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Nov 11, 20070

Amy Smith Attending Village Party

Join Us for a Village Party with Amy Smith of MIT's D-LAB Monday November 12 at 9:30 PM Discussion on Appropriate Technology in the field of international development. Come meet Amy Smith (TED Talks , NYT Article, Good Magazine) , at an informal house party hosted by Village ( www.villagestartup.com/). The event will include a presentation by Amy Smith as well as her student Jessica Hsu who is working on a ...

Oct 9, 20070

Meet Village

At Village we work with any organization that is focused on social entrepreneurship, international development, and the dissemination of appropriate technology. Village will work with NGOs, government development agencies, and the private sector to help in the research and design, planning , financing, and initiation of social ventures. We will also organize exhibitions and appropriate technology trade shows to raise capital and create partnerships between governments ...

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Articles of Interest

What we are reading about international development.

Friends in the Field

Other organizations that are doing excellent work.

  • Duke EWB - Duke Engineers Without Border- One of the top chapters of Engineers Without Borders from around the country, Duke EWB is a group dedicated to change that has engaged in projects in Uganda, Peru, and Indonesia.
  • IReckon:Amon Anderson in Ethiopia - a good friend of ours working for Cherokee Gives Back blogs about his work in Ethiopia.
  • Global Coral - this non-profit leads the world in innovative solutions to save our dying reefs, using third generation bio-rock artificial reef systems perfected by Dr. Thomas Goreau and Dr. Wolf Hilburtz.
  • Cape Fear Biofuels - one of Roey Rosenblith's startups, Cape Fear Biofuels is distributes biodiesel in south eastern North Carolina.
  • Instructables - a project of Squid Labs, this website allows anyone to build a manual to build anything
  • Unight for the Children of Uganda - A non-for-profit organization dedicated to building an effective grassroots constituency in the United States and United Kingdom to help end the 20 -year long war in northern Uganda and to provide long-term humanitarian assistance to the child victims.
  • REASEN - a Senegalese company created by our good friend Hayssam Hoballah to introduce the Universal Sheller with its many applications to West Africa.

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