Jose Gomez-marquez

Jose Gomez-Marquez

• 2,500-3,000 students participate in annual service projects • 200-300 are international settings

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8 Classes • D-Lab I: Intro de International Development • D-Lab II: Design for Development • D-Lab III: Dissemination of Technology • D-Lab Sector classes: ICT, Health, Prosthetics, Wheelchair Design, Energy, and Cycle Ventures • D-Ventures: Entrepreneurial Business Models for Development

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25 country settings and over 40 projects

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Nicaragua, Honduras, Peru, Mexico, Tanzania, Ghana, India, Nepal, etc.

Appropriate Technology Participatory Design “We know what you need” “Tell us what you need, We’ll design it”

Co-Creation “Let’s design together”

 Medical

Device Innovation for the Next Four

Billion

 Global

Collaboration Partners

 Accelerated

Product Development Priority

Accelerated Product Development

CPS, Collaborative Public Space (Breznitz)

CPS

Collaborative Innovation

PRODUCT! Source: LabChip, 2007, 7, 41–57

Expensive/ High Impact

Impact

Affordable/ High Impact

Resources

Affordable/ Low Appropriate Impact

Expensive/ Low Appropriate Impact 11

SNAP

Simple Nucleic Acid Processing Development Team: MIT Mechanical Engineer, BMW Mechanical Engineer, Art Center Industrial Designer, MIT Biologist, and Guinean Bricklayer who was a Red Cross Field Volunteer

 Card

enabled community glucometers  Biometric driven patient history  What’s

next

 Open Source Testing

Strips

Disease Surveillance

Disease Surveillance

Disease Surveillance

M-Lab

 Hybridization   Vintage

Technologies + Smart Design/Tech = New Solutions  Taking the improvisation and engineering solutions   Bottom up observation   Be trendsetting, not trendy  Context shifting  Distributed Systems  Crowdsourcing

 Hybridization

+

Coca Cola Spacer for Asthma Inhalers

 Drug Delivery  Diagnostics  Microfluidics  Instrumentation  Mobile Health  Prosthetic Design  Imaging

 Empower local medical innovators  Create a Collaborative Language of

Design  Stimulate trickle up technologies  Address stratified gaps among professionals  Get devices safely to trials, and to the point of care

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Urban  7,705 pieces of equipment  9% are operating irregularly  18% are not in service

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Rural  1,681 pieces of equipment  25% not in service

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Technical Personnel  80% lack formal training  15% have basic or mid-level technical  5% have advanced or university-level education

 Complexity  Instruction vs. DIY  Barriers towards innovation  Fear  Incremental fixes  Rural brain drain

Development of in-country manufacturing methods of lab-on-chip technology  Xurography brings the cost of microfluidic prototyping down to $300-400 per lab 

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Cell manufacturers of tuberculosis compliance diagnostics using local resources

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A video conference discussing auto-disable syringe designs with Nicaraguan and MIT design coaches

Importance of local product development in Nicaragua  Flexibility of incentives  Flexibility of communication vehicles  Development of distributed manufacturing techniques 