2017 CONFERENCE: FRIDAY, APRIL 28
2016 Conference Organizing Partners
Legatum Center for Develpment & Entrepreneurship
The MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship catalyzes entrepreneurship for broad-based prosperity in low-income countries.
The Center was founded on the belief that economic progress and good governance in low-income countries emerge from, and support, entrepreneurship and innovations that empower ordinary citizens. The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship was founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007 through a multi-million dollar gift from Legatum Group, a global investment firm.
Priscilla King Grey Public Service Center
The PKG Center offers a wide range of support for public service experiences that suit the interests, abilities, and needs of MIT students, and in some cases, the larger MIT community.
The IDEAS Global Challenge is an annual competition of the PKG Public Service Center that inspires, mentors and provides seed funding to innovative ideas that have the potential to solve quality-of-life problems in communities around the world. Each year, dozens of teams led by MIT students submit their ideas. Alumni teams have implemented their ideas with communities in over 80 countries, and many have grown to become lasting organizations, technologies and services.
Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation
CITE is a five-year program led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. CITE is developing a rigorous methodology for evaluating products sold in the developing world to help donors and policymakers identify and invest in the best of those solutions. CITE is also committed to developing and disseminating technology evaluation curriculum in higher education and for development professionals.
Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
The Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship provides the expertise, support, and connections MIT students need to become effective entrepreneurs. We serve all MIT students, across all schools, across all disciplines.
MIT D-Lab
D-Lab, founded by Amy Smith in 2002, is a program focused on the design and dissemination of technologies that improve the lives of people living in poverty. The program’s mission is pursued through interdisciplinary courses, technology development, and community initiatives, all of which emphasize experiential learning, real-world projects, community-led development, scalability, and impact assessment.
D-Lab currently has projects in communities around the world in 16 countries. D-Lab is home to the International Development Innovation Network (IDIN), D-Lab Scale-Ups, a Youth Outreach Program, and other programs and initiatives.
International Development Innovation Network
IDIN is a five-year program led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology D-Lab; implemented by a global consortium of academic, institutional, and innovation center partners; and a part of USAID’s Higher Education Solutions Network in the U.S. Global Development Lab. IDIN empowers a diverse, global network of innovators to design, develop, and disseminate technologies to improve the lives of people living in poverty.
MIT Innovation Initiative
The MIT Innovation Initiative works with all five MIT schools to strengthen the educational pathways and networks for students, alumni, and partners to move ideas from conception to impact. In MIT’s tradition of mens et manus, we do so by combining hands-on, global opportunities for building expertise in the innovation process with insights developed from the evidence-based science of innovation.
edX
Founded by Harvard University and MIT in 2012, edX is an online learning destination and MOOC provider, offering high-quality courses from the world’s best universities and institutions to learners everywhere.
With more than 90 global partners, we are proud to count the world’s leading universities, nonprofits, and institutions as our members. EdX university members top the QS World University Rankings® with our founders receiving the top honors, and edX partner institutions ranking highly on the full list.
MIT Media Lab
The MIT Media Lab is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology devoted to projects at the convergence of technology, multimedia, sciences, art and design.
The Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program helps students translate promising ideas at the Media Lab from compelling prototypes towards real-world products or services. The Program consists of several "Ventures" oriented classes, including Development Ventures, Imaging and Fabrication Ventures, and Neurotech Ventures, together with the flagship Media Lab Media Ventures course.
MIT Practical Impact Alliance
The MIT Practical Impact Alliance is a membership organization of leaders from diverse organizations – corporations, NGOs, government agencies, and social ventures – with aligned missions who share learning, collaborate, and develop best practices together. Through PIA’s activities such as working groups, a field-based co-design summit, an annual conference, and MIT student engagement, members increase their individual and collective impact while leveraging and supporting the work of MIT programs focused on global poverty alleviation. Members include Ajinomoto, Community Empowerment Solutions, Danone, Greenlight Planet, Johnson & Johnson, Living Goods, Mars, Medtronic, the Melton Foundation, Mercy Corps, Philips Healthcare, S.C. Johnson, Siemens Stiftung, Snow International, Unilever, USAID Global Development Lab, and World Vision.
