Program for 2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)
Thursday, October 29
Thursday, October 29 8:00 - 12:00
W1: Workshop 1: Sustainable Project Design Considering COVID-19 Pandemic
The objective of this workshop is to offer a training on humanitarian technology (HT) project design and implementation, especially considering the during and after COVID-19 pandemic situations from local and global perspectives. The conventional project design and implementation approaches may need to be modified in an adaptive manner depending on various inter-link circumstances.
The workshop consists of three interactive training sessions.
In each training session, after the formal lecture offered by the workshop trainer, interactive group activities will be conducted and participants are expected to discuss with other members in the group to come up with appropriate decisions. There will be options for question-answer and brief group presentation.
Thursday, October 29 9:00 - 12:00
W2: Workshop 2: Machine Learning for Social Good
Organizers
Rakshit Agrawal, Camio Inc.
Organizer of Applied ML for Social Good Tutorial at GHTC 2019
Charles Delahunt, Intellectual Ventures Lab / Global Good, Bellevue, WA
University of Washington, Applied Math Dept
Learning Objective
This session will focus on topics around the usage of machine learning (ML) methods in order to assist social good applications. We will discuss a framework centered around identifying the important societal challenges where problems can be defined for ML capabilities. We then describe the process to develop machine learning models and deploy them in the real world.
Agenda
The workshop is 4 hours:
Introduction to the concepts of developing ML solutions for social good applications.
Several short invited talks (~25 minutes) on key topics, connected together with contextual material, along with Q/A.
Closing, further resources, questions and discussion as wished.
W3: Workshop 3: Fundamentals of Off-Grid Electrical Systems
This half-day tutorial covers the contextual, technical, and practical implementation aspects of off-grid electrical systems in developing countries. These off-grid systems include mini-grids, micro-grids, energy kiosks, solar home systems and solar lanterns. System architectures and components, including small-scale solar, wind, hydro, biomass and conventional generation sets, batteries and converters are covered. The mini/micro-grid design process is discussed. Pre-implementation best practices, including site assessment and considerations for business model development are discussed. The instructor draws upon his firsthand experience and contemporary research to provide attendees with the foundational knowledge needed to implement or study off-grid systems. The tutorial is based on the book "Off-Grid Electrical Systems in Developing Countries".
Thursday, October 29 12:00 - 13:00
TH-L: Lunch break
Thursday, October 29 13:00 - 13:20
CO: Conference Overview
Overview of GHTC 2020 Virtual Program, technical sessions and navigation mechanics with Conference Chair, Paul Cunningham, Vice Chair, Ed Perkins, and Program Chair Pritpal Singh.
Thursday, October 29 13:30 - 15:30
TH-ACE1: Affordable and Clean Energy 1: Energy for Cooking & Agriculture
- 13:30 Study on charcoal scarcity and the limitations of existing cooking fuel alternatives
- 13:50 A market assessment for modern cooking in Malawi
- 14:10 Can Modifications Make Electric Pressure Cookers `Minigrid Friendly?'
- 14:30 Using Solar Electric Cooking to Kickstart Universal Energy Access in the Developing World
- 14:50 Irrigation Load Optimization for Enhanced Agricultural Productivity in Rural Microgrid Clusters
- 15:10 How Modeling the Adoption of Household Clean Energy Technologies can Inform Stakeholder Decisions
TH-H1: Health Session 1: Promoting Health Care Delivery
- 13:30 Data-Centric Operations Design for Disseminating a Biomedical Screening Technology: A Case Study
- 13:50 Fulfilling the promise of community-based health navigators
- 14:10 Managing Knowledge in Computational Models for Global Food, Nutrition and Health Technologies
- 14:30 Rapidly Deployable Containerized Medical Clinic for Refugee Settings
- 14:50 Swoop Aero deploying the future of healthcare through air logistics
Thursday, October 29 13:30 - 14:30
TH-WASH 1: Water and Sanitation 1: Water Quality and Treatment
- 13:30 UV Meter for Testing Quality of Water treated by a Solar Water Disinfection System
- 13:50 A Review of Desalination Technologies for Low-Resource Settings
- 14:10 Comparison and evaluation of coagulant/disinfectant point-of-use water treatment performance
Thursday, October 29 15:35 - 16:45
TH-PP: Opening Session with IEEE Presidents
LIVE - Remarks on IEEE's role in Humanitarian Activities
2020 IEEE President Toshio Fukuda, "Advancing Technology for Humanity"
2021 President-elect Susan (Kathy) Land, "IEEE's Humanitarian Efforts"
Thursday, October 29 17:00 - 19:00
SPC: Student Poster Competition
Student contestants will present their posters depicting their ideas or designs for developing projects/products supporting the Key focus areas of GHTC 2020.
