Autor: Joshua M. Pearce

Joshua M. Pearce is the John M. Thompson Chair in Information Technology and Innovation at the Thompson Centre for Engineering Leadership & Innovation and a Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellow. He holds appointments at Ivey Business School and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Western University in Canada. He runs the Free Appropriate Sustainability Technology research group. His research concentrates on using open source appropriate technology (OSAT) to find collaborative solutions to sustainability problems and reduce poverty. He is the author of the Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Hardware and Reduce Research Costs, Create, Share, and Save Money Using Open-Source Projects, and To Catch the Sun, an open-source book of inspiring stories of communities coming together to harness their solar energy, and how you can do it too!