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    • 2 Indians bag Cartier entrepreneurship award for women
    • 2015 – the year that embraced menstruation and brought innovation to women world over
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    • A fleet of bicycles are cleaning up the densely populated and polluted city of Lagos
    • A global study of girls’ access to and usage of mobile, told through 3,000 voices
    • A hands-on approach to Third World aid
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    • Adebiyi-Abiola: New Face Of Waste Management In Nigeria
    • Advancing Research on Technology for Poverty Alleviation: How E4C Learns from Academic Institutions Worldwide
    • African Start-Up Award: Four laureates and the Top 50 most innovative African Start-ups!
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    • Doing more: AeroAstro’s flexible degree program helped Kwami Williams pursue his passion to change the world.
    • Dot Learn, Nigeria’s e-learning company wins $25,000 Edtech
    • Eco-friendly sanitary pads made of banana fibre – Saathi pads’s solution to menstrual waste ... read more on social.yourstory.com
    • Elaine Kung '15 awarded $5,000 by MIT Tau Beta Pi to improve design of compost toilets
    • Empowering Low-Income Communities “One Rubbish at a Time”! WeCyclers’ Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola is #BellaNaijaWCW this Week
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    • Engineering Students Design “Happy Feet,” 3D Printed Shoes for Kenyans Afflicted by Jigger Infection
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    • Essmart raises US$1.2M in financing for scaling innovative kirana shop network
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    • Ethiopia-based GreenPath Food Raises Seed Funding From Engineers Without Borders Canada
    • Ethiopian Summit Focuses on Participatory Co-Design to Develop Low-Cost WASH Products
    • Evaluating approaches to agricultural development
    • Event: Humanitarian Innovation Jam 2016
    • Experts to Watch: Innovating Refugee Response
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    • Financing Social Entrepreneurship: How To Close The Opportunity Gap For Marginalized Groups
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    • Former Scale-Ups project, AIR, featured in "Hackathons Aren’t Just for Coders. We Can Use Them to Save Lives"
    • Founder of MyH2O talks about “connecting solutions” to map water quality in China.
    • Four graduate students win Lemelson prizes
    • Freeing Women with Eco-Friendly Feminine Pads
    • From Aerospace to Agriculture: Why I left MIT & NASA for a Miracle Tree
    • Generating Value from Waste: Sid Pai's journey with Protoprint, a social enterprise in India that converts waste plastic into 3D printer filament.
    • Giving newborn babies 'air' to breathe
    • Global development summit to aid Kuthambakkam’s health issues
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    • HESN Labs Working together for Community Driven Innovation
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    • High-income seeds: Community-based farming
    • How this MIT grad turned a class project into a career
    • How to Attract Female Engineers
    • IDDS Educación 2016, an international summit for design and development
    • IDDS Summit an education in more ways than one
    • IDDS Zambia 2013 – Better Living Through Collaborative Innovations
    • IDIN Microgrant Request for Proposals: Due Aug 31, 2013
    • ITU Lahore hosted International Development Design Summit
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    • Improving people's lives, one device at a time
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    • In Laayoune, the "2018 Practical Impact Alliance Co-design Summit" at the service of young entrepreneurs in southern Morocco
    • In Puerto Rico, a shortage of tarps and electricity means the misery continues for storm-weary people
    • In Tanzania, Powering Cell Phones and Shelling Corn with a Bicycle
    • In search of a major she loves: Senior Amna Magzoub finds her niche in mechanical engineering, plans to bring skills home to Sudan.
    • In the World: A better way to beat around the bush
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    • India-Bound: MIT Students Work and Learn
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    • Innovation Ecosystems: Identifying and Fostering Grassroots Design Capacity
    • Innovation Tank: And the winner is … AIR
    • Innovation Within Reach
    • Innovation in Africa: What Young African Women Entrepreneurs Have to Say
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    • Innovation – Thabiso Mashaba
    • Innovators at MIT to present workable solutions for developing world
