The document discusses the WeCare Solar Suitcase project, which aims to provide reliable electricity to rural health clinics through a portable solar energy system. It describes the project's open hardware competition that invited engineering teams to improve the design of the Solar Suitcase to reduce costs and expand access. The competition aims to leverage crowd-sourcing and an open source model to develop shared solutions for providing off-grid energy access to improve maternal health outcomes in developing areas.

1. PodCamp Toronto 2011 Open Hardware, Concept to Reality: WeCare Solar Suitcase Case Study Presentation Glenn McKnight IEEE HIC - Sat. Feb 26, 2011

3. Interesting times Open Source becoming the Hero in Action Flicks!

4. Our Approach Crowdsourcing it ain't

6. Three key focuses: Reliable Electricity, Data Connectivity and Individual Patient Records

7. IEEE HIC launched a student competition to create an Open Hardware version of the small scale solar suitcase

8. Project Challenge

10. 2.4 billion lack access to fuels for cooking and heating

11. 300,000 health facilities are without electricity

13. 99% of deaths found in developing countries

14. For every death, 20 more women suffer severe complication from childbirth

16. Challenge is modifying the design, components etc to reduce the size and cost of the unit

17. Open Source design

19. Open Hardware model makes it possible for the founders of the platform, WE CARE Solar, to benefit by the new designs

22. Build on the shared knowledge of six separate teams providing their own interpretation of the project

23. Reduce the cost of complete system

24. Leverage the existing student networks to promote solutions

26. Adaption of the design based upon local supply of components

27. Local training initiatives to build kits

28. Spur local technical and humanitarian partnerships ie. HackLab-To and International Women's Groups

29. Engineering for Change http://www.youtube.com/user/engineeringforchange

30. IEEE HIC http://www.slideshare.net/gmcknight/ieee-canada-hic-presentation More info on HIC

31. IEEE Humanitarian Initiative Committee http://ieeecanadahic.oc.ieee.org/members-dashboard WeCare Solar . Http://www.wecaresolar.org

32. Links WECARE Solar. http://www.wecaresolar.com/mission HIC, IEEE Canada Humanitarian Initiatives Committee. http://ieee.ca/hic/ Laura Stachel: Solar Saves Lives, PopTech 2010 presentation. http://www.poptech.org/popcasts/laura_stachel_solar_saves_lives Debora Barnes-Josiah, Cynthia Myntti, Antoine Augustin, The 'three delays' as a framework for examining maternal mortality in Haiti, Social Science & Medicine, Volume 46, Issue 8, 15 April 1998, Pages 981-993. (accessed January, 2011) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VBF-3TT01W3-5/2/0a4382e6f6602a6424bce2c457fbfbcb