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Design for Development at MIT The MIT Global Challenge as an “enzyme for change” Presentation to the Developing Country Network November 8, 2010

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Presentation to the Developing Country Network, Montshire Museum in Norwich, Vermont (11/08/10)

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Design for Development at MITThe MIT Global Challenge as an “enzyme for change”

Presentation to the Developing Country NetworkNovember 8, 2010

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No MIT students were harmedmaking this presentation

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MIT is known more like this

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And this

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And this

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Than this

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This

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Or this

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Imagine if we applied MIT’s entrepreneurial talent to to today’s urgent humanitarian challenges

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Agriculture, Processing

Education, Training

Emergency, Disaster Relief

Energy, Environment

Employment, Entrepreneurship

Housing, Transportation

Health, Accessibility

Mobiles, ICTs

Water, Sanitation

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Involve the world-wide MIT community in “inventionas public service”

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Prizes incentivize innovation both where markets failand problem space is complex

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IDEAS awards implementation grants for one year

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Lifecycle1-3 Discovery, Design

Students learn aboutdesign challenges,teams propose solutionsand receive feedbackon their ideas.

4-5 Decide, DeployJudges nominate winners;they are announced at theawards ceremony and have ayear to implement their projects.

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PerfectSightDeveloped an

innovative, mobile system for diagnosing

refractive eye conditions for under $1

using cell phones.http://globalchallenge.mit.edu/teams/view/19

Year awarded: 2010 Location: India

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Egg-energyDeveloped innovative

lighting and energy leasing franchise that aims

to eliminate costly, unhealthy, and dangerous

kerosene lanterns used around the world.

http://globalchallenge.mit.edu/teams/view/2

Year awarded: 2009 Location: Tanzania

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KonbitDeveloped platform to

help communities rebuild by collecting the skills of residents, allowing non-

governmental organizations to find and

employ them..http://globalchallenge.mit.edu/teams/view/28

Year awarded: 2010 Location: Haiti

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Launch in the context of growth and celebration

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Experience suggests now is the right time

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Community partners will be critical to the success ofIDEAS, the MIT Global Challenge, and our teams

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Thank youLars Hasselblad [email protected]

On the web http://globalchallenge.mit.eduOn Twitter @mitchallenge