    • International Development Design Summit convenes innovators to address clean cooking in Uganda
    • International Development Design Summit thinks about improving quality of life of recyclers
    • International development through dialogue, design, and dissemination
    • International summit in Si Sa Ket seeks to promote innovative economy
    • Interview with Eric Verploegen: Off-Grid Energy Specialist at MIT D-Lab
    • Interview with Saida Benhayoune, Director of Innovation Practice at Massachusetts Institute of Technology D-Lab
    • Introducing a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to conducting comparative product evaluations
    • J-WAFS Solutions program awards $750,000 in commercialization grants
    • J-WAFS awards 2018 Solutions grants for commercialization of MIT food and water technologies
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    • John Hoffmire: Saathi pads: Sustainability addressing India's needs for sanitary pads
    • Lean Research: Introducing a Movement for Change
    • Learning to Talk Trash in New Longoro
    • Letter to the community: Update regarding Executive Order, thoughts on moving forward
    • Local Beauty and Health Startup Aims to Improve Economy in Ghana
    • Local materials, low cost and good science add up to technology for developing nations
    • Low Technologies, High Aims
    • MIT D-Lab Practical Impact Alliance (PIA) wraps up Co-Design Summit in Laâyoune
    • MIT D-Lab promotes rural community innovations in Guatemala with Soluciones Comunitarias
    • MIT D-Lab receives $35k grant from Newman’s Own Foundation for the D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellowship Program
    • MIT D-Lab to launch industry collaboration this fall
    • MIT Federal Credit Union presents 2018 scholarships, People Helping People Award
    • MIT Grad's Mission: Build A Wheelchair That Works Anywhere
    • MIT Practical Impact Alliance Co-Design Summit - Ghana 2015
    • MIT Scaling Development Ventures: Bridging innovation and impact
    • MIT a linchpin of major new USAID program
    • MIT grad student designs low-cost solution for high-tech African problem
    • MIT launches a Consumer Reports for the developing world
    • MIT one of 32 inaugural partners of Global Development Lab
    • MIT researchers develop the world’s first USB-powered mobile stethoscope
    • MIT senior and Rhodes Scholar Matthew Chun wants to promote innovation that enhances quality of life in developing countries.
    • MIT spinout Sanergy targeting clean sanitation for all of Kenya (and beyond)
    • MIT workshop teaches refugee children joys of digital design
    • MIT-USAID program releases evaluation of water filters
    • MIT-USAID program releases pioneering evaluation of solar lanterns
    • MIT’s place in the world
    • MacArthur 'genius' grants go to four from MIT
    • Magnet School graduate sells solar-powered lights to poor in Tanzania through her company Global Cycle Solutions
    • Making Evidence Practical for Development
    • Making a difference in the developing world
    • Making them able again with cane
    • Managing Disasters With Small Steps
    • MassChallenge Awards $1.7M in Cash Prizes to Top Startups in Boston and Rhode Island
    • Massachusetts and UN allies in innovation
    • Matthew Cavuto: Getting a leg up on engineering
    • MechE alumna [and D-Lab Scale-Ups fellow] Danielle Zurovcik’s WiCare named finalist for Hult Prize
    • Meet 17 inspiring US women social entrepreneurs who have built game changing enterprises impacting Africa positively
    • Meet Bernard Kiwia: Tanzania’s Top Inventor and Father of Rural Innovation
    • Meet Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola - Nigeria's Waste Economy Builder Turning Trash into Cash
    • Meet Kristin Kagestsu, The MIT grad making biodegradable sanitary pads
    • More than 30 from MIT named to Forbes 30 Under 30 lists
    • Moringa is known as 'The Miracle Tree,' and its powers are spreading worldwide.
    • Necessity Is the Mother of Invention
    • New grants help amplify impact of MIT IDEAS Global Challenge teams
    • New laboratory in Ghana to test cookstoves
    • Nigerian Eco Heroes Find Solutions in the Everyday
    • Nigeria’s Wecyclers Work for Reusable Future in Lagos
    • Nigeria’s dot Learn wins $75k at Cisco challenge
    • No clean water? No problem: 6 do-it-yourself ways Puerto Ricans can ensure it’s drinkable
    • Not Just Skin Deep: Interview with True Moringa's Emily Cunningham & Kwami Williams
    • One Solution to Keeping India's Girls in School: Cheap Maxi Pads
    • PIA Innovation Ecosystem Working Group Sees the Morocco Co-Design Summit as an Opportunity for Practical Application
    • Participatory Design: A Creative, Non-linear And Sometimes Messy Process
