Krista Donaldson: The $80 prosthetic knee that's changing lives
क्रिस्टा डोनाल्डसन: जीवन बदलने वाला ८० डॉलर का कृत्रिम घुटना
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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less than four dollars a day.
the projects we've been working on,
the Jaipur Foot Organization,
जयपूर फुट संस्था,
बनाने वाली संस्था,
less than four dollars a day,
दिन गुजारे पर,हालत है
you don't have much money,
ज्यादा पैसा नही है।
what we'd call a "smart knee."
"स्मार्ट घुटना" केहते है।
back from Afghanistan or Iraq
वापस आए है।
ये कितना स्थिर रेहता होगा|
when they were looking for a better knee,
अच्छे घुटने कि तलाश मी थे,
of what a leg system looks like,
कि पैर कैसा दिखता है
how it all fits together.
एसी बढिया खोज है।
and it improves their lives?
प्रोजेक्टपे काम किया,
हम विश्वास करते
उपभोक्ता तक पहुंचे
needs to be world class.
विश्वस्तरीय होना चाहिये।
एश नामके आदमी का।
with stability as he's walking.
उसे संतुलन बनानेमें परेशानी आ रही है
holding the bamboo staff.
जो पेहले बांबू पकड़े हुए था ।
technical performance.
तांत्रिकी कार्य नही होता ।
केलिए डिझाईन किए।
वो पैर दुमडके ज्यादा बैठते है।
बैठते है।
the greatest range of motion
जो कैसेभी घूम सकता है
हम विश्वासकरते है
designed to be user-centric.
डिझाईन करना चाहिए।
हम एक कदम और आगे जाके केहते है
that you're thinking about,
बारेमे सोचने जैसा नाही है,
विकलांगिक जो घुटना बिठाता है
घुटना अछ्चेसे बैठता है।
उपलब्धता होगी।
तो मैं आपको
सुधारणा कि है।
stigma around being disabled,
of the modifications we did.
around this, but some other things.
बल्की बाकी चीजोमेंभी।
the ReMotion Knee,
we smoothed the profile.
इसको दिखनेमे आकर्षित बनाया।
केलिए यह डिझाईन बनाया ।
जो ज्यादा बेचे जाते है।
आर्थिक सहायता-प्राप्त है।
क्यूंकी अगर
we're looking at, of course,
१२ देशोमे पेहने जाते है।
the following years after that.
दोगुना करते रहेंगे।
समाप्त करणा चाहुंगी।
where she lost her leg,
उसमे उसका पैर चला गया
हमारा घुटना पेहेनते है
as an engineer and as a woman,
इंजिनियर और महिला के रूप मे
मेरी पढाई पुरी कर सकती हुं।"
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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."
Krista Donaldson | Speaker | TED.com