15 August 2017
Paul Cunningham (2017 – 2018 SSIT President) cooperated with a number of IEEE Sections around IEEE ISTAS 2017 and IEEE Sections Congress in Australia to present “Co-designing Ethical Interventions in Resource Constrained Environments” during August 2017.
This SSIT Distinguished Lecture focused on social implications and ethical issues to be considered when designing interventions in resource constrained environments. It introduced the concepts of collaborative open innovation and co-design in the context of addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It then discusses socio-cultural differences, ethical conundrums and ethical research principles.
These concepts will be contextualised through an African case study (mHealth4Afrika) focusing on the consultative, multi-stakeholder, co-design approach taken to implementing a cross-border, health oriented, research and innovation project supported by the European Commission under Horizon 2020. The Distinguished Lecture concluded by providing recommendations to be considered when designing interventions in resource constrained environments.
These Distinguished Lectures took place at: National University of Singapore, 03 August; University of New South Wales, Australia, 07 August; First Workshop on Persuasive Technology and Society, University of Wollongong, Australia, 08 August; IEEE ISTAS 2017, Sydney, Australia, 10 August; and IEEE Victoria Section and Swinburse University of Technology in Melbourne on 15 August. They provided an opportunity to raise awareness of mHealth4Afrika activities and achievements to date. The lecture was very well received.