- Technology must be user-centric - products need to be built hand-in-hand with users, where they live,
- Technology must be scalable - products must allow for local follow-on development in the location where it was deployed,
- Developers must be prepared to fail - technology development in this realm is really hard to do - be prepared to fail often, quickly, and openly,
- Technology has to be Open Source - so that it can be freely shared and have value added by others, and
- Development must be done in an environment of collaboration - no one group has the money or brains to solve every problem, therefore collaboration is key.
In total, comments offered by these gentleman lasted just over an hour. If you would like to hear their comments in full, use the link below, starting at the 3:37:50 point of the video.
Comment: Classic statement in the mix of a series of thought provoking comments - "Nothing that is developed at headquarters ever works in the field." Ha! These gentlemen are down in the trenches making technology work to reduce suffering and save lives on a grand scale. An hour of their thoughts, would be worth many years of hard knocks to you - even if you live in a "developed" country.
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