mit, boston and norman

norman's family loves mit - here are some reasons why

http://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/impact recent survey shows 25800 active companies founded by living MIT alumni generating 3.3 million jobs and $2 tn annual turnover - if they formed a nation this would be the world's 11th largest economy 

 

MIT is helping other regions in world to model how to be their place's number 1 entrepreneur and job creating institute http://executive.mit.edu/mysloan/groups/detail/?id=132767

 

video here of joi ito on MIT Media Lab http://bigthink.com/ideas/41508

.Interview list sloan and entrepreneur center Edward Roberts ..

Legatum Iqbal Quadir .. next event Oct 27Lemelson: ..

 

Media Lab : Rosalind Picard ...

 

Beyond MIT- boston leader Linda Thomson of MLF - next event dec 1 

 

developing world entrepreneurs at sloan start here http://seid.scripts.mit.edu/w/ and all mit entrepreneurs start at http://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/

 

MIT opencourse ware http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm external advisory board includes berners-lee, seely-brown,  Creative Commons'Cathy Casserly; typical courses -Macroeconomic crises  Sharmer extreme sustainability global e-lab; sustainability cases  early stage capital note the highlights for hi schools http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/

check out courses have full video

 

http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/

kids questions http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Kids.html

 

map of 2.5 million chidren connected by MIT laptop project http://one.laptop.org/map

 

http://globalchallenge.mit.edu/  ... Laura coordinates youth competitions at International Development Initiative including Yunus Prize which in 2011-2012 is about creating jobs and sustainability with waste http://web.mit.edu/idi/yunus_2012.htm

 

Details from Lemelson web on enetrpreneur competitions at MIT and elsewhere:

To inspire the inventors of tomorrow, and help them take their ideas from the “Classroom to the Real World,” the Foundation supports programs that nurture a creative, problem-solving spirit in young people. Through our U.S. programs, we seek to develop the abilities of people who create cutting-edge technologies that fuel our economy, and to raise awareness of invention’s pivotal role in advancing human progress.
 

Funded programs and projects in the U.S. include:

Read More: Lemelson-MIT Program
Read More: NCIIA
Read More: Lemelson Center at the Smithsonian

 

Legatum centre

Tags: Iqbal Quadir, Press, Video

In this TV Ontario interview, Iqbal Quadir discusses how people in low-income countries have used mobile technology to increase their productivity and capitalize on economic opportunity.View online at TV Ontario >>

 

LEGATUM CENTRE

developing world alumni and their advisers boards 3 2 1

 

conferences - eg 2011 2010 http://legatum.mit.edu/content-628 includes 18 videos eg Mackey

 

journal : inaugural free issue  includes:

Introduction to the Inaugural Issue  

Philip Auerswald, Iqbal Quadir

Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization Winter 2006, Vol. 1, No. 1: 3–7.

First Page | PDF (78 KB) | PDF Plus (79 KB)

 

selection of other free downloads : mobile banking for poor 1  2 3  ; world class microcredit models 1 2  ;  health for poor 1 2  3 ;  other 1  2  3  4  5  6  7   8

Sloan - still trying to re-discover norman's old contacts there while researching bio of von neumann and other futures

 

lemelson entrepreneur prizes year round

 

media lab

Each Media Lab faculty member and senior research scientist leads a research group that includes a number of graduate student researchers and often involves undergraduate researchers.

