Borders Australia
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Panel Speakers:
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Thomas H. Colledge, PhD, PE
Humanitarian Engineering & Social Entrepreneurship
(www.hese.psu.edu)
Editor in Chief: International Journal for Service Learning
in Engineering (http://www.ijsle.org)
Thomas H. Colledge, PhD, PE is an Assistant Professor of
Design in the School of Engineering Design, Technology
and Professional Programs (SEDTAPP) in the College of
Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. Colledge began his
academic career with SEDTAPP twenty one years ago. He initiated
Humanitarian Engineering efforts at Penn State in 1997 and has seen those
efforts evolve in the intervening years into the Humanitarian Engineering and
Social Entrepreneurship program (www.engr.psu.edu/hese) at the University.
Student projects, long-term collaborations, and associated travel have been
undertaken in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Belize, Ecuador, Jamaica, Nigeria,
Kenya, and the United States. He serves as the coordinator of the
(Humanitarian) Engineering and Community Engagement certificate program.
Colledge is also the founder and editor-in-chief of the International Journal for
Service Learning in Engineering: Humanitarian Engineering and Social
Entrepreneurship (IJSLE) which has served to promote and encourage
scholarship in the fields of Humanitarian Engineering, Social Entrepreneurship
and Service Learning in Engineering since 2006 (www.ijsle.org). A primary
purpose of the Journal is to foster inquiry into rigorous engineering design and
research and direct those efforts toward solving problems of marginalized
communities. The examination of cultural appropriateness is emphasized along
with the application of appropriate technologies and entrepreneurial application
of sustainable solutions. Focus is also placed on associated pedagogy and the
dissemination of project results as the Journal seeks to nurture service learning
in engineering as a distinct body of knowledge.
Colledge recently edited a book on these topics, published by IJSLE in 2012,
entitled, ‘Convergence: Philosophies and Pedagogies for Developing the Next
Generation of Humanitarian Engineers and Social Entrepreneurs’.
His professional interests include design and management of economically
sustainable, infrastructure-related endeavors which address the needs of
marginalized communities as well as the integration of such multi-disciplinary
projects into the undergraduate curriculum. He enjoys providing opportunities
for students to contextualize their education through real life collaborations and
actual engagement and construction of solutions that benefit communities.
Colledge’s academic background includes undergraduate degrees in Science
(Biology), Mathematics Education and Civil Engineering, with graduate degrees
in Civil Engineering and Agricultural &Biological Engineering, minoring in
Instructional Systems. He is a registered professional engineer.

Joseph R. Herkert
Lincoln Associate Professor of Ethics and Technology
School of Letters and Sciences
Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes
Email: joseph.herkert@asu.edu
Web: www.public.asu.edu/~jherkert
Joseph R. Herkert, D.Sc., is Lincoln Associate Professor
of Ethics and Technology in the School of Letters and
Sciences and the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, and Arizona
State University. Herkert has been teaching engineering ethics and science,
technology, and society courses for twenty-five years. He is Co-Editor of The
Growing Gap Between Emerging Technologies and Legal-Ethical Oversight: the
Pacing Problem (Springer, 2011), Editor of Social, Ethical and Policy
Implications of Engineering: Selected Readings (Wiley/IEEE Press, 2000) and
has published numerous articles on engineering ethics and societal implications
of technology in engineering, law, social science, and applied ethics journals.
Current projects include ethical and legal issues related to emerging
technologies, integrating micro- and macroethics in graduate science and
engineering education, and societal implications of the smart grid. Herkert
previously served as Editor of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine,
published by the Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has also served as
SSIT President (1995-1996) and is currently a member of the SSIT Board of
Governors. In 2007 he was the first recipient of the SSIT Distinguished Service
Award. Herkert is a Senior Member of IEEE and recently completed a threeyear
term on the IEEE Ethics and Member Conduct Committee. He is a
Distinguished Life Member of the Executive Board of the National Institute for
Engineering Ethics, an Associate Editor of the journal Engineering Studies, a
Board Member of the Engineering Ethics Division of the American Society for
Engineering Education (ASEE), and Past-Chair of the Liberal
Education/Engineering and Society (LEES) Division of ASEE. In 2005 Herkert
received the Sterling Olmsted Award, the highest honor bestowed by LEES, for
“making significant contributions in the teaching and administering of liberal
education in engineering education.” Herkert received his BS in Electrical
Engineering from Southern Methodist University and his doctorate in
Engineering & Policy from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a former
registered professional engineer with more than five years experience as a
consultant in the electric power industry.
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Julian O'Shea
Director
Engineers Without Borders Australia
j.oshea@ewb.org.au
Julian O'Shea, is an award-winning humanitarian engineer
who is passionate about applying appropriate technology to
improve the quality of life in the world's most
disadvantaged communities.
He is the Director of the EWB Institute, the education, research and training
division of Engineers Without Borders Australia (EWB), an international notfor-profit
development organization. In this role, he manages programs that link
local students to projects in communities in Australia and across Asia. These
projects include: developing a low-smoke, dung-burning stove for deforested
areas of Nepal; developing a floating bio-digester to convert waste into energy
for the communities on the Tonle Sap lake in Cambodia; and conducting water
and energy audits for an Indigenous community in Western Australia.
A Chartered Profession Engineer, with postgraduate qualifications in
engineering project management and business administration, he is currently
completing a PhD in Engineering Education for Social Justice. He is founding
editor of the Journal of Humanitarian Engineering and was the inaugural Chair
of the Designing Our Future: Australian Humanitarian Engineering Research
Forum.
Julian’s career achievements and community service has seen him recognized in
numerous prestigious forums, including being named Young South Australian of
the Year, awarded a Pride of Australia Medal and named one of Australia's 15
Most Inspiring Young Engineers.

Monday, October 22, 2012
5:00pm – 6:00pm
South Room, 3 rd Floor
Panel:
Social Venture Entrepreneurial
Why a radically expanded philanthropic vision is essential to
sustaining mass access to life saving technologies
�� Rashmir Balasubramaniam, Founder of Nsansa
�� Glenn Austin, PATH's WASH Director
Panel Abstract:
There is much discussion of business and market based approaches to global
health nowadays. And yet, little has changed in the way that funding is directed
and deployed. There is still a tendency among many funding organizations to
focus on developing and disseminating individual technologies. This approach
has its merits, but tends to perpetuate a hunt for magic bullets. It also supports
and builds upstream talent and expertise - i.e. those that are developing the
technologies, while leaving open the conundrum of how to sustainably deliver
and ensure use of these technologies to those who need them the most. The
result is not the outcome most of us want: sustained impact for the poorest, and
eradication of problems we technologically know how to solve (e.g. ensuring
safe water).
In this session, we will review the basics of market-based approaches - what
they are, why they have value for global health, and where and how we need to
innovate to realize inclusive markets for all. We will also explore, through the
example of PATH's Safe Water Project, how a system-wide vision and creative
& strategic partnership between a funder and a multidisciplinary nonprofit team,
was able to catalyze an inclusive market for household water treatment and
storage solutions.
Panel Speakers:
Rashmir Balasubramaniam is the Founder of Nsansa, a
firm that advises and coaches funders, investors,
entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs on creativity, innovation
and market-based strategies for realizing transformational
change. She is a visionary and passionate speaker,
facilitator and coach with wide-ranging expertise across the
public and private sectors. Rashmir spent five years at the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she led a crosssector
initiative on private sector engagement and inclusive
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markets, and built and managed a diverse portfolio of Water, Sanitation &
Hygiene grants. Rashmir has also led a variety of cross-sectoral development
projects, including work on malaria, reproductive health, human resources for
health, and institutional development. She is an Adjunct Faculty member of the
Foster School of Business at the University of Washington, Bainbridge Graduate
Institute and the Indian Institute for Sustainable Enterprise. Rashmir has been
involved in a variety of efforts to spur social entrepreneurship - including cocreating
#SocEnt Weekend, a 50 hour experience that has resulted in a number
of exciting high impact ventures. She is also an advisor to Fledge, a conscious
company incubator, launched in Seattle. In a previous life, Rashmir worked in
investment banking and finance in London.
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Glenn Austin: WASH Director
Glenn leads the Water, Air, Sanitation and Hygiene
program at PATH. He is responsible for determining the
project’s vision and strategy and for overall management of
PATH activities as well as the critical relationships with
water technology companies, NGOs, government agencies,
consultants, and other collaborating organizations to ensure
that project goals are met. He represents the project globally
and plays a key role in engaging other agencies, including donors, in the project
findings and recommendations. Glenn manages design for manufacture, pilot
production, and scale-up. He also leads consumer product development facility
in Seattle and leads and advises teams in planning and conducting product
development, adaptation, and assessment. Glenn is an industrial designer and
has supplemental experience and education in management, mechanical
engineering, and computer-aided design. He has led product design and
development for nearly 30 years, including development of medical products
and various consumer products in the private sector before joining PATH.