    • Patent sought for infant-saving AIR
    • Playing With Toys and Saving Lives
    • Podcast: Kwami Williams, MoringaConnect | Unlocking the Value of Moringa to End Poverty
    • PotaVida Awarded $150K Grant for Pilot Test in Somalia
    • Potential to lead: Using technology to overcome poverty
    • Practical Education Network Wins Demo Africa Accra Innovation Tour
    • Practical Impace Alliance Co-Design Summit -Laâyoune, Morocco
    • Press Release: MIT Practical Impact Alliance launches second annual co-design summit in Zambia
    • Products of Progress
    • Project strives for clean drinking water in Nepal
    • Promising Prototypes of 2015
    • Protoprint : Ethical 3D Printer Filament
    • Putting people before buildings
    • Q&A: Nathan Cooke, designer and instructor at MIT’s D-Lab
    • Quartz Africa Innovators 2016 list
    • Read how Indian women are revolutionizing clean cooking as entrepreneurs
    • Recycling on Tricycles in Lagos: Five Questions with Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola
    • Revolutionizing global health
    • Rise Legs: A Bengaluru startup that empowers amputees with cost-effective can prosthetics
    • Roots Studios’ ‘Shutterstock for cultural art’ could transform rural communities
    • Running Start: Students who hatch their companies at MIT are well-positioned for impact
    • Rwandan President Paul Kagame visits MIT
    • Saathi: Healthcare startup makes biodegradable pads from banana fibre
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    • Sanitary breakthrough brings hygiene and work to rural India
    • Sarah Tress wins 2019 Rhodes Scholarship
    • Scale-Ups Fellow Kevin Cedrone & AIR: Round 5 Award Nominees for Innovative Solutions to Prevent Maternal, Infant Deaths in the Hardest to Reach Regions of the World
    • Scale-Ups Fellow in the News: The custom-made tricycles driving Lagos's slum waste revolution
    • Scale-Ups Fellow: Are You 3D-Printing with Fair-Trade Filament?
    • Scale-Ups Fellow: Bringing “everyone wins” recycling to Nigeria
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    • Scale-Ups Fellow: Nigerian recycling initiative proves it’s not all about hi-tech solutions
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    • Scaling Development Ventures conference goes digital in face of storm.
    • School of Engineering teams win big at this year’s MassChallenge
    • Seeing solutions through, across continents
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    • Social entrepreneur Zubaida Bai bags UN honour for corporate sustainability initiative
    • Spin cycle: a new kind of washer
    • Spotlight on service
    • Spotlight on: SurgiBox, StartHub’s Startup to Watch for July 2018
    • Sterilizing with the sun: Solar concentrating system could replace fuel-powered or electric devices in remote villages.
    • Stories from the ground — on building a market creating company in Ghana
    • Stove Project Sparks Global Youth Action
    • Students Design Low-Tech Ways to Help Improve Lives of Rural Poor
    • Students on MacVicar Day panel describe educational experiences
    • Students tackle flooding in Honduras
    • TR35: Jose Gomez-Marquez
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    • Tata Center adds eight new projects to its 2018-2019 portfolio
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    • The Challenge of Health-Care Innovation in Developing Nations
    • The Forbes 30 Under 30: Jodie Wu
    • The Four Rs: An Interview With the Lean Research Initiative
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    • The entrepreneurs helping girls in the developing world
    • The milk of life: a wearable device that could save millions of lives
    • The startup True Moringa was inspired by the African Tree, Moringa
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    • These eight waste recycling warriors are working towards making their communities zero-waste
    • This Indian Left His PhD in the US to Create the World’s First Prosthetic Legs Made of Cane
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    • United Nations teams up with MIT to overhaul "very top-down" refugee design strategy
    • Universities can lead in development, USAID head says during MIT visit
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    • VIDEO: A Simple Machine To Quench The Thirst For Clean Water: Suprio Das at TEDxGateway
    • Vectorly reinvents itself to maximize its impact on mobile learning
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    • Wecyclers Grabs $55,000 #PitchForLagos Winning Prize
    • Wecyclers Turns Waste Recycling Into A Game
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Vectorly reinvents itself to maximize its impact on mobile learning

