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IDDS 2012 begins!
It’s time to announce the next step of IDDS! In 2012, IDDS will be held for the first time in Brasil and also for the first time it will be organized by a local team.
In addition, IDDS Brasil will be the first to focus on urban communities. More →
Days 20-21: Getting Ready to Gather Feedback
Teams have been busy testing assumptions and business model concepts this week as we all get ready for our second round of village visits. Ben channeled Paul Hudnut again and led us through the process … More →
Weekend Adventures: Experimentation, Epicurean Eats & Exploration!
On Friday night, we celebrated all the hard work that has been going into building and testing our prototypes with an international potluck of grand proportions (or hippopotamus-elephant-whale proportions, as Timo would say). More than … More →
Workshop techniques: in the hostel and in the field
At IDDS the project teams are encouraged to test out their ideas by making quick sketch models and prototypes, even at the earliest stages of the design process. To encourage hands-on experimentation, we have set … More →
Days 14-17: Prototyping Products & Ventures!
[In the interest of getting these posts up sooner rather than later, the plan is to have shorter blog entries covering the rest of the conference – but we do hope to try doing a … More →
Days 12-13: Sharing & Synthesis
[Sorry again for the long delay – as you may have guessed from our silence, we got caught up in a whirlwind of exciting activity during our final presentations and Maker Faire demonstrations. Most of … More →
Days 7-11: Off to the Villages to Gather Info & Explore Market Opportunities!
At our last morning circle together before splitting off to different partner villages, Adutwumwaa led us in practicing some greetings in Twi and shared some Ghanaian culture with us. We listened to a story of … More →
Days 5-6: Observe, Ask, Try
[Apologies for the long delay in getting this post up! A couple of us had fallen ill with malaria, but we are fine now and ready to ramp up – blog updates should be coming … More →
Days 3-4: A Thriving Marketplace of Ideas
We kicked off Friday with Eric sharing buckeyes from Ohio during opening circle, after having an unusually hearty breakfast. Mony from Cambodia ended up making one kilo of rice porridge for breakfast to share with … More →
Charcoal briquetter build-it
On Thursday we had a build-it activity where participants were divided into six groups to learn about different small-scale technologies and manufacturing techniques. The main goals of the build-it activity are to encourage participants to … More →