 

 

 


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Permalink Reply by chris macrae on September 29, 2011 at 12:35pm

estelle, friends - in pretty well every way MIT keeps getting more and more exciting in everything I can see- some times I think its the only fun netgen institution on usa left

 

had strangly wonderful 90 minute meeting yesterday with person (Chairman and Founder of MIT Entrepreneurship Center) near top of admin of sloan MIT yesterday whose goal for decades has been to make MIT a top 10 job creating economy on the planet! ; at the centre of the entrepreneurial group he had influenced how open networks of mit had been designed across schools for 25 years; he also helps choose which big corporates MIT lets anywhere near it; his name is prominently on the walls of the 50 mn dollar new sloan business school building ( I felt way out of my league but truly honored to have such an interview) 

 

mit's spirit seems to be lets spend time innovating stuff that we are sure humans need; if we need help in commercialisation we bring in harvard who know anything we ask for help on will be big in their terms too; if you go inside media lab you find a living social network of 1000 most extraordinary innovators who certainly dont need to spend much time on facebook except when they know there is one missing talkent they need to hunt out; it seems what west coast messed up with network vision dad and I had in 1984, MIT keeps alive

 

as well as iqbal

media lab -very good new book http://www.amazon.com/Sorcerers-Their-Apprentices-Innovative-Techno...

 

open course ware http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm keeps worldwide education revolutions alive

 

year round student entrepreneur prize competitions which bring various types of venture capitalists from very social to very extractive all very interesting to map

 

it seems that iqbal is in fortunate position to choose anyone he wants to work with (eg berners lee) by virtue of knowing to use 40 years of bangladesh micro up models and knowing all telecoms people in his role as joint innovator of village phone

 

TO MAP YOUTHS/JOBS 100 GREATEST SUPPORTERS IN 2010s

I need to use conference to map who's doing what around him, and find some ways that I can become an MIT or iqbal insider as much as an outsider can be (or if I dont have the right trust profile, someone else who wants to do that thru 2010s)

 

estelle- tell me what sort of costs you need it you are coming over to MIT;

 

if I cant get journal of new economics going out of glasgow maybe I need it out of MIT though one problem there is iqbal already does an innovations journal- havent yet found way to get him to see economics needeest the bigget innovation of them all

 

I wish we could get a danone-person on a guided tour of MIT but assume that may be next year's challenge

 

chris

Permalink Reply by chris macrae on October 14, 2011 at 2:51pm

news of this years yunus prize

Challenge to Alleviate Poverty – we’re focusing on Waste.  Here is a bit from the writeup, and it seems we are building quite a swell of interest on campus.  I’ve also attached the publicity we started with earlier this year.

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Waste is annually produced in scales of tons on earth. In 2009, the US alone produced 161 million tons of waste (the weight of approximately 71,500 space shuttles). Reducing and reusing this waste would save resources that are otherwise lost, and leave less trash in the environment.  Waste and waste systems most profoundly affect the poorest populations. Solid waste is dumped near slums where trash-pickers live and work. Even as wastepickers play a significant role in managing a community’s waste, they are marginalized, exposed to toxic materials, and labeled as being “dirty.”

Furthermore, trash that is discarded into bodies of water poisons the water sources for the poor. Meanwhile, half of the world’s population (2.6 billion people) does not have clean sanitation facilities for human waste. In countries where waste management infrastructures do exist, only a fraction of the population gains the benefits, and incinerators pollute the air.  Fortunately, there is potential for waste to be recycled, reused, or better managed. With the right level of organization and flow, waste can even be processed to generate income for underprivileged communities. 

This year’s Yunus Challenge calls for innovative solutions to gaining value from waste, including both systems and technologies that seek solutions for improved solid waste managment, bio waste, electronic waster, waste water and improving upon the well being of wastepickers and their livelihoods.

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Permalink Reply by chris macrae on November 23, 2011 at 8:31am

attached great summary of cases at mit media lab from frank moss book sorcerers and apprenticies

 

robots—robots that can learn from and live with people, serving as helpful companions to the sick and elderly.

Cynthia Breazeal, whose Personal Robots group is building the world’s first mobile, dexterous, and sociable

prosthetic feet that restore normal motion by replicating a biological limb.

Hugh Herr, head of the Biomechactronics group and a bilateral amputee, who walks effortlessly on robotic

device that transforms any surface—wall, tabletop or even your hand—into a touch-screen computer.

