2015 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference

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2015 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference

Technology for the Benefit of Humanity

Table of Contents

Welcome Message from the Conference Chair .............................................................................................................. 3

Welcome Message from the Program Co-Chairs ........................................................................................................... 4

GHTC 2015 Sponsors and Organizing Committee ........................................................................................................ 5

GHTC 2015 Patrons, Partners, and Supporters .............................................................................................................. 7

General Information ..................................................................................................................................................... 12

Registration Hours ................................................................................................................................................... 12 Exhibition Hours ..................................................................................................................................................... 12 Welcome Reception ................................................................................................................................................ 12 Dinner Tickets ......................................................................................................................................................... 12

October 8, 2015 (Thursday) Program Summary .......................................................................................................... 13

IEEE Smart Village Workshop ............................................................................................................................... 14 Welcome Reception ................................................................................................................................................. 15

October 9, 2015 (Friday) Program Summary ............................................................................................................... 16

Opening Plenary ...................................................................................................................................................... 18 Technical Paper A1: Energy .................................................................................................................................... 20 Technical Paper A2: Health ..................................................................................................................................... 21 Technical Paper A3: Connectivity & Communication ............................................................................................ 22 Technical Paper A4: Disaster Management ............................................................................................................ 23 Technical Paper A5: Education ............................................................................................................................... 24 Interactive Sessions B .............................................................................................................................................. 25 Special Session C1 .................................................................................................................................................. 26 Special Session C2 .................................................................................................................................................. 27 Special Session C3 .................................................................................................................................................. 28 Special Session C4 .................................................................................................................................................. 29 Special Session C5: IEEE SIGHT Workshop ......................................................................................................... 29 Dinner Reception ..................................................................................................................................................... 30

October 10, 2015 (Saturday) Program Summary ......................................................................................................... 32

Saturday Plenary ...................................................................................................................................................... 34 Technical Paper D1: Energy .................................................................................................................................... 36 Technical Paper D2: Humanitarian Challenges & Opportunities ........................................................................... 37 Technical Paper D3: Connectivity & Communication ............................................................................................ 38 Technical Paper D4: Water, Sanitation, & Agriculture ........................................................................................... 39 Session D5: Student Paper Content ......................................................................................................................... 40 The Gaetano Borriello Feet on the Ground Humanitarian Symposium .................................................................. 41 Special Session E1 ................................................................................................................................................... 42 Special Session E2 ................................................................................................................................................... 43 Special Session E3: X-Track ................................................................................................................................... 44

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Special Session E4: Poster Presentations ................................................................................................................ 44 Dinner Reception and Awards Ceremony ............................................................................................................... 46

October 11, 2015 (Sunday) Program Summary ........................................................................................................... 48

Technical Paper F1: Energy .................................................................................................................................... 49 Technical Paper F2: Health ..................................................................................................................................... 50 Technical Paper F3: Education ................................................................................................................................ 51 Technical Paper F4: Humanitarian Challenges & Opportunities ............................................................................ 52 Closing Plenary ....................................................................................................................................................... 53

Hotel Floor Plan ........................................................................................................................................................... 56

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Welcome Message from the Conference Chair

Joe Decuir GHTC 2015 Conference Chair [email protected] It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 5th Annual IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference. GHTC has become the IEEE and IEEE Region 6 flagship annual conference designed to gather scientists, engineers, practitioners, academics, foundations, government and non-government organizations, and individuals engaged in humanitarian work to

discuss and develop solutions for present and future humanitarian needs. This year we are back in Seattle, where this conference series began—home to not only a vibrant technical community, but also America’s compassion corridor.

Our conference aims to: • Foster knowledge sharing, networking, and cooperation in humanitarian technology fields; • Focus attention on innovators and enabling technologies supporting humanitarian principles and

ways of operating; • Positively affect the lives of billions of disadvantaged people & vulnerable groups around the world; • Highlight humanitarian technologies that promote successful practice, and attract humanitarian and

emergency management practitioners to learn from their successes and better guide future research; • Contribute to a worldwide movement to advance technology for humanity, including related

conferences around the world, supported by IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee, and supporting IEEE SIGHT chapters and IEEE Smart Village teams.

Our value proposition is in providing a place where humanitarian technology practitioners, students of that technology and supporters of that technology come together to engage and learn from one another. Our conference specifically features more space for interactive engagement among attendees to ensure you the opportunity to connect and create with excellent lineup of participants. Again this year we honored to have active leaders from around the globe who are working to bridge innovative technology with humanitarian work in their careers. Many people deserve our gratitude: • The authors, for submitting compelling papers, posters, cases studies and inventions; • The program team for orchestrating this year’s impressive group of speakers, sessions and events. • Our technical team, track chairs and the dozens of reviewers for reviewing submissions, and

providing actionable feedback to ensure a high quality program; • The publications team for creating the conference proceedings, for distribution to attendees and

publication in IEEE Xplore; • Our steering committee for their hard work and commitment to ensuring a successful conference.

Please use this opportunity to network, make new friends, and build relationships and future partners from a great attendee list that extends across traditional peer groups and promises to open new horizons for the engagement in the future of humanitarian technology. We hope you enjoy the conference.

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Welcome Message from the Program Co-Chairs

Nathan Johnson

General Program Chair [email protected]

Robin Mays Technical Program Chair

[email protected]

Sheree Wen Speaker Program Chair

[email protected] The Program Committee welcomes you to another great year at IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) 2015. We are excited about this year’s conference, and believe it will meet IEEE’s core purpose to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. The Program Committee has worked hard to develop an international program for keynote speakers, panelists, papers, and posters from across the spectrum of humanitarian engineering and technology. More interactive sessions and workshops accompany this year’s conference. This brings greater focus on the importance of building collaborations and hands-on learning opportunities to accompany the conference’s history of knowledge exchange through paper presentations and break-out sessions. A total of 10 special sessions will engage the audience through panels, workshops, and demonstrations held as parallel sections of the conference. We are also proud to have a strong line-up of plenary speakers and panels from areas within the private sector, government, academia, and non-governmental organizations. We have enhanced our technical program to better meet the GHTC goals to foster quality research for the benefit of humanity. Our technical tracks have been revised to better incorporate humanitarian frameworks of organizing. We also established review criteria that considers broader multi-disciplinary and practice perspectives, and includes pairing academic with practitioner co-chairs to better include expert voices and feedback from both our peers creating technology as well as those using it. We believe this year’s technical papers provide a compelling mix of some of today’s most innovative research in humanitarian technology. The addition of track-specific interactive sessions you an opportunity to 1) participate and inform current conversations in the nexus of where engineering, practice and innovation meet and 2) view and influence developing research through invited poster presentations. You will also find the student paper competition engaging. Please look to sessions with IEEE Smart Village as one of the core efforts supported by IEEE Foundation in humanitarian technology. It promises to be an engaging year! Please use this opportunity to enhance your personal and professional growth, network with friends and colleagues, and meet new ones. Enjoy the conference!

[email protected]

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GHTC 2015 Sponsors and Organizing Committee

Organized and Co-Sponsored by

IEEE Region 6

http://sites.ieee.org/r6

IEEE Seattle Section www.ieee.org www.ieee-seattle.org

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GHTC 2015 Organizing Committee

Conference Chair Joe Decuir, CSR, IEEE Seattle Vice Chair Sheree Wen, IEEE Seattle Finance Chair/Treasurer Soon Wan, Vicor Corporation Secretary/Program Managner Erik Godo, Boeing Corporation Registration Chair Scott Tamashiro, Raytheon Dick Wilkins, Phoenix Technologies/Thomas College Publication Chair Jeffrey Palwan, Region 6 Board Publicity Chair: Verona Wong, PMC-Sierra Adil Usman, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi Poster Chair Suryadip Chakraborty, University of Cincinnati Invited Poster Chair Mario Aleman, IEEE SIGHT Nicaragua Webmaster Edward Perkins, Consultant in Audit and Risk John Prohodksy, Future Envisioned Student Paper Contest Chair: Ramesh Nair, Intel Corporation Co-Chair: Akshay Menon Patronage Chair Azmat Malik, Acuventures Young Professionals Program Mario Milicevic, IEEE Young Professionals Ravendar Lal, Amazon, Inc. Member Support Rob Vice, Measurement Computing Corp EDAS System support Michael Brisbois Edward Perkins, Consultant in Audit and Risk Sponsorship Chair: Joe Decuir, CSR, IEEE Seattle Ram Sivaraman

Program Chair Nathan Johnson, Arizona State University Plenary Session Chair Sheree Wen, IEEE Seattle Technical Program Chair Robin Mays, University of Washington Technical Track Co-Chairs Energy Track: Alan Mickelson, University of Colorado Adil Usman, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi Health Track: Maria Lemos, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Miriam Orcutt, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Luke Davies, University of Washington Global Health Disaster Management Track: Mark Haselkorn, University of Washington Ian O’Donnel, Red Cross/Red Crescent Global Disaster Preparedness Center Connectivity and Communications Track: Jim Miller, SYNECTICS, Ltd. Bas Linjse, HAN University of Applied Sciences Water and Sanitation Track: Dennis Kalson, Asesoria Global en Salud Ambiental Jery Atlhaf, theamazingfactory.com Education Track: Jennifer Turns, University of Washington Sian Platt, Plan International Brian Watkins, West Coast University Agriculture Track: Dan Berne, Next Chapter Marketing Humanitarian Challenges and Opportunities: Adam Widera, University of Muenster Robin Mays, University of Washington

GHTC 2015 Advisory Committee Michael Andrews, Ed Perkins, Jay Pearlman, Thomas Coughlin, Lewis Terman, Ray Larsen,

Holly Schneider-Brown, Paul Kostek, Sheree Wen, Kathleen Kramer

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GHTC 2015 Patrons, Partners, and Supporters

GHTC 2015 PLATINUM PATRONS

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

For supporting participant travel and development of proceedings for GHTC 2015

NASA Applied Sciences Program http://appliedsciences.nasa.gov

For Earth Science Data Access

http://earthdata.nasa.gov

IEEE Humanitarian Ad Hoc Committee

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GHTC 2015 SILVER PATRONS

www.intellectualventures.com/globalgood

www.boeing.com

www.microsoft.com

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GHTC 2015 PROUD PATRONS

www.ieee.org/special_interest_group_on_humanitarian_technology.html

http://en.unesco.org/70years

Joe Decuir www.linkedin.com/in/joedecuir

Student Papers Contest Patron

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“Early Bird” Beginner Patrons

Bernard Cohen

Thomas Coughlin Christelle Scharff Gim Soon Wan

Kathleen Kramer Linda Garrison Usman Umer

GHTC 2015 Technical Partners

http://cesoc.ieee.org www.ieee-pes.org www.ieeessit.org

www.embs.org www.mtt.org www.ieeeusa.org

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GHTC 2015 Proud Supporters

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General Information

GHTC 2015 Badges

Badges must be worn at all times and are necessary for entrance into all IEEE GHTC sessions. Registration Hours (in Grand Foyer)

The registration will take place at the hotel Grand Foyer. All attendees and accompanying guests must register and receive a conference badge in order to participate in conference activities.

