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Ticora V. Jones | TicoraVJones Higher Education Solutions Network - Program Director

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Can consumer product testing be useful as a marketplace change-agent for the developing world?

Consumer Reports works only for the Consumer

• No commercial ties or ads

• Not-for-Profit

• Test – Inform – Protect • $250M; 600

• 8M; 4000

• 3

CR Product Testing Leads to Marketplace Changes

• Winners! Top Rated, Best Buys, Recommended Models fly off the shelves • Losers! “Don’t Buy”

• Consumer Advocacy!

Putting “CR-Style of Testing” to work in

Uganda … Solar Lanterns

• USAID’s HESN grant at MIT Charge & discharge times, lighting, durability, features

• Lessons learned: Models, Expensive, Intensive • Bottom line: “CR-Style” works for developing world

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Hardware Challenges

Issues for Tech Developers to Consider in Designing for the

Developing World

INVENEO IN BRIEF •Nonprofit social enterprise founded in 2004

•Designs and delivers the tools of technology – sustainable computing and broadband – to those who need it most in the developing world

•Builds capacity with local ICT partners and implements local eco-systems to deliver truly sustainable ICT solutions

•Leads ICT projects and programs that have impacted lives of 3+ million people in over 25 developing countries in Africa, the Caribbean, Asia/Pacific and the Middle East

THE CHALLENGE

• Technology Mismatch

– Products designed by and for the technologically advanced

– Results in / Contributes to numerous technology failures

THE STUDY

• Uncover the major hardware challenges

– Tech Salons + In-Depth Interviews + Macro-Level Survey

• Present findings to the technology developers, designers, and manufacturers

– Outcomes: White Paper, One-on-One Meetings w/Developers

How You Can Get Involved:

Take the survey!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ict4dhardwarechallenges

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DIL Approach

Pilot deployment

Evaluate demand

Iteratively redesign

Scale-up & Monitor

Engineering breakthrough

Observe needs

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