Brainstorm Topics for Advisory Council Meeting

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Technology Transfer, Open Source and Responsible Review

Strategy for building capacity

Online design tool

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• Will require some of

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• Monroe's time to publish this online

  FReTA (Flocculation Residual Turbidity Analyzer) patenting or open source

  Should any of the technologies that we develop be patented? We have developed a new instrument for measuring flocculation effectiveness that could be used by water treatment plants to evaluate their flocculators. The instrument will cost several thousand dollars and so will not be used at AguaClara facilities, but there is already interest in using it at larger municipal facilities. Shall we patent it with the hope of a revenue stream or should we release it with the hope of a larger impact?

How do we provide adequate design review

Funding strategy for Cornell and for implementation

Program Growth

There is interest from a number of Latin American countries in having a pilot project to demonstrate the technology.
Monroe is putting more time into the project than can be sustained. Delegation to students has helped tremendously this semester, but as the project grows the time required for coordination with partners, generating knowledge, documenting the technology, and reviewing designs continues to grow as well.

Program assistant

Expansion to other countries

• At what point does it make sense to start the project in another country?

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