Cash Prizes will be awarded.
Attendees can participate in the Student Poster Competition and chose the best poster for the People's Choice Award.
Friday, October 30
Friday, October 30 8:00 - 9:00
F-PL1: ENERGY PANEL: "Technology-enabled climb up the demand-driven energy ladder: Interoperability, Growth, All-access"
Ensuring universal, affordable and sustainable energy access is one of the biggest societal challenges of our time. Decentralized, bottom-up approaches, such as solar home systems and microgrids, have emerged as a response to shortcomings of the centralized grid approach, but affordability, scalability, path to growth and long-term sustainability remain a challenge.
Authors/Organisers:
Dr. Jelena Popovic, University of Twente
Dr. Nishant Narayan, TUDelft Global Initiative;
Panelists:
Makena Ireri (CLASP, Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program)
Drew Corbyn (GOGLA, Global Off-Grid Lighting Association)
Dr. Deepak Divan (Georgia Tech)
Prof. Izael P. Da Silva (Strathmore University)
Nithya Menon (Okra)
Dr. Henry Louie (Seattle University)
Friday, October 30 9:10 - 11:30
F-ACE2: Affordable and Clean Energy 2: Wind Energy and Microgrids
- 9:10 Whole systems assessment of current and future wind speed and energy trends in rural Peru
- 9:30 Design and Optimization of a Novel, Low-cost, Compact Wind Power Generator for Autonomous Environmental Sensing
- 9:50 Application of Synchronous Condensers for Enhanced Resilience of a Renewable Energy dominated Electric Grid
- 10:10 In-Band Communications for DC Microgrids
- 10:30 Poverty Mapping in Sub Saharan Africa Using Night Time Light Pollution Data
- 10:50 Time-Efficient Fault Diagnosis of a BLDC Motor Drive Deployed in Electric Vehicle Applications
- 11:10 Prosumer Based Economic Model for Energy Sharing between Microgrids in a Rural Indian Village Scenario
F-H2: Health Session 2: Supporting Diagnosis and Treatment
- 9:10 A Novel E-Junction Lateral Flow Immunoassay for Widespread Sickle Cell Screening in Low and Middle-Income Countries
- 9:30 Deep Learning on Edge Device for Early Prescreening of Skin Cancers in Rural Communities
- 9:50 Target product profiles for devices to diagnose urinary schistosomiasis in Nigeria
- 10:10 Schistoscope: Smartphone versus Raspberry Pi based low cost diagnostic device for urinary Schistosomiasis
- 10:30 The embodiment of low-field MRI for the diagnosis of infant hydrocephalus in Uganda
- 10:50 Remote sensing and on-site characterization of wetlands as potential habitats for malaria vectors - A pilot study in southern Germany
Friday, October 30 9:10 - 10:50
F-WASH2: Water and Sanitation 2: Monitoring, Data and Evidence
- 9:10 A Non-Intrusive Water Consumption Monitoring System
- 9:30 Monitoring and Modeling Glyphosate Transport in the Belize River Watershed
- 9:50 The Reality of Evidence-based Decision Making in Humanitarian Programming: An Exploratory Study of WASH Programs in Uganda
- 10:10 Self-diagnosis and smart maintenance prototype for sustainable and desirable onsite sanitation
- 10:30 DOxy: Dissolved Oxygen Monitoring
Friday, October 30 11:30 - 12:15
F-L: Lunch Break
Friday, October 30 12:20 - 14:40
F-ACE3: Affordable and Clean Energy 3: Field Experiences
- 12:20 Impact Assessment of Solar Home System Rehabilitation in the Rural Community "Cerrito de los Morreños", Ecuador
- 12:40 Remote Assessment of Battery Degradation-Related Service Interruptions in an Energy Kiosk
- 13:00 An Exploratory Study on Renewable Energy at Philippine General Hospital
- 13:20 Performance Analysis of a Community-Based Off-Grid PV System
- 13:40 Lessons Learned - Developing Off-Grid Energy Systems During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 14:00 Sustainable Delivery Models for Achieving SDG7: Lessons from an Energy Services Social Enterprise in Malawi
- 14:20 Portable DC Power Monitoring
