D-Lab: Design is featured in MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) Staff Pick of the month. See the following video, in which OCW publication manager talks about the class and highlights one of the projects students worked on: the bicilavadora!
Young Malawian William Kamkwamba was 14 years old when he taught himself how to build a windmill from spare parts and scrap. He borrowed an energy book from a library, where he found the rough plans to put together an electricity generator to harness the energy from the wind, and provide energy to power lights and radio for his family home.
D-Lab is proud to invite William Kamkwamba to give a very special lecture at MIT, with support from the...
Join us tonight Thurs 9/17 starting at 5pm for a very informal pre-dinner International Development Mixer in the MIT Media Lab lower level!
Brought to you by MIT D-Lab: Development Ventures, the Sloan Entrepreneurs for International Development (SEID), and the Development Track of the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, we welcome inventive and entrepreneurial friends and colleagues from throughout our great community who have a passion for emerging market innovations.
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D-Lab and Innovations in International Health (IIH) have just opened 7 positions for MIT students. Contact Jose Gomez-Marquez at jfgm < at > mit or Anna Young akyoung < at > mit for more information.
Background
90% of all medical devices sent to developing countries fail within 6 months, because they were never designed to operate in those environments. Appropriate biomedical technology is an important and comparatively...
Amy Smith joins Talk2America Online Discussion on Low Tech Solutions moderated by Erin Brummet to talk about how inventors are finding new ways to get things done cheaper, faster and cleaner to fit local needs and customs.
Amy talks about appropriate technologies:
The definition of appropriate technology has changed over the years. But now I take it to mean a technology that fits within the environment where it's intended to be used and that's in terms of...
The D-Lab family of classes is continually growing to respond to the students' demand and interest in international development and appropriate technologies in several different fronts. As a result, D-Lab adds another academic offering this fall in the field of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D): D-Lab ICT.
Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of projects that apply digital technologies to support socio-economic...
On the fall of 2009, a new course is being offered as part of the D-Lab suite of classes: D-Lab Cycle Ventures.
This academic offering aims to address the growing interest in harnessing pedal power for use in many applications in the developing world. The potential of bicycle technology in the developing world stems from several sources. Bicycles have been in use for many years in much of the developing world and are therefore a known technology...
José Gómez-Márquez, D-Lab Health instructor, is named to this year's TR 35, Technology Review magazine's annual compilation of the 35 top innovators worldwide under the age of 35. Furthermore, Mr. Gómez-Márquez is named as the TR 35's "humanitarian of the year" for the creation of practical medical devices for use in poor countries.
"The TR35 is an elite group of accomplished young innovators who exemplify the spirit of innovation. Their work - spanning medicine, computing,...
D-Lab Health was a guest of Dr. Robert Sheridan, Chief of the Burn Surgery Service at the Shriners Hospitals for Children in Boston. Students were visited an operating room, discussed the medical equipment used, and brainstormed ideas in which the parallel devices in the developing world can be improved.
Join MIT's Innovations in International Health Initiative and their new partner Ashoka's Changemakers for their competition "Designing for Better Health" sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The competition aims to identify novel and effective approaches that make it easier for people to make choices and change their behavior to improve their health.
Submit your entry by April 1, 2009 at www.changemakers.net to take advantage of the...