International Development Design Summit

John Shawa

IDDS — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 03:28:40 +0000

John Shawa is the Director of Light of Hope Health Care, a community based organization on the Linda compound in Lusaka, Zambia. He is also a community health volunteer, psychosocial counselor and peer educator / community mobilizer. He is also trained as a carpenter. John first attended IDDS as a participant in 2008 in Boston and was a mentor at IDDS 2011 in Ghana. He has also recruited several members of Light of Hope to attend other summits. John has also built a strong partnership between Light of Hope and MIT’s D-Lab going back several years.

Leonard Simukoko

Daisy — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:19:26 +0000

Leonard Simukoko is the Head of the Technology Development and Advisory Unit (TDAU) of the University of Zambia (UNZA) and he is currently working on strengthening the competency of the Unit in machine/process design and prototyping to support engineering researchers and small/medium entrepreneurs targeting low income communities. The Unit’s focus and interest is in low cost technologies in renewable energy, brick making, water lifting and food processing. Among many other roles, Leonard supported the local organising committee during the International Conference on Product Lifecycle management held at KilometroRosso in Italy for the period 11^th-13^th July 2007. He holds M.Sc (eng) in Industrial production from Politecnico di Milano University and a B.Eng in mechanical engineering from University of Zambia. He is also a TEVETA accredited trainer, assessor and examiner.

Yvonne Mtumbi

Daisy — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:59:08 +0000

Yvonne Mulambwa is a Technology Marketing specialist at the National Technology Business Centre in Zambia. She holds a Master of Science in Marketing from the University of Glamorgan in South Wales and has undergone training in Technology Business Incubation of innovative businesses as well as basics in Intellectual Property. Yvonne’s work involves inspiring innovations and evaluating ideas in various sectors for commercialisation support. Her efforts to promote innovations includes her development of the “Innovation Day” programme held at local schools where children of school going
age are challenged to think outside the box as means of releasing the spirit of innovation in each child. Yvonne’s role a NTBC also involves use –relevance and market assessment of new products and technologies from innovators and inventors. Her memorable ones include Brain CliQ, Baobab Fruit drink (Bao Drink), Mendez Hand sanitizer and the Nshima (pulp) making machine. Yvonne is currently engaged in the design of an art and culture business incubator to promote professional entrepreneurship amongst traditional dancers in Zambia. Her participation and engagement with IDDS participants and organisers has ignited a great passion in social innovations and also being a marketer, Social entrepreneurship.

Her other great passion lies in youth motivation through career guidance and counselling and she is currently authoring a book on Career planning for.

Maternal Health Summit

Daisy — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:00:49 +0000

Date: mid-October Location: TBD, East Africa Please check back soon for more event details, dates, and locations. More →

IDDS Zambia

Daisy — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:57:50 +0000

Zambia will host the 2013 International Design Development Summit (IDDS) in Lusaka. With the common vision of finding solutions that give hope to some of the world’s poor communities, IDDS’s most vibrant and remarkable organizers will again team up in Zambia for an exciting and innovative four weeks in July 2013

IDDS 2013 recognizes that there are people with ideas for solutions to problems that affect the communities they live in. Due to limited support and sometimes lacking self-confidence to push these ideas forward the world has missed some key solutions to pressing challenges. IDDS 2013 will focus on working with these people, to produce technologies that not only will improve lives but will also offer opportunities for social entrepreneurship.

Under the theme Better Living through Collaborative Innovations, the summit will identify prospective founders of solutions as a start point for the projects. These founders will then work on design teams of people from diverse backgrounds to develop and improve the design of their technologies. This summit will also make use of the abundant resources found in the rural and peri-urban areas of Zambia.

This summit is part of the vision for improving design approaches, particularly in southern Africa where Zambia is part of the Southern African Innovation Support Network and where country to country collaborations are weak and rarely used as platforms for developing lasting solutions to common social challenges.

Rethink Relief 2013

Daisy — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:31:41 +0000

Rethink Relief is an intense design workshop dedicated to creating technologies for humanitarian relief that specifically address the gap between short-term relief and long-term sustainable development. This hands-on event is an unique opportunity for practitioners, designers and recipients of humanitarian aid to engage and develop a holistic approach to relief that considers the transition from emergency response to post-disaster self-sufficiency as an integral part of the planning and implementation process.

We bring together people from diverse backgrounds to form multi-disciplinary teams that explore the intersections of disciplines in order to identify unmet opportunities in the humanitarian space, and to discuss, create, invent and develop innovative new technologies and approaches. Teams will be guided through the design process, from the initial problem framing through idea generation, experimentation, sketch modelling, concept selection and prototype fabrication. As we work to develop these solutions, we seek to form a community that will continue to collaborate in the future.

Applications are now closed for Rethink Relief 2013, which will be held from 14 – 20 April at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA).

Rethink Relief is organized by D-Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering in Delft, Netherlands.

In order to contact us, please send email to info@rethinkrelief.com

Rethink Relief 2013 at MIT

Daisy — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:58:49 +0000

Rethink Relief 2013 is an intense design workshop dedicated to creating technologies for humanitarian relief that specifically address the gap between short-term relief and long-term sustainable development. This hands-on event will be held from 14 – 20 April at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA). The Rethink Relief conference is open to a limited number of participants and seeks people from a variety of backgrounds who want to share in their vision to explore unmet opportunities in the humanitarian space.

Applications are now closed

IDDS Zambia 2013

IDDS — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 04:13:51 +0000

Applications to participate in IDDS 2013 Zambia have now closed.

Watch IDDS Open Events!

Mariana Negrao — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:43:10 +0000

Through these links you can follow what happened in the events open to the public of IDDS Brazil.

07/02/2012

Opening Event

Dia 28/07/2012

Ecological Construction

Mariana Negrao — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:49:13 +0000

The Description:

ECONS is worked in Bairro dos Freitas with PUPA and the local community to raise awareness about local ecological issues and the potential benefits offered by alternative construction methods.

Using these alternative construction methods, instead of concrete blocks could be a cheaper and quicker way for people to build or extend houses. ECONS is developing a low cost brick press with PUPA. This would allow families to produce their own “ecological bricks” by compacting soil, sand and cement and then drying them naturally in the shade. Currently, these bricks are produced and sold on a much larger scale by many companies, but are rarely used by the local community.

PUPA’s local and online presence is also being developed through new signs and new digital content. This could engage more members of the local community with the work of PUPA and encourage more sustainable practices in Bairro dos Freitas.