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    • "D-Lab continues to have a huge influence on how I work and how I approach life."
    • "It's OK, I do it again." A D-Lab student journey to Athens to work with refugee youth - and to her family's past
    • "Raising the Bar" at IDDS in Brazil!
    • 2017 MIT Water Innovator-in-Residence Application: Due August 11!
    • 41 D-Lab students will travel to 10 countries in January!
    • A "Collaboration Café" for Practical Impact Alliance members and D-Lab fellows
    • A Conversation with Betty Ikalany: Ugandan Innovator & Clean Energy Champion
    • A Creative Capacity Building model for sexual and reproductive health workshops in Kenya
    • A Design and Innovation Summit for Youth in Uganda with TEWDI and D-Lab Development
    • A Smart Solution for Affordable Housing: Meet Brazilian Designer & IDIN Network Member Wilio Albuquerque’s Portable, Eco-Friendly Brick Press
    • A Summer Fellowship Redesigned!
    • A fellowship at the intersection of evaluation and design
    • A great trip!
    • A letter to the D-Lab community from Founding Director Amy Smith: Doing in the time of COVID-19
    • A manual for entrepreneurs to rise and grow strong from the crisis
    • A typical day in Avani, India, for a D-Lab student
    • AScHES Convening for Charcoal Briquette Fuel Producers - Apply!
    • AScHES gets under way with
    • About Academics Research Innovation Practice Resources & Publications Workshop Design for Scale 2.0
    • Addressing high rates of teenage pregnancy and HIV/AIDS in Kenya with Creative Capacity Building
    • Addressing the missing piece in universal healthcare: safe surgery
    • Adi goes abroad — Ghana.
    • Advancing Research on Technology for Poverty Alleviation: How E4C Learns from Academic Institutions Worldwide
    • Advancing the MEDIKit project
    • Affordable and Scalable: Evaporative Cooling Can Fight Food Loss – Time for Communities and the Development Sector to Embrace It
    • Affordable, Scalable, Overlooked: Evaporative Cooling Can Fight Food Loss – Why isn’t the Development Sector Embracing It?
    • All groups are in the field: latest updates
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    • Amy Banzaert reflects on time with D-Lab and MIT
    • An Interview with Richard, a Maker and Refugee Participant from IDDS Uganda 2019
    • Ana Pantelic speaks
    • Announcing the "D-Lab-Announce" Email Listserv and More...
    • Announcing the Projects and Businesses from IDDS Uganda 2019!
    • Apply to be a Design Facilitator for a WASH design summit in Ethiopia Jan 22-Feb 2, 2018!
    • Applying BoP Inc's marketing framework to Imara Tech's Multi-Crop Thresher
    • Aquatic weeds and CCB in Ghana, IAP 2024
    • Art as a Message
    • Bamboo Bicycles Beijing! Report from a 2017 D-Lab UGC Fieldwork Grant recipient
    • Bamboo houses
    • Bicycles are particularly valued for carrying loads. peeterv/Getty Images, CC BY Bicycles can change lives, especially in rural Africa – new report looks at their use in Ghana and Malawi
    • Bill Gates praises D-Lab work during his visit to MIT
    • Botswana: Creative Capacity Building and redesigning a Mumbaimbai seed pod crusher
    • Bridging the Affordability Gap: Increasing Access to Products & Services through Financing
    • Bridging the Gap: The Role of Incubators in Supporting India’s Entrepreneurs
    • Bringing Life to the Soil and Jobs to the Community
    • Bringing Moroccan Farmers Access to Affordable Animal Feed
    • Bringing a shipping-container sized evaporative cooling chamber to reality
    • Bringing life to the soil and jobs to the community
    • Building Community in Uganda: A Co-Creation Summit Experience
    • Building a Business in Refugee Settlements: Speaking to Entrepreneurs from Rhino Camp
    • Building a better biodigester: the power of poop
    • Building lasting—and productive—community D-Lab partnerships: ASAPROSAR, Santa Ana, El Salvador
    • Building safety and innovation in Tanzania: A D-Lab experience
    • CITE launches new website
    • Cambodia: Solar Lantern Trials and More
    • Capacitación creativa para la "Training of Trainers" con mineros artesanales en Colombia
    • Celebrate International Day of the Girl with D-Lab: Education!