Vectorly co-founder and CEO Sam Bhattacharyya at a pitch competition before he pivoted the company and changed its name from dot Learn.

News | Jan 23, 2019 | Zach Winn

MIT News
Vectorly reinvents itself to maximize its impact on mobile learning

The Four Rs: An Interview With the Lean Research Initiative

MIT D-Lab researcher explaining the objectives of a cookstove adoption study in Soroti, Uganda. Courtesy MIT D-Lab.

News | Jan 21, 2019 | Kristen Roggemann

DAI Global
The Four Rs: An Interview With the Lean Research Initiative

MIT D-Lab Practical Impact Alliance (PIA) wraps up Co-Design Summit in Laâyoune

Morocco PIA Summit wrap-up

News | Jan 04, 2019 | Bryan Cleveland, Communications Intern

MIT D-Lab
MIT D-Lab Practical Impact Alliance (PIA) wraps up Co-Design Summit in Laâyoune

UK funded inflatable operating theatre set to revolutionise emergency surgery

 The SurgiBox is a patient-sized operating theatre that can be used anywhere Credit: Michael Hughes/Dfid

News | Dec 20, 2018 | Sarah Newey

The Telegraph (UK)
UK funded inflatable operating theatre set to revolutionise emergency surgery

Addressing Crop Loss with Evaporative Cooling: An Interview with Eric Verploegen

Addressing Crop Loss with Evaporative Cooling: An Interview with Eric Verploegen

News | Dec 18, 2018 | ClimateX Team

MIT Climate
Addressing Crop Loss with Evaporative Cooling: An Interview with Eric Verploegen

Advancing Research on Technology for Poverty Alleviation: How E4C Learns from Academic Institutions Worldwide

Attaching a sensor to a pot-in-pot evaporative cooler in Bamako, Mali. Photo: Ousmane Sanogo

News | Dec 11, 2018 | Grace Burleson, Eric Verploegen

Engineering for Change
Advancing Research on Technology for Poverty Alleviation: How E4C Learns from Academic Institutions Worldwide

