D-Lab: Disseminating Innovations for the Common Good

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Big ideas	What’s your big idea. Pitch it!
2	Development entrepreneurship, $100K and IDEAS competitions	2007 MIT $100K spring kickoff speaker: Micah Rosenbloom, COO/Co-founder, Brontes Technologies
3	IDEAS competition, Deshpande Center for Innovation	IDEAS generator dinner
4	Team formation, meaning of “Development” and proposal outline	1st spring deadline for initial IDEAS proposal due
5	Co-evolutionary design for development
6	Case study — Muhammad Yunus: Banker to the poor	Submission deadline for $100K executive summary due one day after Ses #6
7	Case study — Muhammad Yunus - continued discussion	Applications due — Deshpande IdeaStream Symposium
8	Case study — Dr. Paul Farmer and Dr. Venkataswamy (Ali Alhassani)	IGNITE clean energy executive summaries due one day before Ses #8
9	Theory
10	IDEAS proposals review workshop
11	Case study — participatory development and patent basics and confidentiality (Tamira Gunzburg)	2nd spring deadline for initial IDEAS proposal due
12	Case study — Ghana pottery and patents (cont.) (Jessica Lee)	$100K semi-finalists announced
13	Finance
14	Case Study — making aid work (Angela Kilby), mixed income housing (Daniel Bergey)
15	Finance (cont.)
16	Case Study — rural energy in developing countries (Zehra Ali), eco-effectiveness (Tess Veuthey)
17	IdeasStream conference and innovation showcase	IdeaStream conference
18	Monitoring and evaluation	IDEAS competition final entries due one day before Ses #18
19	Case Study — total sanitation (Ibrahim Kanan)
20	Technology for remediation of arsenic in drinking water
21	Case study — human waste reuse (Xavier Gonzalez)	IDEAS displays and judging session due one day before Ses #21
22	Social marketing	IDEAS awards ceremony due one day before Ses #22
23	Case study — biogas in Nepal (Chris Tostado)
24	Final presentations
25	Final presentations (cont.)	$100K awards ceremony due one day after Ses #25