Registration and Information Desk Hours Thursday, 8 October : 1:30pm – 6:30pm Friday, 9 October: 7:00am – 6:00pm Saturday, 10 October: 7:00am – 6:00pm Sunday, 11 October: 7:00am – 10:00am

Exhibition Hours (in Grand 1)

Friday, 9 October: 10:00am – 6:30pm Saturday, 10 October: 10:00am – 6:30pm

Welcome Reception (Thursday, 8 October at 6:30pm in Maxi’s Ballroom)

All conference registrants are cordinally invited to the Welcome Reception (included with the conference registration fee) sponsored by MGA Young Professionals.

Dinner Tickets

Dinners are included with the conference registration. Extra tickets for the Dinner Recpetion and the Awards Dinner can be purchased for $90.00 at the reception desk.

Language

All Conference Sessions and Publication will be in English. GHTC Steering Committee Debrief Meeting

All Steering Committee members. Meeting on Sunday, October 11 from 1:30 – 2:30pm.

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October 8, 2015 (Thursday) Program Summary

8:00am – 5:00pm

IEEE Smart Village (formerly Community Solutions Initiative) Workshop

Cascade 13

1:30pm – 5:30pm

IEEE SIGHT Open Data Kit Workshop

Cascade 7-8

1:30pm – 6:30pm

GHTC Registration

Grand Foyer

6:30pm – 8:00pm

IEEE Young Professionals Session (MGA) Maxi’s Ballroom

Jackie Stenson

“Bringing life-improving technologies to low-income rural populations”

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October 8, 2015 (Thursday) IEEE Smart Village Workshop 8:00am – 5:00pm Cascade 13

It is our sincere pleasure to invite you to our workshop that has two main purposes: (1) To bring together IEEE Smart Village collaboration members to discuss global sustainable initiative progress, and (2) to discuss the paths forward to expand operations globally as a Signature Program of the IEEE Foundation. Signature status brings direct Foundation development staff and management support to secure a growing seed funding budget to launch up to ten new partnership startups per year. The Smart Village strategy is not only to seed new initiatives with equipment and training donations, but to plant the sustainable business and operations model originally developed in partnership with Sirona in Haiti which achieved the original pilot demonstration of a sustainable business model in 2011-2012. Subsequently the model was refined n 2013-14 with plan and procedures for easy dissemination tom new partners. Expanding to scale is the final goal which involves both a highly efficient affordable service and the ability of each startup to attract capital to grow to serve at least 1 million people with basic lighting and power for small devices. Reliable community-owned electricity is a first step toward the developmental empowerment of whole communities from within. To be lastingly significant, many more steps are needed, including a “Learning beyond the Lightbulb” Community Based Online Curricula Education model which is now in Pilot stage operation. The plan also includes cooperating with partners who will bring clean water, sanitation, healthcare, local governance and commerce, technical and general broad education, all key to the long-term success of sustainable development. Workshop Structure: Introductory presentations will encourage interactive sharing of perspectives and questions from participants. Some of the strategy themes are as follows:

1. Discussion of overall goals and vision 2. IEEE Smart Village structure 3. Reports from ongoing field operations and new startups since 2014 4. Rollout of the online education Masters of Development Practice Certificate program now underway 5. Design of humanitarian education program to be offered IEEE-wide 6. Collaboration with other IEEE Societies, partners from Posner Center for International Development,

supporting industries both at home and in-country 7. New technology initiatives underway for IEEE open source products 8. Forward strategy discussions by invited experts 9. Plans for the immediate and long-range future

Exhibit: A booth will provide all the latest literature and display the new modular SunBlazer Lite product of 0.5 to 1kW capacity for improved affordability, scalability and portability for last mile deployment. Registration: The workshop is scheduled from 8:00am to 5:00pm on Thursday October 8th. It is open to anyone not just GHTC attendees but advance registration directly to Smart Village is required by contacting [email protected]. A $40 cash fee will be charged for refreshment breaks provided by the hotel, separate from GHTC arrangements. A detailed program will be sent to registrants before the event. Welcome and we hope that many of you will come to explore involvement opportunities with IEEE Smart Village! Sincerely, Ray Larsen & Robin Podmore IEEE Smart Village Co-Chairs

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October 8, 2015 (Thursday) Welcome Reception 6:30pm – 8:00pm Maxi’s Ballroom

Bringing life-improving technologies to low-income rural populations Jackie Stenson, CEO and CoFounder of Essmart

Jackie Stenson is CEO and co-founder of Essmart, a company that distributes life-improving Technologies in southern India. Based in Bangalore and an engineer by trade, Jackie, 28, started out designing technologies that could improve the lives of low income communities around the world whilst a student at Harvard. After working on technology-for-development initiatives in Africa and India for several years, she had her ‘Aha!’ moment: the real challenge is not the technical design of life-improving products, hundreds already exist, but rather their dissemination. As Jackie realized that the intended end-users of life-improving products, like affordable solar lanterns and non-electric water filters, simply don’t know about them

or how to access them. In 2011, Essmart was born. Essmart is building a marketplace for life-improving technologies in places where people already shop, the 15 million small retail shops that serve 90% of Indian households. The products Essmart sells are helping meet the needs of the 97 million Indians that lack clean drinking water and the 700 million who have unreliable electricity. After aggregating a catalogue of in-demand, high-quality technologies, local sales executives demonstrate and market the products in shops, distribute them, and ensure after-sales service through manufacturers’ warranties. Essmart currently operates six distribution centers which have helped build a combined network of over 600 retail shops that have sold over 7,500 products. Essmart has over 40 full-time employees, most of whom are employed out of the villages and towns in which they operate. Revenue has increased on average 33% month-on-month from August 2013 to May 2014. Through Essmart, life-improving technologies achieve their intended impacts, and rural shops and end-users improve their businesses and lives

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October 9, 2015 (Friday) Program Summary

7:00am – 6:00pm

Registration (Grand Foyer)

7:00am – 8:00am

Breakfast (Grand 3)

8:00am – 10:00am

Opening Plenary (Grand 3)

• Joe Decuir, Conference Chair

• Mike Andrews, IEEE

• Plenary Address – Maurizio Vecchione, Global Good

• Keynote Address – Steve Davis, PATH

10:00am – 10:30am

Break and Exhibits (Grand 1)

10:30am – 12:30pm

• Technical Paper Session A1: Energy (Northwest 1)

“Applications of Renewable Energy in the Developing World”

• Technical Paper Session A2: Health (Northwest 2)

“Design for Patient as the End-User: Aiming for Durable User-Friendly Technologies at Low Cost”

• Technical Paper Session A3: Connectivity and Communication (Northwest 3)

“Connecting Technologies for Humanitarians”

• Technical Paper Session A4: Disaster Management (Evergreen 1-2)

“Enhancing Socio-Technical System Support for Humanitarian Practioners”

• Technical Paper Session A5: Education (Evergreen 3-4)

“Humanitarian Perspectives in University Education”

12:30pm – 1:30pm

Lunch (Grand 3) and Exhibits (Grand 1)

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1:30pm – 3:30pm

• Interactive Session B1: Energy (Northwest 1)

• Interactive Session B2: Health (Northwest 2)

• Interactive Session B3: Connectivity and Communication (Northwest 3)

• Interactive Session B4-1: Humanitarian Challenges and Opportunities (Evergreen 1)

• Interactive Session B4-2: Disaster Management (Evergreen 2)

• Interactive Session B5-1: Education (Evergreen 3)

• Interactive Session B5-2: Water, Sanitation, & Agriculture (Evergreen 4)

3:30pm – 4:00pm


4:00pm – 6:00pm

• Special Session C1 (Northwest 1)

C1-1 (demo): Mobile-phone Based Optical Microscopy and Machine Learning Platform for Rapid Detection and Quantification of Waterborne Pathogens in Low resource Settings

C1-2 (panel): Humanitarian Aspects of the Internet of Things (IoT)


C2-1 (workshop): Systems-Based Design for a Humanitarian Centered Scientific Method

C2-2 (workshop): 50.2 Kigali and Humanitarian Engineering


C3-1 (workshop): Determining What Constitutes an "Underdeveloped Country" for Targeting Global Humanitarian Efforts: The Advancement of Science Approach

C3-2 (case study): EU Research and Innovation Framework Programme for mHealth in Africa

• Special Session C4 (Evergreen 1-2)

C4-1 (X-Track): X-Track topics

C4-2 (documentary): Screening and Meet a Filmmaker: The Human Element

• Special Session C5 (Evergreen 3-4)

C5-1 (workshop): IEEE SIGHT Workshop on Creating Local Impact – Open to all GHTC Attendees

6:00pm – 6:30pm


6:30pm – 9:30pm

Dinner Reception

(Grand 3)

• Evening Plenary Address 1 – William Stefanov, NASA

• Evening Plenary Address 2 – Nancy Sclater, Rotary Seattle

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October 9, 2015 (Friday) Opening Plenary 8:00am – 10:00am Grand 3

Conference Welcome

Joe Decuir, Conference Chair

Joe Decuir is still having an interesting career. He became an IEEE Fellow for contributions to computer graphics and video games. He has been writing widely used public engineering standards, including V-series dialup modems, USB and Bluetooth. He is a standards architect advancing the Internet of Things. In the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, he is a distinguished lecturer and on the Board of Governors. His passion: humanitarian technology – he is the chair of GHTC 2015.

Opening Remarks Mike Andrews, President Andrews & Associates, Past IEEE Region 6 Director

Michael Andrews is a former IEEE Region 6 Director with extensive involvement in humanitarian technology efforts. His leadership as President of Andrews & Associates and as Managing Partner of ActionCOACH shows through in his many service roles within and outside of IEEE. Michael’s humanitarian nature shines through during his many volunteer roles such as the Phoenix Advisory Board of the Salvation Army, Region Coordinator of the Future City Competition, President and Founder of the Smart Education Foundation and the SMART Competition, and numerous roles and efforts with IEEE over the past 45 years. Michael has helped shape and guide GHTC during its early years as a conference.

Plenary Address

Maurizio Vecchione, Senior Vice President of Global Good and Research, Intellectual Ventures Maurizio Vecchione is the Sr. Vice President of Global Good and Research at Intellectual Ventures (IV). In this role, he oversees Global Good, IV’s collaboration with Bill Gates to invent and deploy technology specifically focused on improving life in developing countries, as well as the research and operations of the IV Laboratory and Institute for Disease Modeling. Mr. Vecchione most recently served as CEO of Arrogene, which is commercializing a new nanotechnology platform for cancer targeted therapeutics and diagnostics, and as CEO of telemedicine pioneer CompuMed.