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      • A fleet of bicycles are cleaning up the densely populated and polluted city of Lagos
      • A global study of girls’ access to and usage of mobile, told through 3,000 voices
      • A hands-on approach to Third World aid
      • A simple birthkit for mothers in the developing world
      • A smoother wheelchair ride
      • Abdur Rahman University Hosts Aarogyam Summit
      • Adding management skills to her engineering background, MIT alumna aims for social impact
      • Addressing Crop Loss with Evaporative Cooling: An Interview with Eric Verploegen
      • Adebiyi-Abiola: New Face Of Waste Management In Nigeria
      • Advancing Research on Technology for Poverty Alleviation: How E4C Learns from Academic Institutions Worldwide
      • African Start-Up Award: Four laureates and the Top 50 most innovative African Start-ups!
      • Alliance selects first four businesses for Spark+ Investment Readiness Program support
      • Alternative sanitary pads are here, but accessibility still an issue
      • Amazons turning waste to wealth
      • Amy Banzaert Interview
      • Amy Banzaert Interview
      • Amy Smith & D-Lab Charcoal Press featured in Museum Exhibit
      • Amy Smith Interview
      • Amy Smith can't wait to continue field-testing the sugarcane charcoal.
      • An a-maize-ing path out of poverty
      • An economist with a goal MIT senior Jonathan Tebes sees economics as a way to alleviate poverty in the US, Tanzania, and beyond.
      • An eye for design: Maria Yang helps product designers hone the creative process.
      • An outpouring of creativity at a design summit (Spanish)
      • Angles on Water and Food: On the Ground
      • Announcing NextBillion’s Most Influential Posts of 2016
      • App that provides “nutrition receipts” for groceries wins IDEAS Global Challenge: Twelve teams competing in social-entrepreneurship competition split $97,500 in cash prizes.
      • Appropriate Tech Gurus Face Uphill Battle in Distribution
      • Ashesi University, Ghana and MIT D-Lab partner to support student and alumni entrepreneurs
      • At MIT, low-tech inventions with a high impact
      • At TechCon, science-based solutions for world issues
      • Banana Pads
      • Banana fiber sanitary pads can solve big problems in India
      • Barcelona Design Week 2010: D-Lab's 4 Designs Against Poverty
      • Bernard Kiwia: Tanzania's bicycle mechanic turned inventor
      • Best of What's New: Solarclave
      • Betty Ikalany wins Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award
      • Big Ideas, Little Packages
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      • Bottom-Up Innovation: Local challenges, local solutions
      • Bringing poverty-alleviating solutions to market in India, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda
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      • Briquette Producer in Uganda Creates Livelihood Opportunities for Women
      • Building A Better World through Social Entrepreneurship
      • Building a Better Wound Healer
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      • Building innovation in India
      • Building the Mountain Bike of Wheelchairs
      • Building the mountain bike of wheelchairs
      • COP21 Hub Culture Paris 2015 Interview with Bilikiss Adebiyil Abiola - Wecyclers
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      • Champions Of Rubbish: Wecyclers Lead Revolution For Waste Recycling In Lagos
      • Chidi Ajaere, Bilkiss Adebiyi-Abiola, Cosmas Maduka Jr… See the #YNaijaPowerList for Business
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      • Clean it up: A pile of plans to collect and use rubbish more efficiently
      • Clean water for Nepal is focus of MIT research
      • Closing the Digital Divide: How one Pakistani woman is tackling poverty with technology
      • Confronting the Last Mile Problem in the Developing World
      • Confronting the Last Mile Problem in the Developing World
      • Could banana plants solve India's sanitary pad problem?
      • Crazy minds, able hands
      • Creating a Level Playing Field for Social Innovators in Africa
      • Creating an impact at the grassroot level : top 25 social stories of 2015
      • Credo-Based Project Leads to Innovative Ideas to Help the People of Ghana
      • Cumbre sobre innovación y tecnología se realizó en el corregimiento de Conejo, zona rural de Fonseca
      • D-Lab Alumni Diana Jue & Jackie Stenson: Forbes 2015 30 Under 30: Social Entrepreneurs
      • D-Lab Fall Student Showcase 2018: 24 projects in 15 countries engaging 96 students! December 7, 5 pm
      • D-Lab Off-Grid Energy Group launches Solar Lighting Product Comparison Resource
      • D-Lab Report
      • D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellow Carl Jensen chosen for Mulago Foundation Fellowship
      • D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellowship applications open
      • D-Lab Scale-Ups Phase I Fellowship - Application guidelines available now.
      • D-Lab Scale-Ups awards $100,000 to five social entrepreneurs
      • D-Lab Scale-Ups awards $60,000 to three MIT social entrepreneurs