Monday, October 22, 2012
5:00pm – 6:00pm
East Room, 3 rd Floor
Panel:
What Works, What Doesn’t
Panel Speakers:
�� A Moses Akpan, Principal Information Systems Technologist, Raytheon
Missile Systems
�� Ron Scott, Teacher and Technology Administrator, Lighthouse Christian
Academy (LCA)
�� Evin Yarbrough, Senior Web Application Designer, Raytheon Missile
Systems
Panel Presentations:
The “AFRI” Mission Experience EMPOWER FAMILIES TO GAIN SELF
RELIANCE.
Family is the nucleus of the community. When the family is in trouble, the
community is in trouble. Engage the people by getting them involved. They
solve their problems, they learn from it, they feel good about the result, and they
pass that energy on. Don’t do for the people what they can do for themselves.
Get them involved! Our mission is not a “remote control” venture where one sits
in a far away location and tries to gauge the mission’s activities – hoping and
wishing the job is being done properly. As an American you have one of the
greatest gifts – the gift of INFLUENCE. Find out how to use it wisely.
A. Moses Akpan was born in Southern Nigeria (Akwa
Ibom State) into a Christian Family and moved to the
United States after High School. At an early age in Nigeria
he witnessed many American Missionaries. He attended the
First Church of Christ High School built in Nigeria.
Moses has lived in Georgia and Texas and is currently
making a home in Tucson, Southern Arizona.
Professionally, he has held various positions including
Software Development and Database Architecture.
He is a Principal Information Systems Technologist with Raytheon Missile
Systems Information Technology in Business Intelligence Data Architecture.
Moses has been involved in Missions in Mexico and Nigeria. His personal
experiences and commitment led to the establishment of AFRICAN FAMILY
RESOURCE INTERNATIONAL (AFRI), a Christian Family Mission to
Nigeria for the past twelve years. He is the President and Founder.
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Establishing a Proper Relationship
In an effort to assist those less fortunate we sometimes find ourselves presenting
completed solutions for problems that seem to enjoy wide acceptance and then
are effectively abandoned over relatively short periods of time. It is easy for us
to forget that there are cultural and economic conditions that may effectively
inhibit and restrict our proposed solutions, or that the people we are helping
often have a vastly deeper knowledge of the problem than we do and perhaps
have a workable solution we may have overlooked. In our zeal we may even
completely fail to take into account local issues or resistance that is somewhat
muted during the initial proposal of a solution. To aid them, we should be
advisors to offer generalized solutions and vehicles for progress. We should
simply oversee the feasibility of any solution as dictated by budget limitations.
We may present alternatives and suggestions. To effectively aid others, we must
consider their culture, on-the-ground realities, and work to avoid a paternalistic
relationship. For maximum impact and value, our relationship has to be a
partnership that features a diminishing role for the benefactor.
Ron Scott has been a Christian minister for over 38 years.
He is a Teacher and the Technology Administrator for
Lighthouse Christian Academy (LCA) in Bloomington,
Indiana. LCA conducts programs for both foreign and
domestic aid projects as a part of their Christian outreach.
He has traveled extensively as a Missionary in Malawi,
Africa to teach and offer humanitarian assistance to the
people. He has a long-standing involvement with a number
of churches that aid the underprivileged in Malawi,
Mozambique, Mexico, and the Philippines.
Grab from your Surroundings
With the culture and resources available to Americans, it is easy to approach the
problems we encounter in the field from our perspective. Sometimes we solve a
problem that we bring with us. Sometimes our solution creates two more
problems. Let’s focus instead on what works. In the field we need to focus on
three primary areas: When should we effect change? What’s cheap? What’s
available?
A product of the southwest, Evin Yarbrough grew up mere
miles from the Mexican border. Starting at age six he
walked right alongside the evangelists traveling into Mexico
and Central America. His heart is rooted in assisting
struggling families squatting in the impoverished outskirt
communities found in Central America, the Philippines and
Southern Africa. Through his professional career in
Computer Sciences the focus has always been on flexible
hours and the opportunity to assist in mission work.
Language proficiency taken from being immersed in fieldwork has been a
blessing in his professional environment as well. He is currently a senior Web
Application Designer for Raytheon Missile Systems.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
10:30am – 12:30pm
East Room, 3 rd Floor
Panel:
Designing for Sustainability
Abstract:
Too often development projects fail. An estimated 30% of water projects in sub-
Saharan Africa have failed prematurely in the last 20 years, and a mere 10% of
cooking stove programs started in the 1980s were operational two years after
startup. With similar anecdotal evidence suggesting a mixed record of success
for energy, infrastructure, health, and sanitation projects, the question we must
ask ourselves is “How can we make development projects more sustainable?” In
considering this question we often limit the available answers by framing the
problem in terms of environmental impact or technical issues associated to
durability and maintenance. And while these are vital considerations, the
product-centric viewpoint often blinds us to other pertinent long-term questions
that deal with financing, cultural preferences and societal change, management,
and logistics for delivering replacement parts. The complex interactions between
these facets of sustainability must be considered when designing products and
services for long-term viability. Evidence will show that a durable product can
fail prematurely due to lack of tools to conduct regular maintenance, a rural
health program can stagnate from logistical barriers, unexpected uses of product
waste can cause disease or environmental degradation, and projects that ease
daily hardships can be forcibly destroyed or removed if they conflict with
cultural preferences. This panel brings together a variety of viewpoints and
experiences to discuss the complex interrelationships between several facets of
sustainability, including technical, environmental, economic, social and cultural,
managerial, and supply chain and channel considerations. Examples and lessons
learned will be given along with recommendations to improve the sustainability
of the products and services we design for humanity.
Moderator:
Nathan Johnson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Homer Energy
Dr. Nathan Johnson’s expertise lies in integrated energy
systems analysis. Through his work, Johnson describes
energy flow in society and how it is influenced by dynamic
human, natural, and technical systems. His work combines
field research, laboratory research, and computational
modeling to develop decision-making tools that support the
design of sustainable products and services around the
world. These tools are primarily applied in the assessment and design of microgrid
power systems and heat systems. Linking concept to construction,
Johnson’s work provides new depth to understanding complex energy systems
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and applying that understanding to sustainable design. Johnson has two years of
research and development experience in eight foreign countries, and has
working experience in corporate and academic environments.
Johnson is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Nation Science Foundation
(NSF) and the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). His
research in micro-grid power system modeling and decision making is being
completed at HOMER Energy LLC. Johnson received his bachelors in
Mechanical Engineering, master’s in Mechanical Engineering, master’s in
International Development, and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa
State University.
Panel Speakers:
�� Andrew Beddoe, Program Officer, PATH
Mr. Beddoe is currently a Program Officer at PATH,
managing the development and commercialization of new
global health products for emerging markets. He has over
8 years international product design and development
experience and has taken more than 20 new products to
market. While at PATH, Mr. Beddoe has conducted
research studies and managed program activities in India,
Kenya, Nigeria, and Cambodia that have informed the design and
development of multiple products and technologies. Prior to working at
PATH, Mr. Beddoe was Category Manager at K2 Sports where he managed
product line strategy, development, and financial oversight for several product
categories and brands owned by K2 and sold globally. His experience and
expertise is in product management, market and trend analysis, consumer
product design, user-centered research and design, and manufacturing. Market
experience includes Europe, North America, Japan, India, New Zealand,
China, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Africa, with extensive experience sourcing
and establishing manufacturing partners for both K2 Sports and PATH.
Andrew holds a M.S. and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Montana
State University. He is also an MBA.
�� Peter Bladin, Director of Green Technology, Global
Partnerships
Peter oversees Global Partnerships Green Technology
Fund (http://www.globalpartnership.org/) and its work in
creating market sustained solutions for bringing
appropriate Green Technology products to poor
households via microfinance institutions and
cooperatives. He joined GP’s staff in September 2012,
having previously served on its board. He is responsible for providing
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appropriate capital and strategic and technical assistance to MFI’s and
cooperate partners, as well as help identify and grow value chains that can
distribute to and service poor households in its green technology needs.
Prior to joining GP, Peter was the Executive Vice President of Programs and
Regions at Grameen Foundation where he oversaw all microfinance and
technology programs as well as the foundation’s global strategies. He joined
GF in 2001 when he founded the Grameen Technology Center and built it into
a global leader in using Information and communication technologies (ICT)
for the benefit of the poor and poorest, with a specific focus on the mobile
phone. He is a firm believer in developing market sustained solutions that puts
the need of poor people at the core while having a true triple bottom line.
Peter started his career at Microsoft Corporation in 1987 where he spent a
decade in a variety of leadership roles focused on the international work,
product support and marketing. Peter has extensive experience in various
board roles at non-profits and for profits social businesses. He has served at
boards in Africa focused on Village Phone activities as well as local Seattle
boards. He currently serves on the board of Grameen Foundation and
Grameen Jameel, a social business focused on furthering Microfinance in the
Middle East and North Africa. He is a frequent speaker at various
international development conferences worldwide and has a degree in
Mathematics and Economics from the University of Uppsala Sweden.
�� Christopher Freitas, Project Engineer, Sun Energy
Power International
Christopher Freitas has worked in the renewable energy
industry full time since 1986. The focus of his career has
been on power conversion electronics and off-grid PV
system design. Christopher was the Director of
Engineering at Trace Engineering and then co-founded
OutBack Power Systems in 2001. Since 2008, he has
worked with a US based non-profit organization, SunEPI, which provided
training and system design, installation and monitoring services with recently
completed projects in Haiti, South Sudan and Pakistan of school and health
care facilities. He is currently working with USAID on a low cost Iridium
satellite connected performance monitoring system which provides hourly
data for under $1 per day and is currently being tested in Haiti.
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�� Mia Devine, Independent Consultant
Mia Devine has over 10 years of experience in the
renewable energy industry. Her varied work experience
includes wind resource data collection and analysis, wind
farm sitting and fatal flaw reviews, energy production
estimates, and feasibility studies for wind-diesel hybrid
power systems in remote communities. Mia has worked
at Det Norske Veritas (a global wind energy consulting
firm), the Alaska Energy Authority, the National Renewable Energy
Laboratory's Wind Technology Center, Windustry (a non-profit wind energy
advocacy organization), and Innovative Power Systems (a dealer/installer of
residential renewable energy systems). She recently spent a year traveling and
volunteering in Central and South America where she helped to install and
maintain solar electric lighting systems in rural communities. Mia holds a
B.A. in Mathematics from Grinnell College and an M.S. in Mechanical
Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
�� Shana Greene, Founder and Executive Director,
Village Volunteers
Shana Greene is the Founder and Executive Director of
Village volunteers, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
based in Seattle that brings together worldwide
collaboration in support of nongovernmental
organizations in Africa and Asia that are holistic and
utilize principles of sustainability to solving community
challenges. Village Volunteers works with 24 inspiring community leaders in
rural villages who empower local people, rely on indigenous resources, and
build upon their existing cultural and economic context. Ms. Greene has been
a social entrepreneur directing nonprofit organizations for more than 30 years.
Guided by her belief that society must move towards sustainability for the
sake of future generations, she combines her principles with creativity to
collaborate on innovative grassroots social enterprises and community
development projects that strive for the broadest social and environmental
impact.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
1:30pm – 3:30pm
East Room, 3 rd Floor
Panel:
Connectivity and Communication
Abstract:
Research and Education Networks exist in many regions of the world. These
networks typically serve the broader University community, however, they often
can be leveraged to support a broader mission, including humanitarian efforts.
This panel will include experts from the United States, Africa, Europe, and
South America to explore the use of research and education networks to serve
humanitarian goals. It will provide an introduction to research and education
networking from around the world and will then provide some specific examples
of leveraging these networks for broader purposes.
Moderator:
Jim Miller is the founder and president of SYNECTICS,
Ltd. a Seattle-based company, specializing in strategic
planning and consulting for information and
communications technology (ICT) with global clients and
projects. He has worked with and managed teams for large
and small, complex data and communications projects for
domestic and international projects in US, Canada,
Malaysia, Russia, Iraq, Egypt, and Jordan, including
national strategic reorganization and technology plans for
Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt.
His expertise spans infrastructure design, and development of practical client
solutions and applications, including networks for distance education and remote
emergency health care, video-conferencing solutions, network disaster
management architectures, operational support systems, regulatory affairs,
financial planning and analysis, and marketing and management strategies. Jim
has corporate as well as startup experience, as founder and principal in 4
companies, where he has developed unique solutions in automated telephone
data access, electronic medical records, systemic educational planning, and
nation-wide wireless network development.
Mr. Miller has an extensive background in developing, demonstrating, and
advocating global humanitarian uses of technology. He was the sole technology
keynoter at the 50 th Anniversary of the Fulbright Association in Budapest where
he spoke on technological pollution. He has advocated for global
communications subsidies for humanitarian-NGOs at several World Bank,
UNDP, USAID, and Arthur C Clarke Foundation sponsored events. He has
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developed and demonstrated affordable, satellite-based low bandwidth video
and Internet connections and techniques in the Amazon, Alaska, and remote
locations in the Pacific. Jim is proactive in developing new technologies
sustainably in emerging and under-served areas. He holds a BSc in Physics-
Math from the University of Arizona. Jim was Computer Society Chair in the
IEEE Puget Sound Chapter and is a member of IEEE and the IEEE
Communications Society.
Panel Speakers:
�� Marco Zennaro holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical
Engineering from Universita di Trieste and a Ph.D. from
the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm,
Sweden. As a researcher in the International Centre for
Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, he has focused on
the use of ICT for development, particularly for Wireless
Sensor Networks (WSN) and scientific applications.
He is one of the authors of three books: Wireless
Networking in the Developing World, Science Dissemination using Open
Access, and Mobile Science and Learning. Marco has taught courses about
wireless technologies for many years in numerous countries and is the main
editor of the WSN blog at http://www.wsnblog.com/.
�� Ermanno Pietrosemoli is currently a researcher at the
Telecommunications/ICT for Development Lab of the
International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste,
Italy, and president of Fundación Escuela
Latinoamericana de Redes “EsLaRed”, a non-profit
organization that promotes ICT in Latin America
through training and development projects, with funding
and logistic support from NSRC (Network Startup
Resource Center).
After 30 years of teaching Telecommunications at Universidad de los Andes
in Venezuela, Ermanno has focused on the planning and deployment of
wireless data communication networks with low-cost technology in
Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Italy, Lesotho, Malawi, Mexico, Morocco,
Nicaragua, Peru, Trinidad, Spain, U.S.A. and Venezuela. He has presented in
many conferences and published several papers related to wireless data
communication and is co-author and technical reviewer of the book,
“Wireless Networking for the Developing World” – which is freely available
from http://wndw.net/.
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�� Sebastian Buettrich works with (low-cost) wireless
technology, open source software and solar energy to
build networks, systems, skills and capacity — as a
manager, developer, architect, consultant and teacher.
This work is focused on (but not limited to) developing
countries and communities, especially in Asia and
Africa. One current focus is to help develop campus
networks for research and education, with emphasis on
global integration and sustainability. His current affiliations are:
http://www.itu.dk – the IT University of Copenhagen, where he runs the
Research Lab http://www.nsrc.org – the Network Startup Resource Center
http://wire.less.dk – NGO and company co-founded with Tomas Krag
http://wirelessU.org – a group of dedicated professionals working towards a
world-wide, people-centered, inclusive Information Society http://wndw.net/
– Co-author of the Wireless Networking in the Developing World book.
Sebastian holds a Ph.D. in quantum physics from the Technical University of
Berlin in Germany, with a focus on optics, radio spectroscopy, photovoltaic
systems and scientific programming. He loves and plays music, is fascinated
and engaged with text, language and poetry in many forms.
�� Dale Smith is the International Networking Coordinator
at the University of Oregon’s Network Startup Resource
Center. Dale is a Principal Investigator for the U.S.
National Science Foundation working to develop
international research network connections, and he also
chairs the Emerging NREN group for Internet2, a
national research and education network in the USA.
Prior to working as the International Networking
Coordinator, Dale was the Director of Networking and
Telecommunications Services at the University of Oregon where he worked
for over 30 years to develop networking facilities for the University of
Oregon and the Pacific Northwest region. He has authored a number of
papers on leveraging networking technology and teaches throughout Africa
and Asia about designing networks to support research and education.
�� Emmanuel Togo is from Abutiakope-Keta, Ghana, and
earned his first degree in Computer Science and Physics
from University of Ghana in 1999. He currently works
as the Head of the Networking Unit of the University of
Ghana’s Computing Systems (UGCS). He is also a
founding member of the Ghanaian Academic and
Research Network’s (GARNET) technical team working
to build the national research and education network in
Ghana. Emmanuel’s current focus is designing and
deploying an affordable, large-scale campus-wide WiFi network in Ghana.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
4:00pm – 6:00pm
East Room, 3 rd Floor
Panel:
Business for the Bottom of the Pyramid:
Dream or Reality?
Abstract:
A short presentation on (ICT) Business models for the Base of the Pyramid will
be given by Pieter Verhagen, business consultant at TNO. Following this short
presentation, a panel of high level experts in the field of business for the BoP
will exchange their opinions and insights. Panelists will be challenged to discuss
and debate the following assertions:
�� Companies do not understand the local demand at the BoP and do not know
how to do market research for the BoP
�� The number of success stories of projects at the BoP is limited, the risks are
high and the payback period is long; therefore, the BoP is not interesting for
regular investors.
�� In order to set up a successful BoP project, development institutions will have
to accept that profits will be made; companies have to accept that more of
their ROI have to go into development/social impact.
This will be followed with an exchange of views with the audience and a
conclusion by the moderator.
Moderator:
Marc Van Den Homberg is the co-founder and leader of
the ICT4D market team at TNO. Marc initiates and sets up
projects in two domains: ICT in post-conflict reconstruction
and disaster recovery, and inclusive innovation using ICT.
In both domains Marc aims at market- and communitybased
pro-poor innovations to reach social (poverty
reduction) and economic impact (enhanced
entrepreneurship). Marc presents regularly for example on
inclusive innovation using ICT in Vietnam, innovative
business models for mobile services addressing the BoP or voice-based
community-centric mobile services for social development.
In relation to his duties at TNO, Marc is a reserve officer of the Integrated
Development of Entrepreneurial Activities network in the civil-military battalion
that executes economic reconstruction tasks in fragile states, for example by the
UN/ILO Start and Improve Your Business program. Here his focus is on how
entrepreneurship in (post)-conflict areas can be stimulated in close cooperation
with NGOs and IOs.

