May 4, 2011 | Posted by Bill | Post has No Comments
Read information from MIT News on the 2011 MIT Global Challenge award winners here.
May 3, 2011 | Posted by Bill | Post has No Comments
To watch a replay of the MIT Global Challenge Awards click here.
With a special shout out to Indian Mobile Initiative for winning in all three categories, this year’s winners are:
$10,000 Global Challenge Awards
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1. KOSIM WATER KEG
2. SOLAR AUTOCLAVE
3. PRACTICAL ENERGY NETWORK – winner of the School of Engineering’s Global Villages Challenge
4. INDIAN MOBILE INITIATIVE – congratulations on your sweep in all three award categories!
5. MAA-BARA – Winner of the Mohammad Yunus Challenge to Alleviate Poverty through Improved Agricultural Processes
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April 29, 2011 | Posted by Bill | Post has No Comments
2011 IDEAS and MIT GLOBAL CHALLENGE AWARDS CELEBRATION
Monday, May 2 – 7:00pm at KRESGE AUDITORIUM on the MIT campus in Cambridge MA
CONGRATULATIONS to the 2011 IDEAS Competition and MIT Global Challenge teams! A record 45 MIT student-led teams entered their innovative public service ideas addressing underserved needs in water, sanitation, agriculture, education and much more. Many of undergraduate and graduate students have been hard at work for the last eight months to enter this year. The Salud del Sol and MIT IIH collaborative Solar-Powered Autoclave is one of the teams.
Meet all the teams at 7:00pm in the lobby. Celebrate their work. Learn which teams will win part of the up to $150,000 in awards this year. We’ll be joined by President Susan Hockfield, our keynote speaker Dr. Akhtar Badshah (MIT Alum) and other special guests.
April 8, 2011 | Posted by Bill | Post has No Comments
On April 5, Dr Raj Shah, head of USAID, led a powerful discussion on the role of science and technology in the future of international development. Fresh coverage fresh from the MIT News Office here.
Later that same day, 46 teams of public service innovators led by MIT students entered final proposals into the 2011 IDEAS Competition and MIT Global Challenge. The Salud del Sol and MIT IIH collaborative Solar-Powered Autoclave was one of the teams. Twenty-four hours later, 84 judges from a range of disciplines began their reviews. And the Community Choice Award voting opened.
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December 19, 2010 | Posted by Anna | Post has No Comments
In January 2010, the solar autoclave was recognized by the WHO’s Call for Innovative Technologies. This competition sought to identify accessible and affordable technologies that were developed to address health problems and improve the quality of life for individuals in low-income and developing countries.
In September, the World Health Organization hosted their First Global Forum on Medical Devices in Bangkok, Thailand. Conference participants included winners from the Call for Innovative Technologies, policy makers, researchers, and clinicians. I had the chance to attend this event on behalf of Salud del Sol, Inc.; Innovations in International Health at MIT; and the solar autoclave research team. It was an incredible conference to be a part of and an honor for the solar autoclave to be recognized among such creative technologies as the remote anemia monitoring system from Biosense and Mark Zimmerman from Nepal, who is developing a simplified anesthesia unit for remote settings.
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