Friday, October 30 12:20 - 14:20
F-CC1: Connectivity and Connection 1: Remote Connectivity
- 12:20 Implementing Solar-Powered HAPS for Rural broadband Connectivity: Concepts, Challenges & Mitigation
- 12:40 Proof-of-Concept Prototype of Wideband VHF-based Video Streaming for e-Health Interventions in Remote Rural Areas
- 13:00 Experiments on the Smart Village Testbed
- 13:20 LokaLTE: 600 MHz Community LTE Networks for Rural Areas in the Philippines
- 13:40 Transforming One-Stop E-Services in Iraq: Focusing on perception of Blockchain Technology in Digital Identity System
- 14:00 GoodBuys
Friday, October 30 12:20 - 14:40
F-H3: Health Session 3: Diagnosis
- 12:20 Induced Acoustic Resonance for Noninvasive Bone Fracture Detection Using Digital Signal Processing and Machine Learning
- 12:40 FPGA-based Edge Inferencing for Fall Detection
- 13:00 Utility of a Novel, Combined Biofeedback-Virtual Reality Tool as Add-on Treatment for Chronic Migraine
- 13:20 Designing an Appropriate Climate Health Interface for Guided Self-Diagnosis in Low-income Communities within Nigeria
- 13:40 Development of a non-invasive device for electro-stimulation of the posterior tibial nerve in patients with urinary incontinence at the central military hospital - Bogota 2020
- 14:00 Expanding eVision's Scope of Influenza Forecasting
- 14:20 Stabilizing COVID-19 Infections in US by Feedback Control based Test and Quarantine
Friday, October 30 14:20 - 15:00
F-CCN: Networking Sessions
Friday, October 30 14:40 - 15:20
F-ACEN: Networking Sessions
F-HN: Networking Sessions
Friday, October 30 14:50 - 15:10
F-EPICS: EPICS in IEEE - empowering students solve local community problems
Presentation on EPICS in IEEE and how to execute a community service project with IEEE's support (through EPICS in IEEE).
Saturday, October 31
Saturday, October 31 8:00 - 10:00
SA-AG1: Agriculture 1: Irrigation and Water Management
- 8:00 Addressing Water Insecurity with a Greywater Hydroponics System in South Africa
- 8:20 Algorithms to predict moisture content of grain using relative humidity time-series
- 8:40 A fuzzy irrigation control system
- 9:00 Irrigation Detection by Car: Computer Vision and Sensing for the Detection and Geolocation of Irrigated and Non-irrigated Farmland
- 9:20 Assessment of Solar Aided Agriculture in Rwanda
SA-CC2: Connectivity and Communication 2: Behavioral Pattern Recognition
- 8:00 Internet and Happiness in West Africa: The Next Billion Users are Not a Single Entity
- 8:20 A study of spot recommendation personalization by considering personality traits
- 8:40 An approach to human iris recognition using quantitative analysis of image features and machine learning
- 9:00 A Practical Method for Pupil segmentation in challenging conditions
- 9:20 The Buschfunk Project: Offline Communication for Everyone
SA-H4: Health Session 4: Medical Technology
- 8:00 Design research for medical devices in low resource environments
- 8:20 Development of a control system for a prosthetic hand assisted by electromyographic signals
- 8:40 The OpenFlexure Project. The technical challenges of Co-Developing a microscope in the UK and Tanzania
- 9:00 Key Factors of Design: 3D Printed Occupational Therapy Products in Developing Communities
- 9:20 Medical Device Spare Part Pricing Strategy Analysis for Developing Nations
- 9:40 Development of smartband to monitor from home the vital signs for patients with sars cov 2 through a mobile application from the central military hospital (HOMIL) Bogota 2020
Saturday, October 31 10:10 - 11:10
SA-PL1: PANEL: IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee (HAC) Panel on COVID-19
Kartik Kulkarni (HAC Chair),
Sampath Veeraraghavan (SIGHT Chair and 2021 HAC Chair),
John Funso (HAC Partnerships Chair, R8 Humanitarian Coordinator, and also a COVID project lead), and
Pia Torres (HAC Project Support and Oversight Ad Hoc Chair and HAC/SIGHT COVID CoP lead)
