International Development Design Summit

The International Development Design Summit (IDDS) is a collaboration to find cost effective technology solutions for the third world. It was first held in 2007 at MIT.[2] It is held annually to study problems in the developing world and create real, workable solutions to them.[3]

International Development Design Summit
Type of site
Academic conference
Available inEnglish, multilingual subtitle, transcript
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts
,
United States
Area servedWorldwide
Founder(s)Amy B. Smith[1]
URLwww.idin.org/what-we-do/international-development-design-summits
Launched2007
Current statusActive

Background

"I believe very strongly that solutions to problems in the developing world are best created in collaboration with the people who will be using them", said founder Amy Smith .[3] "By bringing this group of people together, we get an incredibly broad range of backgrounds and experiences.[3]

WorldChanging reported on August 14, 2007 that the results from the first International Development Design Summit (IDDS) had been very positive with end products including an off-grid refrigeration unit tailored for rural areas using an evaporative cooling method to store perishable food and a low-cost greenhouse from recycled and widely available materials.[4]

See also

References
  1. "IDDS 2007". January 23, 2009. Archived from the original on April 24, 2013. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
  2. "International Development Design Summits". MIT D-Lab.
  3. Heather Manning (2007-07-13). "Making a difference in the developing world". MIT News.
  4. Jonathon Greenblatt (2007-08-14). "South-South Design Flourishes at MIT Summit". World Changing. Archived from the original on 2007-08-26. Retrieved 2007-08-26.
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