Basic Income Pilots: Uses, Limitations and Design Principles

Guy Standing

doi:10.1515/bis-2021-0021

Basic Income Pilots: Uses, Limitations and Design Principles

Basic Income Studies ◽

10.1515/bis-2021-0021 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Guy Standing

Keyword(s):

Design Principles ◽

Basic Income ◽

Health And Wellbeing ◽

Guiding Principles

Abstract The position underlying this article is that while pilots are not strictly required to justify moving in the direction of a basic income system, nevertheless they can play several useful functions in the debate. These include rebutting common preconceptions, for instance that basic income will make people ‘lazy’, indicating non-monetary benefits such as improved health and wellbeing, and testing how a basic income might best be introduced in a given region, country or city. In that context the article goes on to present 19 guiding principles for the design, implementation and evaluation of basic income pilots, with examples of selected experiments and pilots past and present.

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Transforming towards sustainable health and wellbeing systems: Eight guiding principles based on the experiences of nine Dutch Population Health Management initiatives

Health Policy ◽

10.1016/j.healthpol.2019.11.003 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 124 (1) ◽

pp. 37-43 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

N.J.E van Vooren ◽

B.M. Steenkamer ◽

C.A. Baan ◽

H.W. Drewes

Keyword(s):

Population Health ◽

Health Management ◽

Dutch Population ◽

Population Health Management ◽

Health And Wellbeing ◽

Guiding Principles ◽

Sustainable Health

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Nine Principles for Design for the Developing World as Derived From the Engineering Literature

Journal of Mechanical Design ◽

10.1115/1.4027984 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 136 (12) ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Christopher A. Mattson ◽

Amy E. Wood

Keyword(s):

Mechanical Engineering ◽

Developing World ◽

Design Principles ◽

Engineering Discipline ◽

Foreign Culture ◽

Traditional Design ◽

Guiding Principles ◽

The Many

This paper reviews the findings of several engineering researchers and practitioners on the topic of design for the developing world. We arrange these findings into nine guiding principles aimed at helping those who are searching for effective approaches for design for the developing world. The findings reviewed come from the mechanical engineering discipline, as well as from other engineering and nonengineering disciplines. For each principle, we provide references to various studies as a means of supporting the principle. We also provide a detailed example of each principle. Based on our own experience and based on the many papers reviewed, we provide a succinct list of suggestions for using each principle. Finally, we relate these nine principles to traditional design principles. Ultimately, we believe that the principles introduced here help overcome the challenges of design for the developing world, which are often dominated by designer unfamiliarity with poverty and foreign culture and the constraint of extreme affordability.

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Transforming towards sustainable health and wellbeing systems - Eight guiding principles based on the experiences of nine Dutch Population Health Management initiatives

International Journal of Integrated Care ◽

10.5334/ijic.icic2043 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (S1) ◽

pp. 124

Author(s):

Natascha Van Vooren

Keyword(s):

Population Health ◽

Health Management ◽

Dutch Population ◽

Population Health Management ◽

Health And Wellbeing ◽

Guiding Principles ◽

Sustainable Health

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A peek in the micro-sized world: a review of design principles, engineering tools, and applications of engineered microbial community

Biochemical Society Transactions ◽

10.1042/bst20190172 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 48 (2) ◽

pp. 399-409

Author(s):

Baizhen Gao ◽

Rushant Sabnis ◽

Tommaso Costantini ◽

Robert Jinkerson ◽

Qing Sun

Keyword(s):

Microbial Community ◽

Microbial Communities ◽

Environmental Remediation ◽

Real Life ◽

Design Principles ◽

Microbial Interactions ◽

Potential Applications ◽

New Gene ◽

Global Biogeochemical Cycles ◽

Synthetic Microbial Communities

Microbial communities drive diverse processes that impact nearly everything on this planet, from global biogeochemical cycles to human health. Harnessing the power of these microorganisms could provide solutions to many of the challenges that face society. However, naturally occurring microbial communities are not optimized for anthropogenic use. An emerging area of research is focusing on engineering synthetic microbial communities to carry out predefined functions. Microbial community engineers are applying design principles like top-down and bottom-up approaches to create synthetic microbial communities having a myriad of real-life applications in health care, disease prevention, and environmental remediation. Multiple genetic engineering tools and delivery approaches can be used to ‘knock-in' new gene functions into microbial communities. A systematic study of the microbial interactions, community assembling principles, and engineering tools are necessary for us to understand the microbial community and to better utilize them. Continued analysis and effort are required to further the current and potential applications of synthetic microbial communities.

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