Marc holds an MBA degree from Rotterdam School of Management (where he
wrote his thesis on the fuzzy front end of new product development and
commercialization processes) and a Ph.D. in physics from Delft University of
Technology.
Panel Speaker:
Pieter Verhagen is a business consultant at TNO
(www.tno.nl), specializing in business modeling and
business analysis for innovations for low-income
customers. He has a track record in business modeling for
the telecom, energy and mobility sector in the Netherlands
and EU. Since 2010, he focuses his efforts on
“Innovation4Development”, a corporate program within
TNO with the mission to facilitates pro-poor innovations,
using a demand-driven, market-based research approach, in
co-creation with stakeholders.
Pieter Verhagen manages both product development and R&D projects in
energy, food/agro and ICT innovations in Africa and Asia, with a focus on
sustainable business models for (technical) innovations. In terms of product
development, he is currently involved in developing an innovative electricity
generator for biogas households in Rwanda and Bangladesh, an improved solar
cooker in Madagascar, and a novel process to create food ingredients from the
waste of the Ghanaian pineapple industry. Pieter’s research efforts are focused
in the FP7 Voices project, in which sustainable voice based ICT services for the
Sahel region are developed (www.mvoices.eu).
Pieter holds a MScBA in Innovation Management with Rotterdam School of
Management in the Netherlands and has completed a Master’s program in
Marketing Management at Umea University in Sweden. Pieter works part time
for the BoP Innovation Center (www.bopinc.org), setting up a funding facility
for inclusive innovation projects.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
4:00pm – 5:00pm
South Room, 3 rd Floor
Panel:
Transitioning from the For-Profit to the
Non-Profit World
This panel will look at why people move from the profit to non-profit world.
Why do it? What does it take? What new skills do I need? How can I use my
old skills?
Moderator:
Paul J. Kostek is the Principal of Air Direct Solutions, a
systems engineering/project management consulting firm.
He works with companies in defining system architecture,
system requirements, and software development standards.
Paul received his BS from the University of Massachusetts,
Dartmouth.
Paul was the IEEE-USA VP Communications & Public
Awareness and on the IEEE-USA Board of Directors in
2007-2009. And also has served as chair of the IEEE Individual Benefits and
Services Committee and a member of the IEEE-USA Government Fellows
Committee.
In 1999 Paul was the President of IEEE-USA, and a member of the IEEE Board
of Directors. He served as President of the IEEE Aerospace & Electronics
Systems Society in 2000-2001 and Chaired the American Association of
Engineering Societies in 2003. Paul was the Chair of the 2006 IEEE/AIAA
Digital Avionics Systems Conference and was General Chair of the 2004 IEEE
Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference. He is an AIAA Distinguished
Lecturer and an IEEE-USA SPAC Speaker. He is a member of the Seattle
Central Community College IT Technical Advisory Committee.
Paul is a Senior Member of the IEEE, an Associate Fellow of the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a member of the International
Council on Systems Engineering, SAE, and the Project Management Institute.