Under Mr. Vecchione’s leadership, Global Good and the IV Lab are engaged in cutting-edge research and invention for the benefit of humanity around global health and global development priorities. In global health, Global Good and IV Lab are involved in new diagnostic technologies for infectious diseases, such as malaria and tuberculosis, enhanced vaccine delivery technologies, maternal and child health, as well as IV’s Institute for Disease Modeling efforts to shape infectious disease policy and programs with data-driven analysis. In global development, Global Good and IV Lab focus their work on malnutrition, agricultural productivity, livestock and dairy value chain improvements for the developing world, with a particular emphasis on the needs of smallholder farmers. Mr. Vecchione has nearly 30 years of experience in research and the technology sector. He has contributed to building nine start-ups and helped launch more than 50 commercial products, resulting in more than $1 Billion in shareholder value. His work spans the software, internet, wireless and life sciences sectors, primarily in connection with translational sciences for science derived from government and academic R&D efforts.

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Mr. Vecchione is also involved in a number of non-profit initiatives, including as a co-founder and member of the board of ReefQuest. This global organization focuses on fostering marine environmental stewardship in children through citizen science. As an inventor himself, Mr. Vecchione is named on multiple U.S. patents and patent applications related to imaging, image processing, nano-bio-polymer and telecommunications technologies. He was twice a finalist for the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year award, received a DEMO God award from the prestigious DEMO organization and is a member of AAAS, ACM and IEEE.

Keynote Address

Steve Davis, President and CEO, PATH As president and CEO of PATH, Steve Davis combines his extensive experience as a technology business leader, global health advocate, and social innovator to accelerate great ideas and bring lifesaving solutions to scale. He oversees PATH’s work of driving transformative global health innovation to save and improve lives, reaching 219 million people in 2013. Davis’ commitment to human rights and global development grew from his early work on refugee programs and policies, and from his later focus on Chinese politics and law. He

has been a leader and strategist for a range of private and nonprofit organizations, including as CEO of the global digital media firm Corbis, director of social innovation for McKinsey & Company, and interim CEO of the Infectious Disease Research Institute. Davis is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), serves on the boards of InterAction and Global Partnerships, and sits on several advisory groups, including the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Social Innovation and the Clinton Global Initiative’s Global Health Advisory Board. Davis earned his BA from Princeton University, his MA in Chinese studies from the University of Washington, and his JD from Columbia University.

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October 9, 2015 (Friday) Technical Paper A1: Energy Applications of Renewable Energy in the Developing World 10:30am – 12:30pm Northwest 1

Session Chairs: Dr. Alan Mickelson (University of Colorado Boulder)

Adil Usman (Indian Institute of Technology Mandi)

Time Paper ID Paper Title Author names

10:30am 1570119277 Design of an Off-Grid Energy Kiosk in Rural Zambia

Henry Louie, Steve Szablya, Matt Shields (Seattle University), Likonge Makai (LICHI Community Solutions), Kimberly Shields (The Boeing Company)

10:50am 1570134133 Power Supply of a Rural Off-grid Health Center - A Case Study

Szilard Liptak, Ashley Stone, Felipe Larrain (Georgia Institute of Technology)

11:10am 1570123941 Process of Designing a Hydraulics Laboratory in Rural Kenya for a Non-profit Engineering Student Project

Hassaan Idress (Arizona State University)

11:30am 1570121173 Flexible D-Agent Architecture for DER Operation in a Rural Indian Microgrid

Vikram vel Senthilvel (Solarillion Foundation), Meghana K (SRM University), Rajesh Ramesh (IEEE Power & Energy Society), Harini Sekar, Vineeth Vijayaraghavan (Solarillion Foundation)

11:50am 1570134309 Case Study of Microgrid for Electrification and its Benefits in Rural Nepal

Saurav Basnet, Ward Jewell (Wichita State University)

12:10pm 1570118703 Energy Management Systems for Hospitals in Gaza-Strip

Mohammed Hijjo, Philipp Bauer, Felix Felgner, Georg Frey (Saarland University)

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October 9, 2015 (Friday) Technical Paper A2: Health Design for Patient as the End-User: Aiming for Durable User-friendly Technologies at Low Cost 10:30am – 12:30pm Northwest 2

Session Chairs: Dr. Maria Lemos (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)

Dr. Miriam Orcutt (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) Luke Davies (University of Washington Global Health)

Time Paper ID Paper Title Author Names

10:30am 1570124027 A Method of Powering a Nebulizer Manually Using Parts Locally Available in Honduras

Roger Dzwonczyk, Matthew Brockman, Daniel George, Nathan Hankins, Marissa McHugh, Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto (The Ohio State University)

10:50am 1570121275 Access to Prosthetic Devices in Developing Countries: Pathways and Challenges

Martin Marino, Shaan Pattni, Max Greenberg, Alexander Miller, Emma Hocker, Sarah Ritter, Khanjan Mehta (Penn State University)

11:10am 1570121625 A Review of Current Upper-Limb Prostheses for Resource Constrained Settings

Brienna Phillips, Gabrielle Zingalis, Sarah Ritter, Khanjan Mehta (Penn State University)

11:30am 1570121177 Optimization of Prosthetic Hand Manufacturing

Michael King, Brienna Phillips, Marc Shively, Venkatesh Raman, Aaron Fleishman, Sarah Ritter, Khanjan Mehta (Penn State University)

11:50am 1570123889 Characteristics of a 3D-Printed Prosthetic Hand for Use in Developing Countries

Daniel Johnson, Corinne Dally, Moriah Canon, Sarah Ritter, Khanjan Mehta (Penn State University)

12:10pm 1570125839 Integrating Knowledge, Attitude and Practice in Decision Model For Maternity Care in Emerging Economy

Amrita Amrita. Ram Babu Roy (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur)

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October 9, 2015 (Friday) Technical Paper A3: Connectivity & Communication Connecting Technologies for Humanities 10:30am – 12:30pm Northwest 3

Session Chair: James Miller (SYNECTICS, Ltd.)


10:30am 1570132095 Using Open-source Hardware to Support Disadvantaged Communications

Andrew Weinert, Hongyi Hu, Chad Spensky, Benjamin Bullough (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

10:50am 1570124289 Where There Is No Internet: Experiences from Rural Honduras

Ethan LaRochelle (Dartmouth College & ACTS Honduras), Jeremy Dobbins-Bucklad (Dyn, Inc.)

11:10am 1570125447 Humanitarian Logistics Dashboards - A Design-related Requirements Analysis

Adam Widera, Bernard Hellingrath (University of Muenster), Carsten Bubbich (Propus Ltd.)

11:30am 1570123713 Assessment of Potential ICT-Related Collaboration and Innovation Capacity in East Africa

Paul Cunningham, Miriam Cunningham (IIMC, IST-Africa, DSV, Stockholm University), Love Ekenberg (Stockholm University)

11:50am 1570161005

Human Mobility During Religious Festivals and its Implications on Public Health in Senegal A Mobile Dataset Analysis

Christelle Scharff, Meghan Jordan (Pace University), Khadidatou Ndiaye (The George Washington University), Aminata Niang Diene (UCAD), Fatou Maria Drame (UGB)

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October 9, 2015 (Friday) Technical Paper A4: Disaster Management Enhancing Socio-Technical System Support for Humanitarian Practioners 10:30am – 12:30pm Evergreen 1-2

Session Chairs: Prof. Mark Haselkorn (University of Washington)

Ian O’Donnell (Red Cross/Red Crescent Global Disaster Preparedness Center)


10:30am 1570113667

The Feasibility of Using Microsoft Azure Infrastructure for a Monitoring and Evaluation System Solution in Sub-Saharan Africa

Samir Souidi, Deborah Boccio, Stan Mierzwa (Population Control), Jesus Aguilar (Microsoft)

10:50am 1570123643 Quick Response Host: Enabling Crowd Sourced Disaster Response Stations

Rakshit Agrawal, Aaron Springer, Emily Lovell (University of California, Santa Cruz)

11:10am 1570132647 Analysis of Decision Making Skills for Large Scale Disaster Response

Charles Rose, Robert Seater, Adam Norige (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

11:30am 1570133345 Simulating Disaster Recovery as Discrete Event Processes Using Python

Derek Huling (Western Washington University), Scott B. Miles (University of Washington)

11:50am 1570134231 Machine Learning for the Activation of Contraflows During Hurricane Evacuation

John Burris, Rahul Shrestha, Bibek Gautam, Bibidh Bista (Southeastern Louisiana University)

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October 9, 2015 (Friday) Technical Paper A5: Education Humanitarian Perspectives in a University 10:30am – 12:30pm Evergreen 3-4

Session Chair: Sian Platt (Plan International Bangladesh)


10:30am 1570123547 Maximizing Service and Learning in an International Engineering Service Learning Program

Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto, Roger Dzwonczyk (The Ohio State University)

10:50am 1570123543

Encouraging Attention to the Humanitarian Dimensions of Emerging Technologies Using Case-Studies to Further Student Engagement

J. Craig Hanks, Shadi Maleki, Jitendra Tate (Texas State University), Dominick Fazarro (University of Texas at Tyler), Walt Trybula (Texas State University)

11:10am 1570123933 Evolving Engineering Education for Social Innovation and Humanitarian Impact - Lessons Learned Across a Range of Models

Mihir Ravel, Benjamin Linder (Olin College of Engineering), William Oakes, Carla Zoltowski (Purdue University)

11:30am 1570119835

Building Employable Skills in Engineering Students Through a Pre-internship Program An approach to Reducing Unemployability in Students

Ravi Shankar Pillutla, Narayana Gpl Mandaleeka (Tata Consultancy Services Limited)

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October 9, 2015 (Friday) Interactive Sessions B 1:30pm – 3:30pm

Interactive sessions have been added to this year’s program to fulfill our goal of creating a conference where practitioners, researchers and engineers can meet, interact and learn from one another as we seek to create the future of humanitarian technology together.

Sessions are track specific and may include panels, small group discussions, hot topics or other themes to engage discussion. In addition, these session will feature track specific posters showcasing authors seeking to engage with participants on their developing ideas. We hope you find this new addition invigorating and productive! Be ready to participate and share your ideas!

