IDEAS Global Challenge team profile: True Africa
Improving access to local businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa
IDEAS Global Challenge team profile: Imagínate
Creating professional development opportunities for university students in Mexico.
IDEAS Global Challenge team profile: Recovers.org
Out of a crisis that struck close to home, sisters develop innovative disaster relief solution.
Spotlight on service
IDEAS and Global Challenge competitions award nearly $150,000 to teams of public service innovators working around the world.
Universities can lead in development, USAID head says during MIT visit
Discusses how new ideas are needed for battling disease, extending education and improving lives in poor nations.
Cast your vote in the MIT Global Challenge
Community Choice Voting begins today and continues through April 25.
How a simple phone call could provide Haitians with work
Media Lab students deploy trial of free phone service in Port-Au-Prince to match Haiti's unemployed with reconstruction jobs.
Coming soon: The MIT Global Challenge
For 10 years, student innovators have helped underserved communities through the IDEAS Competition. Soon, the global MIT community can join the effort.
In the World: Turning waste into profit
Students aim to improve Kenyan slum-dwellers’ access to basic sanitation — and generate renewable energy and jobs along the way.
MIT teams dominate national energy contest
Three MIT-connected teams were among five finalists and won top two prizes in ConocoPhillips award program
Jodie Wu ’09 and Jamie Yang PhD ’08 selected as 2010 Echoing Green Fellows
Chosen from a pool of 1,000 applicants from 73 countries
Researching and writing a thesis (and a blog) in Tanzania
Mechanical Engineering major, Tish Scolnik ’09, is spending this January developing her thesis focused on appropriate technology for the developing world.