Panel Speakers:
Erna Grasz, Asante Africa Foundation
Erna Grasz has led organizations, teams and individuals to
success in fast paced, high stress, and results orientated
environments for over 25 years. She has an established
reputation as a strategic leader with demonstrated success in
diverse industries, including Medical Device, Defense
Research, and Semiconductor Capital Equipment. She has
exercised her skills in full management for business
functions including: general management; research and
product development; business development; operations; sales; and marketing.
She has led teams as large as 400 people and as small as 3 people. Most
recently, she has transitioned her leadership skills from being a Chief
Technology Officer in the Medical Device Market to the Non- Profit world as
the CEO of Asante Africa Foundation. She is known as an organizer of chaos
and a “turn-around” leader. Other Formal Leadership Roles include: General
Manager at Philips Healthcare, San Jose Campus / Vice President of R&D for
Tyco Healthcare, Nellcor, Mallinckrodt Division / General Manager, KLA-
Tencor / Program Manager, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Erna is an award-winning speaker with Toastmasters International. She has
published numerous articles on leadership, communication skills and project
management. She is a certified leadership trainer and career coach with a
specific focus on youth, and early and mid- career professions. Her advanced
degrees are in Electrical Engineering and Engineering Management from Texas
Tech University and Santa Clara University. She also has several executive
Leadership and Management Training certificates from Stanford, MIT Sloan,
UCLA.
Outside of running the Asante Africa Foundation, she is a fitness professional, a
semi professional photographer, and an avid traveler.
Joel Meyers, Fuse IQ
Currently partner and co-founder of Fuse IQ, a web design
and development studio, Joel has focused on creating
Internet based solutions for nonprofits and educational
institutions for the past 11 years. He acts as senior advisor
on the many solutions Fuse IQ creates helping clients
leverage technology and best practices on the Web. Many of
the solutions include community building, member
management, libraries and portals, GIS data mapping,
learning management systems and more.
In the past 5 years Joel has been extending his interests more towards
organizations with global reach. With this drive he was co-founder of Basa
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Village Foundation USA (www.basavillagefoundationusa.org). After two visits
(and 44 days total) in Nepal, he fell in love with the village Basa that sourced all
the porters for the trekking and mountain climbing expedition he was on. What
was amazing to him was the connection they had with their families and
community and how open they were to outsiders. Joel realized there is a lot we
can learn from these rural indigenous people.
During an expedition to reach the top of Mera Peak in October 2011, huddled at
16,000 feet in a low-ceilinged tea house one evening, he and 5 other people
decided to form the nonprofit to support the village of Mera and continue the
work one member had started in village improvements. Since getting involved
Joel has helped support various projects, for example, a hydro-electric turbine
installation to bring electricity to all 70 family homes in Basa, contributing and
delivering 11 laptop computers to the school, building a safety retaining wall in
the village central square, building a composting toilet for the school, and
funding the materials and training for each family to build a smokeless stove for
their homes. Many project ideas are in development with the current fundraising
effort going to bringing fresh running water to each home.
Joel has faced many victories and many challenges being part of BVF USA.
Primarily he continually asks the question and evaluates to what level of
responsibility do we have as westerners in influencing this small corner of the
world with our ideas and technology? How can we help the village help
themselves lift up their living conditions and opportunities without destroying
the wonderful culture they have?
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
5:00pm – 6:00pm
South Room, 3 rd Floor
Panel:
MIT International Development Design
Summit (IDDS)
Abstract:
International Development Design Summit (IDDS) is an annual summit that
promotes intense hands-on design experiences to create technologies and
enterprises that improve the lives of people in poverty. It was founded in 2007
by Amy Smith, an MIT lecturer head of D-lab, a series of courses and field trips
that focus on international development, appropriate technologies and
sustainable solutions for communities in developing countries. This past
summer, IDDS was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, being organized by a local team
for the first time. During the summit, 6 projects were developed in areas of
recycling, sanitation, eco constructions, leisure, flooring and financial
management.
During the panel, IDDS principles and projects from summit this year as well as
previous years will be introduced. Since the major IDDS principles are “cocreation”,
“hands-on learning” and “creative capacity building”, the audience
will be exposed to IDDS both in discussion manner as well as hands-on manner.
For more information about IDDS, please visit our website: http://iddsummit.org
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Moderator:
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Soon Wan, Vicor Corporation
(gimsoon@ieee.org)
Soon Wan is a Senior Design Engineer in the Research and
Development Engineering group at VICOR Corporation
(Andover, MA). He designs and develops high power
density DC/DC power converter with innovative
technologies and patented topologies.
Soon has been an active IEEE volunteer for IEEE Humanitarian Activities. He
was the 2007 and 2008 Chair of IEEE Graduates Of the Last Decade (GOLD)
Committee - with approximately 50,000 young professional GOLD members
worldwide. In order to create awareness among engineering students and young
professionals on how they could use their skills and knowledge to aid
humanitarian works, Soon successfully organized the inaugural GOLD
Humanitarian Workshop in Boston in 2008. In addition, Soon initiated the
GOLD Humanitarian Fellowship Program in 2009. In 2010, Soon was a member
of IEEE Humanitarian AdHoc Committee, and a co-responding member to
IEEE Humanitarian Technology Challenge, and with the Reliable Electricity
Solution Workgroup. Since 2008, Soon is a co-responding member to IEEE
Committee on Earth Observation (ICEO), and was working on the IEEE “Water
for the World” initiative. Soon was the Publicity Chair of 2011 and 2012 IEEE
Global Humanitarian Technology Conference.
Panel Speaker:
Miho Kitagawa, MIT
(mkitagaw@MIT.EDU)
Miho Kitagawa was born and raised in Kyoto, Japan. She
is currently a 3 rd -year undergraduate student at MIT,
majoring in Mechanical Engineering with Biomedical
Engineering track. She is passionate about engineering for
international development and co-creation with
communities, and has worked on design engineering
projects with communities in Honduras and Brazil through MIT D-lab. She was
a participant in IDDS 2012 in Brazil, and is currently leading the recycling
project, which started during IDDS, with a new team based in MIT. She is
planning to hold a capacity-building workshop this summer in Japan, trying to
spread the philosophies of IDDS to her home country.