Time Room Session: Track Topic Session Leaders

1:30pm –

3:30pm

Northwest 1 Session B1: Energy Dr. Alan Mickelson

Adil Usman

1:30pm –

3:30pm

Northwest 2 Session B2: Health

Dr. Maria Lemos Dr. Miriam Orcutt Luke Davies

1:30pm –

3:30pm

Northwest 3

Section B3: Connectivity & Communication James Miller

1:30pm –

3:30pm

Evergreen 1

Session B4-1: Humanitarian Challenges & Opportunities

Adam Widera Robin Mays

1:30pm –

3:30pm

Evergreen 2 Session B4-2: Disaster Management Prof. Mark Haselkorn

Ian O’Donnell

1:30pm –

3:30pm

Evergreen 3 Session B5-1: Education

Prof. Jennifer Turns Sian Platt

1:30pm –

3:30pm

Evergreen 4

Session B5-2: Water, Sanitation, & Agriculture Dennis Kalson

All Invited Posters Mario Aleman

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October 9, 2015 (Friday) Special Session C1 4:00pm – 6:00pm Northwest 1

Session C1-1: Demo (4:00pm to 4:45pm) Mobile-phone Based Optical Microscopy and Machine Learning Platform for Rapid Detection and Quantification of Waterborne Pathogens in Low resource Settings Hatice Ceylan Koydemir, Zoltan Gorocs, Derek Tseng, Bingen Cortazar, Steve Feng, Raymond Yan Lok Chan, Jordi Burbano, Euan McLeod, Aydogan Ozcan (University of California, Los Angeles) We present a cost-effective and field-portable water analysis platform that is composed of a disposable sample cartridge, a smartphone based fluorescence microscope, and a custom designed Windows based smart-application and machine-learning interface, termed as GiardiaAnalyzer, for automated detection and enumeration of waterborne pathogens (Giardia lamblia cysts) in resource-limited-settings. In this light-weight platform (~205g), a custom designed 3D printed opto-mechanical attachment that holds an external lens, light-emitting-diodes, and excitation/emission filters forms our handheld fluorescence microscope together with the smartphone camera. The disposable sample cartridge includes a porous filter membrane to mechanically capture the fluorescently labeled cysts and a waste-reservoir to filter large volumes of water (e.g., >10-20mL). The fluorescent image of this membrane is captured using our mobile-phone microscope and wirelessly sent to our servers for digital quantification of the captured cysts using a machine-learning algorithm. The result of this automatic analysis/enumeration is sent back to the same smartphone interface, GiardiaAnalyzer. Using this platform, the total time to get the results is ~1 hour including the sample collection, labeling, filtration, detection, and digital counting steps. Our experiments demonstrated that this platform has an average cyst capture efficiency of ~79%, with a sensitivity of ~84%, resulting in a limit-of-detection of ~1.2 cysts/mL.

Session C1-2: Panel (4:45pm to 6:00pm) Humanitarian Aspects of the Internet of Things (IoT) Thomas Coughlin (Coughlin Associates), Soumya Kanti Datta (EURECOM France) The Internet of Things (IoT) is a novel paradigm and is shaping the evolution of the future Internet. This will accelerate innovation by creating the means for machines to communicate several types of information among themselves and collaborate with peers to provide novel services. The IoT will empower consumers with better home automation, improved healthcare, intelligent transportation solutions and many more important services. The IoT initiatives and activities are mainly concentrated on architectures and protocols for efficient interconnection of heterogeneous objects and the creation of value-added services. But IoT can also be applied to achieve humanitarian goals such as (i) reducing waste of water in smart cities and (ii) smart agriculture and more. The primary goal of this panel is to bring together experts from various sectors of IoT to discuss how such technologies can be used to solve societal challenges and achieve humanitarian goals. Following are some suggested topics • Energy efficient IoT systems, energy management in smart homes • IoT & wearables for medical technology, mobile care, assisted living in smart homes • Clean water and waste management • Smart agriculture and irrigation • Other humanitarian perspectives The panelists will present their views on several of the above topics in PowerPoint presentations and a Q/A session will follow with the audience.

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Session C2-1: Workshop (4:00pm to 4:45pm) Systems-Based Design for a Humanitarian Centered Scientific Method Kendra Krueger (Vesica Pi Labs LLC) Creating technology for the benefit of humanity requires an intentional scientific method. The intentional process involves identifying motivating factors and defining what it means to be humanitarian. Identifying intentions is a necessary step in having a transparent and authentic process. This method builds upon the classical foundations of "observe, question, hypothesize, test, and analyze" to more appropriately address social, humanitarian and ecological crises with intention. The approach integrates technical design practices and compassionate awareness into a systems-based thinking scheme. The workshop will be an interactive discussion to explore this concept and learn tools for educating teams that are developing technology for the benefit of humanity. Principles based on sustainable and ethical design practices such as biomimicry and permaculture will be presented. We will ask questions such as: "How can developers be social allies when facing a problem outside of their home community?", "What is the definition of an appropriate technology?", "How can a technology move beyond sustainable and become regenerative?". Attendees will participate in an active discussion and break out into smaller groups to tackle hypothetical mini-challenges. The workshop will emphasize a dialogue-over-debate structure and introduce facilitation tools for development teams.

Session C2-2: Workshop (4:45pm to 6:00pm) 50.2 Kigali and Humanitarian Engineering Daniel Wessner (Posner Center) This session previews a 50.2 video (50 minutes + 2 points) designed to draw IEEE members into the world of humanitarian engineering via a post-genocide Kigali, Rwanda engineering project on urban infrastructure, housing, and water management. Here engineers play a critical role within an integrated team of Rwandan and North American development practitioners of a dozen disciplines. GHTC participants are asked to serve as a Focus Group critically viewing and helping improve this 50.2 video before it is shared more widely.

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Session C3-1: Workshop (4:00pm to 5:00pm) Determining What Constitutes an "Underdeveloped Country" for Targeting Global Humanitarian Efforts: The Advancement of Science Approach Bernard Cohen (MSOE University & Neurological Monitoring Associates, LLC) Participants in a Global Humanitarian Conference all come to the table with preconceived ideas of what the needs of the world are. Do we base our assessments on cost of living, level of poverty, amount of uncontrolled disease, lack of basic necessities, poverty levels, distribution of wealth or a plethora of other criteria? The answer, of course might be all of the above. And just maybe, it is none of the above. This presentation will show evidence of yet another method of assessing what constitutes an "underdeveloped country" and how we might consider placing our efforts, energies and economic support. The author proposes that a measure (non-exclusive) of a country's global humanitarian needs can be found in its scientific productivity, even measured in terms of publications in the scientific literature. This thesis will explore the economic complex measures of level of needs and demonstrate how simple assessments may provide sufficient support and motivation for direction of support efforts. This possibly unique assessment can assist those in their evaluation efforts to help determine the needs of an area, city or country. A concrete example of the authors own experience and efforts will be presented and analyzed.

Session C3-2: Case Study (5:00pm to 6:00pm) EU Research and Innovation Framework Programme for mHealth in Africa Paul Cunningham (IIMC International Information Management Corporation Ltd) This session will focus on sharing insight into and providing an opportunity for interactive discussion about good practices associated with implementing mHealth interventions in Africa. Having provided a context by providing an overview of current applied ICT research and innovation capacity in IST-Africa partner countries, this session will focus on sharing insight into the co-design of mHealth4Afrika, which recently secured grant funding from the European Commission under Horizon 2020 (EU Research and Innovation Framework Programme). mHealth4Afrika (November 2015 – 2019) will research and evaluate the potential impact of co-designing an innovative, open source, multilingual and multi-modal mHealth platform on the quality of community based maternal and newborn healthcare delivery in Southern Africa (Malawi, South Africa), East Africa (Kenya) and Horn of Africa (Ethiopia). Based on lessons learnt since 2002, this session will discuss what was involved in building consensus for this cross-border strategic intervention driven and informed by local requirements. IST-Africa (www.ist-africa.org) is a strategic partnership with Ministries and National Councils responsible for Innovation, Science and Technology adoption, implementation, policy and research in 18 African countries. Founded in 2002, IST-Africa is supported by the European Commission and African Union Commission and has been co-funded under the European Research and Innovation Framework Programme since 2005.

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October 9, 2015 (Friday) Special Session C4 4:00pm – 6:00pm Evergreen 1-2

Session C4-1: X-Track (4:00pm to 5:00pm) The “X-Track” session is scheduled in the program as an open period without specific content prescribed. Each year, this track allows discussions to develop at the conference and form into interactive discussions, town halls, strategic planning meetings, etc. Please see Nathan Johnson or Robin Mays if you have a group interested in using this space, and a leader to guide the discussion of your choice.

Session C4-2: Documentary (5:00pm to 6:00pm) Screening and Meet A Filmmaker: The Human Element Alexander J. Moseson (Drexel University) The people of the mountains of Thailand are filled with joy, pride, beauty…and pain. Well-meaning American experts try to fix planting and water problems, but are humbled and transformed by working alongside their Thai partners. Come discover the human element through this exciting, honest, professionally produced 40-minute short documentary. Editor and producer Jocelyn Motter applies her experience on Discovery Channel series and major motion picture trailers, Alex Moseson brings a decade of humanitarian engineering experience to bear, and Eric Teti lends his award-winning cinematography. Watch the film and engage one of the filmmakers in candid Q&A. The first 20 attendees will receive a gift from Thailand! See the trailer here: tiny.cc/THETrailer

October 9, 2015 (Friday) Special Session C5: IEEE SIGHT Workshop 4:00pm – 6:00pm Evergreen 3-4

IEEE SIGHT Workshop on Creating Local Impact – Open to all GHTC Attendees Nirupama (Niru) Prakash Kumar (IEEE SIGHT Steering Committee), Kartik Kulkarni (IEEE SIGHT Steering Committee), Alfredo Herrera (IEEE SIGHT Engagement Subcommittee), Anand B (Madras SIGHT), Holly S Brown (IEEE SIGHT Program Manager) This workshop aims to discuss ideas on how engineers can engage themselves and their local peers in helping the community using technology. SIGHT is a global community of locally-focused engineers who inspire, enable, and connect with their peers and partners to solve local problems by deploying, developing, demonstrating, educating or advocating engineering and technology based solutions. 50+ SIGHTs in 18 countries are working on activities and projects in the fields of education, communication, energy, health and assistive technology. We will discuss the work and vision of some these groups and brainstorm on the challenges and opportunities we have in collaborating with communities.

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October 9, 2015 (Friday) Dinner Reception 6:30pm – 8:00pm Grand 3

Evening Plenary 1

Earth Observations from the International Space Station: Benefits for Humanity William L. Stefanov, Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division, Exploration Integration and Science Directorate, NASA Johnson Space Center The International Space Station (ISS) is a unique terrestrial remote sensing platform for observation of the Earth’s land surface, oceans, and atmosphere. Unlike automated remote-sensing platforms it has a human crew; is equipped with both internal and externally-mounted active and passive remote sensing instruments; and has an inclined, low-Earth orbit that provides variable views and lighting (day and night) over 95 percent of the inhabited surface of the Earth. As such, it provides a useful complement to autonomous, sun-synchronous sensor systems in higher altitude polar orbits.

Beginning in May 2012, NASA ISS sensor systems have been available to respond to requests for data through the International Charter, Space and Major Disasters, also known as the “International Disaster Charter” or IDC. Data from digital handheld cameras, multispectral, and hyperspectral imaging systems has been acquired in response to IDC activations and delivered to requesting agencies through the United States Geological Survey. The characteristics of the ISS for Earth observation will be presented, including past, current, and planned NASA, International Partner, and commercial remote sensing systems. The role and capabilities of the ISS for humanitarian benefit, specifically collection of remotely sensed disaster response data, will be discussed.

