A new journal covers engineering for global development
Failure claims an elevated status among start-ups and global development practitioners, who hold up their good tries and mistakes as examples from which others can learn. But one of its corrollaries can be hard to find in scientific literature: The failure to reject the null hypothesis. That failure is kind of like the absence of a result from an experiment, or, in global development terms, the discovery that a new technology or a new project has no measurable effect on the community where it is introduced.
A new journal called Development Engineering could uphold the tradition of proclaiming failures that sets apart start-ups and, increasingly, aid and development organizations. DevEng is a new product of the Development Impact Lab at the University of California, Berkeley, an open access journal of engineering research directed at exploring the problems of poverty.
