Official Invitation to the IDDS Presentations at MIT
Please join us on Wednesday, August 6, from 4-6pm in the Bartos Theatre and the lower-level of the Media Lab for the Final Celebration of the International Development Design Summit (IDDS) at MIT. The summit has brought together more than fifty participants from over twenty countries to MIT to spend a month learning about design and creating technologies to improve the lives of people in the developing world.
The participants will present their projects in Bartos Theater from 4 - 5 and then displaying their prototypes at the reception that follows. This year’s projects include:
- a device for decreasing the transmission rate of HIV/AIDS from mothers to their babies,
- a charcoal crushing machine to help make charcoal briquettes from carbonized corn cobs.
- a ropeway system to help craftswomen in the Himalayas get their products to market.
- a pearl millet thresher
- an incubator for low birth weight babies in the developing world
- a super low-cost computer for educational programs
- an interlocking stabilized soil block maker
- a pico-hydro electric generator
- a hand-held tool for isolating DNA for improving diagnostic capability
- a device for generating electricity from a treadle pump
Please spread the word about this Final event and feel free to invite friends and colleagues whom you think would enjoy the gathering!
IDDS is hosted by MIT, Olin College and Cooper-Perkins, and is sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Collegiate Inventoors and Innovators Alliance. The Final Celebration is located in Building E15 and is sponsored by the MIT Public Service Center — http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/