mit global challenge: an enzyme for change

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

Presentation to the Developing Country NetworkNovember 8, 2010

No MIT students were harmedmaking this presentation

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

Agriculture, Processing

Education, Training

Emergency, Disaster Relief

Energy, Environment

Employment, Entrepreneurship

Housing, Transportation

Health, Accessibility

Mobiles, ICTs

Water, Sanitation

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

Prizes incentivize innovation both where markets failand problem space is complex

IDEAS awards implementation grants for one year

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.

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

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

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

Launch in the context of growth and celebration

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 Torreslhtorres@mit.edu

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