Abstract:
EPICS Around the Globe
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
10:30am – 11:30am
East Room, 3 rd Floor
Panel:
EPICS (Engineering Projects in
Community Service)
The objective of the panel discussion will be an introduction of the Engineering
Projects In Community Service (EPICS) Program and the EPICS Initiative from
IEEE. Primary target audience for the panel is faculty and leadership from
academia around the world. The moderator will introduce in brief about EPICS
and its past success within IEEE and outside. Panel discussion will include
service oriented Projects as part of learning at undergraduate level, structuring
EPICS in academic curriculum and pre university Interaction
Moderator:
Prasanna Venkatesan is the co-founder of amgonna.com
and hubvents.com. He is primarily interested in business
models and technology that can enable effective real life
people connections. Prior to this, he worked with the IBM
Software Labs. At IBM in collaboration with IBM Research
he initiated and lead the iCollaborate project on people
connections that was further demonstrated in the ACM
SIGIR Conference. He also lead the IBM campus relations
effort for National Institute of Technology, Warangal from
where he graduated with Bachelors in Computer Science in 2008 and conducted
research on Security and access control techniques.
He has been an IEEE Volunteer since 2004. He is currently a voting member on
the IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB) and a member of the EAB Society
Education Outreach Committee (SEOC), EPICS and Pre University Education
Coordination Committee (PECC). He leaded the expansion of EPICS in
India initiating 15 projects in the last 2 years. He is also currently serving as the
R10 GINI Coordinator and R10 Membership development coordinator for IEEE
Computer Society. He is highly interested in IEEE Pre University efforts and
leads the Teacher in Service Program activities in India
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Panel Speakers: Joyce Mwangama is currently working towards a PhD in
Electrical Engineering at the University of Cape Town, in
South Africa. Her current research revolves around the
evolution of Next Generation Mobile Networks and Future
Internet architectures and technologies. She also works for
the Electrical Engineering Department at UCT as a
Research and Teaching Assistant. Outside of academics,
she has been involved in numerous volunteer and
leadership positions within the student body at her
university and within the local community. In 2010, she was the Chairperson of
the IEEE Student Branch within her university. She is currently the Section
Student Activities Chair, and the Chair of the GOLD Affinity Group (Southern
Region) within the South Africa Section. She has participated in two previously
completed EPICS-in-Engineering Projects. She is also the Pre-University
Activities coordinator for the Africa region where she is involved in initiatives
to promote engineering and sciences to high school learners.
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Michael Boyer is a Technology and Engineering Education
teacher at North Penn High School in Lansdale, PA. He
currently teaches Analog Electronics, Digital Electronics
and Engineering Design and Development in the
department’s Engineering Academy. Additionally, he
advises the EPICS club and the Auto club.
Michael was named the Technology Education Teacher of
the year for the state of Pennsylvania from TEEAP and
ITEEA and was an MIT Excite Award winner who has received several research
grants from numerous organizations and companies including: Toyota, Toshiba,
Dominion and others to implement a nanotechnology research program he
created called The Future is N.E.A.R. (Nanotechnology Education And
Research).
Michael designed the N.E.A.R. program to offer his students an opportunity to
gain 21st century STEM skills that will prepare them to become successful
leaders in an ever-increasing technological society. In his program, the students
are encouraged to utilize their imagination, knowledge and skills in conjunction
with the latest published research to design collaborative research experiments
relating to the development of polymer nanofibers and various nanostructures
for pure and applied research applications. Many of his students’ research
projects are focused upon the environment, health care and energy related
issues.
Michael is a member of the lesson plan vetting committee for the Pennsylvania
Department of Education and serves on the visiting advisory board for the
Materials Science and Engineering department at Drexel University and the K-
12 STEM Literacy Education Advisory Board for the IEEE.

