{"id":13240,"date":"2013-08-21T14:04:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T08:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=13240"},"modified":"2013-08-21T14:04:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T08:34:54","slug":"global-humanitarian-tech-conference-at-technopark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/global-humanitarian-tech-conference-at-technopark\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Humanitarian Tech conference at Technopark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) the flagship conference of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) will be held at Technopark. Usually organized in USA, this will be the first ever <strong>IEEE South Asia Satellite conference<\/strong> in Humanitarian technologies.<\/p>\n<p>In order to focus on the South Asian region, IEEE decided to organize a Satellite conference of GHTC called<strong> South Asia Satellite 2013 (GHTC SAS 2013)<\/strong>, which will be held at <strong>Technopark, Trivandrum<\/strong> on 23rd and 24th August 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The Humanitarian Technology Conference aims at promoting science, engineering and technology as key to development of solutions for disadvantaged communities and also to encourage exchange of networking, information and cooperation in the field of humanitarian technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The GHTC SAS 2013 conference seeks to address the developmental challenges and bring together people from different domains ranging from engineers, researchers and technologists to civil society organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The conference is being held in 5 sections \u2013 Municipal solid waste management; agriculture, water, disaster management, health and education; inclusive technologies for the differently abled; Distributed renewable energy generation and microgrids; emerging technologies for humanitarian applications. Apart from these, a Community engagement workshop is also organized in the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Unconvention|L is another event being held on the sidelines of the conference.\u00a0 Unconvention|L is a small format one day event with an objective to catalyze local social entrepreneurs while trying to build networks for them in the local regions.\u00a0 Inspiring stories of successful social entrepreneurs and tools which support creativity and innovation, which will help entrepreneurship development will be explained.<\/p>\n<p>IEEE is a global organization of engineers with a membership of more than <strong>4 lakh<\/strong>, from over <strong>160 countries<\/strong>. IEEE produces over 30% of the world&#8217;s literature in the electrical and electronics engineering and computer science fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) the flagship conference of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) will be held at Technopark. Usually organized in USA, this will be the first ever IEEE South Asia Satellite conference in Humanitarian technologies. In order to focus on the South Asian region, IEEE decided to organize a Satellite conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}