    • Changing the world, one ecosystem at a time: What MIT D-Lab taught me about being an innovation leader
    • Chasing Impact in Kenya’s Housing Sector
    • Clay Pot Coolers: Keeping fruits and vegetables fresh without electricity
    • Clean Cookstove Field Tests in Guatemala
    • Co-Creating a More Equitable World: The Transformative Benefits of Participatory Design
    • Co-Creation is a Circle, Not a Line: Lessons in Listening, Building, and Belonging in Uganda
    • Co-Design Online: These are a few of my favorite things - Online Collaboration Tools + Tips!
    • Co-designing protection for the Ridgeway's Hawk in the Dominican Republic
    • Co-designing with waste-pickers in Ghana
    • Co-diseño Virtual: Estas son algunas de mis cosas favoritas - Herramientas de colaboración virtual + Consejos!
    • Collaborative Innovation Networks and the Challenges of Building Them
    • Community engagement and evaporative cooling technologies in East Africa
    • Community innovation in Botswana with These Hands & a D-Lab: Development team
    • Congratulations to the three winners of D-Lab UGC Fieldwork Grants!
    • Cookstoves and Connections in the Himalayas
    • Course Spotlight: "Supply Chains" Ramps Up
    • Creating Hope in Conflict
    • Creating a Valuation Method to Provide Leverage for an Informal Market in Durban, South Africa
    • Creative Capacity Building Workshop Underway in Anticipation of the PIA 2018 Co-Design Summit in Morocco
    • Creative Capacity Building and social cohesion in the midst of South Sudan’s civil war
    • Creative Capacity Building at Rhino Camp, Uganda, a refugee settlement of over 100,000 South Sudanese
    • Creative Capacity Building for Circular Economy Design in Cochabamba, Bolivia - Part 1
    • Creative Capacity Building for Circular Economy Design in Cochabamba, Bolivia - Part 2
    • Creative Capacity Building for artisanal miners program in Antioquia, Colombia adapts to meet needs during COVID-19 crisis
    • Creative Capacity Building from Guatemala to Ghana
    • Creative Capacity Building in Uganda: Scaling the Impact of Refugee-Led Design Solutions
    • Creative Capacity Building with Artisanal Miners in Colombia
    • Creative Capacity Building with the Ecorecolectoras
    • Creative Capacity Building: An Interview with Amy Smith
    • Crocheting with recycled plastic with the D-Lab: Development Team Tanzania!
    • D-Brief: Needs assessment of smallholder goat farmers in Odisha, India
    • D-Lab 15th Anniversary Symposium & Community Day! October 20 and 21, 2017!
    • D-Lab Academics Team Wins OVC Infinite Mile Award for Innovation and Creativity
    • D-Lab Alumna Sydney Beasley
    • D-Lab Alumni Blog: Netia McCray '14
    • D-Lab Alumni: Interview with Matthew Mazzotta, SMVisS 09
    • D-Lab Alumnus Elliot Avila: From Boston to Nigeria to Tanzania
    • D-Lab Brazil gets poured on!
    • D-Lab Brazil: shelter, water pump, chlorination and playground
    • D-Lab Closed! Reopening January 2nd, 2012
    • D-Lab Design for Scale students work on mobile solar-powered ATM in India
    • D-Lab Development: Our Field Trip to Brazil!
    • D-Lab Energy Needs Assessment in El Salvador with ASAPROSAR
    • D-Lab Energy is safe and sound in Nicaragua
    • D-Lab Fall 2016 UGC Fieldwork Grants of up to $3,500
    • D-Lab Fall Student Showcase & Open House 2015
    • D-Lab Fall Student Showcase & Open House 2016
    • D-Lab Fall Student Showcase & Open House 2017
    • D-Lab Fall Student Showcase 2018! December 6, 5 pm
    • D-Lab Gender & Development: Course and travel opportunity updates!
    • D-Lab Health visits Shriners Hospitals for Children in Boston
    • D-Lab Hosts MIT/GMHC Summer Program
    • D-Lab Humanitarian Innovation Uganda: November update
    • D-Lab Inclusive Markets “Pick-it” project opens sorting center in Tema, Ghana
    • D-Lab Innovation Practice responds to the Covid-19 pandemic
    • D-Lab Innovators Night on TechTV
    • D-Lab Jr. Engages Youth in 4 Continents!
