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Gapminder.org
Website for Visualizing Data about Development
Acumen Fund
VC Fund: Building Transformative Businesses to Solve the Problems of Poverty
Video:
Academic Courses
- MIT D-Lab: ICT4D Course feb 2008, The hardest class to get into at MIT!
- NYU Course Reading List: ICT4D
- MIT Course Reading List: Development Technologies
- University of Colorado, Boulder: Engineering for Development
2006-220: Engineering for Developing Communities:Integrating Education, Research and Development, and Service/Outreach into Engineering Education - University of Washington: Computing in the Developing World
- Columbia Earth Institute: Solutions for Sustainable Development, Home of Jeff Sachs
- MIT ICT4Dev Reading Group
- Berkeley Reading Group: Technology and Sustainable Economic Development
NGOs:
- The Natural Edge Project -- Resources for Sustainable Design
- Engineers without Borders - USA
- EPROM: Entrepreneurial Programming and Research on Mobiles
- Introduced a set of courses to enable students (in developing countries) to develop applications for the world's 2.4 billion mobile phone users
- Kiwanja.net
- An NGO specifically supporting mobile phone applications for development
- Directory of Mobile Applications for Development, Kiwanja.net
- GSM World: Bridging the Digital Divide
- Development Alternatives
Governmental:
Blogs:
- Mobile Active
- Valuable Resource for Mobile Phone Activists around the world
- One of the best mobile phone development blogs out there
- Afrigadget
Important Wikipedia Pages
- Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D)
- International Development
- Marshall Plan
- Gross National Happiness
- New Economics Foundation
Contests:
- Stockholm Challenge: ICT4D Award Winning Projects
- Android Developer Challenge
Conferences
Development 2.0, ICT4D Conference
International Design Development Summit at MIT (Application Deadline Feb 10)
Microsoft India Hosts ICT4D 2007
From the Cooper-Hewitt Museum
List of Resources for Design and Development
- Cooper-Hewitt National Museum: Design for the Other 90%
- Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
- Architecture for Humanity
- BaSiC Initiative
- Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti, Jaipur
- CARE
- CITYbuild Consortium of Schools
- Center for Connected Health (Partners Telemedicine)
- Construction Management & Consulting Services (COMAC), Ltd.
- Continuum
- Design Corps
- Design that Matters
- Doctors without Borders
- First Miles Solutions
- fuseproject
- Global Village Shelters, LLC
- Godisa Technologies
- Green Project
- House of Dance & Feathers
- Industrial Designers of America
- International Development Enterprises (IDE)
- International Fund for Agricultural Development
- Kennedy & Volich Architecture, Ltd.
- KickStart International
- LifeStraw
- M3 Design
- Mad Housers, Inc.
- Meridian Design, Inc.
- MIT D-Lab
- National Endowment for the Arts
- New Orleans Wiki
- One Laptop per Child
- Oxfam America
- PermaNet
- Portable Light Project
- Potters for Peace
- Project Locus
- Public Architecture
- Q Drum (Pty) Ltd.
- Ratanakiri
- Rolex Awards for Enterprise
- SELCO-India
- Side by Side International
- Squid Labs
- StarSight
- UNICEF
- UNIFEM
- United Nations
- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Urban Institute
- U.S. Census Bureau
- WorldBike
- World Bank
- World Energy Council
- World Health Organization
- World Wildlife Fund
- YouOrleans
NGO List:
