The hospital serves a constellation of tiny, remote villages interspersed throughout the region’s steep slopes. When he asked them what value they felt the scanner could bring to their work, Manhart says they told him a story that was “quite shocking.” Manhart was leading a training on how to use a handheld fingerprint scanner to help the workers speed up and improve patient service. In August 2016, 19 frontline workers at a hospital in the Himalayas of Western Nepal told Sebastian Manhart a grim story of mistaken identity. As an homage to Demand and the work of the experts whose voices it disseminated, we are reprinting the magazine’s articles on this site. The biannual magazine was a premier source of global development writing and a sister publication to Engineering for Change. Here we offer an updated case study that was first published in Demand magazine in Spring 2018.ĭemand: ASME Global Development Review shuttered after six years of publishing in-depth coverage of the most interesting manifestations of design, engineering and social ventures in global development. biometrics startup Simprints is developing ways of identifying the hundreds of millions of people whose births have never been officially registered.
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