Technical professional association IEEE, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and Engineers Without Borders USA have launched an online platform, EngineeringforChange.org. The platform seeks to provide engineers, technologists, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and local community advocates the tools to collaboratively address humanitarian and global development challenges.
Members of the Engineering for Change community will design, apply and share knowledge to develop technical solutions for humanitarian and global development challenges in local communities throughout the world. The E4C website is designed to provide users with a convenient and diversified way to learn, collaborate and share knowledge.
As part of this growing community, E4C users will be able to post challenges and problems to gain insight, perspectives and experience from other E4C community members; work collaboratively and virtually on project teams; utilise a growing, open-source archive of catalogued solutions and related information submitted by organisations worldwide; keep updated with news and information related to the nexus of engineering and global development; learn from expert practitioners on applying engineering in developing communities; and track projects of interest.