X-Tracks
(Forum, Demo, or Workshop)
North Room, 3 rd Floor
Monday, October 22, 2012
1:30pm – 3:30pm
Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) Working Group
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
10:30am – 11:30am
Demonstration – TNO Connect.Teaching
4:00pm – 6:00pm
Robotics and Automation for Humanitarian Activities
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
4:00pm – 6:00pm
North, 3 rd Floor
Robotics and Automation for
Humanitarian Activities
Speakers and Abstracts
��Robotics and Automation for Humanitarian Activities
Dr. Raj Madhavan, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland
College Park & IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Can existing R&A technologies be put to use for solving
problems that can benefit society in general and improve
the quality of life for humanity? If yes, how can we
leverage existing technology? If not, what are the
missing elements and gaps? What is the "low hanging
fruit" that can be targeted? What are long-term issues?
This talk will provide an overview of related activities in
the robotics community and provide a review of possible domains of interest.
��Lessons Learned from a Decade of Rescue Robots
Dr. Robin R. Murphy, Director, Center for Robot-Assisted Search & Rescue,
Texas A&M University
Ground, air, or marine rescue robots have been used for
25 known disasters or extreme incidents starting with
the 2001 World Trade Center disaster and most recently
have been deployed at the twin disasters of the Tohoku
Earthquake and Tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear
emergency. The majority of deployments have been to
mine disasters or to collapses of urban structures from
terrorism, accidents, or meteorological events. Robots have not directly
assisted with saving a life but are credited with speeding the search for
survivors, reducing risk to responders, and accelerating economic recovery.
Robots are still uncommon and most agencies or stakeholders do not own
robots, preventing their timely incorporation into the response activities.
Rescue robots work very well, though far from perfect. While our studies
suggest the mean time between failures for rescue robots is fairly low by
manufacturing standards, on the order of a failure for every 20 hours of
operation, rescue robots work in much shorter missions. Robots have only
“died in place” in four out of 24 incidents, which is reasonable given the
extreme environments that they operate in. 50% of the failures are due to
human error, which strongly suggests that human-¬robot interaction is a, if
not the, major barrier facing rescue robotics. The two publicized failures at
Fukushima were either incorrect or misrepresented.

��AFRON "10 Dollar Robot" Robot Design Challenge
Dr. Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley
The goal of the AFrican RObotics Network (AFRON)
"10 Dollar Robot" Design Challenge, which ran from
15 June to 15 September 2012, was to design a new
class of affordable robots for learning (especially in
primary and secondary schools). The winners were
recently announced in three categories: tethered,
traditional (roaming), and all-in-one (self-contained). This talk will review
AFRON and provide more details on the design challenge and winning
entries.
��Robotics and Automation Applications in Developing Countries
Mr. Satish Babu, Director, International Centre for Free
and Open Source Software (ICFOSS)
Robotics and Automation are generally considered as
more useful in the context of Developed Countries
compared to Developing Countries, largely on account
of parameters such as complexity, cost and existence of
alternatives. However, there are emerging areas of
civilian uses where R & A could add value, even in
Developing Countries. Considering the need to conserve energy, water,
nutrients and labor, automated farming practices such as "hi-tech farming"
and precision agriculture, both greenhouse-based as well as farm-based, are
gaining currency, even in Developing Countries such as India. There is a
requirement for automated harvesting and processing systems for a variety of
crops ranging from grain to apples to coconuts. Automated systems for
municipal solid waste management and hospital waste management
including drain-clearing robots have become important from the safety
perspective. Home automation from several perspectives-energy reductions,
labor saving, surveillance, and monitoring (of children, elderly) is also
increasingly gaining attention. The next few years are expected to witness a
significant expansion in R & A applications in Developing Countries as well.
��Autonomous Delivery: Segways, Google car, fixed wing and multi-copters,
Dr. Mike North, Founder/Chair, Reallocate
In this talk Dr. North discusses some of the challenges
in autonomous delivery ranging from delivering pizzas
using an autonomous Segway and Prius. He'll also look
at a couple different flying drones, including a fixed
wing electric plane and quad-copters and octa-copter at
this year’s burning man event.
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Technical Paper Sessions (Monday)
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Monday, October 22, 2012
10:30am – 12:30pm
��Energy Session A (Federal, B Level)
��Disaster (South Room, 3 rd Floor)
1:30pm – 3:30pm
��Humanitarian Challenges & Opportunities (Federal, B Level)
��Water and Agriculture (South Room, 3 rd Floor)
4:00pm – 6:00pm
��ISCRAM Special Papers (Federal, B Level)

Monday, October 22, 2012
10:30am – 12:30pm
Federal, B Level
Energy Session A
Track Chair: Pedro Melendez-Vega
Time Title Author(s)
10:30am
10:50am
11:10am
11:30am
11:50am
12:10pm
Aluminum foil coils for human scale wind
turbines
A hot plate solar cooker with electricity
generation, Combining a parabolic trough
mirror with a Sidney Tube and heat pipe
Pedalite: Lighting Up Lives in Unelectrified
Villages
Solar Battery Charging Station and Torque
Sensor Based Electrically Assisted Tricycle
Efficient Microgrid Management System for
Electricity Distribution in Emerging Regions
An Efficient Photovoltaic Cell Design by
Composite of Back Contact EWT Technique
and Surface Texturisation
Pedro Melendez-Vega
Giri Venkataramanan
Anton Kaasjager
G.P.G Moeys
Rajesh Megalingam
Lekshmi Nair
Meera Viswanath
Shreeja Sugathan
Tahsin Faraz
A. Azad
Javier Rosa
P. Achintya Madduri
Daniel Soto
Abu Asraf Siddique
Abu Hanif Md. Ripon
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Monday, October 22, 2012
10:30am – 12:30pm
South Room, 3 rd Floor
Disaster
Track Chair: Dr. Mark Henderson, Arizona State University
Time Title Author(s)
10:30am
10:50am
11:10am
11:30am
11:50am
12:10pm
An Incident Management Preparedness and
Coordination Toolkit
Road Traffic Forecasting through
Simulation and Live GPS-feed from
Intervehicle Networks
Inter-System Software Adapter for
Decision Support by Interfacing Disaster
Response Platforms & Simulation
Platforms
Human detection based on active infrared
illumination
A Map for the Future: Measuring Radiation
Levels in Fukushima, Japan
A Unique Environmental Mobile Device
for Detecting Hazardous Chemicals
Daniel Koch
Patricia Payne
Hafiz Abdur Rahman
José Martí
K. D. Srivastava
José Martí
Antonio Di Pietro
Baptiste Charnier
Paul Lusina
Pranab Kini
Kui Wang
Vittorio Rosato
Kuniaki Uto
Haruyuki Seki
Yukio Kosugi
Toru Murase
Shigenori Takagishi
Yoh Kawano
David Shepard
Yugo Shobugawa
Jun Goto
Makoto Naito
Iem Heng
Andy Zhang
Michael Heimbinder
Raymond Yap