Topics:
How HAC/SIGHT responded to the COVID pandemic - vision and process improvements
Providing volunteer engagement opportunities despite the pandemic
Elements of a strong proposal
Support from Communities of Practice
Examples of some funded projects
Building collaboration opportunities, for example, with Societies
How this will lead to next year's program
Saturday, October 31 11:10 - 12:00
SA-L: Lunch Break
Saturday, October 31 12:00 - 13:30
ANNV: GHTC 10th Anniversary Celebration
IEEE GHTC has allowed members to showcase projects and be exposed to resources that were not commonly known within the IEEE family. GHTC created a community of volunteers who wanted to make a difference and become a facilitator for volunteers, university programs, NGO's, foundations, etc. to work together. The conference mission and goals have morphed over the years. The approaches to member and service related projects have changed. The addition of academic research presentations and university projects have all had an impact on the Conference.
Panelists
* Paul Kostek
* Keith Moore
* Mike Andrews
* Ed Perkins
IEEE's Role in Humanitarian Technology and Sustainable Development - Panel
Realizing IEEE's Vision for Aligning the "Advancing Technology for Humanity" from an Aspirational Statement to Promoting Member Engagement with Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Service Providers. Panelists will explore how IEEE operationalized the broader IEEE humanitarian interests into an event (or series of events). The approaches to member and service related projects have changed.
Panelists
* Roberto de Marca, IEEE President & CEO, 2014
* Russ Lefevre, IEEE-USA President, 2008
* Lew Terman, IEEE President & CEO, 2008
* John Vig, IEEE President & CEO, 2009
Saturday, October 31 13:40 - 15:20
SA-AG2: Agriculture 2: Context Appropriate Technology
- 13:40 Design and fabrication of a bicycle-powered maize sheller for rural Ghanaian farmers
- 14:00 Mushroom Mycelium Regeneration in Tropical Environments
- 14:20 Effective Plantation Management with Crowd-sensing and Data-driven Insights: A Case Study on Tea
- 14:40 Variable Area Capacitive Sensors (VACS) for Use in Beehives
- 15:00 Investigating Cash Flow in the Agricultural Supply Chain Within Kenya
Saturday, October 31 13:40 - 15:00
SA-CC3: Connectivity and Communication 3: Image Enhancement Techniques
- 13:40 Low-Cost Implementation of Bilinear and Bicubic Image Interpolation for Real-Time Image Super-Resolution
- 14:00 Image quality enhancement in wireless capsule endoscopy with Adaptive Fraction Gamma Transformation and Unsharp Masking filter
- 14:20 PIMOD: A Tool for Configuring Single-Board Computer Operating System Images
- 14:40 LoRAgent: A DTN-based Location-aware Communication System using LoRa
Saturday, October 31 13:40 - 15:20
SA-H5: Health Session 5: Assistive Solutions
- 13:40 Developing a Deep Learning-enabled Guide for the Visually Impaired
- 14:00 Camera-Based Indoor Navigation in Known Environments with ORB for People with Visual Impairment
- 14:20 Designing a Single Speaker-based Ultra Low-Cost Otoacoustic Emission Hearing Screening Probe
- 14:40 In-door Obstacle Detection and Avoidance System for Visually Impaired People
Saturday, October 31 15:00 - 16:00
SA-CCN: Networking Sessions
Saturday, October 31 15:20 - 16:00
SA-AGN: Networking Sessions
SA-HN: Networking Sessions
Saturday, October 31 15:30 - 16:30
SA-DV: Diversity and Inclusion in Engineering
This talk discusses the IEEE response to institutional racism and the issues with diversity and inclusion in the engineering professions. It also gives several examples of what IEEE members have done to help improve diversity and inclusions and ends with a discussion with the attendees on what they can do to improve diversity and inclusion in the technical professions.