William Stefanov is the Associate International Space Station (ISS) Program Scientist for Earth Observations in the ISS Program Science Office at NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC). He works with the international partners and instrument science/operation teams to coordinate collection, distribution, and analysis of remotely sensed data from the ISS in response to catastrophic events such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and flooding; provides subject matter expertise to the ISS Program, NASA Science Mission Directorate, and Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS).

As NASA lead for the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit in the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Directorate at JSC, he oversees a group of specialists providing logistical support to the ISS program for NASA remote sensing assets on the ISS; operation and management of the Crew Earth Observations Facility on the ISS; and engaging in collaborative basic and applied research efforts focused on the Galveston Bay estuary and larger Gulf of Mexico with regional academic institutions, agencies, and other stakeholders. Dr. Stefanov also trains International Space Station astronauts in various Earth Science topics, and conducts research on land surface processes using remotely sensed data. His research interests include the use of visible through microwave remote sensing techniques to investigate urban and peri-urban geology/geohazards, climatology, and ecology.

Evening Plenary 2 Creating a Global Network to Impact Global Health Nancy Sclater, Rotary Seattle Five years ago, Bill Gates, Sr. challenged Seattle Rotary to eradicate malaria. Based on Rotary International’s success in reducing active polio cases, Mr. Gates urged Seattle Rotary to launch a project that would rid the world of the most prolific killer – malaria.

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Serving as the Centennial President of the world’s largest Rotary Club, Ms. Osborne Sclater launched a Second Century Project to reduce and ultimately eliminate malaria. In five years, the project has saved 250,000 from certain death, significantly reduced suffering, and lost economic productivity through a dramatic reduction in malaria cases. To insure sustainability, a network of social service organizations, local and international businesses, global organizations, and governmental agencies working together to the end of a disease that has plagued mankind for over 500,000 years.

Nancy Sclater has held senior executive and leadership positions spanning board directorships, as well as in corporate, government, and academic institutions during a career distinguished by creating new partnerships to accelerate synergy and achieve mission success. Ms. Sclater spearheaded collaboration among health care institutions, governments and global agencies to advance medical research and to champion health care services locally and globally.

Since 1996 Ms. Sclater has served as a Principal of Pinkerton Brown – a full service consulting firm that counsels leading institutions on strategic execution, governance, compliance, capital development, advocacy, public policy, and communications. Ms. Sclater

provides business acumen to healthcare organizations facing changes in their policy and economic environment, coupled with unwavering compassion for people who depend on those services. Currently, Ms. Sclater serves a variety of local and international organizations immersed in healthcare delivery or support services all focused on improving access both individually or organizationally.

Ms. Sclater has been a longstanding champion of rights, programs and employment for vulnerable populations, receiving two gubernatorial appointments as state-wide Director of Public Education for Disability Planning. She was also Founding President and Executive Director of the Disability Fund to create increased access to health care. Other achievements include Founding President and Executive Director of Northwest Center Foundation (1989-2005) -- the first organization in the U.S. to establish successful, competitive entrepreneurial businesses that provide paid employment to individuals with disabilities.

Ms. Sclater has received numerous awards including: Leadership Citation from Rotary International, Women of Impact Designee from the Junior League; Group Health Innovators in Health Care Award; Distinguished Service Award from Wellspring Family Services of King County; Top Ten Regional Leaders by The Seattle Times, and a Leadership Award from Childhaven. A frequent speaker on the health care innovation and reform, Ms. Sclater is a guest lecturer at universities and has been invited to provide expert testimony at U.S. Congressional, regional and state legislative hearings.

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October 10, 2015 (Saturday) Program Summary

7:00am – 6:00pm


7:00am – 8:00am

Breakfast (Grand 3)

8:00am – 10:00am

Saturday Plenary (Grand 3)

• Opening Plenary – Jeanette Duffy, UNICEF Ventures

• Opening Panel – Mark Haselkorn and Robin Mays, University of Washington

10:00am – 10:30am


10:30am – 12:30pm

• Technical Paper Session D1: Energy (Northwest 1)

“Novel Ideas to Combat Energy Poverty”

• Technical Paper Session D2: Humanitarian Challenges and Opportunities (Northwest 2)

“Reconsidering Design from Humanitarian Perspectives”

• Technical Paper Session D3: Connectivity and Communication (Northwest 3)

“Developing Humanitarian Communications Solutions”

• Technical Paper Session D4: Water, Sanitation, and Agriculture (Evergreen 1-2)

“Common Interests and Applications”

• Technical Paper Session D5: Student Paper Content (Evergreen 3-4)

12:30pm – 1:30pm

Lunch (Grand 3) and Exhibits (Grand 1)

1:30pm – 6:00pm

The Gaetano Borriello "Feet on the Ground" Humanitarian Symposium

(Grand 2)

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3:30pm – 4:00pm


4:00pm – 6:00pm

• Special Session E1 (Northwest 1)

E1-1 (workshop): IEEE Smart Village - Energy, Education, and Empowerment

E1-2 (workshop): Get an Idea Ready to Scale

• Special Session E2 (Northwest 2)

E2-1 (workshop): Design and Characterization of a Biomimetic Peristaltic Fecal Sludge Transport Device that Moves Waste Nature's Way

E2-2 (case study): The Crimean Crisis of 2014: Mobile communications challenges and insights

• Special Session E3 (Evergreen 1-2)

E3 (X-Track): X-Track topics

• Special Session E4 (Evergreen 3-4)

E4 (poster): Poster Presentations

6:00pm – 6:30pm


6:30pm – 8:00pm

Dinner Reception and Award Ceremony

(Grand 3) • Region 6 Awards – Thomas Coughlin, IEEE Region 6

• GHTC Student Papers Awards, Ramesh Nair, GHTC

• Evening Plenary Address – Paul Mitchell, Microsoft

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October 10, 2015 (Saturday) Saturday Plenary 8:00am – 10:00am Grand 3

Saturday Opening Plenary

UNICEF Kid Power – Introducing the First Wearable-For-Good Jeanette Duffy, Deputy Director, Cause Platforms, UNICEF Ventures UNICEF Kid Power gives kids the power to save lives. By getting physically active with the UNICEF Kid Power band, kids earn points, which unlock therapeutic food packets for malnourished children around the world. With the Kid Power Band empowering kids to get active and save lives, its no wonder one Boston student last spring told his mom, “I’m leaving early. Gonna take the stairs, gotta feed the world” In just its second year, UNICEF Kid Power—the U.S. Fund for UNICEF’s latest cause platform—is slated to bring the UNICEF Kid power Band—the first wearable-for-good—to a U.S. retail audience, while also scaling its philanthropically based school model to 70,000 U.S. based kids. This talk will provide background on how the program’s adoption of current technology and agile development has allowed for the rapid scaling of a product in a non-profit setting. I’ll also focus on how UNICEF Kid Power has also proven to be a win for both domestic and global agendas for the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, from its ability to engage new sponsors and potential to be a desirable replicable program across developed and developing countries.

Jeanette Duffy is a youth engagement expert and design thinking professional. She currently works with UNICEF Ventures at the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, developing new, collaborative models to educate about and advocate for UNICEF’s work doing whatever it takes to save and protect the world's most vulnerable children. Her latest venture is UNICEF Kid Power--a movement powered by kids using the first wearable-for-good to get kids physically active to save lives. Jeanette is the co-creator of the Big Ten Network’s BTN LiveBIG, and developed the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s Above the Influence toolkit of activities. Previous partners also include the Network for a Healthy California, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Connecticut Health Foundation.

Prior to UNICEF Ventures, Jeanette worked with GALEWill Design, a for-purpose company that designs social change programs, communications and actions. Jeanette began her career at NBC Universal, in the NBC Page program. She went on to work in television and film development, honing the creative and strategic skills she now uses in a career dedicated to social good. Jeanette has a BA from Binghamton University and an MPA from Baruch College.

Saturday Opening Panel

The Future of Humanitarian Technology: Practitioners' Perspectives Mark Haselkorn, Professor, University of Washington Robin Mays, Ph.D. Researcher and Practioner, University of Washington Miriam Orcutt, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) Ian O’Donnell, Red Cross/Red Crescent Global Disaster Preparedness Center Sian Platt, Plan International Bangladesh Dennis Kalson, REHS, “Asesoria Global en Salud Ambiental” Dan McClure, Thoughtworks Global Innovation Design Lead Within the professionally recognized international humanitarian community, the primary implementers of humanitarian relief are Non-Governmental and International Organization (NGOs and IOs) workers, working with

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local governments and communities. As the primary users of humanitarian technology, we will hear from many of these practitioners on the current state and future direction of technology within their organizations and practices. Our facilitated panel will take us on a journey of current practice and initiatives in humanitarian technology; sharing the diversity of technological considerations in design, strategies and definitions that successfully interact with on-the-ground realities.

Prof. Mark Haselkorn is a Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. His work focuses on the design, development, use and management of complex information and communication systems in support of collaborative work in highly uncertain and dynamic environments. He is Director of the Center for Collaborative Systems for Security, Safety, and Regional Resilience (CoSSaR), a multi-disciplinary environment where professionals from a wide range of entities (Federal, State, County, City, Tribal, International, Public and Private) team with university experts to align strategies, processes and investments in systems for security, safety and resilience. Dr. Haselkorn also founded and directs the UW's

Interdisciplinary Program on Humanitarian Relief, a cross-campus program of research and education that works with the international humanitarian sector to improve humanitarian response systems. Dr. Haselkorn is Past President of the IEEE Professional Communication Society and a member of the IEEE Medical Technology Policy Committee.

Robin Mays is an ethnographic researcher and humanitarian field practitioner currently completing a Ph.D. with the Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington. She has worked for over 18 years in rapid response operations and logistics, including an 11-year career as a humanitarian logistician. As a member of the response communities she studies, her research couples an insider perspective to explore and define critical elements in the design of disaster and humanitarian response systems that lead to more effective response.

Dr. Miriam Orcutt is a medical doctor with eight years experience serving with global health communities in countries including India, Nepal, Bolivia, Argentina and Zambia. Research associate with the Humanitarian Innovation Project (Oxford) the Public Health in

Humanitarian Crises Group (LSHTM), focusing on medical innovation in humanitarian aid and protracted humanitarian crises.

Ian O’Donnell has spent over 15 years in disaster risk reduction and development planning across a wide range of organizations including Peace Corps, Asian Development Bank, and ProVention. He currently leads research and technology innovation

initiatives for the Global Disaster Preparedness Center, hosted by the American Red Cross.