Monday, October 22, 2012
1:30pm – 3:30pm
Federal, B Level
Humanitarian Challenges and
Opportunities
Track Chair: Dr. Mark Henderson, Arizona State University
Time Title Author(s)
1:30pm Humanitarian Challenges And Opportunities Sumonu Lateef
1:50pm
2:10pm
2:30pm
Socio-economic Development of Extremely
Poor Rural Communities in Kapgari Area -
Some Experiments and Field Results
Exploring employment opportunities through
microtasks via cybercafes
Bulbul Sen
Ranjan Sen
Mrunal Gawade
Rajan Vaish
Mercy Waihumbu
James Davis
Human Factors in Safe Driving - A review of
Sajan Pillai
literature on systems perspective, distractions
Gaur Ray
and errors
2:50pm Software for Tracking Vulnerable Children
3:10pm
Sahaaya: Gesture Recognising System to
provide effective communication for
specially-abled people
Keyur Dhaky
Mehernosh Bulsar
Piyush Madan
Arvinder Kaur
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Monday, October 22, 2012
1:30pm – 3:30pm
South Room, 2 nd Floor
Water and Agriculture
Track Chair: Dr. Jay Pearlman, Fellow IEEE
Time Title Author(s)
1:30pm
1:50pm
2:10pm
2:30pm
2:50pm
3:10pm
Sustainable On-Site Bleach Generation
Utilizing Salt and Sunlight
Design of Affordable Greenhouses for East
Africa
Healthy Forest, Healthy People: Remote
Sensing and Monitoring Support
Implementation of Community Forestry
Innovative Synthetic Aperture Radar
Products for the Management of Land and
Water
Leveraging Technological Advances in
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): A
Systems Thinking Approach
Implementation of a mobile vaccine
refrigerator with parallel photovoltaic power
systems
Thomas Baginski
Emile Ewing
Thaddeus Roppel
Robert Dean
Min Pack
Khanjan Mehta
Eric Kaiser
Kimberly Roberts
Jamlong Pawkham
Bunsak Thongdi
Robert Morikawa
Doug Satre
Guiseppe Ruello
Gerardo Di Martino
Antonio Iodice
Daniele Riccio
Maria Nicolina Papa
Youssouf Koussoube
Suyash Chopra
Justin Henriques
Benjamin Foster
William Schnorr
Reed Barton

Track Chair: Mark Haselkorn
Monday, October 22, 2012
4:00pm – 6:00pm
Federal, B Level
ISCRAM Special Papers
Time Title Author(s)
4:00pm
4:20pm
4:40pm
Competing Constraints: The Operational
Mismatch Between Business Logistics And
Humanitarian Effectiveness
Use of Synthetic Aperture Radar images for
Crisis Response and Management
Getting user-generated content structured:
Overcoming information overload in
emergency management
Robin Mays
Robert Racadio
Mary Kay Gugerty
Gerardo Di Martino
Antonio Iodice
Daniele Riccio
Giuseppe Ruello
Axel Schulz
Jens Ortmann
Florian Probst
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Technical Paper Sessions (Tuesday)
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
10:30am – 12:30pm
��Energy Session B (Federal, B Level)
��Connectivity and Communication (South Room, 3 rd Floor)
1:30pm – 2:30pm
��Energy Session C (Federal, B Level)
1:30pm – 3:30pm
��Humanitarian Applications (South Room, 3 rd Floor)
2:30pm – 3:30pm
��Student Posters Presentation (Federal, B Level)
4:00pm – 6:00pm
��Student Papers Presentation (Federal, B Level)

Tuesday, October 23, 2012
10:30am – 12:30pm
Federal, B Level
Energy Session B
Track Chair: Dr. Vincent Van Acker
Time Title Author(s)
10:30am
10:50am
11:10am
11:30am
11:50am
Flexicurity For Investment Reimbursement
Of Micro Renewable Electric Energy
Systems
Feasibility Study of Renewable energy
sources including solar, wind and bio-mass
Energy in the perspective of Bangladesh
Feasibility Study of Micro Hydro Power with
an Integrated Renewable Model in CHT
Development of a Water Runoff Model for
Pakistan: A tool for Identifying and
Assessing Micro-hydro Sites
Stand-Alone Renewable Hybrid Power
Generation System
Bernard Van Acker
Cédric Van Acker
Vincent Van Acker
Masud Khan
Forhed Abu
Shaikat Barua
Md. Rashidul Islam
Regan Barua
Thomas Mosier
Kendra Sharp
David Hill
B. Anand
P. Freddy Simon
A. J. Antony Venus
12:10pm Dual Powered Bike Balakrishnan G
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
10:30am – 12:30pm
South Room, 3 rd Floor
Connectivity and Communication
Track Chair: Ms. Rita Thissen, RTI International
Time Title Author(s)
10:30am
10:50am
11:10am
11:30am
11:50am
12:10pm
Empowering smallholders and local food
markets with smartphones and social
networks
Satellite technology to reach the unreached
(India - A case study)
Position Based Directional Ad-Hoc Routing
with Space Time Diversity
Managing IPv4 / IPv6 VOIP Interoperability
Using Server-to-Server Approach
Computing Technology in Global
Humanitarian Research
Online Monitoring System(OMS) - An
Online tool for centralized monitoring of
NGOs
Justin Henriques
Beaudry Kock
S L Rajashekhar
Gayatri Ayyangar
Richard Yu
Caryn Chan
Chirag Warty
Olga Mills
M. Rita Thissen
Karen Davis
Ravi Shankar

Tuesday, October 23, 2012
1:30pm – 2:30pm
Federal, B Level
Energy Session C
Track Chair: Dr. Vincent Van Acker
Time Title Author(s)
1:30pm
1:50pm
2:10pm
Simulation Study of Load Frequency Control
of Single and Two Area Systems
Kalman-Particle filter used for Particle
Swarm Optimization of Economic Dispatch
Problem
Designing a Spatially Intelligent Framework
to Improve Public Participation in the EIA
Process for Renewable Energy and Power
Transmission Projects
Adil Usman
BP Divakar
Reza Khorshidi
Faridoon Shabaninia
Mohammad Vaziri
Suresh Vadhva
Lei Lei
Brian Hilton
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
2:30pm – 3:30pm
Federal, B Level
Student Posters Competition
Track Chair: Ramesh Nair, Graduate Student, University of
Cincinnati
Time Title School
2:30pm Tropical Storm Wind Turbine
2:40pm Automobile Safety using Smart Phone
2:50pm Wound Pump
3:00pm
3:10pm
Edupad: A tablet based educational system
for improving adult literacy in India
Efficient Production of tactile text books for
blind students
University of
Technology, Jamaica
College of Engineering,
Trivandrum, Kerala,
India
Joint submission by
students of
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT)
and Harvard Medical
School (HMS), USA
Amrita Vishwa
Vidyapeetham
University, Kerala, India
University of
Washington, USA

Tuesday, October 23, 2012
1:30pm – 3:30pm
South Room, 3 rd Floor
Humanitarian Applications
Track Chair: Dr. Mark Henderson, Arizona State University
Time Title Author(s)
1:30pm
1:50pm
2:10pm
2:30pm
Development of a Sustainable Food Supply
Chain by Post Harvest Program
The Case for More Water Quality Data:
Improving Decision Making in Malawi
Robust Transmission of Watermarked
Medical Images Over Wireless Channels
An interactive sustainable infrastructure
design model for health clinics in sub-
Saharan Africa
Kenji Ushimaru
Craig Rominger
Stan Emert
Rochelle Holm
Elijah Wanda
P.K.Korrai
Swamy M.N.S
K.Deergha Rao
Bradley Striebig
Adebayo Ogundipe
Adib Amini
Dana Anderson
Leah Haling
Bryan Morrison
Valentina Sanmiguel
Ericka Smith
Daniel Wolfe
2:50pm Humanitarian Engineering Gary Conkol
3:10pm
Discovering Topic Transition about the East
Japan Great Earthquake in Dynamic Social
Media
Takako Hashimoto
Tetsuji Kuboyama
Basabi Chakraborty
Yukari Shirota
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
4:00pm – 6:00pm
Federal, B Level
Student Papers Competition
Track Chair: Elizabeth Johnston, EIC IEEE Potentials Magazine
Final 5 Student Papers
Time Title Author & School
4:00pm Aerial surveillance for damage assessment
4:20pm Automated online blood bank database
4:40pm
Evaluation on the performance of building
integrated Photovoltaic and it’s enhancement
5:00pm Smart dust with RFID sensor networks
5:20pm
Utilize radio broadcast as educational
technology
Eobin Alex George,
India Institute of
Technology, India
Sreevas Sahasranamam,
College of Engineering
Trivandrum, India
Shraddha Salvi,
University of California
Long Beach, USA
Parimal Autade, Pune
University, India
Restu Arif Priyono,
Bandung Institute of
Technology, Indonesia
Runners-Up:
�� Analysis of zone routing protocol for reconfigurable wireless network-
Sharath Shaji, Velammal Engineering College, Chennai, India
�� Ebooks and the value chain – Christopher Gillies, Capella University, MN,
USA
�� Efficient pumped storage power plant run by hybrid solar wind renewable
power sources – Rajesh Kanna, Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and
Technology, India
�� FASTICA based denoising for single sensor Digital Cameras images –
Shawetangi Kala
�� Mind controlled robotic hand with action simulator – Krishna Raj Nair M K,
College of Engineering Trivandrum, India
�� Third party auditing in cloud computing-Vasantha Sainath, VIT University,
Vellore, India
�� Traffic Diversion at Level Crossings Using Remote Indication – Mane Siet,
Sri Shakth Institute of Engineering and Technology, India