Sunday, November 1
Sunday, November 1 8:00 - 9:30
SU-AG3: Agriculture 3: Gender Equity and Nutrition
- 8:00 Designing for Women: Radio-Based Seed Saving Education for Widowed Female Farmers in India
- 8:20 The Dimensions of Food Insecurity in Sierra Leone: Cues for Technology Innovation
- 8:40 An Evaluation of Micronutrient Losses in the Diets of Mothers and Children in Sierra Leone
- 9:00 Mainstreaming Gender Equity for Agriculture Ventures: A Case Study
SU-DM1: Disaster Mitigation 1: Innovating Service Delivery in Crisis
- 8:00 Innovating Medical Devices in the Midst of a Crisis: Lessons from an Intravenous Electronic Drop Counter in the 2014-2016 Ebola Outbreak
- 8:20 Low Cost Design of Non-Contact Thermometry for Diagnosis and Monitoring
- 8:40 A Methodology of Building Workflow for Search and Rescue Operation with UAV
- 9:00 Remote Design of Spare Parts for Local Manufacturing in Rural Kenya
SU-UN1: Other UN SDGs 1: Decent Work and Economic Growth
- 8:00 The Entrepreneurship Intention Questionnaire Applied to Students in Perú
- 8:20 Comparing the Properties of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Plastic Bricks to Conventional Concrete Masonry Units
- 8:40 Client-Driven Project on Sustainability within First-Year Cornerstone Design
- 9:00 Winning the Heart Model to Improve Life of Socially Deprived in Kano, Nigeria
Sunday, November 1 9:40 - 11:00
SU-CC4: Connectivity and Communication 4: Technologies for Human Sciences
SU-DM2: Disaster Mitigation 2: Communications and Remote Sensing
SU-UN2: Other UN SDGs 2: Technology and Development
Sunday, November 1 11:00 - 12:00
SU-L: Lunch Break
Sunday, November 1 12:00 - 13:00
CLOS: Closing Session & Keynote
Closing Ceremony
Keynote: "DQ, a measure for determining one's digital intelligence"
Melissa Sassi, IEEE Digital Intelligence Working Group
Sunday, November 1 13:10 - 14:30
SU-DM3: Disaster Mitigation 3: Data-Oriented Interventions
- 13:10 Pin&Post - App-Based Reporting of Electrical Fire Hazards to Prevent Wildfires
- 13:30 Mapping Disasters & Tracking Recovery in Conflict Zones Using Nighttime Lights
- 13:50 Machine Learning based Classification of Online News Data for Disaster Management
- 14:10 A Privacy-Preserving and Overhead-Free Protocol for Direct Donations to People Impacted by COVID-19 Lockdowns
Sunday, November 1 13:10 - 15:30
SU-ED: Quality Education
- 13:10 Lessons Learned from Delivering Programing Courses Online for Retraining Serbian Workforce through UNDP Programs - A Joint Project between UCSDX and MISANU
- 13:30 Laying the Foundations for a Digital Literacy Program in the Galapagos Islands
- 13:50 STEM Outreach in Underrepresented Communities through the Lens of Play, Creativity, and Movement
- 14:10 Bridging the Academic Chasm Between Institutions: The Role of Professional Bodies Case Study - IEEE/HP Telecenter, University of Ibadan
- 14:30 Augmented Reality for Teaching Data Structures in Computer Science
- 14:50 Impact of high school curriculum on student performance at university
- 15:10 Promoting Sustainability through Virtual Reality: A Case Study of Climate Change Understanding with College Students
Sunday, November 1 13:10 - 14:50
SU-UN3: Other UN SDGs 3: Crisis Response
- 13:10 Capacity Maintenance During Global Disruptions: Security, resilience and incentives matter
- 13:30 Identifying and Mitigating Humanitarian Challenges to COVID-19 Contact Tracing
- 13:50 Humanitarian Response Without Humans: How can we help, when we can't get there?
- 14:10 S4: Simple, Secure, Survivable Systems Human-first crisis technology design principles
- 14:30 The Four Internets of COVID-19: the digital- political responses to COVID-19 and what this means for the post-crisis Internet