Pranav Mistry, a member of the Fluid Interfaces group, who is test-driving SixthSense, a compact wearable

Amy Farber, a social anthropologist chronically ill with a rare lung disease, who has joined computer scientist Ian Eslick

experience of patients to the attention of clinicians, turning the drug discovery process upside down.

of the New Media Medicine group to launch a medical social network that brings the vast

with autism function better in school and society, but also has surprising commercial applications with huge

markets.

Rosalind Picard, whose Affective Computing group creates face-reading technology that not only helps people

 

read this book to start celebrating optimistic productive futures that all will link in to,thanks to such new communal dynamics as these :

The Age of Agency:

priests” of society, such as doctors and bankers, empowering individuals with unprecedented control over their

health and finances.

How technology will eliminate the age-old divide between ordinary people and the “high

and every human being, just waiting to be released, and how these powers will transform the very identity of

individuals and society as a whole in the future.

I Am a Creator: Technologies that unleash the full powers of expression and creativity existing within each

backgrounds—from computer scientists, to musicians, to physicists, to designers, to neuroscientists and many

others—think about problems in wildly different ways, unencumbered by notions of what solutions “should”

look like.

Disappearing Disciplines: The Lab’s anti-disciplinary ethos, where people from widely different

anything, and then encourages them to build their most fanciful ideas and then see how people actually use

them.

Hard Fun: The distinctive approach to playful invention, which teaches students how to build almost

connections that spark truly big ideas not only happen, but

Serendipity by Design: How the Media Lab fosters an environment where the unlikely and seemingly randomcan’t help but happen.

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Permalink Reply by chris macrae on December 29, 2011 at 1:20pm

here are some great spaces to discuss business models - I think they are loosely or directly linked to MIT but sometimes I get a bit lost being kinked on in cyber - in some cases you will need to justify your interest before being "membered"

http://businessmodelhub.com/ 

 

http://globalhealth.mit.edu/home/tag/business-models/

http://globalhealth.mit.edu/home/business-models-in-global-health/ discusses 7 health social enterprises

 

 

 

 

Permalink Reply by chris macrae on January 4, 2012 at 8:56am

across the railway tracks from MIT, Berkmans dairy of first quarter events of 2012 looks cool

Upcoming Events and Digital Media
January 4, 2012

Remember to load images if you have trouble seeing parts of this email. Or click here to view the web version of this newsletter. Below you will find upcoming Berkman Center events, interesting digital media we have produced, and other events of note.

berkman luncheon series

Searching for Context: Modeling the Information-Seeking Process of ...

Tuesday, January 10, 12:30pm ET, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East A, Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA. This event will be webcast live.

berkman

What is it like to be a college student in the digital age? In this talk, I present a working typology of the undergraduate information-seeking process, including students’ reliance on and use of Web sources. Since 2008, as part of our ongoing study at the University of Washington’s Project Information Literacy, we have surveyed more than 10,000 students at 40 colleges and universities (including undergraduates enrolled at Harvard College). We have investigated how college students find information and conduct research—their needs, strategies, and workarounds—for solving information problems that occur during course-related research and in their everyday lives. We have found the large majority of students we have studied across all types of higher-education institutions in the U.S. still attend college to learn, but many are lost in a thicket of information overload. They struggle with managing the IT devices that permeate their lives. Our findings indicate that nearly all students intentionally use a small compass for navigating the ever-widening and complex information landscape they inhabit. These and other findings of Project Information Literacy have profound implications for teaching, learning, work, and play in the 21st century. Alison Head is the lead researcher for the national study, Project Information Literacy. She is a Research Scientist in University of Washington's Information School and a Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Library Innovation Lab (2011-2012). RSVP Required. more information on our website>

berkman luncheon series

Will Free Benefit the Rich? How Free and Open Education Might Widen...

Tuesday, January 17, 12:30pm ET, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, Cambridge, MA. This event will be webcast live.