Technical Paper Sessions (Wednesday)
Wednesday, October 23, 2012
10:30am – 12:30pm
��Energy Session D (Federal, B Level)
��Health Session A (South Room, 3 rd Floor)
11:30am – 12:30pm
��Education Session A (East Room, 3 rd Floor)
1:30pm – 3:30pm
��Energy Session E (Federal, B Level)
��Health Session B (South Room, 3 rd Floor)
��Education Session B (East Room, 3 rd Floor)
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
10:30am – 12:30pm
Federal, B Level
Energy Session D
Track Chair: Dr. Henry Louie, Seattle University
Time Title Author(s)
10:30am Low Cost Electrification Using Solar Energy
10:50am
11:10am
11:30am
11:50am
12:10pm
Opportunities and Challenges for Micro
Wind Turbines in Developing Communities
Sustainable Green Energy Production from
Agricultural and Poultry Operations
Powering the Common Service Centers to
Empower rural communities
Sankar R
Jery Althaf
Sreevas Sahasranamam
Henry Louie
Steve Szablya
Peter Dauenhauer
Vincent Van Acker
Kenji Ushimaru
Vijayalakshmi Balasubramanian
Jagadish Babu M
Dhairya Dhilokia
Swapnakumari Patil
Green Energy Revolution in Economic Power
Anwar Mulla
Generation-Composite MFC
Shrikant S.Katre
Grameen Shakti: A Renewable Energy Social
Business Model for Global Replication
Narima Amin
Richard Langendoen

Wednesday, October 24, 2012
10:30am – 12:30pm
South, 3 rd Floor
Health Session A
Track Chair: Dr. Ted Weiler, University of Washington
Time Title Author(s)
10:30am
10:50am
Design of a Telemedicine-based system for
Clinic-In-A-Can
Organizational Implementation of
Telemedicine Technology: Methodology and
Field Experience
11:10am Fuzzy-Genetic Algorithm For Telemedicine
George Sworo
Moshe Kam
Estella Juan
Linda Branagan
Lin Chase
Parmod Kumar
Richa Gupta
Improving Maternal Labor Monitoring in Heather Underwood
11:30am Kenya Using Digital Pen Technology: A User Revi Sterling
Evaluation
John Bennett
11:50am
12:10pm
A Non-Linearities based Noise Canceler for
Cardiac Signal Enhancement in Wireless
Health Care Monitoring
A Standards-Based Open Source Application
to Gather Health Assessment Data in
Developing Countries
Zia Ur Rahman Muhammad
Rafi Ahamed Shaik
D V Rama Koti Reddy
Alex Gainer
Mary Roth
Phil Strong
James Davis
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
11:30am – 12:30pm
East Room, 3 rd Floor
Education Session A
Track Chair: Dr. Mark Henderson, Arizona State University
Time Title Author(s)
11:30am
11:50am
Opportunities for Social Innovation at the
Intersection of ICT Education and Rural
Supply Chains
Democratizing Design Through The Use of
Lego-Inspired Universal Connectors
Alice Cheng
Anjana Sinha
Jia Shen
Sally Mouakkad
Lance Joseph
Khanjan Mehta
Min Pack
Khanjan Mehta

Wednesday, October 24, 2012
1:30pm – 3:30pm
Federal, B Level
Energy Session E
Track Chair: Nathan Johnson, HOMER Energy
Time Title Author(s)
1:30pm
1:50pm
2:10pm
2:30pm
2:50pm
Simulations of Efficiency Improvements
using Measured Microgrid Data
Comparing Power System Architectures for
Domestic Lighting in Isolated Rural Villages
with HOMER
Solar Home System Components
Qualification Testing Procedure And Its
Effect In Bangladesh Perspective
The Impact of Cookstove Adoption and
Replacement on Fuelwood Savings
Anti-Conflict Energy Sources for a
Sustainable Energy Future
Daniel Soto
Vijay Modi
Nathan Johnson
John Glassmire
Peter Lilienthal
Sabbir Khan
R. Rahman
A. Azad
Nathan Johnson
Kenneth Bryden
Yaser Soliman Qudaih
Q. Yamada
Yasunori Mitani
Zia Fawzi
Issam Alqadoumi
Yasser El-Farisi
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
1:30pm – 3:30pm
South, 3 rd Floor
Health Session B
Track Chair: Dr. Ted Weiler, University of Washington
Time Title Author(s)
1:30pm
1:50pm
2:10pm
2:30pm
2:50pm
Low Cost, Low Power 12VDC Surgical
Suction Device for use in Developing
Countries
Optical Measure of Enamel Health: Ability to
triage high risk children in communities
without dental practitioners
‘Gest-BOT’ – A highly convenient
locomotive solution for the elderly and
physically challenged
Options for Medical Oxygen Technology
Systems in Low-resource Settings: A
framework for comparison
Multiple Nutrition Education Strategies as an
Approach to Reduce Risks of Unhealthy
Diets towards the Reduction of Non-
Communicable Diseases
Pritpal Singh
Emily Battinelli
Kyra Holmquest
Julia Musso
Edmond Dougherty
Liang Zhang
Leonard Nelson
Joel Berg
Jason Eichenholz
Eric Seibel
Rajesh Megalingam
Ramesh Nair
Sai Manoj Prakhya
Mithun Mohan
Beverly Bradley
Siwei Qu
Yu-Ling Cheng
David Peel
Stephen Howie
Lakshika Paiva
Naomi Krishnarajah

Wednesday, October 24, 2012
1:30pm – 3:30pm
East Room, 3 rd Floor
Education Session B
Track Chair: Dr. Mark Henderson, Arizona State University
Time Title Author(s)
1:30pm
1:50pm
2:10pm
2:30pm
2:50pm
3:10pm
Productivity Measurement Issues in
Education Sector of Pakistan
The Emergence of Free and Open-source
Software on Campuses in Taiwan
Incorporating Service-Learning Projects Into
A Mobile Programming Course
Technology Transfer to rural population
through secondary schools: The Vigyan
Ashram experience
From Training to Projects: Wireless Sensor
Networks in Africa
SPARCL: An Improved Approach for
Matching Sinhalese Words and Names in
Record Clustering and Linkage
Assad Iqbal
Qaim Ali
Daniel Pirzada
Hui-Mei Justina Hsu
Donald Ekong
Yogesh Kulkarni
Shilpa Ballal
Jyoti Gawade
Marco Zennaro
Antoine Bagula
Mayamiko Nkoloma
Gayan Hettiarachchi
Dilhari Attygalle
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Promise of Tomorrow with Colonel Mason
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Seattle, WA 98104
USA
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