    • D-Lab Pilots "Learn-It" Self-Teaching Tools
    • D-Lab Reg Day Tour & Open House, Feb 6, 1-3 pm
    • D-Lab Research in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic
    • D-Lab Rwanda: technology demonstrations and community mapping
    • D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellow Shawn Wen '13 in Nepal with the PortaTherm incubator
    • D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellow: Field Notes from Tanzania on the Mutli-Crop Thresher
    • D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellows 2015 Retreat
    • D-Lab Scale-Ups collaborates with Grameen-Jameel Microfinance to identify desired livelihood technologies in Morocco
    • D-Lab Showcases Technologies That Students Developed to Impact Our World
    • D-Lab Spring Showcase & Open House
    • D-Lab Spring Student Showcase & Open House 2015
    • D-Lab Spring Student Showcase & Open House 2016 - Friday, May 6, 4 pm
    • D-Lab Spring Student Showcase 2017: May 12, 5 pm
    • D-Lab Spring Student Showcase 2018: May 4, 5 pm
    • D-Lab Spring Student Showcase 2019: May 3, 5 pm
    • D-Lab Spring UGC Fieldwork Grants of up to $3,500
    • D-Lab Student Fieldwork, January 2015
    • D-Lab Student January Fieldwork: El Salvador!
    • D-Lab Student January Fieldwork: Zambia!
    • D-Lab Student Profile: Miho Kitagawa
    • D-Lab Student Summer Fieldwork: Handwashing & Hygiene in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    • D-Lab Study Abroad is piloted in Sao Paulo, Brazil
    • D-Lab Study Abroad: Setting up the program with Avani
    • D-Lab Tanzania: Stoves, Homestays and Charcoal
    • D-Lab UGC Fieldwork Grant Awards!
    • D-Lab Underclassmen Giving Campaign Fieldwork Grants of up to $3,500 - deadline October 19!
    • D-Lab Waste Partners with Inter America Development Bank (IADB) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Nicaragua
    • D-Lab Waste, D-Lab Biodiversity, and CoLab Team-Up to Investigate the Impact of Plastic on Nicaragua's Caribbean Coastline
    • D-Lab Youth Updates: Fieldwork in Ghana and India, Education Class in Full Swing
    • D-Lab Youth: Learning as an early-stage program, and getting ready for the fall!
    • D-Lab Zambia and Tanzania: radio, corn sander, rice thresher, charcoal and more!
    • D-Lab and the MIT Water Club welcome MIT Water Innovator-in-Residence Sahar Abdelhakim
    • D-Lab associate Heather Beem and the Practical Education Network
    • D-Lab at the Science, Technology and Innovation Forum
    • D-Lab launches working paper series exploring new directions in innovation research
    • D-Lab offers a new class about creativity
    • D-Lab opens its doors and resources to more educators, youth, and their families
    • D-Lab releases technologies and curricular materials for the general public
    • D-Lab students among IDEAS Global Challenge Winners!
    • D-Lab students in Tanzania to work with Scale-Ups fellow, Jodie Wu, on multicrop thresher
    • D-Lab students: Join D-Lab students to work with unaccompanied refugee youth in Athens, Greece, Jan 2019! Apply by Oct 29!
    • D-Lab students: Join a WASH-Themed Design Summit in Ethiopia, Jan 2018! Apply by Sept 29!
    • D-Lab teams settle in Rwanda and Zambia
    • D-Lab to Host Inaugural Open Hours on Tues, Nov 16
    • D-Lab travels over MIT Winter Break
    • D-Lab trips already started: first news from the field
    • D-Lab's 150 Showcase Schedule & Change in Open Hours Location
    • D-Lab's 150 project exhibit madness starting
    • D-Lab's D-ecitennial (It's our 10th anniversary!)
    • D-Lab's Dan Sweeney attends ISO Clean Cooking Solutions Meeting in Guatemala
    • D-Lab's First Annual Report
    • D-Lab's Mobile Technology Group: Background and Reflections
    • D-Lab's Sher Vogel wins Office of the Vice Chancellor Infinite Mile Award
    • D-Lab: Design - the soil, the shoots, and the flowers
    • D-Lab: Design = AWESOME
    • D-Lab: Design hosts Indian inventor Suprio Das
    • D-Lab: Design hosts Paul Polak and Shawn Frayne
    • D-Lab: Design hosts Tanzanian inventor Bernard Kiwia
    • D-Lab: Design pitches this year's Design Challenges
    • D-Lab: Design – What’s new for Spring 2018!
