Sensors for clean water: a participatory approach for technology innovation

清洁水传感器：技术创新的参与式方法

• 批准号: EP/P027571/1
• 负责人: Steven Johnson
• 金额: $ 150.61万
• 依托单位: University of York
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FP027571%2F1
• 关键词: Sensors; clean; water; participatory; approach

Access to clean water is fundamental for life. It is estimated that more than 1.5 million children under five years old die every year from diarrhoeal diseases due to unsafe water and a lack of basic sanitation. Ensuring the provision of clean water is thus a crucial challenge in low income countries. Yet access to safe drinking water continues to be a challenge globally. For example, in Vanuatu, five thousand households depend on unimproved river, lake or spring water. A consequence of this is a high rate of diarrhoea. Providing clean water across Vanuatu is particularly challenging. This is partly due to the geographical isolation of the many rural communities spread across Vanuatu's 80 islands. Vanuatu is also the most disaster prone country in the world, with a high susceptibility to natural disasters and a low coping capacity. For example, following Tropical Cyclone Pam (March 2015) half the population was without clean drinking water for one month after two thirds of water and sanitation infrastructure was destroyed.The aim of our research is to work with poor communities in Vanuatu most affected by this problem, in order to develop water monitoring technologies that will provide assurance about the safety of their drinking water. Traditional approaches for technology development, where technologies are developed on behalf people, rather than with and by communities, tend to have limited impact. We plan to take a different approach, an approach we call Integrated Participatory Technology Development (iPTD). iPTD embeds communities at every phase of the technology innovation process, from defining the initial technology specification, through to design, testing, and optimization. By working with communities from the outset, we will ensure sensing technology that is designed precisely to meet the needs, skills and environment in which the community live.

获得清洁的水是生命的根本。据估计，每年有150多万5岁以下儿童死于腹泻疾病，原因是饮水不安全和缺乏基本卫生设施。因此，确保提供清洁的水是低收入国家的一项重大挑战。然而，获得安全饮用水在全球范围内仍然是一项挑战。例如，在瓦努阿图，5000户家庭依靠未经改善的河流、湖泊或泉水生活。这种情况的后果是腹泻的发生率很高。在瓦努阿图全境提供清洁水尤其具有挑战性。这在一定程度上是因为瓦努阿图80个岛屿上的许多农村社区在地理上与世隔绝。瓦努阿图也是世界上灾害最多的国家，对自然灾害的敏感性高，应对能力低。例如，在热带气旋帕姆(2015年3月)之后，在三分之二的供水和卫生基础设施被摧毁后，一半人口一个月没有清洁饮用水。我们研究的目的是与受这一问题影响最严重的瓦努阿图贫困社区合作，以开发水监测技术，为他们的饮用水安全提供保证。传统的技术开发方法，即技术是为人而开发的，而不是与社区合作并由社区开发的，其影响往往有限。我们计划采取一种不同的方法，我们称之为综合参与式技术开发(IPTD)。IPTD将社区嵌入到技术创新过程的每个阶段，从定义初始技术规范到设计、测试和优化。通过从一开始就与社区合作，我们将确保传感技术精确地满足社区的需求、技能和环境。

项目成果

Autonomous Change Processes in Traditional Institutions: Lessons from Innovations in Village Governance in Vanuatu

传统机构的自主变革过程：瓦努阿图村庄治理创新的经验教训

• DOI: 10.5334/ijc.1170
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: International Journal of the Commons
• 影响因子: 1.9
• 作者: Vorbach D

Enhancing the repeatability and sensitivity of low-cost PCB, pH-sensitive field-effect transistors.

增强低成本 PCB、pH 敏感场效应晶体管的可重复性和灵敏度。

• DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2023.115150
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Biosensors & bioelectronics
• 影响因子: 12.6
• 作者: Ashton R

Equitable Technology Development: Methods for Scientists and Engineers

公平技术开发：科学家和工程师的方法

• DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4571708
• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Ensor J