      • D-Lab Scale-Ups awards four fellowships totaling $80,000 to social entrepreneurs
      • D-Lab Scale-Ups fellows to tackle irrigation in India and grain storage in Zambia
      • D-Lab and Tata Center team wins $100K Vodafone award for mobile stethoscope
      • D-Lab appoints Bob Nanes to new position of executive director
      • D-Lab offers hands-on lessons in meeting energy needs
      • D-Lab team disseminates poverty alleviation technologies
      • D-Lab's Amy Smith joins Bill Gates on a panel addressing innovation
      • D-Lab's Amy Smith to deliver Dana M. Dourdeville Lecture on Engineering in Service to Society
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      • Dan Frey named D-Lab faculty director
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      • Designing with (Not Just for) Communities: MIT D-Lab supports practical solutions to local problems
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      • Designs for a better world emerge from M.I.T. summit
      • Disruptive Innovations Empowering Women with Comfortable Living
      • Doing more: AeroAstro’s flexible degree program helped Kwami Williams pursue his passion to change the world.
      • Dot Learn, Nigeria’s e-learning company wins $25,000 Edtech
      • Eco-friendly sanitary pads made of banana fibre – Saathi pads’s solution to menstrual waste ... read more on social.yourstory.com
      • Elaine Kung '15 awarded $5,000 by MIT Tau Beta Pi to improve design of compost toilets
      • Empowering Low-Income Communities “One Rubbish at a Time”! WeCyclers’ Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola is #BellaNaijaWCW this Week
      • Empowering Women Through a Simple Purse
      • Empowering the less-abled with cane
      • Engineering Students Design “Happy Feet,” 3D Printed Shoes for Kenyans Afflicted by Jigger Infection
      • Engineering Trash into Treasure
      • Eradicating TB with ... cell phone minutes?
      • Essmart raises US$1.2M in financing for scaling innovative kirana shop network
      • Ethical 3D printing begins with plastic waste pickers
      • Ethiopia-based GreenPath Food Raises Seed Funding From Engineers Without Borders Canada
      • Ethiopian Summit Focuses on Participatory Co-Design to Develop Low-Cost WASH Products
      • Evaluating approaches to agricultural development
      • Event: Humanitarian Innovation Jam 2016
      • Experts to Watch: Innovating Refugee Response
      • Farmers Can Shell Coffee in a Fraction of the Time With This Bike-Powered Machine
      • Farmers are the secret ingredient for Ghana’s most innovative startups
      • Financing Social Entrepreneurship: How To Close The Opportunity Gap For Marginalized Groups
      • Finding the Right Last-Mile Distribution Model
      • Former Scale-Ups project, AIR, featured in "Hackathons Aren’t Just for Coders. We Can Use Them to Save Lives"
      • Founder of MyH2O talks about “connecting solutions” to map water quality in China.
      • Four graduate students win Lemelson prizes
      • Freeing Women with Eco-Friendly Feminine Pads
      • From Aerospace to Agriculture: Why I left MIT & NASA for a Miracle Tree
      • Generating Value from Waste: Sid Pai's journey with Protoprint, a social enterprise in India that converts waste plastic into 3D printer filament.
      • Giving newborn babies 'air' to breathe
      • Global development summit to aid Kuthambakkam’s health issues
      • Good Nature Agro targets 5,000 smallholder farmers
      • Guinness, Wecyclers Sign MoU on Waste management
      • HESN Labs Working together for Community Driven Innovation
      • Herramientas para mejorar la vida en Guaviare construidas en un espacio de reincorporación
      • High-income seeds: Community-based farming
      • How this MIT grad turned a class project into a career
      • How to Attract Female Engineers
      • IDDS Educación 2016, an international summit for design and development
      • IDDS Summit an education in more ways than one
      • IDDS Zambia 2013 – Better Living Through Collaborative Innovations
      • IDIN Microgrant Request for Proposals: Due Aug 31, 2013
      • ITU Lahore hosted International Development Design Summit
      • Important Visit
      • Improving people's lives, one device at a time
      • In Conejo you learn with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
      • In Laayoune, the "2018 Practical Impact Alliance Co-design Summit" at the service of young entrepreneurs in southern Morocco
      • In Puerto Rico, a shortage of tarps and electricity means the misery continues for storm-weary people
      • In Tanzania, Powering Cell Phones and Shelling Corn with a Bicycle
      • In search of a major she loves: Senior Amna Magzoub finds her niche in mechanical engineering, plans to bring skills home to Sudan.
      • In the World: A better way to beat around the bush
      • In the World: Cultivating creativity
      • In the World: Design summit’s inventions find willing buyers
      • In the World: Turning waste into profit
      • India-Bound: MIT Students Work and Learn
      • Innovación y diseño en un espacio de reincorporación de la Farc