    • D-Lab: Development - Botswana 2015 (video!)
    • D-Lab: Development - El Salvador 2015 (video!)
    • D-Lab: Development - Peru 2015 (video!)
    • D-Lab: Development IAP 2020
    • D-Lab: Development Uganda Team 2017: Innovation Workshop & Charcoal Grinder Ventilation
    • D-Lab: Discovery Learns About Woodworking
    • D-Lab: Earth 2017!
    • D-Lab: Education & Learning 2017!
    • D-Lab: Education - Teaching electricity, lighting, and circuit building in Uganda
    • D-Lab: Education’s Notes from the Field, Summer 2014
    • D-Lab: Gender and Development to inlcude three field projects to enhance gender equality in Latin America and Sub-SaharanAfrica
    • D-Lab: Health Project Update: Team Ambulance
    • D-Lab: Mobility instructor Matt McCambridge works with IDDS Botswana team on deep sand wheelchair
    • D-Lab: Open Office
    • D-Lab: Prosthetics for the Developing World – Back for Fall 2015!
    • D-Lab: Prosthetics students test transtibial prosthetic liner in Kenya & Ethiopia
    • D-Lab: Schools in Cambodia: materials, educational technology and sanitation
    • D-Lab: Supply Chains / Nicaragua: Using Black Soldier Flies in the War on Waste
    • D-Lab: Waste - An Introduction to the Fall 2016 Course
    • D-Lab: Waste students join waste management research project in India
    • D-Lab: Water & Climate Change Film Series
    • D-Lab: Water and Climate Change 2017!
    • D-Lab: Water, Climate Change, and Health: MIT Climate Clock
    • D-Lab: Water, Sanitation, Hygiene (WASH) + Environment – Reflections on the 1st 10 years
    • Design Mini-Project: Low-Cost Rainwater Harvesting
    • Design for Scale: Reflections on the Course
    • Design for Second Life Innovations: How local innovators in East Africa are harnessing digital tools to solve real-world problems
    • Design for financial inclusion: Lessons learned & reflections from IDDS Kenya 2018
    • Designing Dreams: An Unforgettable Journey with Refugee Youth in Athens
    • Designing Medical Devices for Drug Delivery
    • Designing Usable Impact Frameworks to Support Youth Entrepreneurship in Kenya
    • Designing a recycling center and restoring furniture with the Ecorecolectors of Cochabamba
    • Designing for Better Health Competition Kicks Off!
    • Designing for Kashmir: MIT D-Lab and IIT-Ropar design workshop for IUST students
    • Developin electronic communication devices in Mexico for students with autism, cerebral palsy, and other disabilities
    • Developing a shea nut mill with the Ayirkasa, a women's collective in Ghana
    • Development Ventures hosts TR35 entrepreneur Amir Hasson
    • Development Ventures launches into its 10th year!
    • Disseminating evaporative cooling technologies in rural Uganda
    • Dr. Alex Dehgan, Science and Technology Adviser to the Administrator at USAID, to speak at MIT May 13
    • East African Diaries: My Experiences at the MIT D-Lab Co-design Summit 2019 – Uganda
    • Emily Young '18: New Prototype of the Okoa Ambulance in Tanzania
    • Empowering young parents in Kenya to be the architects of their own futures
    • Enabling Innovation Ecosystems in Emerging Markets: Key Challenges and Five Recommendations
    • Energy Class Happenings
    • Energy Needs Assessment in Nepal with D-Lab and Kathmandu University
    • Energy assessment in Mali
    • Energy's El Salvador team tackles bici-power and biodigesters
    • Enjoying the warm culture (and weather!) in Ghana
    • Evaluating an entrepreneurship training program in Uganda: How effective is your survey?
    • Evaporative Cooling Can Combat Food Loss
    • Evaporative Cooling for Fruit and Vegetable Preservation in Turkana
    • Evaporative cooler construction with University of Nairobi
    • Event! November 15: A conversation with Bici-Tec founder Carlos Marroquin
    • Examining the NEXTi2i incubator and the Ghanaian entrepreneurial ecosystem.
    • Experiential Learning in the Time of Covid-19: How Two D-Lab Class Projects Pivoted to Bridge Distances and Meet Critical Needs
    • Exploratory visit, Kutupalong Refugee Camp, Bangladesh
    • Fab labs and D-Lab: two different philosophies of innovation?
