Krista Donaldson: The $80 prosthetic knee that's changing lives
Крыста Дональдсан: Пратэз каленкі, што каштуе 80 даляраў і паляпшае жыццё
Krista Donaldson is the CEO of D-Rev, a non-profit product development company improving the health and incomes of people around the world. Full bio
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тэхналогію да карыстальнікаў?
less than four dollars a day.
тэхналогія можа найбольш дапамагчы.
the projects we've been working on,
the Jaipur Foot Organization,
less than four dollars a day,
захрасае ў няслушным месцы.
you don't have much money,
ці абноўленая каленка.
what we'd call a "smart knee."
Мы яго завем "разумнай каленкай".
back from Afghanistan or Iraq
што вяртаюцца з Афганістана
when they were looking for a better knee,
калі яны пачалі шукаць лепшае каленкі.
of what a leg system looks like,
how it all fits together.
ёсць гэтая цудоўная вынаходка
але як данесці яе
and it improves their lives?
needs to be world class.
Можна бачыць, як ён ідзе.
with stability as he's walking.
яму балансаваць крочачы.
якія здараюцца адначасова.
holding the bamboo staff.
што з бамбукавым кіёчкам.
той самай 10-метровай хады.
technical performance.
ў тэхнічных характэрыстыках.
створана для людзей
сядзяць з закручанымі нагамі.
the greatest range of motion
з найбольшымі мажлівасцямі руху,
designed to be user-centric.
that you're thinking about,
і спосаб прыстасавання пратэза.
Ланцуг даставак.
версіяй арганізацыі Jaipur Foot,
чалавек з ампутаванай нагой
stigma around being disabled,
непаўнавартасць таўруецца,
трэба асабліва сцерагчыся.
of the modifications we did.
around this, but some other things.
the ReMotion Knee,
we smoothed the profile.
ім не будуць дапамагаць субсідыямі.
які будзе сабе варты
створаным грашова дасягальным.
колькасці, каб задаволіць
ці спатрэбіцца пратэз каленкі,
we're looking at, of course,
the following years after that.
where she lost her leg,
хто носіць нашы пратэзы,
as an engineer and as a woman,
як інжынера і жанчыну.
інжынерны факультэт.
"Зараз, калі я ізноў магу хадзіць,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Krista Donaldson - EngineerKrista Donaldson is the CEO of D-Rev, a non-profit product development company improving the health and incomes of people around the world.
Why you should listen
Prosthetic limbs are expensive and complex, and they must be fit to each individual -- yet having a replacement for a lost limb can mean the difference between working and not, having a social life and not. So, Krista Donaldson and her team at the nonprofit design firm, D-Rev, are attacking the problem on several fronts, from re-engineering the moving parts, to exploring way-new materials that replace expensive titanium, to forming deep local partnerships for distribution and maintenance around the world.
It's the kind of work that D-Rev does; with a mission "to improve the health and incomes of people living on less than $4 per day," their motto is "Design for the other 90%." Taking a truly user-centered approach that could be summarized as "Listen before you build."
As Donaldson wrote in a paper for the WEF: "The world is confounded by difficult problems in healthcare that are ripe for innovative solutions. The information most needed for these solutions ... is readily available -- from the users. They need to be asked: How can we solve X? What is your experience with Y? Instead of focusing on asking people in developing countries to change their behavior, those of us who work in healthcare should sit up and listen to what they have to say."
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