      • Innovation Ecosystems: Identifying and Fostering Grassroots Design Capacity
      • Innovation Tank: And the winner is … AIR
      • Innovation Within Reach
      • Innovation in Africa: What Young African Women Entrepreneurs Have to Say
      • Innovation in the classroom
      • Innovation in the making
      • Innovation – Thabiso Mashaba
      • Innovators at MIT to present workable solutions for developing world
      • International Development Design Summit convenes innovators to address clean cooking in Uganda
      • International Development Design Summit thinks about improving quality of life of recyclers
      • International development through dialogue, design, and dissemination
      • International summit in Si Sa Ket seeks to promote innovative economy
      • Interview with Eric Verploegen: Off-Grid Energy Specialist at MIT D-Lab
      • Interview with Saida Benhayoune, Director of Innovation Practice at Massachusetts Institute of Technology D-Lab
      • Introducing a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to conducting comparative product evaluations
      • J-WAFS Solutions program awards $750,000 in commercialization grants
      • J-WAFS awards 2018 Solutions grants for commercialization of MIT food and water technologies
      • J-WAFS awards commercialization grants to develop technologies for water and food solutions
      • John Hoffmire: Saathi pads: Sustainability addressing India's needs for sanitary pads
      • Lean Research: Introducing a Movement for Change
      • Learning to Talk Trash in New Longoro
      • Letter to the community: Update regarding Executive Order, thoughts on moving forward
      • Local Beauty and Health Startup Aims to Improve Economy in Ghana
      • Local materials, low cost and good science add up to technology for developing nations
      • Low Technologies, High Aims
      • MIT D-Lab Practical Impact Alliance (PIA) wraps up Co-Design Summit in Laâyoune
      • MIT D-Lab promotes rural community innovations in Guatemala with Soluciones Comunitarias
      • MIT D-Lab receives $35k grant from Newman’s Own Foundation for the D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellowship Program
      • MIT D-Lab to launch industry collaboration this fall
      • MIT Federal Credit Union presents 2018 scholarships, People Helping People Award
      • MIT Grad's Mission: Build A Wheelchair That Works Anywhere
      • MIT Practical Impact Alliance Co-Design Summit - Ghana 2015
      • MIT Scaling Development Ventures: Bridging innovation and impact
      • MIT a linchpin of major new USAID program
      • MIT grad student designs low-cost solution for high-tech African problem
      • MIT launches a Consumer Reports for the developing world
      • MIT one of 32 inaugural partners of Global Development Lab
      • MIT researchers develop the world’s first USB-powered mobile stethoscope
      • MIT senior and Rhodes Scholar Matthew Chun wants to promote innovation that enhances quality of life in developing countries.
      • MIT spinout Sanergy targeting clean sanitation for all of Kenya (and beyond)
      • MIT workshop teaches refugee children joys of digital design
      • MIT-USAID program releases evaluation of water filters
      • MIT-USAID program releases pioneering evaluation of solar lanterns
      • MIT’s place in the world
      • MacArthur 'genius' grants go to four from MIT
      • Magnet School graduate sells solar-powered lights to poor in Tanzania through her company Global Cycle Solutions
      • Making Evidence Practical for Development
      • Making a difference in the developing world
      • Making them able again with cane
      • Managing Disasters With Small Steps
      • MassChallenge Awards $1.7M in Cash Prizes to Top Startups in Boston and Rhode Island
      • Massachusetts and UN allies in innovation
      • Matthew Cavuto: Getting a leg up on engineering
      • MechE alumna [and D-Lab Scale-Ups fellow] Danielle Zurovcik’s WiCare named finalist for Hult Prize
      • Meet 17 inspiring US women social entrepreneurs who have built game changing enterprises impacting Africa positively
      • Meet Bernard Kiwia: Tanzania’s Top Inventor and Father of Rural Innovation
      • Meet Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola - Nigeria's Waste Economy Builder Turning Trash into Cash
      • Meet Kristin Kagestsu, The MIT grad making biodegradable sanitary pads
      • More than 30 from MIT named to Forbes 30 Under 30 lists
      • Moringa is known as 'The Miracle Tree,' and its powers are spreading worldwide.
      • Necessity Is the Mother of Invention
      • New grants help amplify impact of MIT IDEAS Global Challenge teams
      • New laboratory in Ghana to test cookstoves
      • Nigerian Eco Heroes Find Solutions in the Everyday
      • Nigeria’s Wecyclers Work for Reusable Future in Lagos
      • Nigeria’s dot Learn wins $75k at Cisco challenge
      • No clean water? No problem: 6 do-it-yourself ways Puerto Ricans can ensure it’s drinkable
      • Not Just Skin Deep: Interview with True Moringa's Emily Cunningham & Kwami Williams
      • One Solution to Keeping India's Girls in School: Cheap Maxi Pads