    • Field Updates: Supporting the Continuity of Projects and Businesses from IDDS Uganda 2019
    • Final Prototypes Take Shape as the 2014 International Development Design Summit Draws to a Close
    • Finding Inspiration from Co-Creating in Arua, Uganda
    • Firms Adopting Lean Research Can Expect Wide Impacts
    • First Practical Impact Alliance design summit to take place in Ghana, fall 2015
    • First day of D-Lab: Schools
    • First updates from the field: India, Cambodia, Tanzania and Ghana
    • Five Things We Learned from the D-Lab Alumni Survey
    • Following up on Energy I class projects in Uganda and Kenya
    • Food for Thought: Bridging the gap between humanitarian relief and development
    • From Access to Usage: Digital Financial Inclusion of Smallholder Farmers in Guatemala’s Western Highlands
    • From D-Lab Cambodia: local innovation center, low-cost water testing and technology dissemination
    • From Ghana: Working hard, but with fun
    • From Pipe Dream to Pipe REALITY”: Water Access and Problem Solving in El Sauce, El Salvador
    • From woodwoorking to 3D printing and silkscreening to arduino: working with refugee youth in Athens, Greece
    • Fuel from the Fields: ARTI Tanzania
    • Fuel from the Fields: Bugiri, Uganda
    • GRIT wins MassChallenge $100K
    • Gaining insight into public health in rural Turkana County, Kenya
    • Gender, Technology, and Development Workshop
    • Getting the Right Products to Scale: Technology Evaluation for Water Filters
    • Give a Gift to D-Lab this Holiday Season
    • Goat Herder Feed & Fodder Needs Assessment in Odisha, India
    • GreenPath Food: Transforming the lives of low-income farmers in Ethiopia
    • GrubCycle
    • Hand Embroidered Couture With A Vision To Provide Sustained Income
    • Happy Amos, Founder Roshan Renwables in Nigeria, spends a month in residence at MIT D-Lab
    • Hard at work in Honduras
    • Harvest Fuel Initiative Fuels & Energy Research Update
    • Highlights from the early days of the Cambodia trip
    • Hitting the ground running in Brazil!
    • Honduras: Improving Agricultural Processing
    • How can a social enterprise start measuring its impact? – The case of EcoAct Tanzania
    • Humanitarian Innovation in Athens, Greece: Report from a 2017 D-Lab UGC Fieldwork Grant recipient
    • Humanitarian Innovation: Workshop with unaccompanied refugee minors, Athens, Greece
    • IAP Insights: Finding a Calling in Belém, Brazil
    • IAP Insights: Jonathan Tebes, Economics '14
    • IAP Insights: Lynn Yu, '16
    • IAP Insights: Prakriti Paul, Biology '15
    • IAP Insights: Student Takeaways from D-Lab: Development Trips
    • IDDS Botswana 2018: Update from D-Lab Alumna Ta Corrales
    • IDDS New Coastal Territories: Sanitation project for the "stilt" community of Buenavista
    • IDDS New Coastal Territories: Update from D-Lab's Libby Hsu
    • IDDS/IDIN Maternal & Neonatal Health Summit: Tanzania
    • IDIN Awards 11 Microgrants to Support Prototypes and Ventures Worldwide
    • IDIN Awards Eight Microgrants for Prototype and Venture Development to Tackle Development Challenges
    • IDIN Innovator Spotlight: Carlos Marroquín
    • IDIN Seeks Partner to Support Local Innovation in Tanzania
    • IDIN, CITE, D-Lab Scale-Ups, and Tufts University Host Convening to Explore Human-Centered Approach to Respectful, Right-Sized Research
    • Ideas and Dance
    • Implementing a Creative Capacity Building Workshop for the Formalization of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Women in Colombia
    • Improving Emergency Healthcare using Motorcycle Ambulances: Emily Young and The Okoa Projec
    • Improving Livelihoods in Morocco: Solar Light Field Evaluation
    • Improving Maternal Healthcare Access in Northern Morocco: A Symposium with MIT D-Lab
    • Improving access to hot water in Nepal
    • Improving access to solar lighting information
    • Improving farmers' income through low-cost greenhouse technology
    • Inclusive Business Leaders: Voices from the Corporate, Social and Public Sectors
    • Increasing Access to Fresh Fruit and Vegetables with Forced-Air Evaporative Cooling Chamber
    • Innovating Above the Clouds: Retrofit Insulation in Himalayan Base Homes
    • Innovators to Convene at International Design Summit to Develop Low-Cost Technologies Addressing Global Poverty
    • International Development Mixer @ the Media Lab
    • Introducing D-Lab Study Abroad
    • Introducing the International Development Innovation Network’s Research Program (And Three Ways You Can Help)
    • Introducing the new D-Lab Biodiversity course!
