Who is affected
Persons with a lower limb amputationNarrative
The main goal of the project is to develop a desirable, feasible and viable social business concept for affordable and high quality prostheses, to make prostheses more accessible the Base of the Pyramid in Colombia.During the project we focus on:1. Affordability & high quality2. Accessibility3. Service-system and business model innovation (or feasibility within Colombian health system)The project duration lasts five months, in which we combine field research in Colombia with our technical knowledge. The end result will be a working prototype with a strategic plan including a business model.Three people from the team have already spent four weeks in Colombia conducting field research to determine where the real problems lie. We spoke to doctors, amputees, prosthetic technicians and centres, insurance companies and other stakeholders in order to gain a deep understanding of the context.Now we need to send three people from our team to Colombia to test and validate our product-service system designs with amputees, technicians and doctors, in the context for which it is designed. From the 19th of December, we are sending three team members to Colombia with a prototype that has a new technology from Strathclyde University Scotland, which has been tested in Iraq and Afghanistan. This technology allows amputees to get a better-fitting socket that can be made within one day, which means that amputees could return to their family and work sooner than that the current process allows. Our design is a product-service system that is supported by this technology.Impact status | Open |
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Category of impact | Health and welfare - new products, guidelines and services, Economic and commerce |
Impact level | Engagement |
Keywords
- prosthetics
- low income countries
- rehabilitation
- economic sustainability
- pressure casting
- education
Documents & Links
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Activities
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Laboratorio Gilete, Bogota D.C, Colombia
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution
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Scots help set up Legbank
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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War victims are helped with lower limb prostheses
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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Limbs boost for landmine victims
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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Legbank initiative presentation to Bill Gates
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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Legbank initiative presentation to Bill Gates
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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LEG BANK’ HOPE FOR CHANGING AMPUTEES’ LIVES
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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Legbank presentation to Bill Gates
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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Google aid for Legbank
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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LegBank
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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Landmine leg bank plan
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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Leg bank for Colombia
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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Google grants $1million to prosthetic limb venture
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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Leg bank for amputees
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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Prosthetics limb LegBank receives $1 million Google grant
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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Bedrijf wil onderbeben voor iedereen (foundation want lowerlimb prostheses for everybody)
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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LegBank
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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ELKEM ltd project visit
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › DO NOT USE - Hosting of external, academic or non-academic visitor
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Google support for the Legbank project
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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Colombiaanse protheses en Ghanese landkaarten
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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Scots help set up leg bank
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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Media Exposure of the Legbank initiative
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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Google grants £1m to prosthetic limb venture
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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Prosthetic limb LegBank receives $1m Google grant
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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Google support for the Legbank project
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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Victims' leg up
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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Advanced low-cost prosthetic project receives Google funding
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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Prosthetic limb LegBank receives $1m Google grant
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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TU Delft, Industrial design
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution
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LegBank
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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Foundation want lower limb prostheses for everybody
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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LegBank presentation to Bill Gates
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: WHAT DO YOU DO EXACTLY? PART1
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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Majicast product demonstration
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Leg bank will help victims of landmines
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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Prosthetic limb LegBank receives $1m Google grant
Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Media Participation
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Prizes
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Cordaid social adventure
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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the legbank initiative
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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The Legbank initiative
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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A Celebration of Innovation
Prize: Other distinction
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Cordaid Social Adventure
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Research output
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Inter and Intra Socket Shape and Volume Consistency Assessed Using MRI for Hands-on and Hands-off Casting of Amputee Below Knee Sockets
Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
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Provision of prosthetic and orthotic services in low-income countries: a review of the literature
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Impacts
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Engagement with the Prosthetic and orthotic clinic of the Ministry of social affairs, Banjul, The Gambia
Impact: Impact - for External Portal › Quality of life and safety