Smart Villages: Generative Innovation for Livelihood Development

✍ Scribed by Robert Krueger; Hermine Vedogbeton; Mustapha Fofana; Wole Soboyejo (editors)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 226
• Series: Integrated Global STEM; 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book asserts that the goal of smart villages should shift from one of extraction to one of community value creation. To begin this conversation, we examine the smart village discourse, debates in design theory, non-western traditions of innovation, and sustainable development. Through case studies of smart village co-design we offer a way forward. This book is relevant for engineers, social scientists, and development practitioners. The book will be of special interest to those seeking to expand their inquiry into the role of science and technology in low and middle-income countries.

• Reconstructs the goals of smart villages to a community centric model.
• Intertwines the concepts of sustainable development and smart villages.
• Describes case studies achieving local value creation and circulation.

Reconstructs the goals of smart villages to a community centric model.

Intertwines the concepts of sustainable development and smart villages.

Describes case studies achieving local value creation and circulation.

✦ Table of Contents

List of contributing authors
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Burn box case study
Chapter 2 Using co-design principles to co-create a regional recycling system in Eastern Ghana
Chapter 3 Utilizing bricks made from recycled plastics to construct a gravity drip irrigation system in Akyem Dwenase, Ghana
Chapter 4 Women’s health case study
Chapter 5 Stirling engine design using recycled materials locally in Ghana
Chapter 6 When the goals change, the process must too
Index