    • Investigating user needs preferences for a low-cost water filter while gaining life perspective and cultural meaning in India
    • It's corn harvesting season in D-Lab!
    • It's official: N51 is D-Lab's new headquarters!
    • José Gómez-Márquez is named 'Humanitarian of the Year' by Technology Review
    • Keeping busy in Cambodia
    • Kick Off Meeting of the Practical Impact Alliance
    • Kicking off grassroots innovation in Guatemala
    • Latest news from the field
    • Latest update from the field: the last team has arrived!
    • Laâyoune Co-Design Summit: One year later
    • Leadership, Organizing and Action – Women & Subsistence Mining in Medellín, Colombia
    • Learning from Stakeholders: Reflections from my summer as a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Fellow
    • Left Menu Blog News Video Teaching coding – and life skills – to women in Colombia (Part 2))
    • Leveraged Freedom Chair gains momentum at MIT and around the world
    • Leveraged Freedom Chair in India
    • Leveraging gender data to improve gender lens investment
    • Lighting Lecture
    • List of favorite things from D-Lab Rwanda
    • Local entrepreneurship in Appalachian Kentucky
    • Looking Back to Look Forward
    • Lunch and Learn + Mentoring Session: Mobile Phone & Behavior Change Challenge: March 10 at noon
    • MIT Alumni on Why They Support D-Lab in the MIT Giving Day Challenge
    • MIT Connection connects D-Lab to MIT alumni in New York.
    • MIT D-Lab 15th Anniversary Symposium & Community Day - Oct 20 & 21!
    • MIT D-Lab Climate Clock 2021
    • MIT D-Lab Fall Finale
    • MIT D-Lab Founding Director Amy Smith gives keynote address at IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge showcase
    • MIT D-Lab IAP Build Your Own Bike Class
    • MIT D-Lab Launches COVID-19 Bridge Fund to Help D-Lab Scale-Ups Social Entrepreneurs Weather the Pandemic
    • MIT D-Lab Professional Education to Go "Live Virtual" in June 2021
    • MIT D-Lab Scale-Ups Applications Due May 5th!
    • MIT D-Lab Students in Colombia: Building Habitat Banks and Exploring New Paths for Gender Equality and Ecological Sustainability
    • MIT D-Lab team - including MIT, Harvard, Wellesely students, and affiliates - works with refugee youth in Greece
    • MIT D-Lab-Affiliated Social Enterprise ayzh to Develop Healthy Newborn Kit in Support of United Nations Strategy for Maternal and Child Health
    • MIT Independent Activities Period 2019: 40 D-Lab students in 7 countries!
    • MIT International Travel Ban
    • MIT OpenCourseWare Staff Pick: D-Lab Design
    • MIT President Reif Congratulates D-Lab on its 15th Anniversary
    • MIT President Reif Congratulates D-Lab on its 20th Anniversary
    • MIT Scaling Development Ventures Conference - Friday, April 28!