Sian Platt has 15 years field experience building capacity and managing programs with local communities in developing countries across a range of sectors including protection, education and children in emergencies. She has lived and worked in Bosnia, Myanmar,

Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

Dennis Kalson is an environmental health (EH) practitioner with more than 30 years field experience building innovative EH solutions and workforce empowerment strategies at local, regional and national levels in developing countries around the world.

Dan McClure has spent 30 years working on practical challenges that exist when doing innovation in complex and messy environments. He engages with humanitarian agencies in their disruptive spaces, with a current focus on looking at how to scale innovations within the humanitarian context.

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October 10, 2015 (Saturday) Technical Paper D1: Energy Novel Ideas to Combat Energy Poverty 10:30am – 12:30pm Northwest 1




10:30am 1570120407 Emergency Electric Service Restoration in the Aftermath of a Natural Disaster

Moein Choobineh, Salman Mohagheghi (Colorado School of Mines)

10:50am 1570133999 Reliable LED Lighting Technologies - Key Factors and Procurement Guidance

J. Lynn Davis (RTI International), Anne Arquit Niederberger (Policy Solutions)

11:10am 1570132541 Open Source Cookstoves Library for Massive DIY Deployment

Siu-Cheung Mok (Engineers Without Borders – Hong Kong, Display Research Laboratory)

11:30am 1570134711 Leveraging Strengths of Different Stakeholders to Improve and Scale Clean Cooking Products

Daniel Sweeney (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

11:50am 1570120177 Innovative Renewable Generation on a Budget

Alexander Anderson (Odin Energy Works LLC), Larry Hull (Na Wokabaut)

12:10pm 1570123317 Efficient Power Harvesting from the Mobile Phone Audio Jack for mHealth Peripherals

Chengyang Yao, Alexander Sun, Drew A. Hall (University of

California, San Diego)

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October 10, 2015 (Saturday) Technical Paper D2: Humanitarian Challenges & Opportunities Reconsidering Design from Humanitarian Perspectives 10:30am – 12:30pm Northwest 2

Session Chairs: Adam Widera (University of Muenster)

Robin Mays (University of Washington)


10:30am 1570203725 Engineering Scale Up in Humanitarian Innovations Missing Middle

Dan McClure (ThoughtWorks), Ian Gray (GrayDot Consulting)

10:50am 1570123801 Beyond the Tent: Considerations for Altering the Standard Refugee Camp Design for Improved Health Outcomes

Rebecca Byler, Fkadu Gelaw, Kaveh Khoshnood (Yale University)

11:10am 1570137517 Implementation of Data-aware Community in Kapgari Village Community

Bulbul Sen, Ranjan Sen (Kapgari Inc.)

11:30am 1570123593 Towards a Truthful World Wide Web from a Humanitarian Perspective

Vishnu Pendyala, Silvia Figueira (Santa Clara University)

11:50am 1570123861 Co-Located Community Health and Economic Activity Centers

Brittany Schraeder, Eva Bonta, Eric Obeysekare, Khanjan Mehta (Penn State University)

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October 10, 2015 (Saturday) Technical Paper D3: Connectivity & Communication Developing Humanitarian Communications Solutions 10:30am – 12:30pm Northwest 3

Session Chair: James Miller (SYNECTICS, Ltd.)


10:30am 1570136441 Application of Graph Methods for Leveraging Open Source Data During Disaster Response

Danelle Shah, Christian Anderson, Paul Breimyer, Stephanie Foster, Kelly Geyer, John Griffith, Andrew Heier, Arjun Majumdar, Olga Simek, Nicholas Stanisha, Frederick Waugh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

10:50am 1570121783 Measuring Air Quality Using Wireless Self-Powered Devices

Kyle Reilly, Michael Birner, Nathan Johnson (Arizona State University)

11:10am 1570138611 Mobile Robotics for Restoring Degraded Ecosystems

Zaoui Mohamed (College de France 11, Marcelin Berthelot), Flavien Viguier (SNCF), Pierre Blazevic (Institut Des Sciences Et Techniques)

11:30am 1570134049 Challenges with Multiple Translations in International Surveys

Katherine Mason, Carol Place, David Plotner (RTI International)

11:50am 1570124813 Identifying End-User Requirements for Communication Systems in Disadvantaged Environments

Jessica Menold, Lydia Weitzler, Yan Liu, Sven G. Bilen, Scarlett Miller (Penn State University)

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October 10, 2015 (Saturday) Technical Paper D4: Water, Sanitation, & Agriculture Common Interests and Applications 10:30am – 12:30pm Evergreen 1-2

Session Chair: Dennis Kalson


10:30am 1570134197 A Decision Support Tool for Greenhouse Farmers in Low-Resource Settings

Aya Bseiso, Brett Abele, Shae Ferguson, Peter Lusch, Khanjan Mehta (Penn State University)

10:50am 1570120765 Agricultural Activity Recognition with Smart-shirt and Crop Protocol

Sanat Sarangi, Somya Sharma, Bhushan Gurmukhdas Jagyasi (Tata Consultancy Services)

11:10am 1570121911 Development of a Solar Updraft Aeration System for Pond Aquaculture in Resource-Constrained Environments

Ahmed Mahmoud (University of Toronto), Elan Pavlov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Tuan Quang (NISTPASS), Amy Bilton (University of Toronto)

11:30am 1570132707 HydroSense: A Self-Powered Wireless Device for Monitoring Water Usage in Hotel Showers

Peter J. Hawrylak, Tyler Johannes, Claire Cornell, LeRoy Albert Flint, Anshuman Singh, Kameron Mongold, Will Nichols, Ryan DeCook, Xiang Li (The University of Tulsa)

11:50am 1570120317 Affordable Greenhouses: A Tool to Increase Farmers' Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change

Megan Biek, Wan Chen Chung, Khanjan Mehta (Penn State University)

12:10pm 1570119797

Water Asset Replacement Maintenance Prioritization Procedure based on Criticality and Optimisation of Energy Consumption

Dr M. Al Katheeri, A. R. Al Dhaheri, T. Almasaleha (Abu Dhabi Distribution Company)

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October 10, 2015 (Saturday) Session D5: Student Paper Content 10:30am – 12:30pm Evergreen 3-4

Session Chair: Ramesh Nair

Time ID Paper Title Author Names

10:30am Paper #1 Need Clean Water Here Alexander Anderson (Washington State University)

10:50am Paper #2 Automatic Vehicle Indicator On/Off Vijay Kumar (Vignan Institute of Technology and Science)

11:10am Paper #3 Lifestream Mobile Application: Navigating Transgender Healthcare in Metropolitan Orlando

Bartley Argo, Linda Garrison (University of Central Florida)

11:30am Paper #4 DTMF Based Robotic Arm Design and Control for Robotic Coconut Tree Climber

Thejus Padmakumar, Trayesh Venugopal, Gokul M, Allan Philip (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham)

11:50am Paper #5 Motorized Hand Rehabilitation Device Rahul R, Aswathy R, Ameena Yari, Jeeva JB (Vellore Institute of Technology)

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October 10, 2015 (Saturday) The Gaetano Borriello Feet on the Ground Humanitarian Symposium 1:30pm – 6:00pm Grand 2

Our friend and colleague, Professor Gaetano Borriello, passed away earlier this year. He was a Fellow of the IEEE and a recognized leader in the fields of Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing who spent a significant portion of his career devoted to applying computing technologies to improving conditions in low-resource settings. He led the development of a suite of open-source mobile data collection tools, known as the Open Data Kit (ODK), that are used by humanitarian programs worldwide to help advance public health, human rights, political participation and environmental stewardship. Dr. Borriello demonstrated how research can impact the lives of people around the globe. The symposium will honor his contributions by bringing together experts in developing and applying technologies to address humanitarian challenges. In addition to a series of technical talks, the program will include a panel of researchers who participated in the development of the Open Data Kit. Dr. Borriello demonstrated how research can impact the lives of people around the globe. The symposium will honor his contributions by bringing together experts in developing and applying technologies to address humanitarian challenges. U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell and Jim Jeffries, President of the IEEE USA, will be our honored guests and deliver a special announcement. The symposium will feature a series of technical talks and a panel discussion featuring researchers who participated in the development of the Open Data Kit. Invited keynotes and technical Speakers include: Invited speakers include: • John Bennett, Associate Vice Chancellor for Innovation Initiatives, University of Colorado, Denver and past

president, Engineers Without Borders • Eric Brewer, Professor, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley • Kiersten Israel-Ballard, Technical Officer, Maternal and Child Health/Nutrition, PATH • Lilian Pintea, Vice President, Conservation Science, Jane Goodall Institute • David Thau, Manager of Developer Relations, Google Earth Engine & Google Earth Outreach • Heather Underwood, Associate Director, inWorks and Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Denver • Lorenzo Violante Ruiz, Learning & Innovation Coordinator, International Federation of Red Cross and Red

Crescent Societies • Roy Want, Research Scientist, Google

With Open Data Kit speakers: • Waylon Brunette, Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington • Nicola Dell, Assistant Professor, Computing & Information Sciences, Cornell University • Carl Hartung, Co-founder & CTO, Nafundi

Professor Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, will open proceedings with a tribute to Dr. Borriello’s life and work. The symposium is co-chaired by Professor Richard Anderson, Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, and Dr. Sheree Wen, U.S. national commissioner to UNESCO, chair of IEEE Seattle and vice chair of GHTC15. In addition to honoring the life and contributions of Dr. Borriello, we will also celebrate the 70th anniversary of UNESCO, the United Nations Education Science and Culture Organization. Since 1945, UNESCO has united people in 197 countries, endeavoring through education, science and culture to improve lives through peaceful collaborations.

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Attendance at the Gaetano Borriello Feet on the Ground Humanitarian Symposium is open to members of the public in addition to GHTC15 conference registrants. Because space is limited, individuals who plan to attend the symposium are encouraged to RSVP in advance at http://tinyurl.com/BorrielloSymposium. Organized by IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional society with over 400,000 members in over 160 countries, the cross-disciplinary Global Humanitarian Technology Conference focuses on advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. More than 300 people from 30 countries are expected at GHTC15. Learn more and register to attend the entire GHTC15 conference at http://www.ieeeghtc.org.

October 10, 2015 (Saturday) Special Session E1 4:00pm – 6:00pm Northwest 1

Session E1-1: Workshop (4:00pm to 5:00pm) IEEE Smart Village - Energy, Education, and Empowerment Ray Larson (Stanford University), Daniel Wessner (Posner Center), Robin Podmore (IncSys) The key goal of IEEE Smart Village is to seed community owned and operated micro-utility businesses, plus offer enhanced community based online education, both technical and general, to build up economic and social sustainability capacity within each community. The vision is to reach thousands of off-grid villages and tens of millions of people. This session will describe the key components of the model, accomplishments to date and plans for the future including NGO partnerships to build out holistic and lasting solutions. IEEE Smart Village is a Signature Program of IEEE Foundation with current initiatives in Haiti, Cameroon, Nigeria, South Sudan, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia and India.

