The International Development Design Summit is a month-long collaboration that brings together people from around the globe to build technologies for communities in the developing world. The program is the brainchild of MIT Senior Lecturer and D-Lab founder Amy Smith, a past winner of the MacArthur “genius” grant. To learn more about IDDS, click here.
Looking Forward – IDDS 2009 in Ghana
We are excited to announce that from 8 July through 12 August 2009, IDDS will be hosted at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana. KNUST faculty John Quansah and Crossman Hormenoo attended the first IDDS in 2007, returned to help organize IDDS 2008, and are now prepared to lead the summit in Ghana. IDDS 2009 participants will work with villages and develop prototypes in the workshops at KNUST and Suame Magazine. Suame Magazine is an informal manufacturing cluster of 80,000 artisans, a haven of metalworking micro-enterprises. However, IDDS will continue to include projects for a variety of communities and countries, and the projects will not be solely focused on implementations in Ghana. The event is organized by KNUST, MIT, Olin, and Cooper Perkins.
Want to be a part of IDDS 2009? Click here to apply.
IDDS 2008 Draws to a Close
IDDS 2008 has officially concluded. For four weeks, more than fifty participants from over twenty different countries worked intensively at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create technologies with the aim of improving the quality of life for some of the world’s poorest communities.
Click here to read the IDDS 2008 blog.
Click here to see a short video about IDDS.
IDDS 2008 projects include:
