Can Emerging Technologies Make a Difference in Development?

This volume brings together development stakeholders from several different facets of the development community: social scientists from academia, scientists and engineers working to solve technical problems faced "on the ground" and development practitioners. The aim is to move forward an agenda that successfully links international development and science, technology, and innovation in an ethical, sustainable, and responsible way.

In this innovative and entirely original text, which has been thoughtfully edited to ensure coherence and readability across disciplines, scientists and practitioners from around the world provide evidence of the opportunities for, and the challenges of, developing collaborative approaches to bringing advanced and emerging technology to poor communities in developing countries in a responsible and sustainable manner. This volume will stimulate and satisfy readers seeking to engage in a rich and challenging discussion, integrating many strands of social thought and physical science. For those also seeking to creatively engage in the great challenges of our times for the benefit of struggling farmers, sick children, and people literally living in the dark around the world, may this volume also spark imagination, inspire commitment, and provoke collaborative problem solving.