Krista Donaldson: The $80 prosthetic knee that's changing lives
Krista Donaldson: Il ginocchio protesico da 80 dollari che cambia la vita
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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con un responsabile di negozio
less than four dollars a day.
con meno di quattro dollari al giorno.
abbiamo lavorato recentemente
e mentre potrebbe non essere ovvio
hanno qualcosa in comune
the projects we've been working on,
the Jaipur Foot Organization,
quando la Jaipur Foot Organization,
less than four dollars a day,
se vivete con meno di quattro dollari al giorno,
e il pantalone si incastra.
you don't have much money,
di un ginocchio nuovo o da sostituire.
what we'd call a "smart knee."
È quello che chiamiamo "ginocchio intelligente".
back from Afghanistan or Iraq
dall'Afghanistan o dall'Irak
è ancora troppo costoto
when they were looking for a better knee,
quando cercavano un ginocchio migliore.
of what a leg system looks like,
how it all fits together.
come si mette insieme il tutto.
che imita l'andatura umana,
a una grande invenzione
and it improves their lives?
e migliori le loro vite?
needs to be world class.
with stability as he's walking.
holding the bamboo staff.
technical performance.
sono progettate per gli occidentali,
the greatest range of motion
per avere più possibilità di movimento
designed to be user-centric.
per essere centrati sull'utente.
that you're thinking about,
stigma around being disabled,
of the modifications we did.
che abbiamo fatto.
around this, but some other things.
ma su altre cose.
the ReMotion Knee,
il ReMotion Knee,
we smoothed the profile.
Non vengono pesantemente sovvenzionati.
se si vogliono raggiungere
che hanno bisogno di un ginocchio,
we're looking at, of course,
che teniamo sotto controllo, ovviamente
the following years after that.
where she lost her leg,
in un incidente automobilistico,
as an engineer and as a woman,
sia come ingegnere sia come donna,
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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