Session E1-2: Workshop (5:00pm to 6:00pm) Get an Idea Ready to Scale Dan McClure (ThoughtWorks), Ian Gray (Gray Dot Catalyst) Is your Pilot stuck? On any given day there are hundreds, perhaps thousands of successful pilot programs anxious to Scale Up. Yet, disappointingly few ever do. One of the big barriers to making this transition is the variety of complex elements that need to be added into a Pilot before it can become a sustainable solution. Few innovators are ready for the diverse challenges of completing their solution, removing compromises, building connections and finding a way to meet financial needs. In this workshop we'll take some great Pilot ideas and tear them apart and then add in the parts needed for the Scale Up journey.

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October 10, 2015 (Saturday) Special Session E2 4:00pm – 6:00pm Northwest 2

Session E2-1: Workshop (4:00pm to 5:30pm) Design and Characterization of a Biomimetic Peristaltic Fecal Sludge Transport Device that Moves Waste Nature's Way Roger Johnson (Eidon LLC) The conveyance of fecal waste is at the heart of most sanitation processes. Current designs do not offer great solutions for transporting sludge without extensive dilution or drying. In contrast, the peristaltic action of intestines moves high-solid sludge through narrow tubes without dilution, high pressures or excessive energy. Inspired by nature’s method we invented a pneumatically driven, infinitely activated, peristaltic tube able to move sludge like an external intestine. During the peristaltic process sludge is separated into boluses that are individually displaced by traveling constrictions along the entire tube. This avoids high head pressures normally caused by continuous liquid columns. Movement of non-diluted sludge eliminates the need for dilution water and the costs incurred by the combined waste. A prototype made of simple heat welded membranes demonstrates feasibility. A peristaltic tube the size of our intestine uses just one square meter of membrane per meter of tube length, resulting in a low cost, light weight, flexible pumping device. It is powered with 5-10 psi air that can be generated by human operated bellows. Empirical comparisons with conventional pump head pressures and flow rates are made for a spectrum of waste sludges. Application to waterless toilets, biogas digesters, deep water pumps, pit emptying, well drilling and concrete pumping are discussed.

Session E2-2: Case Study (5:30pm to 6:00pm) The Crimean Crisis of 2014: Mobile communications challenges and insights Paul Gardner-Stephen, Romana Challans, Jeremy Lakeman, Andrew Bettison (Flinders University) The Ukraine crisis and annexure of the Crimea by Russia, and ensuring humanitarian disaster have been well documented in various places. The Serval Mesh, completely decentralized and encrypted an infrastructure independent communications system for mobile telephones saw a spike of installs during the crisis. Until now we could only speculate on what usage, if any, the Serval Mesh saw in that situation. However, this changed when we received correspondence suggesting that the Serval Mesh was actively used in Ukraine to provide local communications in areas where Russian or rebel forces apparently jammed cellular service, or used long range radio emissions between cell phones and cellular towers to determine the location of government forces. In this situation we see the unfortunately common situation where the local population following a man-made disaster are deprived of the ability to communicate, but in this case the provision of our Serval Mesh technology -- despite its numerous imperfections -- was able to help address this need until international support arrived. These events raise interesting questions and points of discussion around how to best provide for the immediate communications needs of populations affected by disasters of any kind, and how academia, industry and the non-profit/humanitarian sector might be able to work to address those needs. It is our desire to invite and facilitate such a discussion at this years GHTC.

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October 10, 2015 (Saturday) Special Session E3: X-Track 4:00pm – 6:00pm Evergreen 1-2

The “X-Track” session is scheduled in the program as an open period without specific content prescribed. Each year, this track allows discussions to develop at the conference and form into interactive discussions, town halls, strategic planning meetings, etc. Please see Nathan Johnson or Robin Mays if you have a group interested in using this space, and a leader to guide the discussion of your choice.

October 10, 2015 (Saturday) Special Session E4: Poster Presentations 4:00pm – 6:00pm Evergreen 3-4

Session Chair: Suryadip Chakraborty

ID Title Author Names Subject Area

1570111079 Adapting an Alternative Low-cost Water Chlorination System for Third World Countries

Jeremiah Medina, David White, Danford Jooste, Karly Jerman, Jeremy Hagen, Truc T. Ngo (University of San Diego)

Water & Sanitation

1570120253 Service-Learning Integration in Undergraduate Materials Engineering Courses

Jill Manapat (University of the Philippines, Diliman) Education

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PTS&D (Peace, Technology, Science & Development): Fostering Humanitarian Success through Policy Oriented Science and Technology Development

Volker Franke (Kennesaw State University), Graham Gintz (Independent Researcher)

Humanitarian Challenges & Opportunities

1570133309 Modular Medium-Scale Solar Water Purification System

Ernesto Chan, Ishant Desai, Ethiopia Haileyesus, Cassidy Green, Susan Newton, Tim Gilmour, Junseok Song (John Brown University)

Energy; Water

1570133937 Verifying LifePump with Remote Data Loggers

Greg Bixler (Design Outreach & The Ohio State University)

Connectivity & Communication

1570134015 Early Years in the Renewable Energy Engineering Program: Implementation Strategies and Outcomes

Edgar Valenzuela, Pedro Rosales, Alejandro Lambert, Alejandro Suastegui, Marlene Zamora (Universidad Autonoma de Estado de Baja California)

Energy; Education

1570134107 An Indirect Solar Cooking System Stephen Nuchia (Dell Inc.) Energy

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1570134277 Catalyzing Innovation: Accelovate's Design Challenge Model

Nathaniel Moller, Elizabeth Hurwitz, Deepti Tanuku (Jhpiego)

Humanitarian Challenges & Opportunities

1570134327 Barriers in Implementing Sustainable Initiatives in the Educational Institutions

Pradeep Vankayala, Fnu Diwakar Krishnappa (University of Houston-Clear Lake)

Education

1570134555 Designing Technologies with End-Users in Low-Resource Contexts: A Review of Literature

Matthew Vedrin (University of Michigan) Education

1570134627 Analysis of Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithms for Use on Low-Cost Microcontrollers

Zachary Lee, Kyle Crouse, John Zumbro, Junseok Song (John Brown University)

Energy

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October 10, 2015 (Saturday) Dinner Reception and Awards Ceremony 6:30pm – 8:00pm Grand 3

Awards Ceremony Region 6 Awards Thomas Coughlin, Coughlin Associates, IEEE Region 6 Director

Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates is a widely respected storage analyst and consultant. He has over 35 years in the data storage industry with multiple engineering and management positions at high profile companies. Dr. Coughlin has many publications and six patents to his credit. Tom is also the author of Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics: The Essential Guide, which was published by Newnes Press. Coughlin Associates provides market and technology analysis as well as Data Storage Technical Consulting services. Tom publishes the Digital Storage Technology Newsletter, the Media and Entertainment Storage Report, and

other industry reports. Tom is also a regular contributor on digital storage for Forbes.com. Tom is active with SMPTE, SNIA, the IEEE (he is Director for IEEE Region 6 and active in the Consumer Electronics Society) and other professional organizations. Tom is the founder and organizer of the Annual Storage Visions Conference (www.storagevisions.com), a partner to the International Consumer Electronics Show, as well as the Creative Storage Conference (www.creativestorage.org). He is the general chairman of the annual Flash Memory Summit. He is a Senior member of the IEEE, Leader in the Gerson Lehrman Group Councils of Advisors and a member of the Consultants Network of Silicon Valley (CNSV). For more information on Tom Coughlin and his publications. go to www.tomcoughlin.com. GHTC Student Paper Awards Ramesh Nair, Intel Corporation GHTC 2015

Ramesh Nair received his Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering from University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH in 2014. Since August 2014, he has been working with Intel Corporation in California as a Component Design Engineer. At Intel, Ramesh is responsible for tools and methodology design/development for Intel’s next generation microprocessor and SoC designs. Ramesh’s areas of technical interest includes Design Automation, Low Power VLSI, and Digital Circuit Design. He is a recipient of 2015 Intel Design Synergy Award, 2014 Design Automation Conference (DAC) Young Research Fellowship, 2013-12 University of Cincinnati

Graduate Scholarship (UGS) etc. Ramesh also has 5+ years of volunteering experience in Student/Young Professional activities within IEEE in various MGA, Regional and conference steering committees. Currently Ramesh is the Young Professional Representative to IEEE MGA Student Activities Committee and Pre-College Activity Chair in IEEE Region 6.

Evening Address Paul Mitchell, General Manager, Technology Policy for Microsoft Corporation

Mr. Mitchell assumed his current role in July 2011. He is responsible for strategic technology policy initiatives in the areas of spectrum, telecomm, and Internet governance. He has championed Microsoft’s efforts to advance flexible spectrum regulations allowing for dynamic sharing, and developing innovative access networks leveraging television white spaces around the world. Prior to his current position Mr. Mitchell held a variety of senior positions including General Manager, Interoperability and Standards, and General Manager of Policy and Standards with

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Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division. His career also includes significant work related to digital and interactive television beginning with Microsoft’s early trials of an Interactive TV system in the U.S. and Japan and followed by work developing standards for digital television in advance of the U.S. DTV transition. He held several roles in the Microsoft TV division including Chief of Staff and General Manager of the Tools and Applications Product Unit. Mr. Mitchell joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager in the Developer Tools Division, where he helped secure developer adoption of Microsoft’s professional C and C++ products launching Microsoft C7, Microsoft Visual C++, and Microsoft Visual C++ for Windows NT. Mitchell serves on the ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission, on the board of the United States Telecommunications Training Institute, and on the advisory board for the Evans School at the University of Washington. He has previously served on the board of directors of BET.com, the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions, and Vision TV and SVOX in Canada. He holds an MPA from the Evans School at the University of Washington.