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The explosion of open education content resources and freely available collaboration and media production platforms represents one of the most exciting emerging trends in education. These tools create unprecedented opportunities for teachers to design and personalize curriculum and to give students opportunities to collaborate, publish, and take responsibility for their own learning. Many education technology and open education advocates hope that the widespread availability of free resources and platforms will disproportionately benefit disadvantaged students, by making technology resources broadly available that were once only available to affluent students. It is possible, however, that affluent schools and students have a greater capacity to take up new innovations, even free ones, and so new tools and resources that appear in the ecology of education will widen rather than ameliorate digital divides. In this presentation, we will examine evidence for both the "tech as equalizer" and "tech as accelerator of digital divides" hypotheses, and we will examine technology innovations and interventions that specifically target learners with the most needs. A lively discussion will follow to consider how educators, technologists, and policymakers can address issues of educational digital inequalities in their work. An introduction to these issues can be found in this video op-ed. Justin Reich a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Fellow at the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society. RSVP Required. more information on our website>

berkman luncheon series

Hackademia: Leveraging the Conflict Between Expertise and Innovatio...

Tuesday, January 24, 12:30pm ET, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, Cambridge, MA. This event will be webcast live.

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This talk describes two projects that tackle the same issue: how and why do nonexperts contribute to innovation? The conflict between expertise and innovation sits uneasily in academia, where the enterprise hinges on doling out official credentials. But a lack of expertise can in fact drive people to create the kind of disruptive technologies that really are game-changers. In this presentation Beth Kolko present findings from a book-in-progress based on interviews with hackers and makers tentatively titled Why Rulebreakers Will Rule the World. That book connects the hacking and making/DIY communities at the point of disruptive technologies, demonstrating how the lack of institutional affiliation and formal credentials within each community opens up the space for creative problem-solving approaches. Dr. Beth Kolko is an Associate Professor in the Department of Technical Communication at the University of Washington. She was previously a professor of English at the University of Wyoming and the University of Texas at Arlington with a specialty in rhetoric. RSVP Required. more information on our website>

book launch

Too Big to Know

Tuesday, January 24, 6:00pm ET, Harvard Law School. This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library and the Office of the Senior Associate Provost at Harvard University.

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We used to know how to know. Get some experts, maybe a methodology, add some criteria and credentials, publish the results, and you get knowledge we can all rely on. But as knowledge is absorbed by our new digital medium, it's becoming clear that the fundamentals of knowledge are not properties of knowledge but of its old paper medium. Indeed, the basic strategies of knowledge that emerged in the West addressed a basic problem: skulls don't scale. But the Net does. Now networked knowledge is taking on the properties of its new medium: never being settled, including disagreement within itself, and becoming not a set of stopping points but a web of temptations. Networked knowledge, for all its strengths, has its own set of problems. But, in knowledge's new nature there is perhaps a hint about why the Net has such surprising transformative power. David Weinberger will discuss his new book,Too Big to Know. David writes about the effect of technology on ideas. He is the author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined and Everything Is Miscellaneous, and is the co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto. RSVP Required. more information on our website>

book launch

Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom

Thursday, February 2, 6:00pm ET, MIT Media Lab. This event is co-sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Center for Civic Media at MIT.

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A global struggle for control of the Internet is now underway. At stake are no less than civil liberties, privacy and even the character of democracy in the 21st century. Many commentators have debated whether the Internet is ultimately a force for freedom of expression and political liberation, or for alienation, and repression. It is time to stop arguing over whether the Internet empowers individuals and societies, and address the more fundamental and urgent question of how technology should be structured and governed to support the rights and liberties of all the world’s Internet users. In her timely book, Rebecca MacKinnon warns that a convergence of unchecked government actions and unaccountable company practices is threatening the future of democracy and human rights around the world. Consent of the Networked is a call to action: Our freedom in the Internet age depends on whether we defend our rights on digital platforms and networks in the same way that people fight for their rights and accountable governance in physical communities and nations. It is time to stop thinking of ourselves as passive “users” of technology and instead act like citizens of the Internet – as netizens – and take ownership and responsibility for our digital future. Rebecca MacKinnon is a Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, where she conducts research, writing and advocacy on global Internet policy, free expression, and the impact of digital technologies on human rights. She is cofounder of Global Voices, an international citizen media network. She also serves on the Boards of Directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Global Network Initiative. RSVP Required. more information on our website>

