Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Electrical Engineering Department, The Malawi Polytechnic, University of Malawi, Chichiri, Blantyre, Malawi.
Science. 2014 Sep 12;345(6202):1287-90. doi: 10.1126/science.1257085.
More of the world's population has access to cell phones than to basic sanitation facilities, a gap that can only be closed if the engineering and international aid communities adopt new approaches to design for scarcity and scalability.
世界上使用手机的人口比使用基本卫生设施的人口多,只有工程和国际援助界采用新的方法来针对稀缺性和可扩展性进行设计,才能弥合这一差距。