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October 11, 2015 (Sunday) Program Summary

7:00am – 10:00am


7:00am – 8:00am

Breakfast (Grand 3)

8:00am – 10:00am

• Technical Paper Session F1: Energy (Northwest 1)

“Emerging Technologies for Energy Generation”

• Technical Paper Session F2: Health (Northwest 2)

“Towards Improved Diagnostics, Health Information Accessibility, & Drug Supplies”

• Technical Paper Session F3: Education (Northwest 3)

“Education Case Studies in Humanitarian Settings”

• Technical Paper Session F4: Humanitarian Challenges and Opportunities (Evergreen 1-2)

“Humanitarian Innovations for Communities and Practioners”

10:00am – 10:30am

Break (Grand 1)

10:30am – 12:30pm

Closing Plenary (Grand 3)

• Closing Address – Alexander J. Moseson, USAID

• Closing Keynote – Shukla Bose, Parikrma Humanity Foundation

• Closing Comments – Joe Decuir, Conference Chair

1:30pm – 2:30pm

GHTC Steering Committee Debrief Meeting

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October 11, 2015 (Sunday) Technical Paper F1: Energy Emerging Technologies for Energy Generation 8:00am – 10:00am Northwest 1




8:00am 1570134031 Development of A Power Source for Rural Electrification

David Xu, Nicholas Powers, Worawut Sae-kok (ABB Inc. USA)

8:20am 1570121149 Dynamic and Intelligent Load Servicing Strategy for a Stand-alone Solar PV-based Microgrid

Arjun Subramanian Ganesan, Bhargavi Govindarajan (Solarillion Foundation), Rajesh Ramesh (IEEE Power & Energy Society), Vikram vel Senthilvel, Vineeth Vijayaraghavan (Solarillion Foundation)

8:40am 1570130107 Taming Transportation - Zero Emissions at No Increase in Cost

Tracy Farwell, John Lussmyer (Better Energy LLC)

9:00am 1570117409 Simplified Modeling of a PV Panel by Using PSIM and its Comparison with Laboratory Test Results

Adil Salman (Dublin Institute of Technology), Arthur Williams The University of Nottingham), Hanya Amjad (NFC IET), Muhammad Saad (Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Technology, M. Kamran Liaqat Bhatti (NFC IET)

9:20am 1570133449 Project Power Shoe: Piezoelectric Wireless Power Transfer - A Mobile Charging Technique

Joses Paul, Samuel Desmond Tutu, Maria Jerome, Kevin Richards (Jeppiaar Engineering College)

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October 11, 2015 (Sunday) Technical Paper F2: Health Towards Improved Diagnostics, Health Information Accessibility, & Drug Supplies 8:00am – 10:00am Northwest 2

Session Chairs: Dr. Maria Lemos (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)

Dr. Miriam Orcutt (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)


8:00am 1570123611

Challenging Requirements in Resource Challenged Environment on a Time Challenged Schedule: A Technical Solution to Support the Cold Chain for the VSV-Zebov (Merck) Ebola Vaccine in Sierra Leone and Guinea

Michael Friend, Shannon Stone (Intellectual Ventures Laboratory)

8:20am 1570123579

Smart Diagnostic Algorithms for Automated Detection of Childhood Pneumonia in Resource-Constrained Settings

Elina Naydenova, Althanasios Tsanas (University of Oxford), Stephen Howie (Child Survival Theme, Medical Research Control Unit), Climent Casals-Pascual, Maarten De Vos (University of Oxford)

8:40am 1570123967 Mobile Stethoscope and Signal Processing Algorithms for Pulmonary Screening and Diagnostics

Daniel Chamberlain (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Rahul Kodgule (Chest Research Foundation), John Mofor, Richard Fletcher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

9:00am 1570124977 Automated Microscopy and Machine Learning for Expert-Level Malaria Field Diagnosis

Charles Delahunt, Liming Hu, Courosh Mehanian (Intellectual Ventures Laboratory), Clay Thompson (Creative Creek), Cary Champlin, Shawn McGuire, Matthew Horning, Benjamin Wilson (Intellectual Ventures Laboratory)

9:20am 1570123397 Development of a Single-use, Disposable, Electricity-free, Nucleic Acid Amplification Platform

Steven P Diesburg, Dylan Guelig, Robert Burton, Jered Singleton, Paul LaBerre (PATH)

9:40am 1570134451 Comparative Study of Remote Surgery Techniques

Sylvia Bhattacharya and Danda Rawat (Georgia Southern University)

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October 11, 2015 (Sunday) Technical Paper F3: Education Education Case Studies in Humanitarian Settings 8:00am – 10:00am Northwest 3

Session Chair: Sian Platt (Plan International)


8:00am 1570123445 Gender Differences in a Technology-based Numeracy Intervention in a Developing Country

Imran A Zualkerman (American University of Sharjah)

8:20am 1570138043 Promoting Literacy for Prisoners' Rehabilitation

Mir Azmath Ali, Joy Deshmukh Ranadive (Tata Consultancy Services)

8:40am 1570123419 Obstetric and Gynecologic Ultrasound Training at the Uganda Nursing School Bwindi: Initial Experiences and Challenges

Elizabeth Lee (University of Vermont Medical Center), John Kisandi (Ishaka of Vermont Medical Center), Jane Alsofrom, Mary Streeter, Anjuli Cherukuri (University of Vermont Medical Center), Jane Anyango (Uganda Nursing School Bwindi), Matovu Alphonsus (Mubende Regional Referral Hospital), Kristen DeStigter (University of Vermont Medical Center)

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October 11, 2015 (Sunday) Technical Paper F4: Humanitarian Challenges & Opportunities Humanitarian Innovations for Communities and Practitioners 8:00am – 10:00am Evergreen 1-2

Session Chairs: Adam Widera (University of Muenster)

Robin Mays (University of Washington)


8:00am 1570137979 Can We Manufacture Diagnostic Test Strips Using an Inkjet Printer?

Nicholas Frazzette, Jennifer Dobson, Arwa Mukhtar, Bridget Burt, Janak Jethva, James Adair, Khanjan Mehta (Penn State University)

8:20am 1570123535 DevCAFE 1.0: A Participatory Platform for Assessing Development Initiatives in the Field

Brandie Nonnecke, Sanjay Krishnan, Jay Patel, Mo Zhou (University of California, Berkeley), Laura Byaruhanga, Dorothy Masinde (Iowa State University), Maria Meneses, Alejandro Martin del Campo (Tecnologico de Monterrey), Camille Crittenden, Ken Goldberg (University of California, Berkeley)

8:40am 1570132607 Portable Acoustic Landmine Detector for Humanitarian Demining

KR Rajesh (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing)

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October 11, 2015 (Sunday) Closing Plenary 10:30am – 12:30pm Grand 3

Closing Address The Global Innovation Exchange: By You, For You Alexander J. Moseson, Ph.D. AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow at USAID / U.S. Global Development Lab / Higher Education Solutions Network (HESN) You have the power to change the world. The Exchange can help. The Global Innovation Exchange (GlobalInnovationExchange.com) was born out of countless conversations across more than 40 partners and built to advance critical issues around development. It is a community of innovators, collaborators, and funders; its tools are totally free. The Exchange is brand and innovation agnostic. Everyone on the Exchange is equal and brings what they do best to the Exchange.

Presenter Alex Moseson, a core Exchange team member, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grantee, and AAAS Fellow at the U.S. Global Development Lab will share how to get the most out of this platform. With case studies on the Lab's Higher Education Solutions Network (HESN) and beyond, he will share best practices and industry trends to shape your applications to the $200+ million in funding opportunities on the Exchange, as well as, your current projects and programs.

Closing Keynote

Shukla Bose, Founder and CEO, Parikrma Humanity Foundation

Shukla Bose has a rich corporate experience of 26 years in the hospitality industry. She has done Masters in Comparative Literature and a MBA specializing in marketing. She has also done a management program at the George Washington University on social entrepreneurship. She was with Oberoi hospitality group for 13 years and was the CEO of RCI for 11 years. In 2000 she gave up her high profile corporate position and started the India operations of a multinational NGO working with children. She volunteered with Mother Teresa for 7 years. Her experience with slum and street children greatly encouraged her

to make the development of under-served children as her mission in life. She therefore started Parikrma Humanity Foundation a NGO that runs four schools and one junior college that provides quality English medium education to 1700 orphaned, abandoned, slum and street children. Parikrma has also partnered with Bangalore Corporation to enhance the quality of education of 18 government schools. Shukla is the recipient of many national and international awards. She was awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1995, the Bharat Gaurav Award in 1996 and the Woman of the Year award in 2000. Shukla has been invited to speak at several Indian and international conferences on social entrepreneurship and global education. She is also a TED speaker. Parikrma Humanity Foundation has been awarded the Derozio Award for excellence in special education and social commitment. Parikrma also received the Governor’s award for exemplary social work in January 2007. Shukla Bose was nominated as a Bangalore Hero in the recent Bangalore Mirror campaign.

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Closing Comments Joe Decuir, Conference Chair

Joe Decuir is still having an interesting career. He became an IEEE Fellow for contributions to computer graphics and video games. He has been writing widely used public engineering standards, including V-series dialup modems, USB and Bluetooth. He is a standards architect advancing the Internet of Things. In the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, he is a distinguished lecturer and on the Board of Governors. His passion: humanitarian technology – he is the chair of GHTC 2015.

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Hotel Floor Plan

DoubleTree by Hilton Seattle Airport

18740 International Blvd Seattle, WA 98188

206-246-8600

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Call for Submissions – abstracts due March 31, 2016 The Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) is the flagship IEEE conference for presenting, discussing, and developing technological solutions to global humanitarian challenges. GHTC invites presenters and attendees who work to meet the needs of populations affected by poverty, disaster, conflict, environmental change, and other impacts resulting in their needs being unmet or underserved. The conference’s focus is to create and promote appropriate, sustainable, and holistic solutions to humanitarian challenges by integrating technical science with broader disciplines such as economics, policy, culture, and environment. GHTC encourages practice and research oriented engineers, scientists, and practitioners with both technical and non-technical backgrounds. We welcome a diversity of participants from academia, for-profit and non-profit business, governmental and non-governmental organizations to present research, lessons learned, case studies, ideas, and other considerations for the creation of effective humanitarian technology.

The Conference theme of “Technology for the Benefit of Humanity” is presented in eight focus areas:

1. Energy—Electrification, renewable energy technologies, energy and power infrastructures, off-grid power, lighting, cooking, heating

2. Health—Medical technology, telemedicine, mobile care, primary care, nutrition 3. Disaster Management—Disaster preparedness and planning, early warning, response systems, needs

analysis and assessment, community mobilization, monitoring and evaluation 4. Connectivity & Communication—Information networks, information technologies and systems,

communication technologies, social media 5. Humanitarian Challenges & Opportunities—Logistics and transportation, security (infrastructure,

information, human), shelter, interagency coordination, human-centered system design, participatory methods 6. Water & Sanitation—Clean water, sanitation, solid waste management, vector control, drainage, hygiene 7. Agriculture—Agricultural technologies, irrigation, farming practices 8. Education—Training and capacity building, programs and methods, service learning

Authors may submit content in the form of a technical paper, poster, or special session (panel, workshop, or demonstration). We especially encourage the inclusion of practitioner’s case studies. Please see the links below for more information.

• All submissions require an abstract for review • At least one author of the submission must attend and present at the conference • All submissions must be submitted online at www.ieeeghtc.org/author-central • All submissions must follow content & length guidelines available at www.ieeeghtc.org/author-central • Necessary revisions must be completed before final acceptance • Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent via email • International attendees are responsible for obtaining the proper visas; the conference will send a standard

invitation letter on request.

Accepted and presented papers will be published and included in IEEE Xplore. Electronic media containing all accepted GHTC abstracts and papers will be distributed to registered attendees.

More information on session submission requirements and deadlines, registration for the conference, hotel reservations and exhibiting is available on the GHTC website www.ieeeghtc.org.

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