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61	Issues regarding sustainability of rural water supply in Zambia Musonda, Kennedy 02 1900 (has links) The purpose of this dissertation was to identify factors that contribute to the sustainability of rural water supply facilities (WSFs). Twenty-four interviews were conducted: 16 from rural communities and 8 from water supply agencies. Key findings are that in order to achieve sustainability of WSFs, there is need to ensure that (1) there is an effective community organisation; (2) communities have the ability to operate and maintain WSFs; (3) communities are able to raise adequate user fees for purchasing spare parts; and (4) that there is a strong backup support at the district level to carry out major repairs. Major threats to the sustainability of WSFs include high poverty levels in communities, weak institutional framework and inability of communities to handle major breakdowns. / Social Work / M.A. (Social Work) Sustainability of rural water supply Community management Partnership approach Centralized management approach Appropriate technology Policy and institutional framework 363.61096894 Water-supply, Rural Water-supply, Rural -- Management Water resources development -- Zambia Water quality management -- Zambia Water utilities -- Zambia Water use -- Zambia
62	The autonomous crewmate : A sociotechnical perspective to implementation of autonomous vehicles in sea rescue Lundblad, Oscar January 2020 (has links) The usage of autonomous vehicles is starting to appear in several different domains and the domain of public safety is no exception. Wallenberg Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) has created a research arena for public safety (WARA-PS) to explore experimental features, usages, and implementation of autonomous vehicles within the domain of public safety. Collaborating in the arena are several companies, universities, and researchers. This thesis examines, in collaboration with Combitech, a company partnered in WARA-PS, how the implementation of autonomous vehicles affects the sociotechnical system of a search and rescue operation during a drifting boat with potential castaways. This is done by creating a case together with domain experts, analyzing the sociotechnical system within the case using cognitive work analysis and then complementing the analyses with the unmanned autonomous vehicles of WARA-PS. This thesis has shown how the WARA-PS vehicles can be implemented in the case of a drifting boat with potential castaways and how the implementation affects the sociotechnical system. Based on the analyses and opinions of domain experts’ future guidelines has been derived to further the work with sociotechnical aspects in WARA-PS. / WARA-PS Human autonomy collaboration Public safety Sea rescue SSRS Emergency services Autonomous vehicles Unmanned aerial vehicle Unmanned Surface Vehicle uav usv SAR Human machine interaction HMI Sociotechnical systems cognitive work analysis CWA sociotechnical perspective implementation drone quadcopter boat rescue at sea case novel technology appropriate technology thematic analysis WASP Maritime swedish sea rescue uxv Human Computer Interaction Information Systems

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The autonomous crewmate : A sociotechnical perspective to implementation of autonomous vehicles in sea rescue