    • MIT Scaling Development Ventures Conference 2014
    • MIT Scaling Development Ventures Poster Session 2014
    • MIT Sloan Entrepreneurs for International Development improving the production process for Harvest Fuel Initiative partner ARTI-Energy in Tanzania
    • MIT and Berkeley National Lab Collaborate to Grow Understanding of Cookstoves and Fuels
    • MIT's e4Dev to present D-Lab Off-Grid Energy's Eric Verploegen in speaker series February 16
    • Machine Learning to Optimize Biofuel Production
    • Making Impact Assessment Meaningful and Manageable
    • Mapping the experiences of Colombian women miners engaged in a movement-building program designed to mitigate gender-based violence
    • Marc Mate of the National Business Technology Centre in Zambia visits D-Lab
    • Masdar collaboration
    • Masdar trip to Borneo
    • Matt McCambridge talks about D-Lab: Mobility
    • Measuring Impact on the Path to Scale
    • Measuring and analyzing the usage and adoption of the Makaa cookstove, Uganda
    • Meet the 2020 MIT D-Lab MEL Fellows
    • Meet the 2021 MIT D-Lab MEL Fellows
    • Meet the Entrepreneur: Carl Jensen and Sunday Silungwe, Good Nature Agro
    • Menstrual health and hygiene: using a co-design approach to reusable sanitary pads in Oyugis, Kenya
    • Meshing Worlds Together
    • Message to the D-Lab Community from Executive Director Bob Nanes
    • Metal Forming
    • Mexico IAP
    • Miners and coffee field hands: assessing the needs of women workers in Santa Rita, Colombia
    • Mismatched Perceptions of Digital Financial Services: Smallholder Farmers and Providers in Senegal
    • Moringa Sheller and Oil Press
    • MoringaConnect's Retail Launch: Branding For Scale
    • Movement building with Mujeres Mineras Unidas in Colombia
    • My Journey through MIT D-Lab to Moving Health
    • Navigating Entrepreneurship in Kampala: Achieving Sustainability through Self-Discovery
    • Navigating investor sourcing practices with a gender lens
    • Nebulizers, Anemia, Pregnancy, Ambulances and Surgery: A sneak peek at D-Lab Health Projects
    • New D-Lab: Gender course to be co-taught by Martha Thompson and Libby McDonald.
    • New Year, New projects, New trips and many more!
    • New academic offering: D-Lab Cycle Ventures
    • New academic offering: D-Lab ICT
    • New course from Amy Smith & Martha Thompson: Innovation in Relief, Recovery, and Rebuilding
    • New course from Susan Murcott: D-Lab Water and Climate Change!
    • New online course from edX: Lean Research Skills for Conducting Interviews
    • News from rural Ghana
    • Nineteen student teams and five individual students present designs for the developing world at D-Lab Spring Showcase
    • One week in! D-Lab at Kien Svay, Cambodia
    • P.ACT: Leveling the field for equitable partnerships
    • Partnership Design in Social Enterprise at MIT’s D-Lab
    • Peru team reports in after their Amazonian adventures
    • Phases of Change: a D-Lab Incubator and Community Health
    • Piloting Evaporative Cooling Technologies in Western India
    • Podcast: Kwami Williams '12 Co-Founder of True Moringa
    • Practical Impact Alliance Challenge Launch: Mobile Phones & Behavior Change, December 10
    • Practical Impact Alliance and D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellowship Joint Learning Lab Kick-off: Co-Designing Inclusive Partnership Models
    • Practical Impact Alliance members convene for first Annual Meeting at MIT
    • Practical Impact Alliance to convene at MIT April 10th
    • Practical Impact Alliance: The Working Groups
    • Prepping for January in India
    • Presenting Lean Research for International Development at the Smallholder Performance Measurement Workshop
    • Problem Framing and Solution Architecture
    • Professional Education in the Time of Covid-19
    • Projects Beginning!
    • Projects Update: Playing around with different materials, toys and arduinos
    • Public Program April 20: Financial Inclusion and the Informal Sector
    • Radios for Rhino
    • Reaching the Last Mile: Distribution Models for Energy Products
    • Reducing Household Food Waste and Improving Nutrition with Simple Technologies
    • Reflections on Field Work Assessment for Xylem Water Filter Project – Uttarakhand, India
    • Reflections on an Intern's Experience at D-Lab
    • Reflections on an earthquake: moving from plight to promise
    • Reflections on the Right Path to Last Mile Distribution
    • Remembering D-Lab workshop manager and instructor Dennis Nagle, 1941-2020
    • Report from D-Lab's Energy Research Group: Providing a framework for energy access in India
    • Report from D-Lab: Development, Team Botswana: January D-Lab Student Fieldwork
    • Report from D-Lab: Development, Team Colombia: January D-Lab Student Fieldwork
    • Report from D-Lab: Development, Team Guatemala : January D-Lab Student Fieldwork
    • Report from Lagos, Nigeria: Job creation through Wecyclers’ Waste Collection Cargo Bike
    • Report from Sirsi, Karnataka, India
    • Report from the Field: D-Lab: Education, Uganda
    • Rethink Relief: Looking Beyond Emergencies
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