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Serving the World | Global MIT
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Skip to main content. Of the world. In the world. MIT is committed to serving the world through education, technology, and hands-on development. Students and faculty are actively engaged in innovative collaborations with educators, governments, and industry across the globe, all with the goal of improving the way people live, learn, and work. Researchers and students in MIT's. The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. J-PAL), and the Tata Center for Technology and Design. J-WAFS works towards environmen...
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UTB Japan: June 2010
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Sunday, June 20, 2010. こんにちは。陸です。今、夏のインターンシップでヨルダンに来ています。 ヨルダンは人口の大半が難民（700万人の国に対して、300万人がパレスチナ難民、100万人がイラク難民）という「中東の避難所」のような国です。（事実、イスラエル、シリア、イラクにはさまれながら平和を保っていて、中東で一番安全な国と言われています。中東和平のために平和でないといけない、とも言えますが。）. そんな国で特に村落地帯や難民キャンプを尋ねると住居・下水道などのインフラがひどく、なにかできることはないものかと思ってしまいます。今、一番作りたい「適正技術製品」はゴミが簡単に圧縮できるゴミ処理機でしょうか。 さて、そんな適正技術製品、皆さんもその商品開発のプロセスにチャレンジしてみませんか？ See-Dコンテストでは、UTBの実行委員の多くが企画・立ち上げにかかわっています。ぜひ、途上国向け技術開発に興味のある方々すべてにご応募いただければ幸いです。 本プログラムは、優秀な応募案件の2011年事業化をゴー ルとし、. See-D Innovation Workshop募集要項= =.
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The Marvelous Pot-in-Pot | Applied Grace ~ Creative Problem Solving
https://appliedgrace.wordpress.com/2012/06/03/the-marvelous-pot-in-pot
Applied Grace Creative Problem Solving. Creative Problem Solving for Social Change. Use What You Have. Engage Women as Agents of Change. Create New Networks and Connections. Use the Right The Emotional Toolkit. The electric grid did not suddenly extend into these villages, and no person or group invested money to upgrade Nigeria’s infrastructure. No; the change came about as the result of a marvelous — and marvelously simple — invention: Pot-in-Pot. The efficacy of this device is remarkable. Many fru...
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The Austin Women’s Clothing Swap | Applied Grace ~ Creative Problem Solving
https://appliedgrace.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/a-study-in-awesome-the-austin-womens-clothing-swap
Applied Grace Creative Problem Solving. Creative Problem Solving for Social Change. Use What You Have. Engage Women as Agents of Change. Create New Networks and Connections. Use the Right The Emotional Toolkit. The Austin Women’s Clothing Swap. This case study is a great example of one of our basic rules of problem solving, Appeal to Self-Interest. They knew they wanted to focus on helping women, and they knew they wanted to do something. Rebekah and Harmony had a simple, and elegant, idea: throw a fabul...
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D-Lab | Appropriate Technology
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Chapter One: Utila, Honduras. D-Lab is a program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There are currently sixteen different academic offerings that make up the suite of D-Lab classes, falling into the broad categories of Development, Design and Dissemination. All D-Lab courses are based on the same values and principles of providing experiential learning, using technology to address poverty, building the local creative capacity, promoting local innovation, valuing indigenous knowledge, foste...
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Biography | Victor Grau Serrat
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Skip to main content. Victor Grau Serrat currently co-directs D-Lab. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Flagship survey class on affordable simple technologies for development, offering students the opportunity to travel to a developing country for a month. User-centered design studio that addresses problems faced by underserved communities with a focus on design, experimentation, and prototyping processes. To developing a proof-of-concept flash-based online advertising platform at Perogo.
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The Sari-Cloth Water Filter | Applied Grace ~ Creative Problem Solving
https://appliedgrace.wordpress.com/2012/11/10/fighting-cholera
Applied Grace Creative Problem Solving. Creative Problem Solving for Social Change. Use What You Have. Engage Women as Agents of Change. Create New Networks and Connections. Use the Right The Emotional Toolkit. The Sari-Cloth Water Filter. The solution to controlling cholera will be high-tech analyses to produce extremely low-tech solutions. 8211; Dr. Rita Colwell. The former head of the National Science Foundation, worked for three years on the problem of cholera in Bangladesh. Dr. Colwell noted...When ...
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MY STORY | Applied Grace ~ Creative Problem Solving
https://appliedgrace.wordpress.com/2014/03/06/my-story
Applied Grace Creative Problem Solving. Creative Problem Solving for Social Change. Use What You Have. Engage Women as Agents of Change. Create New Networks and Connections. Use the Right The Emotional Toolkit. Perhaps I should start by telling you about two years in my very recent past. I got Lyme Disease. I struggled with months of forced unemployment and my credit was destroyed. My first job after the worst part of my illness paid one third of what I’ve made at my highest salary. Since my credit was n...
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