video/audio

Radio Berkman 189: Peer Pressure

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We’re so easily influenced by the habits and interests of our friends, you might think that social networks like Facebook would only magnify the power of peer pressure. But recent research from Harvard sociologists Kevin Lewis, Marco Gonzalez, and Jason Kaufman shows that people are more likely to stick with their own interests than we might think. While younger folks are likely to build friendships based on certain cultural tastes they’re not likely to warm to their friends tastes so easily. This is surprising, say the researchers, given previous data and assumptions about how tastes spread virally on the net. David Weinberger chatted with Kevin Lewis to get more details on this study. video/audio on our website>

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Permalink Reply by chris macrae on February 16, 2012 at 5:29am

Found  out about berners lee social business jan last nov too late - love to know if any action projects are going forward http://www.w3.org/2011/socialbusiness-jam/#topics

Discussion Topics

Thank you to all who provided their input and suggestions for topics for the Jam. The Jam topic selections are closed and the following topics have been chosen.  Check back here as the descriptions are refined.  You will also be able to find detailed information on each topic on the Jam site.

  • Identity Management For Social

    A well managed identity program can reap benefits when it comes time to integrate social       technologies across the firewall.  Risk can be reduced and effective sharing can be enabled.         Businesses want to avoid a growing trend in cyber attacks by hackers using social media as a        way to locate and gain access to business environments.   Let's discuss the best approaches        for companies to manage their employee's identity information as well as the possible risks        and/or legal issues involved.

  • Mobile And Social

    Employees bring their mobile devices into the work place and expect to use them for both personal and work purposes.  Mobile devices present special security and management challenges.  Mobile devices offer the tantalizing capability to reach employees and customers no matter where they are at a point in time.

  • Information Management

    Social technologies can connect a business user to hundreds or thousands of people on    a regular basis.  This creates the potential where the amount of data generated on a    consistent basis easily becomes more than a business user is able to process.  Applying    approaches and technologies to address the data torrent is essential for effective use    of social technologies in a business.

  • Business Process Meets Social

    Social technologies are having an impact in those businesses that choose to deploy them, today.     Adding a like button changes communications across the organization for both employees and managers.     Applying technology to business processes can have beneficial or negative consequences depending on a variety of variables.     Let's discuss the risk and rewards of these new social technologies on organizational roles and business processes.

  • Seamless Integration Of Social

    One reason mentioned for the failure of social business projects is that the social aspects were not integrated into the daily applications that employees used to accomplish  their jobs.  The way social technology is introduced into an organization, especially when there are long established, popular applications already in use, may be an important aspect to the success of a social project.

  • Metrics For Social Business

    Social technologies can provide concrete and measurable benefits in some cases.  In other cases the benefits can be less tangible.  Some types of social technology are easier to assess than others just because of their nature.  Either way, businesses need explainable and logical ways to justify their current, ongoing and future investments in social technologies.

Special Guests

The W3C is pleased to have the following special guests participating in the Jam.  As a registered participant in the Jam, you may log in during the posted times below and interact with a Special Guest.