      • PIA Innovation Ecosystem Working Group Sees the Morocco Co-Design Summit as an Opportunity for Practical Application
      • Participatory Design: A Creative, Non-linear And Sometimes Messy Process
      • Patent sought for infant-saving AIR
      • Playing With Toys and Saving Lives
      • Podcast: Kwami Williams, MoringaConnect | Unlocking the Value of Moringa to End Poverty
      • PotaVida Awarded $150K Grant for Pilot Test in Somalia
      • Potential to lead: Using technology to overcome poverty
      • Practical Education Network Wins Demo Africa Accra Innovation Tour
      • Practical Impace Alliance Co-Design Summit -Laâyoune, Morocco
      • Press Release: MIT Practical Impact Alliance launches second annual co-design summit in Zambia
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      • Project strives for clean drinking water in Nepal
      • Promising Prototypes of 2015
      • Protoprint : Ethical 3D Printer Filament
      • Putting people before buildings
      • Q&A: Nathan Cooke, designer and instructor at MIT’s D-Lab
      • Quartz Africa Innovators 2016 list
      • Read how Indian women are revolutionizing clean cooking as entrepreneurs
      • Recycling on Tricycles in Lagos: Five Questions with Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola
      • Revolutionizing global health
      • Rise Legs: A Bengaluru startup that empowers amputees with cost-effective can prosthetics
      • Roots Studios’ ‘Shutterstock for cultural art’ could transform rural communities
      • Running Start: Students who hatch their companies at MIT are well-positioned for impact
      • Rwandan President Paul Kagame visits MIT
      • Saathi: Healthcare startup makes biodegradable pads from banana fibre
      • Salvar el mundo por 3 euros
      • Sanitary breakthrough brings hygiene and work to rural India
      • Sarah Tress wins 2019 Rhodes Scholarship
      • Scale-Ups Fellow Kevin Cedrone & AIR: Round 5 Award Nominees for Innovative Solutions to Prevent Maternal, Infant Deaths in the Hardest to Reach Regions of the World
      • Scale-Ups Fellow in the News: The custom-made tricycles driving Lagos's slum waste revolution
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      • Scale-Ups Fellow: Yough grad could make worldwide health impact
      • Scale-Ups Fellow: Zubaida Bai Named Asia 21 Young Leader by Asia Society
      • Scaling Development Ventures conference goes digital in face of storm.
      • School of Engineering teams win big at this year’s MassChallenge
      • Seeing solutions through, across continents
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      • Social entrepreneur Zubaida Bai bags UN honour for corporate sustainability initiative
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      • Spotlight on: SurgiBox, StartHub’s Startup to Watch for July 2018
      • Sterilizing with the sun: Solar concentrating system could replace fuel-powered or electric devices in remote villages.
      • Stories from the ground — on building a market creating company in Ghana
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      • Students Design Low-Tech Ways to Help Improve Lives of Rural Poor
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      • Tata Center adds eight new projects to its 2018-2019 portfolio
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      • Ten global organizations join MIT D-Lab's Practical Impact Alliance
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      • The Four Rs: An Interview With the Lean Research Initiative
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      • The startup True Moringa was inspired by the African Tree, Moringa
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      • There is a safer alternative to regular sanitary pads - and it'll make you go bananas!
      • These eight waste recycling warriors are working towards making their communities zero-waste
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      • Time names Amy Smith among ‘world’s most influential people'
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      • US envoy roots for clean cooking technologies
      • USAID Administrator Green Announces Finalists for the Humanitarian Grand Challenge
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      • UTEC and MIT develop innovation projects in Peru
      • Ugandan develops cooking fuel to save trees
      • Ugandan entrepreneur uses briquettes to tackle gender and development issues
      • United Nations teams up with MIT to overhaul "very top-down" refugee design strategy
      • Universities can lead in development, USAID head says during MIT visit
      • Up Close and Personal with True African Gem, Bilikiss Adebiyi Abiola
      • VIDEO: A Simple Machine To Quench The Thirst For Clean Water: Suprio Das at TEDxGateway
      • Vectorly reinvents itself to maximize its impact on mobile learning
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      • Video! Pedal-powered innovation from rural Guatemala: A conversation with Bici-Tec founder Carlos Marroquin
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      • Video: The D-Lab at MIT: The People's Engineering Team
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