Monday, April 16, 2007

Dirt-Cheap, Life-Saving - Tailoring Technology to What the Planet's Poorest People Need - NYAS ebriefing

Few individual engineers attain celebrity status, but collectively engineers have transformed the world. And as science and technology continue to evolve, engineers are gaining ever-new tools to exploit for invention and design.

Can resourceful engineers apply their ingenuity and the tremendous store of knowledge they command to significantly improve the lives of the roughly one billion people who struggle to subsist on less than $1 a day? The 2.7 billion people who live on less than $2 a day? Can focused, strategic problem solving make a material difference to their lives, fast?

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