*Note: All times listed in U.S. Eastern Time (ET)

  • Lee Aase Director, Mayo Clinic Center For Social Media
    Discussion Topic: Metrics For Social Business November 10, 10:00 am - 11:00 am ET (other time zones)

  • David Ascher Social & Communications, Mozilla
    Discussion Topic: Seamless Integration Of Social November 8, 4:00 - 5:00 pm ET (other time zones)

  • Yochai Benkler Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal         Studies at Harvard Law School Author of "The Wealth of Networks"         Co-director of Berkman Center for Internet and Society
    Discussion Topic: Business Process Meets Social November 10, 3:00 - 4:00 pm ET (other time zones)

  • Tim Berners-Lee Inventor of the Web W3C Director
    Discussion Topic: Mobile And Social November 8, 11:00 am -12:00 pm ET (other time zones)
    Discussion Topic: Identity Management For Social November 10, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm ET (other time zones)

  • Angel L. Diaz Vice President, Software Standards, IBM Software Group
    Discussion Topic: Metrics For Social Business November 9, 4:00 pm- 5:00 pm ET (other time zones)

  • Paige Finkelman General Manager, Enterprise 2.0 Conference UBM TechWeb
    Discussion Topic: Mobile And Social November 10, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET (other time zones)

  • Kevin Hauswirth Social Media Director, Office of the Mayor at City of Chicago
    Discussion Topic: Business Process Meets Social November 9, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm ET (other time zones)

  • Alejandro Jaimes Manager of Social Media Engagement Group at Yahoo! Research
    Discussion Topic: Mobile and Social November 10, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET (other time zones)

  • Alex "Sandy" Pentland Director of MIT Human Dynamics Lab and Media Lab Entrepreneurship Author of "Honest Signals", (Breakthrough Idea of the Yar at World Economic Forum) Winner of DARPA crowd-sourcing challenge
    Discussion Topic: Identity Management For Social, Information Management November 9, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET (other time zones)

  • Evan Prodromou Founder of Federated Social Web Summit Founder of identi.ca CEO of Status.net Co-editor of OStatus specification
    Discussion Topic: Metrics For Social Business November 8, 10 am - 11 am ET (other time zones)

  • Steve Ressler Founder and President of GovLoop
        Discussion Topic: Business Process Meets Social November 9, 1:00pm - 2:00 pm ET     (other time zones)   

  • Doc Searls Well-Known Blogger Founder of "Vendor Relationship Management" Co-author of "Cluetrain Manifesto" Discussion Topic: Seamless Integration Of Social November 10, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET (other time zones)

  • Matt Tucker Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Jive Software
    Discussion Topic: Metrics For Social Business November 9, 10:00 am - 11:00 am ET (other time zones)

Permalink Reply by chris macrae on February 25, 2012 at 6:05am

http://web.mit.edu/idi/get_involved.htm

get involved

A comprehensive overview of the classes, research, student groups, support programs and living groups that contribute to the international development community at MIT

classes

Classes touching on various aspects of international development are available through almost every academic department at MIT. Some classes give students the technical skills to get their hands dirty building or designing for the benefit of the world. Business, entrepreneurship, language and communication classes provide instruction of nontechnical skills. Regional and global context classes cover topics such as the culture, history, and current political situations of developing nations. Project classes incorporate the other three categories throughout the process of creating a product to aid the developing world. This page describes departments, labs and centers that are specifically focused on international development.

D-Lab is a program that fosters the development of appropriate technologies and sustainable solutions within the framework of international development. D-Lab’s mission is to improve the quality of life of low-income households through the creation and implementation of low cost technologies. D-Lab’s portfolio of technologies also serves as an educational vehicle that allows students to gain an optimistic and practical understanding of their roles in alleviating poverty.There are currently eleven different academic offerings that make up the suite of D-Lab classes, falling into the broad categories of Development, (Development), Design (Cycle Ventures, Design, Energy, Health, ICT, Developing World Prosthetics,   Mobility) and Dissemination (Dissemination, Development Ventures). 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, fostering participatory development and co-creation, and building sustainable organizations and partnerships.

The MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) is dedicated to balancing the built environment with the natural world. In their research, they seek to understand natural systems, to foster the intelligent use of resources and to design sustainable infrastructure systems. CEE provides leadership in the field by focusing on technological innovations, seeking advances in basic knowledge and taking a systems perspective. Efforts are concentrated on quantitative and analytical approaches, novel experiment-based modeling, and the development and/or use of appropriate tools and technology. Research and graduate education programs coalesce around three fields of inquiry: environmental science and engineering; mechanics, materials and structures; and transportation.

Department of Urban Studies and Planning: Minor in International De... The DUSP undergraduate minor in international development increases the capability to understand, analyze and tackle today 's problems in emerging countries, including the challenges of dealing with increasing urbanization, the need for industrial growth and jobs for increasing number of educated youth, the crisis of resources and infrastructure, the fragmentation of state capacity and rising violence, the ethical and moral issues raised by development planning, the role of appropriate technology and research, and the challenge of dealing with popular discontent. Through research and teaching, we combine a robust introduction to the theoretical framework of the field, with a strong analytical orientation and problem-solving method tested through field engagement. Taught by faculty from one of the world s premier academic centers of expertise in planning, at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and with more than a quarter century of experience in dealing with problems of international development, the minor is a new offering to MIT students that emphasizes problem-solving, multidisciplinarity and an understanding of institutions at various levels from the local to the global as the key to solving today s problems in emerging countries.

The International Development Group (IDG) is the longest standing and largest program within a U.S. planning school devoted to graduate study and research in subjects specific to the developing world. Approximately one-quarter of the Master's students entering DUSP each year choose the IDG specialization, as do approximately one-third of the entering PhD students. This program area attracts internationally focused students with a wide range of backgrounds, work experiences, and interests. With six sub-specializations, it provides students with an integrated view of the institutional, economic,physical and socio-political factors necessary for effective planning in today's world..

As part of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS), Anthropology's undergraduate offerings span a broad range of time and space: from ancient societies known from history and pre-history, to tribal and peasant communities, to contemporary industrial and scientific cultures. The program offers a number of courses related to International Development, including 21A.345 The Politics of International Development, 21A.225J Violence, Human Rights, and Justice., and 21A.800J Environmental Conflict and Social Change (G).

Sloan Global Entrepreneurship Lab (G-Lab) is the flagship international internship course offered at the MIT Sloan School of Management. G-Lab is a mix of classroom learning matched with a global internship in an emerging market. From 2008 - 2011 G-lab has been focused on Global Health Delivery, addressing pressing challenges facing a carefully selected set of partner enterprises delivering health care in resource-limited settings in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere.

The Public Service Center's Service Learning program provides an academic venue for pursuing an interest in international development. Service learning grants are available to students and faculty for class projects that serve communities. Faculty grants have enabled classes in the school of Architecture to travel to Cambodia, Hawaii, and El Salvador to continue course projects. Student grants enable project continuation following the end of the semester. Students can also participate in the Service UROP program, which empowers them to extend their research into fieldwork that yields community benefits.

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Research at MIT aims to develop innovative solutions to the world’s most daunting challenges. From addressing the energy needs of tomorrow to improving cancer therapies, MIT’s research efforts are enhanced through creative collaborations with leading research institutes and consortia around the world. Click here for a comprehensive overview of the many research initives at MIT. The list below is illustrative of the most innovative work on campus focusing on International Development.

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a center within the Department of Economics that aims to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is based on scientific evidence. J-PAL serves as a hub for a network of more than 40 affiliated professors at universities around the world, who are united by their use of randomized evaluations to answer questions critical to poverty alleviation. J-PAL professors and staff work with NGOs, international organizations, and others to evaluate programs aimed at reducing poverty, and identify the most effective ways to achieve policy goals based on this rigorous body of research. These policy lessons are disseminated among policymakers to promote the scale-up of highly effective policies and programs in areas as diverse as boosting girls' attendance at primary schools, improving the output of farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, racial bias in employment in the US, and the role of women political leaders in India.

The International Development Design Summit (IDDS) is a month-long, intense design experience that brings together students, faculty, and community partners from all over the world to create technologies and ventures to improve the lives of people in the developing world. IDDS 2011 will take place at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, enabling participants to travel more easily to rural villages where they can collaborate with potential end users throughout the entire design process. IDDS is a joint effort, organized by MIT, Olin College, Cooper Perkins, KNUST and Colorado State University.

The Innovations in International Health (IIH) program aims to accelerate the devel­opment of global health technologies that address the needs of patients and physicians in resource-poor settings. Working with a network of researchers, doctors, inventors, and clinicians, IIH enhances the sustainability of its technologies by bridging the gap between the invention, funding, and clinical trial stages of medical products aimed at patients in the developing world. Our members’ presence in more than 15 countries, including 3 H-Lab medical innovation sites, gives our group effective global reach in medical technology transfer, scaling up, and saving lives. In addition, our D-Lab Health academic offering teaches students the current state of global health and how to structure innovative responses to healthcare challenges. Students will employ hands-on medical-technology-learning modules, experience on-site visits in Nicaragua, and participate in real-world design collaboration with international partners.

The Mobility Lab (M-Lab) is an organization that is focused on improving the design and distribution of mobility aids worldwide while training MIT students as global citizens. M-Lab fosters inter national partnerships and cultural exchange by sponsoring student travel to community partner organizations to develop, test, and implement new designs, as well as bring mobility experts from around the world to interact with the MIT community. As an academic entity, M-Lab provides a physical space to develop projects as well as a group through which students can pursue theses/independent research projects, publish papers, and attend conferences.

Safe Water for 1 Billion People is the MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) web portal on water and sanitation projects in developing countries. Over the past eleven years, students, staff, and faculty have been working on issues of water and sanitation in developing countries, primarily through the Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Degree program offered in the CEE Department. This website contains information and links to student theses, project reports, photos, WHO Household Treatment Network, and other useful resources focused on the development and improvement of water and sanitation in many countries.

Special Interest Group in Urban Settlement (SIGUS) explores methods for promoting affordable and equitable housing for low-income communities, with focus in developing countries. It champions participatory technique through short workshops and courses, and undertakes research on innovative approaches in support of low-income housing. It concentrates on the new professionalism emerging for designers, architects, and planners demanding a shift in practice and teaching. SIGUS has over 15 years of experience in Action-Learning workshops. It has lead programs in Peru, Ecuador, Poland, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, India, Bhutan, Syria, and Ethiopia; hosted by govern­ments, development agencies, or NGOs, with local universities as counterparts. Current focus on incremental housing as a proactive strategy for urban areas, and effective rebuilding in Haiti.

The Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies (SPURS) is a one-year, non-degree program designed for mid-career professionals from newly industrializing countries. Founded in 1967 in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), SPURS has a long-standing commitment to bringing outstanding development planners to MIT to reflect on their professional practice. The program is designed to nurture individuals, often at turning points in their professional careers, to retool and reflect on their policy-making and planning skills. SPURS Fellows return to their countries with a better understanding of the complex relationships between local, regional, and international issues. SPURS has hosted over 550 women and men from more than 90 countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern and Central Europe. SPURS enables the MIT community to build professional and personal connections with these advanced professionals from the developing world. In 2010-2011, there are 16 SPURS Fellows, ranging from politicians to planners and engineers.

The Technology and Development Program (TDP) provides developing nations greater access to scientific and technological capabilities through collaborative research and educational programs. TDP’s most recent collaborative program is the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi. The need for regional and global energy sustainability is the driving force behind the establishment of The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology. This graduate level university is dedicated to the de­velopment of new and viable energy technologies and policies. The Masdar Institute, established with the assistance of TDP, is working with the Government of Abu Dhabi and industry to offer a landmark opportunity for world-class graduate level research and education.

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