Krista Donaldson: The $80 prosthetic knee that's changing lives
Krista Donaldson: Gjuri 80 dollarësh që po ndryshon jetët.
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.
në më pak se katër dollar në ditë.
duke punuar momentalisht
të cilat mund të duken që nuk kanë
the projects we've been working on,
the Jaipur Foot Organization,
less than four dollars a day,
në një aksident automobilistik.
you don't have much money,
what we'd call a "smart knee."
back from Afghanistan or Iraq
when they were looking for a better knee,
kur po kërkonin një gju më të mirë.
of what a leg system looks like,
how it all fits together.
të mendoni se si përshtatet.
and it improves their lives?
konsumatorët, përdoruesit
needs to be world class.
Mund të shihni teksa ecën.
with stability as he's walking.
holding the bamboo staff.
kur po mbante një shkop bambuje.
më të herëshme të gjurit tonë
technical performance.
me performancën teknike.
the greatest range of motion
designed to be user-centric.
that you're thinking about,
për mjekun që e përshtat gjurin
stigma around being disabled,
of the modifications we did.
around this, but some other things.
por edhe disa gjërave tjera.
the ReMotion Knee,
we smoothed the profile.
i përballueshëm financiarisht.
we're looking at, of course,
jetët e këtyre njerëzve?
the following years after that.
që mund të përshatin
where she lost her leg,
as an engineer and as a woman,
si nje inxhiniere dhe grua
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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