The deception of technology | Roger Gonzalez | TEDxElPaso

Hear how technology is not enough to aid the disabled of the world. Affordable prosthetic limbs are providing relief to the disabled but what more can be done?


Roger V. Gonzalez, Ph.D., P.E., is the Founder and President of LIMBS International (www.limbs.org), a humanitarian organization that designs, creates and deploys prosthetic devices to transform the lives of amputees in the developing world by restoring their ability to walk. He is also the Inaugural Chairman and Professor of the Dept of Engineering Education and Leadership. He has been recognized for scholarly work, education innovation and socio-entrepreneurial humanitarian efforts and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) with over 100 publications detailing his scholarly endeavors.

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