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How a Cellphone Could Save Millions From Disease
UC Berkeley changemakers built a cellphone-turned-microscope that detects parasites in the blood in just 30 seconds—without expensive equipment, a lab, or a clinic. Reporter Laura Ling meets with the team to discuss how the innovation could revolutionize the field of public health. Watch here.
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Big Ideas Team Increasing Farm Productivity in Uganda
Big Ideas winners built a phone-based platform that increases access to extension services for rural Ugandan farmers by providing critical agricultural information via SMS messaging in the local language. Learn more here.
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A View from the Loo
In this impassioned TED Talk, Isha Ray, UC Berkeley Energy and Resources professor and Blum Center affiliate, talks gender, dignity, and toilets. Watch the clip here.
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Thinking Inside the Cardboard Box
Traditional aid programs import finite resources that require an agency to distribute and maintain. Blum Center development engineers are changing the game by helping communities use their own resources, knowledge, and people-power to solve their problems. Read the full article here.
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Blum Student and the Project Changing a Nation
Global Poverty and Practice student, Marissa Kaye Scott, travels to Malawi to support the program making big impacts in the "warm heart of Africa". Click here to read more.
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Impact Design Education Summit—October 9, 2017
With support from the Autodesk Foundation, the Blum Center for Developing Economies will host the Impact Design Education Summit, bringing together educators and practitioners to discuss the state of university-based impact design education.
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OpenIDEO is IDEO’s open innovation portfolio, empowering people to design solutions to the world’s toughest challenges, and work with partners around the world to bring these solutions to life. The current challenge is: How might we get products to people without creating plastic waste? In partnership with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, OpenIDEO is inviting participants in this Challenge to apply the principles of a circular economy to rethinking the design of plastic packaging that currently ends up in landfills or in nature, and exploring new ways of getting products to people without creating plastic waste. Top ideas will be in contention to win a share of a $1M prize. Learn more here.
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