South Africa startup Wala wins Zambezi Prize for micropayments platform
Legatum Center’s award for innovation in financial inclusion plays a key role in MIT’s push to expand African engagement.
Legatum Center’s award for innovation in financial inclusion plays a key role in MIT’s push to expand African engagement.
New cohort of student entrepreneurs will advance a growing tradition of driving sustainable, scalable change in the developing world.
Base Operations, MDaaS Global, and Graviky Labs will head to Texas to be part of the first class at the new elite accelerator.
Over 200 MIT students have mentored peers in creating tech startups across the world.
More than 40 speakers from MIT and around the world will be featured in plenary and breakout sessions in this fourth-annual conference on innovation in poverty alleviation.
Eight real-world industry challenges fuel teams’ competitive spirit and impressive results.
The 2014 Legatum Conference will bring together accomplished entrepreneurs, investors, scholars, and industry leaders to discuss entrepreneurship in emerging economies.
Grad student Alba Medina Flores mixes affordable housing with social consciousness
Graduate student Sarah Dimson is hatching plans for renewable energy and affordable housing in Tanzania.
From afar, MIT grad student Chidube Ezeozue devotes energy to his fellow Nigerians.
Students see opportunities in the emerging economies of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Members of Youth Think Tank meet with Legatum Center staff and fellows at MIT.
Aims to develop sustainable sanitation services in urban slums
Recent Legatum Center workshop discusses fear, and examines ways to overcome it in entrepreneurial pursuits.