Technologies for Development

Part I: Introduction.- Part II: Humanitarian Technologies.- Part III: Medical Technologies.- Part IV: Renewable Energies.- Part V: Sustainable Habitat.- Part VI: Disaster Risk Reduction.

Silvia Hostettler is an environmental scientist and international development scholar with 20 years of experience in researching sustainable development challenges in the global South. Her particular interest focuses on the question how technological innovation can support poverty reduction and sustainable development. She studied at the University of Geneva, the University of Aberdeen (UK) and at EPFL, conducted research in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Mexico and was based in Bangalore for four years as Executive Director of swissnex India. She also worked at IUCN - The World Conservation Union on tropical cloud forest conservation. Since September 2012 she is Deputy Director of the Cooperation and Development Center (CODEV) at EPFL where she conducts researchin the fields of disaster risk reduction and renewable energy and directs the International Conference of the UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development. She is also in charge of postgraduate education offered by CODEV and gives lectures in the field of Development Engineering. Her research interests include technologies for development, sustainable access to renewable energy, disaster risk reduction and land use change. She has written various articles and other scientific publications on these topics.
Samira Najih Besson is a Geologist Engineering and holds a Master in Sciences Geology from Lausanne University. She studied at the University of Geneva and FSTG - Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakech. She has been engaged professionally with private and public sectors, UNOSAT, UNHCR and the IFRC where she conducted projects on geology, hydrogeology, GIS, information management, environmental study, natural hazard disaster management. Currently, she is project manager of the International Conference of the UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development at CODEV, EPFL.
Jean-Claude Bolay was appointed Director of Cooperation at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2001 and has