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Creating, sharing, and using collaborative research practices, actionable findings, and practical solutions.

Hands-on, project-based learning. More than 12 MIT D-Lab classes offered each year!

Working with diverse partners to advance and apply inclusive innovation as a methodology for tackling poverty.

"Impact is not just the product of innovation – it's the process of innovation."

– Amy Smith, MIT D-Lab Founding Director

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Lesoma innovation center in Botswana awarded $100,000 to commercialize organic washing powder

Left: Lesoma Innovation Center. Right: Ernest GB Gobuiwamang from the Lesoma Innovation Center team with Bauhunia Petersania (Mombaimbai Tree) pods. Photos: Courtesy These Hands GSSE.

News | Sep 30, 2024 | MIT D-Lab

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Lesoma innovation center in Botswana awarded $100,000 to commercialize organic washing powder

Apply to the International Development Design Summet - IDDS Tairawhiti

News | Aug 23, 2024 | MIT D-Lab

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Apply to the International Development Design Summet - IDDS Tairawhiti

D-Lab off-grid brooder saves chicks and money using locally manufactured thermal batteries

Left: MIT D-Lab instructor Ahmad Zakka sets up a thermal sensor in a new low-cost brooder box located at the African Diaspora Council of Switzerland – Branch Cameroon (CDAS–BC)-operated farm in Afambassi, Cameroon. Right: Kristine Januskaite, leader on the MIT D-Lab Cameroon trip during Independent Activities Period this past January, holds a baby chicken that would be heated in a D-Lab designed brooder box using beeswax.  Credits: Photos courtesy of MIT D-Lab.

News | Aug 12, 2024 | Lisa Capone | Office of the Vice Provost for International Activities

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D-Lab off-grid brooder saves chicks and money using locally manufactured thermal batteries

MIT D-Lab D-Brief 2023-2024

D-Lab students and community partners, India, January 2024. Photo: Courtesy MIT D-Lab

Publication | Aug 12, 2024 | MIT D-Lab

MIT D-Lab D-Brief 2023-2024

2024 PKG Public Service Award Undergraduate Recipient: Daisy Wang '24

Daisy Wang '24. Photo: Courtesy MIT PKG Center

News | Jul 25, 2024 | MIT PKG Center

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2024 PKG Public Service Award Undergraduate Recipient: Daisy Wang '24

Force of Water screening at MIT Museum

Left to right: MIT D-Lab Associate Director of Academics Libby Hsu, Green Empowerment Executive Director Andrea Johnson, and a member of the audience, Harvard Professor Americo Mendoza-Mori following the screening.

News | Jul 18, 2024 | MIT D-Lab

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Force of Water screening at MIT Museum

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