3D Printing for Development in the Global South : The 3D4D Challenge
ISBN: 9781137365668
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan UK
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Economics; Business/ Management;

Birtchnell and Hoyle explore how printers, designs, materials and infrastructures all need to be 'just right' in order for meaningful social change to happen with appropriate scale. The 3D4D Challenge suggests 3D printing could reach scale in the Global South, even perhaps having the same impact as the mobile phone or microfinance in development.

Thomas Birtchnell is Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Sustainable Communities at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Previously he was Research Associate at the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe), Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of Indovation: Innovation and a Global Knowledge Economy in India (2013). William Hoyle is the founding CEO of UK charity Techfortrade. Prior to this he spent seven years as chief executive of Charity Technology Trust (CTT), a UK based social enterprise. In 2013 he launched the Ethical Filament Foundation and is currently chair of trustees of Business Launchpad, a London youth enterprise charity.


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